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How to get the press and media to spread your startup's story. A detailed and comprehensive guide for mere mortals.

Bobby Yazdani works full-time on the development and support of entrepreneurs through his venture capital firm, Signatures Capital. Drawing ...

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Saba, a human resources software company, will release a corporate social network with a \"People Quotient.\" The idea behind the metric is to assign a hard value to an employee's performance. Such Big Brother numbers are sure to cause both competition and consternation in the workplace.

As everyone knows, multiplayer is better than single player, and as the geeks among us know, there's a set of multiplayer games, like Minecraft and Urban Terror, that offer software that allows gamers to host their own servers. For games like Minecraft, running your own server means that you don't have to be subject to the rules and regulations of other hosts -- you get to invite all of your friends into your world to play, and you get to set the rules. While this can make the game experience infinitely more fun, gamers have to rent their own servers for $70 a month, be their own sysadmin, ...

Over the last year or so, we've seen an auspicious rise in the number of startups looking to tackle those seemingly intractable problems in both K-12 and higher education. One of these startups, the New York City-based ShowMe, found some early financial validation from an impressive set of investors, raising $800K last August from the likes of Lerer Ventures, SV Angel, betaworks, Learn Capital, and angel investor Naval Ravikant. Those familiar with Khan Academy -- the startup that offers an impressive web library of videos on everything from arithmetic and physics to finance and history to ...

Can playing video games make you more productive? Gabe Zichermann shows how games are making kids better problem-solvers, and will make us better at everything from driving to multi-tasking.

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

We're bringing gameplay into more aspects of our lives, spending countless hours -- and real money -- exploring virtual worlds for imaginary treasures. Why? As Tom Chatfield shows, games are perfectly tuned to dole out rewards that engage the brain and keep us questing for more.

I wanted a list of the best management and leadership blogs in the world. And I collected more than 150 blogs fitting the category.

EmployInsight, a web-based platform for measuring and quantifying employees' "soft skills" in the workplace, has raised $1 million+ from Founder Collective, Launch Capital, Sean Glass, Phil Bronner, Jarrod Yuster, David Cohen, Gus Fuldner and other angels, the company is announcing today. The startup is also revealing one of its first enterprise clients, and it's a big one: the New York Stock Exchange is up-and-running on EmployInsight's first product, a hiring application called HireInsight.

Every company has untapped capacity for growth and success within its own four walls. But we are so busy playing a game I call ‘Corporate Dodgeball’ that we f…

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Recently, American Express has been pushing its own internal digital commerce initiatives including the company's digital wallet, Serve. Serve integrates a variety of payment options into a single account that can be funded from a bank account, debit, credit or charge card. AmEx also announced a number of recent partnerships in the payments space include Foursquare, Facebook and even Zynga for personalized deals. But today, the financial company is reaching beyond its own internal payments projects to launch a $100 million fund to invest in startups and companies in the digital commerce spa...

American Express is launching a $100 investment initiative to bet on digital commerce companies.

Time to Prepare Your Kids (and Clients) for the Coming Gamification of Everything

According to research funded by Common Sense Media, gaming is becoming increasingly mainstream among young children. In a survey of over 1,300 parenting figures in the US, 51% of children aged between birth and eight were found to have played video games, and over the age of five this percentage rose sharply to 81%. Of …

Bloomberg stringers Michael Wei and Margaret Conley reported the astonishing news that acceptance into the Chinese branch of McDonald’s Hamburger University is harder to attain than admission…

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Soldiers are using a heavily modded version of America’s Army to learn how to defuse bombs. While it may have been created as a game, the software’s platform is proving versatile enough to use for battlefield training.

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