One dead, dozens injured in Venezuela protests Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro just increased the nation’s minimum wage by 40%. But that’s still not much in a world where inflation is expected to soar by nearly 500% this year and 1,660% next year, according to forecasts by the International Monetary Fund.

Inside Google’s NYC pop-up shop The real moonshot at Google remains its advertising business. Google’s (GOOGL, Tech30) sales for the third quarter soared 20% to $22.45 billion on the success of its core business: online advertising. Its quarterly profit also jumped to $5 billion for the same reason. But one …

Web giant Amazon has reported a lower-than-expected quarterly profit as expenses rose, causing shares to tumble in after-hours trading.

FORT WORTH, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Weir Oil & Gas (Weir) announces SPM® QEM 3000 frac pump reaches more than 1,000 hours of pumping time in harsh conditions with minimal wear, resulting in the sale of a fleet to Canyon Services Group.

Jeffrey Garten of Yale School of Management discusses how Genghis Khan, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Margaret Thatcher, and others made the world more integrated. Garten is the author of From Silk to Silicon: The Story of Globalization through Ten Extraordinary Lives. Download this podcast

In 1994, Entertainment Weekly called Tad Low “The Biggest Idiot on Television.” Three years later, the magazine picked Low and Woody Thompson as two of the “100 Most Creative People In Entertainment.” The about-face was abrupt, but its cause was obvious: Pop-Up Video. The VH1 show, which premiered 20 years …

The Internet connected us all—but what good is that if we can’t understand each other? Skype’s artificial-intelligence-based Translator is our digital Tower of ­Babel. It lets us talk to anyone, anywhere, regardless of mother tongue. Made available on Windows in late 2015, Translator uses layers of machine-learning algorithms. When a …

Phil Schiller gave a eulogy today: “For over 45 years, we’ve been using function keys,” Apple’s head of marketing said from the stage in Cupertino. “Or, really, for the last who-knows-how-many years, we haven’t been using them.” So for its new MacBook Pro, Apple killed them—deleted them, in keyboard-speak. In …

Once companies began to turn their sustainability programs into profit generating arms of their organization, people within the company championing green business were no longer referred to as “tree huggers” they became known as intrapreneurs. Companies such as Ford, Coca-Cola, Toyota and many other startups have begun to use their …

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Startup World Cup today announces the roster of judges for its November 2016 event taking place at ad:tech NY on November 2-3 at the Javits Center.