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Lemonade, a peer-to-peer (P2P) insurance firm that’s been in stealth for a year, has finally launched to the public in its first market. The New York-based startup raised a chunky $13 million seed round last year, in o...

Here's how one female entrepreneur is using the 'fresh start effect' to make her business goals a reality including questions you can use to conduct your own career review.

Supercell made a rare move today as it invested $7.8 million in Finnish game developer Frogmind, maker of the Badland series. It’s a small amount of cash, but Helsinki-based Supercell has plenty of money to put to work...

There's 36 Apple stores in China, five in Hong Kong, and now Taiwan will finally have one, which is tipped to open by 2017.

The company known as Google continues to find itself under scrutiny from a growing number of international regulators. The issues cover taxes, competition, and privacy, but the result is that more and more investigators ...

Weebly launched in 2007, at a time when businesses wanted an easy, drag-and-drop, "what you see is what you get" (WYSIWYG) approach to websites. But the space was crowded, and it found itself going up against Wix and Squ...

Musicians deal with leaders from every walk of life so there is a lot to be observed from how the biggest and best artists handle themselves in business.

'Penthouse' CEO and owner Kelly Holland has revived the iconic magazine by staying true to the brand's roots.

Troops today announced the public launch of its bot that lets you speak with your Salesforce data and also announced the end of a $7 million Series A funding round. Until today, Troops had been in private beta testing wi...

Sara Panton and Sean Panton are the sister and brother duo behind Vitruvi, a company inspired by science to take aromatherapy to a new level. Vitruvi is an essential oils company that is creating oils to complement cust...

As we evaluate ways to change the college affordability environment, we must do so in ways that are not only fiscally responsible, but so as to facilitate responsible behavior ? not to obviate responsible behavior

After spending nearly $1 billion in China, Uber hopes to recover its reputation by becoming a market leader in the second most populated nation in the world. But India until now is turning out to be a different ballgame.

To cater to this market, Ola and Uber are facing several bottlenecks that they are attempting to overcome in order to survive and grow.

CMOs of brands of all sizes can learn a lot from a millennial entrepreneur.

No longer will we let journalists dictate when our brands get media coverage. As entrepreneurs, we're perfectly capable of generating our own buzz.

Cloud to Street combines big data analysis, crowdsourced information from people on the ground and satellite imagery to assess which communities are at the greatest risk of flooding.

“#voteIRL” is Google’s latest project to convince young people to vote. The campaign launches today with a promotional video starring YouTube celebrities Bethany Mota, Kingsley, Hank Green, and Hannah Hart. It also...

Mark Rubin worked on Call of Duty games for nearly a decade. He was in charge of Infinity Ward, the creator of games like Call of Duty: Ghosts, until early 2015. After he left, he experienced that surreal feeling of shif...

Here's how you can prepare before you attend your next important business conference.

Gametime is announcing it has raised $20 million in funding for its business of making it easy for sports fans to buy last-minute sports event tickets. The funding shows that the category of the "economy of now" or the "...

Pay-per-mile car insurance service Metromile revealed that it has raised a whopping $191.5 million over a number of rounds dating back to 2014. The San Francisco-based startup says it closed a hitherto unannounced $38.4 ...

Charging backpacks are increasingly common, and that tells you a lot about how we’re always wired and on the run. TYLT is introducing its Energi Pro Power Backback that it bills as the world’s fastest multi-device ch...