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In recent years, a few companies have set up corporate accelerators and innovation labs for networking and PR purpose only. This article illustrates how this practice can be detrimental for the development of an authenti...

Samsung is no stranger to the world of venture capital -- it ranked as one of the most active corporate-backed venture firms in 2016. But at the beginning of this year, the company underwent a transformation, launching a...

GUEST: When Slack introduced its new Enterprise Grid product in January, it pledged to bring "much of the same day-to-day Slack experience that users have come to know and love" to large organizations. Similarly, CRM gia...

On Friday night, hackers took control of all of the emergency sirens in the city of Dallas. The city’s warning system of 156 sirens started blaring at 11:40 pm Friday and continued for 40 minutes, according to the New ...

GUEST: There’s already one large company out there that’s saved $1 million dollars doing it. The “it,” in this case? Using a blockchain-based solution for advertising. To be clear, we’re in the very early stage...

The mayors of London and Paris are showing that even in the age of Brexit, cooperation still makes a lot of sense.

Information-technology firms and construction-related companies dominate the fastest-growing industries in the U.S., according to new data from Sageworks.

This is Part VI of my walking tour of the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (UVTA), or the 2014 Revisions to the Uniform Fraudulent Transfers Act. This article sundry other points of interest in the UVTA and some final t...

When you suit up for an OptiTrack demo, it feels pretty serious. First, the demo guy puts a very heavy machine gun in your hands. Then, he straps a backpack with a big battery onto your back. And then, you put on a VR he...

GUEST: A couple of years ago, I met Dan. He had just left one of Silicon Valley's hottest tech companies (fully vested, of course), where he'd run their growth team. He planned to take some time off, get married, and wor...

Virtual reality immerses your eyes in another world, but it still isn’t that great at bringing the rest of you into it. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift have tried to bring your hands in with motion controllers, but they�...

GUEST: Since my article on WebVR last month, I've gotten requests to better explain the concept of the Metaverse and why I've declared WebVR the undisputed missing link that will finally spark the next iteration of the I...

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...

Here's how to create content that keeps yielding value long after it's initially been published.

When it comes to hiring, savvy startups are breaking with traditional recruitment channels and devising their own talent acquisition strategies

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Access to off-grid solar energy in rural areas of Africa goes beyond lighting up homes — it also enables people to connect to the wider world and boosts their economic prospects, said t...

An Airbnb host in California has been banned from the service after reportedly cancelling a reservation at the last minute due to the guest’s race. An Airbnb spokesperson told Fortune that the host had been permanently...

An eighteen-year Netflix veteran is leaving the company. The video streaming company said this week that its chief product officer Neil Hunt will step down in July. Greg Peters, who has been with Netflix for nine years, ...

Innovation is not always as sporadic and spontaneous in the automotive industry as it is in other areas of technology. New apps pop up on a daily basis, and it seems like everyone on the planet is making an Alexa skill t...

GUEST: If you look past the hype, existential concerns, and fear that Alexa is a CIA mole, there are some genuinely exciting developments happening in the world of artificial intelligence. Some of these have very specifi...

GUEST: The connected car is becoming one of the most exciting and widely discussed "things" in the Internet of Things (IoT). A recent study shows that the market will reach $52 billion this year, and that number is expec...