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I've been a big fan and user of Uber since they arrived in my city years ago. But the news surrounding them in the last six months has me withdrawing my "raving fan" status. There's always more to a story than what's in ...

CEOs, leaders, managers and the crazy teams that run American business are humans. Humans that sometimes make mistakes big enough to damage corporate reputation and brand value.

There's a lot that can be learned from the United PR crisis. Analysis on what went wrong and an outline of how influencers can help.

GUEST: Everyone and their mother is racing toward AI these days. Spending on the technology was already at a hefty $640 million in 2016, and analysts predict it’ll reach $37 billion by 2025. While we’re all ultimatel...

Apple reported $52.9 billion in revenue and $2.10 earnings per share for the second quarter of 2017 today. That’s both more and less than investors hoped to see from the iPhone maker ($52.97 billion revenue, $2.02 earn...

Longtime Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson is out. The Etsy board is replacing him with board director Josh Silverman starting May 3. Dickerson had served as Etsy’s CEO since 2011. Before that he was the company’s CTO, and bef...

Twilio ($TWLO) has reported its first quarter 2017 earnings, revealing that it generated $87.4 million in revenue, a 47 percent annual increase, with a non-GAAP net loss per share of $0.04. Wall Street analysts had expec...

Pieter van der Does is the Co-Founding CEO of Adyen, only provider of an end-to-end infrastructure connecting directly to Visa, MasterCard, and consumers' globally preferred payment methods across online, mobile, and in-...

One of Valve‘s most visible public faces has moved on from the company. Chet Faliszek, writer on games like the Half-Life episodes and Portal, left Valve more than a month ago. For over a decade, Faliszek worked at Val...

L’Oréal has launched a bot named Beauty Gifter that asks both the gift giver and the recipient questions in order to sell personalized makeup and skin care gifts via Facebook Messenger. The bot was first made availabl...

PRESS RELEASE: AdAction is excited to launch its one-of-a-kind app discovery platform, Action Discover, during this year's Mobile Apps Unlocked summit in Las Vegas. Available exclusively for AdAction clients, the Action ...

Amazon's created the cutest way to deal with annoying Error 404 messages.

GUEST: I spent the past five months developing an AI-powered VoiceOps interface for the enterprise. Since Amazon Lex wasn’t available at the time, my team open-sourced the project. We successfully launched it into prod...

PRESS RELEASE: Today Lantern Pharma Inc. announced the closure of its Series A equity financing of $3.7 million for the biotech company and its clinical-stage cancer treatments. This Series A closing was led by Bios Part...

Five of Jilliene Helman's seven siblings grew up to lead businesses. Here are the lessons that got them to where they are.

It's very easy to say you want to hire exceptional people, but it's a whole lot harder to execute on that conviction. Here's what it really takes to hire the best.

Middle Eastern cuisine has sometimes been dismissed as food cart and corner deli fare. But this year's James Beard Awards honored two chefs known for elevating Israeli food.

A reflection on the transition from founder to employee and how the entrepreneurial mindset remains.

PRESS RELEASE: Force Protection Video Equipment (OTCQB: FPVDD), which sells HD body camera systems and accessories for law enforcement, announced today that it has begun offering a body camera and evidence software packa...

If only marketers would stop overcomplicating things the world would be a better place. Or something like that.

In HBO's Silicon Valley, Pied Piper violated COPPA. Here's what would actually happen.

When trying to market your brand, you need to understand why people buy things. In her new book, Heart and Sell: 10 Universal Truths Every Salesperson Needs to Know (Career Press, 2017), Shari Levitin offers key lessons ...