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How the best professionals manage their nerves and powerfully engage their audience. Apply these techniques and put your best foot forward.

In the design world, some may not equate Washington D.C. with America’s hot beds for insanely impressive creative talent like New York or Los Angeles—but they would be wrong. Design Army, an award winning, internatio...

Learning how to pitch your idea is an essential skill for success.

The F. Lee Bailey bankruptcy discussed in the Washington Post is not much of a surprise to me.  F. Lee Bailey's resumption of his pre-Sam Shephard practice of tax litigation, this time on his own behalf lit up the tax...

It seems we all have a memory of a particularly cool, young teacher that really shaped our sense of self as we grew up. You know the one -- just a little hard on you because he “knew you could do it,” the one who tau...

In a recent ranking of exits -- based on average return on invested capital -- Silicon Valley came in at eighth place, behind markets like Chicago, Raleigh, Philadelphia and Atlanta.

It’s a seller’s market in many cities across the U.S. If your home is in one of those cities, say Charleston, SC, or Colorado Springs, CO, and isn’t getting offers, something could be wrong. The good news? Knowing ...

There's a chance you're sitting here, reading this while holding a giant bag of Cheetos, and you're thinking-- what the heck is she talking about? But the reality is, you know how you should treat your body, regardless...

Predictive platforms haven't lived up to their buzz. They'll soon be replaced by prescriptive technologies that analyze relationships to make more personalized, contextual customer recommendations to marketing and sales ...

Kabam has partnered with Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox Film to create a mobile strategy game based on the world of James Cameron’s sci-fi film Avatar. The title will be a massively multiplayer mobi...

Amazon Kindle readers and apps are getting an update today that should make it a bit easier to flip through the pages of your ebooks. The feature, called Page Flip, is significant enough to Amazon that the company decide...

Despite ongoing doubts that Dash Buttons will ever truly be a thing, Amazon announced today that 50 new brands have joined the program, bringing the total to 150. The wireless buttons launched last year and were greeted ...

Kasisto, a spinoff of Siri-maker SRI International, added two bots to the personal finance bot space today with the introduction of MyKAI and KAI Banking. The two bots are available for Facebook Messenger, Slack, and via...

Amazon today is announcing updates for Alexa, the voice-activated virtual assistant at the core of its Echo line of smart speakers. Now people who own devices like the $180 Echo and the $130 Amazon Tap can enable new ski...

PayPal believes it has made it easier to give back with a revised mobile app that now includes a dedicated "donate" button. A press of this button starts a process whereby you can give to any of the tens of thousands of ...

The improper execution of project management could derail your business.

Launched back in 1991, San Francisco-based Coyuchi was the first company to sell organic cotton bedding in the United States. The company is now in its 25th year, and a 2014 Textile Exchange's Organic Cotton User's repor...

Serial entrepreneur Jody Levy's latest business, WTRMLN WTR, is grabbing the attention of everyone from fitness fanatics and superstars to everyday consumers.

I  have a strict "Nothing before 10am" rule. After living most of my life sleep-deprived, I now consistently get 6-8 hour sleeps, thanks to ridding myself of the I have to wake up in 5/3/2.5 hours! anxiety.

Activision Blizzard’s King would like to immerse us in match-3 games forever, and a lot of people don’t mind that. The latest example is the company’s newest match-3 title, Farm Heroes Super Saga. In this game, you...

LinkedIn is making its display ads more available to advertisers. The Microsoft-owned professional social network announced today that it has launched programmatic buying to let brands make real-time bids on display ads ...

Song lyrics will soon be a more prominent feature within Google applications, now that LyricFind announced it has inked a deal with the internet giant. Founded in 2004, LyricFind is one of the world’s largest lyric-lic...