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In just a few short hours, Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump are set to square off in the first presidential debate of the 2016 campaign, in an event that is sure to be remembered for the mutual admiration and respect the ...

A new UK startup wants to change how business loans are issued. It's removing personal guarantees, late payment penalties and

Clinton versus Trump: How to livestream the 2016 debates online.

Nintendo wants to give you all another chance to control the little critters in your garden. Pikmin, the original 2001 Gamecube strategy puzzler, is heading to the Wii U’s eShop for $20 on Thursday. This adventure puts...

Here's a scenario that every small business owner fears: A key employee resigns because he or she cannot continue to come to your place of business to work for reasons out of their control, such as an illness or a family...

Microsoft will incorporate into its Dynamics CRM customer relationship management (CRM) software a mobile-friendly “relationship assistant” that will recommend actions for salespeople to take. The feature will ship i...

GUEST: Chatbots are not new, especially for this generation. In fact, back in 2000, if any of you had ever been an avid user of AOL Instant Messenger, you probably tried chatting with its bot, SmarterChild. I did. I used...

A new startup wants to improve the Twitch esports experience with an information-rich platform for competitive gaming fans. Overcharge is a new platform for watching live esports from Twitch. The site is up now, and it a...

Providing great customer service requires you to do business on the schedule of your customers: stretching yourself to meet a customer's timing needs even when it means rearranging your workflow in ways that are messy an...

Microsoft today announced the launch of a new type of compute-intensive virtual machine (VM) instances for its Azure public cloud, along with a public preview for a new cloud infrastructure monitoring service called Azur...

VB LIVE: Want to tap the tremendous millennial opportunity on every social channel? Hear from Playboy's Chief Digital Officer and CRO how a revamp of their social strategy dropped their average user age from 47 to just 3...

The emergence of 'ugly' shoes in fashion says a lot about how today's brands vie for our attention.

Ghazi Shami's Empire Distribution was a small startup in 2010. Now it's a go-to digital distribution company for independent artists and record labels to get their music out onto major platforms.

FEATURE: This story originally published during the Nintendo 64’s 20th anniversary of its Japanese launch. September 26, 1996 was when it came out in the U.S., so we’re highlighting this piece to help celebrate. Twen...

GUEST: Machine learning (ML) is such a hot area in security right now. At the 2016 RSA Conference, you would be hard pressed to find a company that is not claiming to use ML for security. And why not? To the layperson, M...

Plex wants you to have all your digital movies available on your Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nvidia Shield whenever you need it without having to maintain expensive storage drives and finicky routers. The company reveal...

News and insights for business owners from around the web, including whether an owner who creates a board of directors is still in control.

Microsoft today provided new information about how it will be integrating Office 365 Groups into its Yammer enterprise social network. The integration will make it possible for people to make Word, Excel, and PowerPoint ...

Given the sad and deteriorating state of IRS collections, this move is probably a free lunch for the government, since the accounts would likely otherwise expire with the ten year statute of limitations on collections. T...

Hillary Clinton would like voters to believe she's the candidate most likely to help working Americans. After a surprisingly difficult primary fight with a socialist senator from Vermont, Clinton has adopted a lot of pop...

Last month, Target decided to pull all the bedsheets, manufactured by one supplier in India, Welspun Inc. Could this be the beginning of a transparency revolution at big box retailers? “I’m surprised that Target was ...

The conventional wisdom is that hiring is hard for small businesses because of what they supposedly lack: some combination of not being able to offer high enough wages, sufficient benefit packages, or fulfilling career l...