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It’s a few days since the NES Classic Edition launched, and it is nearly impossible to find online or at retail stores. Unless you are Mike Friend. Friend (that’s a pseudonym) accidentally bought $500 worth of NES Cl...

After election night, tech investors awoke to the prospect of a Trump presidency and sent just about every major tech stock down into the red (except Twitter). The sudden dip was perhaps the least frightening thing to ha...

Cutting corners to save money at the expense of quality. This a major mistake brands of all sizes continue to make. Two very knowledgeable and experienced entrepreneurs explain why they will never forsake quality for pri...

(Reuters) – Google delivered a vote of confidence in London’s future as a technological hub after the Brexit vote on Tuesday by announcing plans for a new building in the King’s Cross area of the city that will hou...

Amazon’s long-awaited Top Gear ‘spin-off,’ The Grand Tour, debuts on November 18, and Amazon is knocking $20 off its annual Prime membership for a 24-hour period to encourage folks to sign up. Additionally, Amazon ...

BetterUp, a new startup that serves to open career coaching to anyone, has officially launched today and announced $12.9 million in funding from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), Social Capital, Freestyle, Crosslink, SV Ang...

PRESS RELEASE: MapR Technologies, Inc., provider of the industry's only Converged Data Platform, today named Jim Kowalski to lead its worldwide sales organization. As the Chief Revenue Officer, Jim is responsible for the...

It's always tempting to say yes when a great business opportunity presents itself, but it's important to look at the potential value of every opportunity over time. There are plenty of partnerships that will be great for...

Social media has broken through that final frontier -- it has the ability to change people's minds about politics and similarly hot topics like gun control and gun rights, gay rights and immigration.

Kate Hudson's Fabletics is a growing $250 million business that's fighting Amazon for space in the 'activewear' movement. Here's how Fabletics is thinking and - more importantly - acting differently to fight new (and old...

April showers bring Japanese role-playing games. Atlus announced today during a stream on its Twitch channel that Person 5 will no longer come out in the U.S. on February 14. The PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3 role-play...

Another Obama administration rule is blocked by a judge who cites dangers to attorney-client privilege and freedom of speech.

Containers are the future, but there is still a lot of work to be done to make them good.

A special mode for Hearthstone has launched today. You shouldn’t play it. I mean … I did. But you shouldn’t. The Heroic Tavern Brawl has players make a deck based on the Standard format (where you can’t play card...

Google today announced an overhaul to its Google Play Newsstand app on both Android and iOS and also announced the launch of a web version, at newsstand.google.com. The updated mobile versions will be rolling out over th...

This November 18th marks Women's Entrepreneurship Day, an annual celebration founded by the United Nations. But when you read the words "women's entrepreneurship," what do you picture? The CEO of a tech startup, standing...

Nintendo’s new Switch hybrid handheld-and-home console will launch in March, and we’ve already seen the publisher suggest that it’ll have games like Skyrim and NBA 2K. But now we’re also learning that the system ...

Willkie Farr's chairman, Thomas Cerabino, speaks about their strategy, lateral hiring, Millennials, technology, and diversity initiatives, among other things.

VB LIVE: Instant messaging is poised to trounce email which has been, to date, the most effective marketing channel in terms of ROI. But not for long. Buoyed by the chatbot boom, the sheer number of instant message users...

Considering the Rams broke the bank to trade up to draft Goff it's not a good sign it took until Week 11 for the former Cal quarterback to finally get called into service. Cartoon by Rob Tornoe.

Huawei today is announcing that it’s beginning to sell its MediaPad tablets in the U.S. through Amazon. The M3, T1 7.0, and T1 10.0 varieties start shipping tomorrow, while the M2 will be available in December, accordi...

PRESS RELEASE: Mackinac Partners, a leading financial advisory, turnaround management and restructuring firm has expanded its practice with a new office in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm also announced the addition of h...