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GUEST: In case you haven't noticed, the bots aren't coming — they've already arrived. For ordering tacos, hailing an Uber, or even helping with your healthcare, chances are there's a chatbot residing in your messaging ...

GUEST: Even though the name “Silicon Valley” represents to the world the epicenter of the technology industry, statistically speaking, most tech businesses are not located in the area. Increasingly, the Valley’s co...

"Everything you do or say is public relations." - Unknown

As more people continue working past ?retirement age? and businesses are disrupted at war speed by young entrepreneurs, the workforce is becoming a multi-generational minefield. But it doesn?t have to hard to navigate.

GUEST: It often takes a partnership to make a good thing great. For our company, a creator of mobile games, collaborating with a savvy marketing platform resulted in not one but two games we were proud of becoming worldw...

Artificial intelligence is mostly a reaction-based technology. If the A.I. routines in a bot are not that smart, the bot doesn't react appropriately (or very quickly). If a bot knows how to respond correctly, and with ur...

While Millennials haven?t reached the apex of their purchasing power quite yet, they will soon. If you want to be prepared when that time arrives, you?ve got to know how to connect with them.

GUEST: Positioning statements are one of the most foundational marketing tools for any company. So why are so many of them bad? The popular formula has become so common there's even a generator that creates one in 30 sec...

Actress Amber Heard, who you might remember from That One Movie You Slept Through On A Rainy Sunday Afternoon, and her husband Johnny Depp, who you may remember from Far Too Many Movies You Slept Through On A Rainy Sunda...

Pokémon Go isn’t a competitive sport yet. But the red hot augmented reality mobile game has given a big boost to the 2016 Pokémon World Championships in San Francisco. More than 1,600 players are competing for $500,0...

Virtual reality could be a $30 billion business by 2020, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. But in 2016, it’s a nascent platform. Many developers are wondering how to make money if they dive into VR now. We had an...

GUEST: When you look at the historic rates of adoption of communications technologies that broaden our connections and how they keep moving us closer to the purest form of the experience, there's a strong case for VR as ...

You're cool. I get it: Your phone is always blowin' up, constantly receiving notifications from your (many) friends and (many) fans, alike. You have to post on the Snap (aka Snapchat) to make sure your followers know...

It seems odd to us now, but before the invention of the television, families would gather around radios as a leading form of home entertainment. Before the radio, folks would pack movie houses to watch silent films from ...

How do you know when your content strategy is failing? Here are 6 telltale signs.

Society Nine's 27-year-old founder, Lynn Le, sold her stuff, launched a Kickstarter campaign, and went on TV to raise funds for her women's boxing glove and combat sports apparel startup. She hopes to reach $1.5 million ...

China?s ?hardcore diplomacy? is bad news for globalization

The hunt is on for the best Pokémon player. And for good or bad, Pokémon Go — the red hot augmented reality mobile game that debuted in June — is conspicuously absent at the 2016 Pokémon World Championships in San...

Over the last few weeks, we've seen some really impressive demonstrations of the capabilities of Microsoft's HoloLens mixed reality all-in-one headset. The system costs $3,000, so it only makes financial sense to buy one...