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Somebody wanted to give me $250,000 with no strings attached. How to avoid small-business scams.

The Ozlo chatbot is an invaluable tool for finding restaurants in your area. I’ve tested it for a few weeks already and used it to discover a few hidden gems. The company has promised to keep adding features to the bot...

It’s a bit alarming to think that there are millions (yes, millions) of apps available for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows phone, and others, according to this smartphone study. Yet the same study found that smartpho...

Sick and tired of micromanaging your team? Here are two processes that will help you to end rubber band delegation, and increase ownership and accountability. The result? More energy, better results from your team, and l...

GUEST: European startups raise more money and grow faster when backed by American venture capital dollars, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. Technology hubs have cropped up all over Europe that are kindling exciting ...

Sony and Microsoft are both trying to push console gaming into 4K, and the latest revision of the Xbox is doing that the right way for the current television market. Earlier this week, Microsoft released the Xbox One S. ...

China tech innovation goes mainstream (finally) as Facebook and Twitter look to WeChat and Alipay for ideas.

GUEST: It's true that risk-taking is necessary to entrepreneurial achievement and failure can be instructive. But somehow those simple truths have morphed into something dangerous: a blind belief in the positive power of...

GUEST: Whenever I feel uncomfortable writing about a topic, that's when I know I should write about it. So here goes. This article is about how a new way of designing apps changed my life. But to explain the power of thi...

It's been a nutty seven weeks. Since getting to shake Warren Buffett's hand, things have been a whirlwind. My company, MarketSmiths, continues to be busy, and as a result, we've hired two new copywriters, including ...

Roy Taylor works as corporate vice president of alliances at Advanced Micro Devices, a chip maker that creates processors and graphics chips for personal computers. But he cares just as much about software as he does abo...

FEATURE: In the competitive field of trading card games, few stick around long enough to make any sort of lasting impression, especially those that spawned from existing entertainment franchises. And continuing to thrive...

Credit: pexels.com Finding a reliable source to seek advice about growing your startup was never easy, especially, in today's market where you receive daily pitches from lots of 'so called marketing hackers'. On the othe...

GUEST: For as long as I've owned a car, I've always been interested in extracting data from it. One of my earliest experiments involved using a paperclip to complete a connection between a red wire and a green wire benea...

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

As more and more sick patients are going online and using social media to search for answers about their health, it's raising a lot of thorny ethical questions for doctors.

How is marketing changing? How is the role for the CMO shifting? And when do marketers seem to matter more (or less)? In discussions with several CMOs, one thing is clear. The role, responsibility, expectations, and infl...

The hospitality industry is as old as the hills - but has it kept pace with new technologies and big data? Berlin-based SnapShot believes hotels are dealing with a huge amount of data but need the right tools to make sen...

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has 50 million registered players, making it the biggest hit in which players on PC and mobile are playing each other in the same game (this will eventually come to certain versions of Min...