Google parent Alphabet posted second quarter financial results that beat analyst’s expectations, reporting $21.5 billion in revenue, or $8.42 per share. The numbers caused shares in the company to spike 5 percent late Thursday.

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Investors had high expectations for Amazon’s second quarter and the online retail juggernaut didn’t disappoint.

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Forbes contributor Paul Tassi investigates the potential for other established video game series to use augmented reality to their benefit.

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Fintech companies are growing up, the disruption of fintech is still in early stages. The opportunities presented are huge, and the handful of investors who have been at the helm of this disruption since its inception are uniquely positioned to take advantage of what is sure to be one of the financial revolutions of our age.

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If you’re in one of the 5 industries discussed here you already know you’re in the kill zone. You know that technology will eventually maim and kill your industry though you may be in public denial – like the book, CD, music and taxi industries were for years before the death they all knew was inevitable. Protecting revenue streams – even if they’re dying – is a form of dystopian art that’s well practiced by those who manage the death of business models for a living. There’s really good money in death – that’s for sure. But eventually the revenue streams end and the business model dies.

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Samsung Electronics published its largest quarterly profit in two years, despite headwinds in the broader smartphone and electronic components markets, as its investments in cutting-edge products such as curved displays and improved process technologies paid off. While Q2 2016 revenues grew by about 5% year over year to 50.94 trillion won ($45.22 billion), operating profits rose 18% to 8.14 trillion won ($7.23 billion). Below we provide some of the key takeaways from the performance of Samsung’s major product segments.

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If your customer service approach is to treat each customer like a commodity, you’ll quickly turn your business into a commodity: easily forgotten, easily replaced. Take a listen to this customer as she vents to me in a focus group, about the experience of cashing a check at her hometown retail bank branch.

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Social media is making human contradictions more evident than ever before, even in life?s happiest moments, according to a new report launched by off-price luxury e-commerce site, The Outnet.

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