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GUEST: If there’s one thing you can say about chatbots, it’s that there’s a lot of buzz surrounding the phenomenon. There’s an excitement in the air that hasn’t been around for some time. The pending bot revolu...

Snapchat has unpublished its official Facebook Page. Snapchat declined to comment as to why the page is no longer available, but a person close to the company told VentureBeat that the main reason was simply due to the l...

I was scurrying across the Sinai Desert today in the open beta test for Electronic Arts’ Battlefield 1 game. The new Battlefield is one of the biggest games of the fall season, debuting on the PC and consoles on Octobe...

Snapchat is making it easier for anyone to create on-demand geofilters through the launch of templates you can customize right through the company’s website. For those that just want something quick and more “do-it-y...

Many women business owners believe debt is "bad," but it can be a very good thing for entrepreneurs who want to expand their reach, without giving up ownership or control to an equity investor.

Urban Accents' Tom Knibbs and Jim Dygas started their spice mix company 20 years ago. Now, they're in Crate and Barrel, Whole Foods and Safeway, with sales of roughly $15 million.

Hillary's email problems and Clinton Foundation irregularities continue to percolate, but Trump just can't seem to get past his tax returns.

There's no better time to prepare for next year's tax season than right now.

With rising disposable incomes, Indians are traveling like never before.

GUEST: Since 2014, there have been more mobile devices in the world than desktop computers, and people spend more time browsing the internet on their smartphones than on their desktops. So companies simply cannot ignore ...

Washington may have decided private companies aren’t right for running prisons, but numerous entrepreneurs are demonstrating daily how the private sector is uniquely equipped to help former inmates stay out of confinem...

Pippa Grange is the General Manager of Culture, Leadership & Ethics of the Cotton On Group, Australia’s largest fashion retailer ­— with sales of $1 billion dollars last year and over 1,400 stores worldwide. What ma...

EXCLUSIVE: Open-source big data software company Cloudera wants to do more. About one month ago, Tom Reilly, the company’s chief executive, approached Intel with a proposal requesting $1 billion in new money, a source ...

Seven new companies to keep an eye on coming out of the Venture for America accelerator.

One his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made a surprise visit to Nigeria, Africa's most populace nation (170-milllion people) and Facebook's largest market with 16-million users.

Is guerrilla marketing worth the trouble it takes to create a campaign?

After $16 million in funding from the likes of Jerry Yang and Ashton Kutcher, Washio is shutting down.

Microsoft today announced updates to several of its Office products, and the most interesting one is coming to the OneNote note-taking app. If you’re an Office 365 customer using Windows 10, OneNote will now show a new...

Police puppies would be a far safer, and more pleasant way to seek justice. Cartoon by Keith Knight.

Uber announced on Tuesday that it has hired Target’s chief marketing officer Jeff Jones as its new president of ridesharing. He’ll be replacing Ryan Graves, who was Uber’s first hire and is a member of the company�...

Abz generates a lot of the same sense of wonder as its predecessor Journey, but it trades the desert sands for underwater exploration. This PlayStation 4 and Windows game is a beautiful stylized simulation of life under ...

A new London startup says it's created a new, better way to search for rental properties. It is bringing some advanced data science to the market in a similar fashion to OKCupid and dating.