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Nearly 30,000 business aviation executives are in Las Vegas this week for the industry's major trade show, NBAA-BACE and after 10 up and down years, there looks to be more choppy air ahead.

Spotlight on Snackin' African. Entrepreneur Foluso Salami missed the Nigerian snack chinchin when she moved to the U.S., so she made her own chinchin and launched a business.

Analogy is underused in the business world. A new startup is offering a fresh take on deals after using analogous thinking to explore issues and create something unique.

AI assistant Cortana is now available on Skype, Microsoft announced today. Cortana on Skype can chat either one-on-one, like you would with any friend, or be summoned into conversations to handle tasks like scheduling ev...

Most people play Hearthstone online, but you’ll get a nice reward if you compete with some nearby card-slingers. Blizzard announced today that players who participate in a Fireside Gathering (that’s what Blizzard cal...

In his book Megatrends, John Naisbitt wrote, "The more high tech we have, the more high touch we will want." For customers to keep your business at their fingertips, there's an app for that. But when a customer relations...

GUEST: Advancements in AI technology have taken automated cars from a distant science fiction endeavor to a fast-approaching reality. Tech giants and rising rideshare companies alike are investing billions of dollars to ...

PlayStation VR is the most comfortable high-end virtual reality headset, but its lack of integrated headphones holds it back. Sony is planning to address with a new PSVR model that will include attached earbuds, but that...

The newest Nobel laureate in economics, the University of Chicago's Richard Thaler, has many insights useful to business leaders. The most obvious is the "endowment effect," which says that we humans tend to value things...

To keep its 30-second return promise, Walmart must pay much more than minimum wage to recruit and retain the employees who will deliver on this promise.

VB EVENT: The marriage of artificial intelligence and and industrial engineering - or industrial IoT - is promising to disrupt the global economy. If the locomotive industry, for instance, uses smarter machines to offer ...

How to come up with your brand identity by asking these questions.

Your frontline employees, like your sales associates, technicians and customer service reps, often know what's wrong in your company before you do. They can tell you what delights customers and what frustrates them and, ...

Chinese Internet stocks have been on fire, so far, this year, beating their American counterparts by a big margin.

In this week’s news, Travis and Stewart talk about AI domination at the MarTech conference in Boston, where it seemingly was the topic on the lips of marketers, speakers, and vendors everywhere. We also highlight an AI...

Don’t cry, Jedi, Sith, Stormtroopers, Smugglers, and Battle Droids. EA announced today that it is extending the open beta test for Star Wars: Battlefront II, which it had planned to end today, to Wednesday, October 11....

Echo, a third-person sci-fi game, is coming out for PlayStation 4 on October 11. The indie title first launched for PC in September. Releasing on the new platform can introduce Echo to a new audience. It has Very Positiv...

Singer-songwriter Jewel isn't just a talented artist--she's full of inspiration that could help you find happiness.

The next generation of unicorns will increasingly come from China, and timing, talent, traction and teams are in their favor.

To make the most of the holiday festivities, your business is going to want an engaged email list to send holiday-focused promotions and deals to.

Studies show that saying 'no' reduces stress and leads to a happier life. If you struggle with saying 'no' and maintaining boundaries for yourself, dissecting this masterful rejection from Brené Brown will help you refr...

In a 45-minute meeting, Apple’s CEO Tim Cook and French president Emmanuel Macron discussed a wide range of issues as the company sought to smooth over increasingly tense relationships with Europe’s leaders. Apple is...