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PRESS RELEASE: The founder and CEO of Happy Tax, the innovative franchisor that is re-inventing the industry for tax filers and tax preparation professionals alike, believes that H&R Block, currently the largest retail t...

GUEST: Chatbots are starting to make their way into all aspects of our online lives. According to CB Insights, funding for startups in the chatbot and voice assistants space has seen a lot of major VC backing, primarily ...

Promising to do anything in under an hour is tough when it comes to technology. Yet, in a new post over the weekend, Daniel Peterschmidt (a former intern at NPR) turned digital producer says it is possible — and proves...

Two different kinds of game market researchers are getting married. The NPD Group, which releases data on sales in the game industry on a monthly and quarterly basis, has agreed to buy video games research provider EEDAR...

(Reuters) — The European Commission will rule against Ireland’s tax dealings with Apple on Tuesday, two source familiar with the decision told Reuters, one of whom said Dublin would be told to recoup over 1 billion e...

EXCLUSIVE: Genvid Technologies has raised $1.5 million to enable a new kind of esports livestream broadcast. Investors in New York-based Genvid include Los Angeles-based March Capital Partners, with Chicago's OCA Venture...

Apple is planning a more expansive refresh of its Mac portfolio, with new MacBook Air and iMac models on the way, and they could arrive as soon as October, according to a new report. What’s more, Apple is also developi...

If you’ve played more than two hours of No Man’s Sky, you’ll get no guarantee that you’ll get your money back when you ask for a refund on Steam. Valve has clarified that it is not making an exception to how refu...

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Musicians who champion the idea of generating a buzz and sustainable income without the help of a major record company find it difficult giving up their rights and a portion of their income after they've built a viable m...

My job is helping small businesses --most of them family-owned,  most of them what I call "Main Street, America"  type companies -- get unstuck.  For the past 18 years, I've been CEO of American Management Services, a...

Learning to code when you want to build your mobile-first product may not be such a great idea. Here are 5 reasons why and what you can do instead.

Blizzard is preparing us for Legion’s launch. World of Warcraft’s sixth expansion comes out tomorrow, and the developer has marked the occasion by releasing a new trailer. World of Warcraft was once a phenomenon with...

Ubisoft is still going after the esports scene. The French publisher launched the third season of the Rainbow Six: Siege Pro League today with preliminary rounds starting for Xbox One players today, Monday August 29, and...

You may be asking, how can I really make money online? Is it legitimate? Is it possible? Yes and yes. You can make money online and there are tons of legitimate opportunities for you to do so.

Google is the latest company to seek compliance with the Privacy Shield Framework developed jointly by the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission. “We are committed to applying the protections of the P...

VB LIVE: In part 2 of our Masters of Mobile Data series, take a deep dive with our omnichannel experts into where your mobile marketing strategy is falling short — and what you need to do right now to fix it, plus how ...

Digital distribution is affecting all forms of media, and gaming has figured out an answer that other industries are starting to look to. Candy Crush Saga publisher King brought in $2 billion in revenue in 2015 across al...

Facebook today named the recipients of 22 servers that Facebook designed specifically for artificial intelligence (A.I.) research. This comes after Facebook’s introduction of the giveaway program for academic researche...

Google today announced Google Cast is now built right into Chrome, allowing anyone using the company’s browser to cast content to supported devices without having to install or configure anything. The Google Cast exten...

We recently ran into a big issue at our agency. About a year ago, we decided to move downstream to smaller spend clients because we were seeing so much demand from that segment. So, we developed new products, new process...

A friend recently asked me to give his startup-minded daughter some advice to help her vet undergraduate entrepreneurial programs.