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Never assume that your employees are always on the same wavelength as you.

VB LIVE: Whether ’tis smarter for banks to suffer the slings and arrows of potentially falling behind — or build bots with their attendant risk. That’s the question we’ll be answering in this VB Live event featur...

IRS has collected over $10 billion in taxes and penalties from Americans with offshore accounts, and FATCA disclosure pain is only beginning. As over 100,000 Americans have come into IRS compliance, are you safe?

Today's recruiting is different. The old transactional models aren't necessarily gone, but they're augmented by an entirely new set of approaches and platforms borrowed from marketing. That's right; recruiters are now ma...

GUEST: Most of today’s chatbot experiences are terrible. Conversational user interface design (UI) is difficult because it is foundationally different from the web and mobile interfaces. So how can chatbot makers ident...

Let's face it, figuring out what you want to do with your life can be quite stressful. Learn these 7 indicators to know if you're on the right path or need a course correction.

Chicago startup InContext Solutions has raised $15.2 million from Intel Capital and others to create virtual reality solutions for retailers and manufacturers. Intel Capital announced the deal at its annual Intel Capital...

Paxata today announced it has raised $33.5 million to bolster the machine learning and semantic analysis foundations of its enterprise information platform. Led by Intel Capital, today’s investment is Paxata‘s fourth...

Intel Capital announced today that it has invested $38 million in 12 technology startups. The world’s biggest chip maker made the announcement at the beginning of its annual Intel Capital Global Summit. The 17th annual...

PRESS RELEASE: Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced it has been named a "Leader" in Mobile Development Platforms by independent research firm Forrester Research, Inc. Based on the in-depth...

How an updated version of the Rubik's Cube became a multimillion dollar hit on Kickstarter.

GUEST: We launched our Telegram bot recently because we wanted to create a new channel to attract clients, ease our support desk workload, and bring value to our current and future clients. That's why our marketer chatbo...

Most of the business owners I've met don't want to be jerks to their employees. They want to be fair and reasonable. But it is possible to go too far. Some business owners try so hard to be friends with their employees t...

VB LIVE: Facebook's long-term plan: make Messenger the center of users' online lives. Your short-term plan: position yourself to monetize this revolution in messenger tech innovation. Register for this free VB Live event...

Angela Geiss, 35, has built the ultimate career of the future. She works full-time as a project manager for a healthcare provider. In her time off, the mother of two runs a small business that rents photo booths--like th...

Lyft announced on Monday that it’s testing out a membership plan for its Line carpooling service that promises riders cheaper prices per ride. Available in Los Angeles, Miami, San Diego, Chicago, Atlanta, and Washingto...

For all the time I spend on the road as a customer service consultant, speaker, and customer service expert-for-hire, or holed up in the library as an author, I spend about as much time at home with my dogs. And lately I...

First, they gave us Exploding Kittens, the physical and digital card game that raised $8.7 million on Kickstarter and sold more than 2 million physical card games. And now, Matthew Inman’s The Oatmeal and video game ma...

In this picture taken on March 5, 2015, a map of the United States displayed on a computer screen shows cyber attacks in real time at the headquarters of Bitdefender, a leading Romanian cyber security company, in Buchare...

Portrait mode, one of the most interesting features designed for the iPhone 7 Plus, is now available to owners of Apple’s newest, biggest phone. Apple designed Portrait mode to recreate the attractive, blurry backgroun...

Work environments and situations are dynamic. The workload, team members, customers and resources are constantly changing, so your leadership and management style must adapt accordingly. Leadership and management are two...

Violet Blue grew up in San Francisco, and she writes about hacker culture and cybercrime in the region’s hacking community. That made Blue, an author and tech journalist, the ideal conduit between the hacktivist commun...