Apple Inc. launched a professional-grade iPad tablet this week that it hopes will encourage companies to ditch the personal computer.

New online players like BlueVine, Fundbox and C2FO are transforming the age-old business of getting working capital off unpaid invoices.

Didi Kuaidi was joined by China’s top Internet companies, Alibaba and Tencent, both of which are also its investors.

Remember how video games used to be bad for us? That was before Jane McGonigal delivered her TED talk to explain how gaming can make a better world. Now you can game away in peace knowing that your last run on Call Of Duty is helping to fuel an industry also working to produce better enterprise…

Apple Inc., in all its technological glory, pulled the curtain back on a litany of new or otherwise improved products. The highly-anticipated Apple TV made its case as an overhauled product with deep capabilities and a steep price tag.

Microsoft is building on the momentum Windows 10 already has with a new partnership with Dell. With 75 million devices already running the latest flagship operating system, Microsoft announced that beginning in October Dell will offer the Surface Pro tablet line through its commercial sales…

What happens when an automaker needs to recall over half its expected annual sales? Just ask Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Given the multitude of recalls announced by other automakers, the industry must take action. FCA’s recent 1.4 million vehicle cybersecurity-related recall is not a one-off…

With Yahoo Inc.’s plans to spin-out its remaining shares in Alibaba facing potential taxation by the U.S. government, the value of its proposed spin-out has now declined even more than the drop in Alibaba’s valuation.

Cloud storage solutions, often combining local as well as remote storage services and systems are an important element in the virtual machine environment. For this reason conferences such as VMWorld are often dominated by a number of storage system companies.

Disney is aiming to increase sales from its Disney Movies Anywhere service by allowing more companies, including Amazon, access to its content.

In his comedy, “The Dictator,” Sacha Baron Cohen, best known for his roles as Borat and as Da Ali G, plays a middle eastern tyrant modeled on Saddam Hussein. Arriving in New York and checking in at a sumptuously furnished Five Star hotel (which he has paid untold amounts to have renovated to his…

Over in Berlin, the covers were taken off of a number of high-profile new smartwatches that will be hitting the shops over the next few months.

If you've been watching the developer/enterprise overlap that is in full swing, you may well have heard of Vagrant, and its eponymous vagrant up command. What you may not know (as I did not until this week) is that the company behind Vagrant is called HashiCorp, and they have a lot of other tools…

Apple is expected to unveil an iPhone 6s with “under the hood” updates over the iPhone 6.

42% of manufacturers say big data and analytics as their highest priority in 2015. 56% of power distribution providers rank big data and analytics within their top three priorities for 2015. 61% of aviation companies consider big data and analytics their highest priority this year. Bottom line:…

Retaliation doesn’t have to involve disciplining or terminating an employee. It can take on subtler forms, such as avoiding the worker, according to Jonathan Segal, an attorney with Duane Morris in Philadelphia and New York City. The Supreme Court has clarified that retaliation is not limited to…

2015 30 Under 30: Media

U.S. stocks end Friday’s session sharply lower, as highly anticipated monthly jobs report intensified the debate about the Federal Reserve’s decision to raise interest rates in September.

Today quantum computing is becoming a reality. And while it may look to the layperson like mere mumbo-jumbo, in reality of the technology has largely moved out of the theoretical stage, as recent news indicates.

Disney will hold a live global merchandise “unboxing” event on the “Star Wars” YouTube channel for the products and toys that will accompany its movie “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”

Sanctions against China in retaliation for China’s acts of civil cyber espionage would likely be unveiled next week, with one official indicating they would probably come that week, after the U.S. Labor Day holiday, before China's president visit to U.S.

Tax Foundation has organized the tax proposals of Presidential candidates. Not a lot there yet, but stay tuned.

The best stocks in the stock market’s best sector are expected to rise at double-digit rates over the next year.

BERLIN - No Google, no Apple, a little Microsoft and some Intel. With American corporations either not present at Europe's largest consumer electronics show, or with no great launches on schedule, IFA 2015 relies heavily on Asian manufacturers to get some media attention.

A new quasi-classification of workers could be the answer to independent contractor woes.

Lizard Squad takes credit for an attack on the UK's National Crime Agency. It follows the arrest of six teenage boys over their alleged use of the Lizard Stresser DDoS attack service.

Uber Technologies Inc. was dealt a big setback as a San Francisco lawsuit by some of its drivers over their employment status was allowed to go forward as a class action, in a case that could ultimately have spill-over implications for other tech startups in the so-called 1099 economy.

In one sense, there's very little to say about the Pebble Time Steel that hasn't already been said about the Pebble Time I reviewed earlier in the year. Taking a leaf out of the history books of Palm, the Pebble Time Steel is the 'upmarket metal-cased' smartwatch that echoes the Palm V, while the…

Not everyone needs a PR agency. Or perhaps more accurately, not everyone is ready to use an agency well.

Road testing the best student backpacks for a new school year

New data from Geoscape and the CMO Council show multicultural marketing shortfalls--and opportunities.

The Apple Store is now selling the ‘Phantom 3’ line of drones created by SZ DJI Technology Co., commonly known as DJI.

Now is the time to modernize Social Security. The system has worked for decades but is falling on hard times. If nothing is changed, the Social Security Disability fund will be depleted by the end of 2016 and the Social Security Retirement fund will not be able to pay full benefits starting in 2033.…

Get the new CMS-1500 claim form (02/12). The transition period for switching to the new form has passed. As of April 1, 2014, the old claim form (08/05) was discontinued and all private insurance carriers and Medicare began receiving and processing paper claims submitted only on the revised…

Less than two years after shifting to “all-in” pricing, ticket-resale giant StubHub is reversing course and returning to its old system of adding 15% to 17% at the last minute.

Rivet Networks recently launched its Killer Wireless-AC 1535, the second generation of its Killer Wireless-AC controller. The Killer Wireless-AC 1535 builds upon the success of the original by introducing what Rivet is calling ExtremeRange technology, which is a fancy way of saying the controller…

The State Department released Monday night the largest batch of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s emails to date—some 7,000 pages—including about 150 that had been redacted for containing information the department said is now classified.

I was meeting with a Private Equity promoter a few weeks ago and the talk was good for non-traditional entrepreneurs. What I mean by non-traditional are the visionaries in this climate that are looking where the crowds are not. Too many people are on safari scouting unicorns when there is herd of…