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GUEST: Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies. The number of hours worked is not the same as how effective they ...

Google has announced plans to acquire Apigee, a company that offers software for predictive analytics and management of application programming interfaces (APIs). Google will pay $17.40 per share in cash to acquire the c...

Earlier this week, Mindtree and Conversable announced plans to work together to automate customer service for businesses. A small business should never automate chatting with customers, said Kit founder Michael Perry, no...

Jory Des Jardins may have left BlogHer, the company she cofounded, in 2014, but that hasn’t stopped her from advocating on behalf of women. On Thursday, she launched her latest project, a new conference called The Scal...

GUEST: For brands, engaging millennials is becoming harder and harder. Unfortunately, this is happening as millennials’ spending power is about to skyrocket. It’s no wonder, then, why brands spend millions, even bill...

Apple today released the final release candidate, aka golden master (GM), of iOS 10, the next version of its mobile operating system, for people participating in the Apple Beta Software Program. The release arrives one d...

Over 86% of millennials are affected by the 'Quarter-Life Crisis' -- are you one of them? Learn how to leverage feelings of insecurity, disappointment, and lack of purpose to propel you towards the work you were born to ...

VB LIVE: Personalize or die: Heading into 2017, marketers need to get this right more than ever. Join us for an in-depth look at the strategies and tools required to master website personalization — and what you may be...

The United States has dominated the arena of technology startups since the beginning. There are a bevy of reasons for this, but chief among them is the venture capital infrastructure that has existed in the United State...

Google’s DeepMind research lab today published its latest work in the area of speech synthesis, which is better known as text-to-speech (TTS). And the findings are fascinating: A trained version of the new WaveNet arti...

Enterprise bot platform Kore unveiled its Kore Smart Bot today for the customers of credit unions and retail banks. In a competitive fintech landscape, banks need bots to attract and retain young customers, the company s...

The Obama Administration will reportedly tap retired Air Force Brigadier General Gregory Touhill to become the U.S.’s first cybersecurity chief, in order to shore up the country’s defenses against hackers. It’s sai...

Although bankruptcy is often perceived as a big, black mark on the reputation of any business, it's not always a bad thing.

SAN FRANCISCO (By Julia Love for Reuters) — Apple Inc will not release first-weekend sales of its new iPhone 7, the company said on Thursday, making it harder for analysts to get a

GUEST: Chatbots and conversational UI are among the most hyped technologies of 2016. Chatbots are computer programs that can maintain automated text conversations with users through use of artificial intelligence and nat...

Today the federal estate tax will turn 100. And that brings to mind one of the most familiar set pieces of modern American politics: Republicans call for repealing the estate tax, and Democrats denounce the idea. This ye...

The era of Mage and Rogue dominance in Arena is possibly coming to an end. Blizzard announced major changes designed to make the Arena mode of its popular digital card game Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft more fair. Hear...

Fluent City, the most New York startup you’ll read about today, announced today that it scored a $2.5 million. Fluent City started as a service offering language classes in Manhattan and Brooklyn. However, with the new...

Twitter announced today a handful of upgrades coming to its messaging service on iOS and Android, introducing read receipts, typing indicator bubbles, and detailed previews for links — the latter being a noteworthy cha...

Google today said that it has updated its Google Photos app for iOS with the image stabilization technology that it first implemented in the Motion Stills iOS app it released earlier this year. “Now, with the latest Go...

When leaders try to be a friend first and a manager second, problems arise.

The 50th anniversary of Star Trek, the original classic TV premiered on NBC, Sept. 8, 1988. Many of the futuristic gizmos and gadgets from the series have become reality, much to the delight of this 62-year-old Trekkie. ...