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Taping for Season 8 of ABC’s hit business reality show Shark Tank kicked off June 20. The odds of an entrepreneur making it through the grueling audition process is roughly one in 4,000. Only 104 contenders made it on ...

In a successful business relationship, validation is a two-way street. First, during the initial sales process, the customer validates the company's efforts by making a purchase or agreeing to do business. Then, after th...

ANALYSIS: To date, Tesla Motors has never met one of its own deadlines for launching a new car. The Roadster, Model S, and Model X were all delayed for a variety of reasons. With its upcoming $35,000, 215-mile Model 3 se...

PREVIEW: Playing We Happy Few in a bar packed with people isn't the best way to experience it for the first time. But despite all that noise, the stark white faces of the men and women who populate the game (and their cr...

GUEST: President Obama is expected to appoint the U.S. government's first-ever federal CISO soon. It's a long overdue, but welcome, move that means we'll finally see Washington take real action on cybersecurity. But, in ...

Business success is all about having the best team, yet the average entrepreneur has little prior experience with hiring people and building top-notch teams. It’s no wonder that half of startups fail in the first five ...

Have you ever wanted to say exactly what you were thinking at work but had to refrain out of fear of being offensive, reprimanded or fired? There's an app for that.

GUEST: Unwanted calls to mobile phones are by no means a new nuisance. But my company, Hiya, tracks call blocking, and we've noticed a meteoric rise in fraudulent activity — a 65% year-over-year growth in the number of...

In a panel talk last month with senior members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, domestic policy advisor Sara Solow and chief digital officer Teddy Goff offered a glimpse inside how the campaign grapples with Twitter...

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is one of the largest film festivals globally. Unlike Cannes, Sundance, and Tribeca, all of which have incorporated virtual reality into the events, TIFF has been a bit of a...

When crafting a content marketing strategy it just makes sense to promote lifestyles versus products and here's why. Your ultimate goal is to sell the product or service while truly connecting with the customer. To conne...

Austin Walton is the agent of record for Atlanta Hawks player Kent Bazemore, who just signed a 4-year, $70 million deal.

GUEST: Consumer interests have changed, and they will keep changing. Social media switched the balance of power away from company-controlled communication and into the consumer camp — not just in-the-moment, but precis...

The fatal crash of a Tesla Model S in Autopilot mode has turned up pressure on auto industry executives and regulators to ensure that automated driving technology is deployed safely.

This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions and 44 funding deals (totaling €103 million, about $115 milllion) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items fo...

Through products like the Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Amazon Tap, or Amazon Fire TV, you can now tell Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa to buy tens of millions of Amazon products. So Alexa owners can say "Alexa, order new Ch...

For all the glorious talk about the future, synergy, and joyous corporate harmony, Microsoft’s successful $26 billion bid for LinkedIn came down to the money and terms. In a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exch...

No, Blizzard didn’t accidentally reveal a new game or expansion. Blizzard fans became excited recently when they noticed a job listing on the company’s site for a director for a new project in the Diablo series. Howe...

What would San Francisco look like if Game of Thrones took place here?

VentureBeat's Bots Channel tracks all the important and interesting news related to the exploding field of bots and messaging. And each week we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, Bo...

This week Yahoo held its annual shareholders meeting and while the event appeared to be sparsely attended, there was much to talk about, such as the company’s sale. But in addition to that, several items were put up fo...