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GUEST: Startups are increasingly looking to an alternate source of equity funding and growth capital to close a significant round of private investment: the family office. There are currently more than 3,000 family offic...

Their gripes may seem trivial to us, but how many worlds have you single-handedly saved? Hmm ... Cartoon by Steve Napierski.

When it comes to investments and acquisitions, Salesforce has made headlines lately for deals that didn’t happen. The company’s rebuffed $26 billion bid for LinkedIn last year and a run at Twitter that never got off ...

Hiring top performers will help lay the foundation of your company's long-term success. Paying attention to these key factors will help you identify and hire top-notch employees.

Call of Duty is apparently returning to the familiar battleground of World War II in 2017, according to a leak. The move comes after a disappointing outcome for the science fiction version of the game, Call of Duty: Infi...

A determined German college student networks his way into a personalized visit to the Googleplex

Ian Dallas, the creative director at game studio Giant Sparrow, has a knack for describing his games in a way that makes you want to play them. His company’s next title is What Remains of Edith Finch, a collection of s...

A lot of Alexa skills available today are designed to keep you healthy. WebMD can help you diagnose an illness, Track by Nutritionix can monitor your diet, and the American Heart Association‘s skill can tell you what t...

VB LIVE: Want to tap into recurring subscription revenue? Setting an effective pricing strategy and making payments seamless are your most important goals. To find out how industry leaders in subscription pricing marry s...

The Stash app, available for both Android and Apple smartphones, lets you build your nest egg one twig at a time. With as little as $5 -- a Venti Mocha Frappuccino at Starbucks -- you can invest in the stock market via e...

We love our plastics, but they're creating an environmental nightmare. Some entrepreneurs think they have a better way to handle the plastics life cycle.

Most people think of loyalty programs as an airline giving miles to frequent fliers, a hotel giving points toward a stay or a restaurant offering a punch card incentive. While these may be called loyalty programs, I'll a...

India's water woes, dengue health concerns, and lack of car washing facilities got entrepreneur Chirag Shah thinking - what if he started washing cars for a living, but not in the traditional way?

Happy Friday! This week, Tech.eu tracked 10 technology M&A transactions and 66 tech funding deals totalling €371 million in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Like every week, we listed every single one of them in our free wee...

Tokyo-based Moneytree, the Japanese startup offering an asset managing app and cloud-based accounting soutions, announced on Tuesday that it has raised a total of 1 billion yen (nearly $9 million US) in their latest fund...

PRESS RELEASE: Tradeshift, the world's largest business commerce platform, today announced the release of Tradeshift Ada, the world's first smart interface for B2B commerce that offers new automation capabilities to help...

When Mariatu Turay was homeless after fleeing war-torn Sierra Leone with her mother at the age of 16, she fell back on the hair braiding skill she had learned at school where all the girls had to plait their hair. Now sh...