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It's pretty common for clients to give price as their reason for picking one vendor over another. So what should you do about it? These proven methods will help you know how to handle and avoid pricing pressure.

Dottie Herman went from being a teenage mom to the richest self-made woman in American real estate, selling multi-million dollar homes to New York's elite.

Are Silicon Valley 'Founder Hounders' millennial gold diggers?

As some of you may know from the significant media coverage over the last two weeks in Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, the Dallas Morning News, PBS' Next Avenue, Ozy, Money.com, Investment News, and other outlets, I'm running f...

Pinterest, the web service that lets people pin photos, videos, and other content onto boards, today said that it has changed the text of the red button that’s visible on Pinterest and other websites. For years, it has...

A bot platform called Sequel today launched a way for you to build bots with personas, including ones that mimic your own personality. The Sequel software, which had been in beta testing for months, joins several competi...

Activision Blizzard has another blockbuster success. Overwatch reached 7 million players worldwide, Blizzard Entertainment said today. That’s on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. While one player does not equal one copy...

Apple today confirmed downtime for many of its online services, including the App Store, iCloud Contacts, iCloud Keychain, and the Apple TV. Back to My Mac, Documents in the Cloud, Find My Friends, Find My iPhone/iPad/iP...

Two years after launching its first fitness wearable, Samsung is back with two fitness-focused gadgets that are again designed specifically for Samsung fans. Samsung announced the devices, the Gear Fit 2 wearable and Ico...

Gameloft chief executive Michel Guillemot is expected to resign in the wake of Vivendi’s successful hostile takeover of the French mobile game publisher, according to a Bloomberg report. Bloomberg said that Vivendi has...

One super-quick daily meeting will cut down on emails and meetings, and get your people more engaged.

The NBA has released a chatbot for Facebook Messenger, right in time for the first game of the NBA Finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Cleveland Cavaliers. You can start talking to the bot simply by going to...

Tony O. Elumelu, one of Africa's most successful investors and renowned philanthropists, has urged French businesses to invest in Nigeria in spite of the country's current economic challenges.

Gaming isn’t just a young person’s … uh, game. The Entertainment Software Association (the gaming group that puts on the yearly Electronic Entertainment Expo and represents the U.S. games industry) and the AARP (fo...

In the third episode of VB Engage — the new podcast from VentureBeat that aims to be brutally honest about marketing and mobile engagement — Travis and Stewart dive head first into the Gen Z sensation that is Snapcha...

It’s time to get up in the guts of one of the candidates for President of the United States. Developer Bossa Studios has launched a new update for its Surgeon Simulator game in a $3 Anniversary Expansion that has playe...

By working with Hollywood instead of against it, Parker might actually disrupt the way we watch movies.

Google today is announcing the launch of new features for its BigQuery cloud data warehouse service. Since BigQuery became available to all developers in 2012, it’s been possible to query data with the SQL-like BQL, wh...

Money is pretty good loot in itself. Loot Crate, the site that sends themed, physical goodies every month to subscribers, announced today that it has received $18.5 million in Series A funding. The funding round was led ...

“By 2020, 117 million Americans are expected to need assistance of some kind, yet the overall number of unpaid caregivers is only expected to reach 45 million.”

Nintendo has said that The Legend of Zelda for the Wii U is the only game it will show at this month’s Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles. However, you’ll see more than that from the Japanese company if you...

Google today is open-sourcing its AnyPixel software for programming interactive displays like the one in the lobby of its New York City office. Hardware and software libraries and example apps are available now on GitHub...