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GUEST: The latest AI-powered home security technology is smarter than ever before, but can you really trust a robot with your family’s security? Privacy is the main concern for most people, so doing your homework on a ...

Infographics will continue to favor infographics for visual, high-value information in 2018 and beyond.

Don't be shy about raising the issue of how a prospect wants to be sold. Just ask what's important to them and act accordingly. This will keep their frustration down, and your close rate up.

Beneath Parsons' outlandish veneer lies one of the most impressive--and generous--entrepreneurs of his age.

Five years ago Patrice Banks was what she calls an 'auto-airhead.' Now she's a mechanic, runs her own shop and has written a book to help women feel confident in their car-related decisions.

The value of link building is relative to the amount of effort you put into it. So how can you build links more efficiently?

GUEST: Work matters. Next to family and health, work is often the most important thing in an individual’s life. It provides a livelihood, is an outlet for passion, and drives purpose and happiness. Few decisions have a...

Today's best leaders have three core skills that build their teams - and lead and manage change in the organization.

Developer Stardock is preparing the return of its Star Control series. The studio acquired the license from the rubble of Atari’s 2013 collapse, and it will finally launch a reboot called Star Control: Origins next yea...

A Canadian company called AdHawk Microsystems is announcing that it has created small motion-tracking sensors that could be a boon for augmented reality glasses and virtual reality headsets. Current AR and VR products ar...

Here's why Barcelona is one of the world's next hot ecosystems, and how other regions can learn from its growth

Today, Microsoft and the Green Bay Packers football team announced that each organization will be investing $5 million, doled out over the course of the next five years, to fund the creation of an accelerator, an early-s...

Facebook has launched advertisements to monetize a new type of popular casual game, dubbed Instant Games, which people play on the Facebook Messenger feed. The company launched Instant Games for Messenger last year, enab...

Lyft today announced it has raised $1 billion, lifting the company’s valuation to $11 billion, up from $7.5 billion this spring. The funding round was led by Alphabet investment fund CapitalG, and follows $600 million ...

At Google’s annual Playtime developer event in Berlin and San Francisco, the company made a series of Google Play announcements. In terms of momentum, Vineet Buch, Google Play’s director of product management, shared...

With bids due today from cities vying to host Amazon's second headquarters, lists of likely top contenders are cropping up. These 5 cities appear on most or all of them.

PREVIEW: Mark Thompson is taking us to the Dark Side. The director for the single-player campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront II has created a story where you can play the baddies. In this story, you play as Iden Versio, a...

There’s a new company on the block that’s aiming to help AI take some of the busy work out of jobs that rely on handling requests like IT and HR. The startup, called Spoke, uses machine learning to help businesses au...

PREVIEW: Star Wars: Battlefront II is coming in hot, and Electronic Arts is revealing the first details of the single-player campaign where you play as a commander in the Imperial special forces. Battlefront II debuts on...

Facebook revealed a new open source tool today that's designed to help developers build more complex apps with less work by detecting bugs that are typically difficult to suss out and squash. Called RacerD, it's a system...

In the game of ride-hailing musical chairs, Alphabet has switched from Uber to Lyft.

Hiya, the company behind the caller ID and spam-blocking app of the same name, has raised $18 million in a series A round of funding as it looks to “transform mobile calling worldwide,” according to a statement. By w...