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(Reuters) – Starbucks will open a dedicated mobile order and pay store next week in its Seattle headquarters building as it tests how to best serve convenience-oriented customers, the company said in a letter to employ...

San Francisco-based The Refiners is the first and only technology accelerator that exclusively serves foreign startups coming to Silicon Valley to scale their business and change the world.

Switzerland may be known for its neutrality and discretion, but some Swiss startups are embracing the entrepreneurial ways of Silicon Valley. Last night, 16 of these Helvetic entrepreneurs pitched their companies in fron...

How Lanie List used the franchising model to grow her bridal dress shop business across the country

Hearthstone’s dinosaurs are just a few stomps away. Blizzard announced today that the next expansion for its digital card game behemoth, Journey to Un’Goro, is launching on April 6 for PC and mobile. The set will add...

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Forbes contributor Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint, Inc., shares the most important thing for solving business problems in your own company. Hint: it's not delegating.

While there is no single, sure-fire way to make a sale, there are certain common factors that can derail one. Here are three sales "killers" that any salesperson - male or female - should avoid at all costs. Are they the...

Microsoft today announced that it’s shutting down CodePlex, its service for hosting repositories of open source software. The service launched in 2006, and now it will be going away on December 15. While people will be...

All entrepreneurs make mistakes - here's how to use the same principles of a strategy pivot in your own pivot as a leader to ensure your organization is healthy and grounded.

As people begin to think about how they feel about ads on intelligent assistants, voice analytics company Mattersight is planning to use unique voice signatures to deliver personalized advertisements and bots. Using arti...

THQ Nordic has once again expanded its portfolio. The publisher announced today that it has purchased the assets of Slipgate Studios, which developed the action-platformer Rad Rodgers for PC. THQ Nordic now owns the seri...

Big data software company Cloudera today submitted its S-1 filing to go public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CLDR. Joint underwriters on the deal include Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Allen & Co., BofA Mer...

EXCLUSIVE: Mode.ai is making bots that use your photos to identify an item of clothing, then show you where to buy it (or a visually similar item of clothing) online. The bot can also recognize photos of home decor produ...

The battle over Stories continues with Snap releasing an update for its ephemeral messaging app that now lets you search across stories. Rolling out city by city, the company claims it has built a way to “understand wh...

If Apple had “courage” last September to announce the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus without a headphone jack, then Samsung this week was brave to unveil the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ with a headphone jack. In short, Sams...

How can your business collect payment for late and overdue bills without alienating customers? Applying some insights from behavioral economics may help.

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) takes a market-based approach, mobilizing private sector capital for public good. But it actually earns money and contributes sorely needed revenue to reduce the budget ...

Alberta is one of the largest honey producing regions in the world with over 600,000 colonies of bees divided amongst 7,000 beekeepers. Yet Eliese Watson, a native of the prairies, says that modern day residents of Calga...

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It isn't easy for a micro business to find a meaningful way to give back to the community. Here are two entrepreneurs who used their creativity to do so in innovative ways.

Twitter users who have resisted uploading a profile picture will start to see a change today as the company is ditching its default egg image in place of something less creative. After seven years, Twitter wants you to b...