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GUEST: When new technologies first arise, I always try to think about them like organisms in an ecosystem. Ecosystems tend to stabilize around certain equilibriums, and if you introduce a new species into a natural ecosy...

GUEST: I asked a weather bot that launched a few weeks ago a few basic questions: Me: Will it rain in NYC next week? Bot: It will be cloudy later today in New York, NY. Me: hmmmm how about next week? Bot: hmmmmmm Thanks ...

GUEST: Getting face time with a venture capitalist or angel investor can be next to impossible. Often you have to rely on quick intros, a pitch competition, or a friend's promise to pass along a message. Once you have a ...

Taxpayers are sometimes surprised to discover their foreign insurance policies, retirement accounts, inherited assets, joint accounts with parents living outside the U. S. and even some online gambling accounts are inclu...

(Reuters) — Walmart executives touted the technology investments the world’s No. 1 retailer is making to boost online sales, during the annual shareholder meeting on Friday. Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon spok...

Chances are you've had a "bad boss" at some point in your career. But while it's tempting to put the experience out of your mind altogether, reflect for a minute. There are some things you can learn about good leadership...

I didn’t realize how angry I was about what the House and Senate are doing…or, more accurately, not doing…until I heard someone who should know better say that Congress would be “returning to work” this week af...

One of America's most successful, self-made women talks everything from what her three-word motto is to her favorite fictional heroine to her best productivity advice.

GUEST: Startup studios are a relatively new type of business. You might have heard of them before as “venture builders” or “startup factories.” There are only a dozen or so of them in the world, including the ori...

Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg understandably has accounts on other social networks - it only makes sense to keep up with what the competition is up to. But that doesn’t mean he bothers to maintain standard...

GUEST: If you've been following the tech industry news lately, you might have heard about this new, unlaunched feature that Google presented at I/O this year: Android Instant Apps. According to the limited information re...

Disney pulled the plug on its toys-to-life product Disney Infinity last month. That knocked the wind out of the toys-to-life market, where toys are integrated into video games. Activision started the market with the laun...

Budgeting for new staff is the ultimate game of chicken and egg. The pay-off for adding an employee when there are 3 of you, and the pay-off for adding an employee when there are 50 are tremendously different. Continuing...

GUEST: By now it's clear that bots will cause a major paradigm shift in customer service, e-commerce, and, quite frankly, all aspects of software-to-human interaction. For the moment, the state of the art of bots is bot-...