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Atlanta's startup ecosystem has improved in the past few years. Some say Atlanta could be the next Silicon Valley. I don't think it really wants that. Atlanta wants to be Atlanta--a major startup center in south that is ...

GUEST: An Israeli District Court recently ruled that Israeli banks are not obligated to provide financial services to companies whose primary business is trading in cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. The Cour...

New Blockchain-driven platforms are challenging the hegemony of content platform giants like Facebook, YouTube and others to help users have more control over the monetization potential of the content they create. These ...

GUEST: You're at an electronics store. You check out a few TVs and head home after being scanned by store cameras. This data is then cross-referenced with other databases that already contain your facial data. Your face ...

WeMontage CEO and Founder James Oliver, Jr. has done two things many startup founders just can't seem to do. He's raised capital and gotten lots of national press. So how did he do it? We sat down to talk shop last month...

There is something to be said about the positive contributions that immigrants and their offspring make to the American society. With some inspiration from Bozoma Saint John from the FORBES Under 30 summit, meet seven am...

Cassandra Bodzak is a global meditation and wellness teacher, best-selling author, speaker, TV personality, and founder of Aprecity.com. She shares how she found the courage to reinvent her personal brand, after realizin...

GUEST: An increasing number of people want to fix the flaws of the internet by decentralizing it, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit organization that suppo...

When Microsoft announced its Windows Mixed Reality platform last week, it talked about how the combination of virtual reality and augmented reality (which Microsoft calls mixed reality) would create a new era in computin...

This week, Neill Blomkamp, the Academy Award-nominated director of District 9, unveiled a short film that he made with the Unity Technologies game engine. At Unity’s event in Austin, Texas, Blomkamp’s Oats Studios sh...

In order to survive severe abuse as a little girl, Kimberly Jesika escaped into fantasy worlds full of animated characters. Now, she has brought her creations to life in a diverse, multicultural, Spanish and English-lang...

In 2010, J.Ed Marston — then the vice president of marketing for the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce — was tasked with pitching new media outlets about one of the city’s latest high-tech offerings. The city’s uti...

The good news is that a lot of brands are "doing content." The bad news is that not all brands are doing content well.

Converting analysis into behavior-changing programs if often challenging for marketers. Shari Johnston, SVP and head of marketing at Radius, explains how marketers can convert analytics into action and provides advice on...

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

Hiring and healthcare related expenses top the list of concerns U.S. business owners are expressing to their trusted advisors, according to a recent survey by @Sageworks.

With the release of its latest collaboration, TheWaveVR continues to push the boundaries of VR and make a name for itself building mind-bending virtual worlds centered on music. Based in Austin and Los Angeles, TheWaveVR...

Independence Day director Roland Emmerich just launched his own VR company. No, really. Emmerich is the chairman and co-founder of a new VR media outfit named VRenetic that aims to make 360 degree broadcasting accessible...

GUEST: The future of entertainment is here. The BBC, in collaboration with Rosina Sound, is working on an interactive radio play for artificial intelligence-enabled home chatbots like Amazon's Echo and Google Home. The p...

A few weeks back, UploadVR caught wind that Microsoft's iconic Halo franchise would be coming to its new line of Windows 10 virtual reality headsets, which are made by partners such as Asus and Dell, though we didn't kno...

GUEST: We are living in a world of data overload. From behavioral analytics to customer preferences, businesses now have so much data at their fingertips that they're unable to process and consume all of it in a meaningf...