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VB EVENT: Every year, companies spend 1.3 trillion dollars on 265 billion customer service calls. That's five bucks a call. On average, the cost to find and hire a call center agent costs $4000 (not including salary), wi...

You don't always have to reinvent the wheel to build a successful startup -- you just need to spot the right trend.

After You is a psychological horror game and the debut from Normal Wholesome Games, a studio that developer Andy Sum founded. It’s a big departure from his previous work -- he co-created the family-friendly mobile game...

Zain Jaffer, who founded mobile ad firm Vungle and was its CEO until this week, was arrested on Tuesday for felony assault, lewd act upon a child, and other related charges. [Update 10/20/17 3:05 pm : The police filed a ...

The healing sniper Ana in Blizzard‘s class-based team shooter Overwatch got a new pirate-themed skin as part of this year’s Halloween event, but some fans are unhappy with Blizzard for promising parrots without actua...

The traditional focus on time management often leaves us in a downward spiral, with little to energize us. Positive psychology suggests fresh directions for energizing our time and tapping into the best within us.

Super Mario Odyssey hits Nintendo Switch next week, but we’re already learning about one of the many outfits the game’s Italian hero will get to wear. The box art for the Wedding Peach interactive Amiibo toy, which f...

What took place this week in the credit card and payment industries

GUEST: Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Watson, Zo, Buddy. As AI bot making continues to take off, bot developers and marketers have been keen on giving their bots names that sound human. They’re also giving them a face and their...

Inside Cincinnati’s burgeoning startup ecosystem, one perhaps unlikely sector is making some waves: water tech. Thanks to Pipeline H2O, a water tech accelerator launched in part by the Hamilton Mill, disruptive water t...

Learning how to overcome your fear of failure is one of the essential first steps in turning your side hustle into a success. Here are some key tips to help you beat your fears on a daily basis, continue making real prog...

OPINION: Finally, a 15-inch Surface. Microsoft added yet another form factor to its Surface lineup this week, and while I’m excited — this is exactly the size of Surface I’ve always wanted — I can’t help but fe...

Zen Protocol is a platform to transform cryptocurrency wallets and to make moving Bitcoin and other 'currencies' with smart-contracts easier,

PayPal peer-to-peer (P2P) payments can now be sent in Facebook Messenger. The service will begin to roll out to customers in the United States starting today, PayPal COO Bill Ready said in this morning’s blog post. Pay...

GUEST: For most city dwellers, going without internet is almost unthinkable. Every day we connect to the internet via ubiquitous Wi-Fi or 4G connections, with the occasional dropped call or slow video being the perfect e...

The board game Settlers of Catan is becoming a free-to-play multiplayer app, Catan Universe, for Android and iOS on November 15. Catan Universe is already available on PC. All versions will feature crossplay, meaning tha...

Owl Ventures Latest Fund Shows There’s A Lot More To Expect From EdTech Education technology is one of the hottest spaces these days. Startups Startups shaping the lives in students in grades prek-12 and in college, ar...

The video game industry received a shock to the system this week as Electronic Arts rebooted its story-based Star Wars game and shut down Visceral Games, a studio that made some beefy blockbusters like Dead Space and Bat...

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The UK is rich in micro businesses but although they account for 94% of all companies their performance - in terms of GVA - is below the global average and many are finding trading conditions challenging

Will the International Entrepreneur Rule (IER) finally go into effect? It would allow foreign-born entrepreneurs to apply for "parole status" to launch startups in the U.S.

The new Techstars Impact Accelerator underscores the growing interest in and business potential of social enterprises.