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A new survey predicts that more than half of the U.S. workforce will be freelance in 10 years.

ANALYSIS: At some point last century, someone at the U.S. Department of Defense plugged a network cable into a computer. Cut to a few decades later, and Electronic Arts says it is canning a game because it doesn’t func...

Dave Fanger, social intrapreneur at Pacific Life, led the creation of Swell Investing there to provide a platform that allows ordinary investors to start investing for impact with just $50 and five minutes.

PRESS RELEASE: The Brazilian startup GuiaBolso has raised $39 million from a group of specialized fintech investors, led by Vostok Emerging Finance and including existing backers such as Ribbit Capital, IFC, and QED Inve...

You know that feeling when you're reading a really good book? Entrepreneur and literary activist Glory Edim has bottled it up and turned it into Well-Read Black Girl.

GUEST: CEOs, CIOs, CMOs, and CXOs alike are increasingly focused on creating customer experience (CX) that is more responsive, intelligent, versatile, and accurate. What’s proving a potent way to ensure a continual pos...

DeepMind, a division of Google that’s focused on advancing artificial intelligence research, unveiled a new version of its AlphaGo program today that learned the game solely by playing itself. Called AlphaGo Zero, the ...

Tencent announced today that it has opened North American registration for Arena of Valor, its multiplayer online battle arena that is coming out for Switch, iOS, and Android. Arena of Valor has been a huge hit in China,...

How do you tell which businesses will thrive and which will fail? It's not rocket science. Whether you're an entrepreneur pursuing an idea or an investor thinking about funding one, it helps to keep these three simple cr...

Digital Sun’s debut game Moonlighter is all about pulling a double shift in a fantasy role-playing world. As a shopkeeper by day and an adventurer by night, you’ll be slaying creatures, selling wares, and getting tho...

Sales is still a numbers game. Having more conversations is the single most powerful thing you can do to increase sales, results, and income.

EDUCAUSE Preview: TestWe Is Revolutionizing Off-Line Assessment TestWe is a French startup making headway as they enter into the American market. They are one part assessment creation and another part online proctoring, ...

Read a selection of articles in most business publications and you will, undoubtedly, find more than a handful that explicitly or implicitly refer to entrepreneurs as stalwart heroes in some form or fashion. But what are...

Media publisher Steel Media is seeking nominees for its first annual Mobile Games Awards. Anyone can nominate games or studios for consideration before the November 6 deadline, and there is no submission fee. It will ann...

Samsung today announced its AI assistant Bixby will begin to incorporate Viv Labs technology for third-party integrations. Viv was acquired by Samsung a year ago for about $215 million. Before Viv, co-creators Adam Cheye...

Kongregate announced today that Office Space: Idle Profits is now available for PC via Steam. The clicker game, based on the cult classic 1999 comedy, first came out for iOS and Android in April. Idle Profits is the No. ...

An interview with WE Movement co-founder Marc Kielburger on inspiring change.

I hear it from people all the time, "If I had more money, business would be better." But do you know where to invest? More money in the wrong places is a waste. This week, I take a hard look at when more money becomes an...

Andrew Ng, one of the cofounders of the Google Brain project, will be the new chairman of Woebot, a company that operates a chatbot of the same name. The bot is designed to help people work on their own mental health iss...

Baseball fans are all abuzz after Baseball America's Tracy Ringolsby wrote there is a "growing consensus" within the MLB to expand the league to 32 teams, with the likely expansion cities being Portland and Montreal (I w...

Are your PR pitches not getting a response? Here's how to do it right.

80% of middle market companies are not ready for sale. If you intend to sell your firm and if you want to obtain a reasonable price, you need to come to grips with why your business is in that 80%. We talk with renowned ...