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It can be difficult to wait in line for your career to begin when you're young and jut starting out. But what if the secret to landing your dream job wasn't waiting in line, but volunteering more and doing it differently...

Joseph Ellison was a financial advisor for JPMorgan, got into a dispute with the firm, and ended up with an arbitration award against him for approximately $750,000 for an unpaid loan. Ellison also ended up owing his own...

Mark Zuckerberg, World Bank, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and Omidyar Network are doing a lot to learn from their own experiences in the fintech field and replicate it in other countries, especially in Asia.

IBM recently bought The Weather Company, which includes consumer brands The Weather Channel and Weather Underground. In conferring with IBM's Harriet Green, General Manager, Watson Internet of Things, Commerce and Educat...

Gameforge said it has acquired a military PC game from Aeria Games, even as the German game publisher laid off staff making mobile games. Earlier this week, Gameforge said it would lay off a fifth of its workers in Karls...

(Reuters) — A Verizon Communications Inc executive said the acquisition of Yahoo Inc still makes sense, but the telecommunications company needs more information about the email provider’s massive breach of accounts....

Smartphone vendors shipped a total of 362.9 million smartphones worldwide last quarter. This figure is up 1.0 percent from the 359.3 million units in Q3 2015. After two flat quarters in a row, smartphones have seen a sli...

(Reuters) — Salesforce.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff spoke on Wednesday about a pair of key acquisitions that got away, suggesting his vision for LinkedIn Corp (was different from Microsoft Corp’s and ...

Nintendo has a new console coming in March, and it is running on some familiar hardware. This could give us some idea of what to expect from the new system. When Nintendo unveiled the Switch on Thursday, Nvidia also came...

GUEST: If you're interested in learning about, investing in, or building a company involved in machine learning, Toronto should be on your radar. Here are five reasons why: 1. The Geoff Hinton Lab Mafia If you’ve been ...

Just a day after Facebook demonstrated an app that would deploy filters in live video, Prisma announced that its solution will be available in the “next couple of days.” In a broadcast, company chief executive and co...

Vessel announced on Wednesday that its video subscription service is being acquired by Verizon where its capabilities will be used to further the telecommunication giant’s online video ambitions. Financial terms of the...

Shutterstock Employees. If only they'd show up, shut up, and do what they're told. Then business would be a breeze, right? Think again. This month HBR launched a new series, Rebel Talent, to explore the impact of workers...

GUEST: In a month packed with big music industry stories, the rumor of a potential sale of Soundcloud to Spotify stood above the rest. And that rumor is still getting attention. On paper, it all makes sense — Soundclou...

The new MacBook Pro, available in 13- and 15-inch versions, looks like Apple’s 12-inch MacBook. It borrows the extra-springy keyboard and the reflective Apple logo on the back. And it’s slimmer and lighter like the M...

VB LIVE: To launch a multiplayer game globally, you probably think you've got two options: migrate to the cloud or go all-in with new infrastructure. But the risk, cost, and complexity can sink you. In this VB Live event...

Steep is taking a test run on the bunny hills before it makes the plunge. Ubisoft has announced two beta periods for its upcoming open-world winter sports game that’s coming out December 2 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, ...

GUEST: At TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in September 2016, Facebook’s VP of messaging products, David Marcus, admitted that chatbots got “overhyped very quickly.” And around the same time, something else very qu...

One of the biggest games of the year is embracing seasonal events to get players excited all over again. Pokémon Go is back on top of the iPhone top-grossing charts in the United States after falling as low No. 10 last ...

LinkedIn ($LNKD) released the results of its third quarter financial earnings today with revenue of $960 million, an annual increase of 23 percent, and an earnings per share of $1.18. Wall Street analysts expected the co...

It’s been one whole year since Google first reported earnings as Alphabet, its new-ish parent company. Today the umbrella company announced $22.45 billion in revenue (including traffic acquisition costs) and $9.06 earn...

Amazon ($AMZN) announced the results of its third quarter financial earnings on Thursday, in which it generated $32.7 billion in revenue. By all accounts, Wall Street analysts expected the online retail marketplace to pu...