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Marketing

4 Tips to Engage Multilingual Audiences on the Road to the Olympics

Marketers need to speak a lot of people's languages when the whole world is watching the Olympics.

Business News

Comcast Will Let Netflix Onto Its Set-Top Box -- Start Up Your Day Roundup

Plus: Small businesses will have the chance to show ads during the Rio Olympics.

Social Media

NBC Will Broadcast 85 Hours of the Rio Olympics in VR -- Start Up Your Day Roundup

Plus: Facebook has made it easier for users to fundraise for their favorite charities.

Fundraising

Olympic Athletes Turn to Crowdfunding for Travel Expenses, Training Gear and a Ticket to Their Dreams in Rio

More than $400,000 has been raised on almost 90 crowdfunding campaigns to help athletes from around the world take the final step to the summer games.

Lifestyle

8 Entrepreneurial Lessons By Abhinav Bindra

When you are under pressure you have the ability to bring out the best.

Technology

This Start-Up is Producing Man Made Meteor showers – Because Why not?

A Japanese start-up is sending a satellite to space to shoot down colourful pellets that will resemble a meteorite shower!

News and Trends

Abhinav Bindra Debuts Start-Up Incubation Fund

India's world and Olympic gold medalist is set to start his entrepreneur venture

Business News

Japan Driverless Taxi Startup Eyes Partnerships With Automakers

The venture has set the 2020 Games in Tokyo as a target to develop software to operate driverless cars and an online service to ferry athletes and tourists between Olympic venues and the city's transport hubs.

Leadership

'I Have Had Way More Failures Than Successes.'

Jeremy Bloom is a two-time Olympian, a former NFL football player and a successful entrepreneur. But he says that's only a part of his story.

Leadership

Go for Chess Not Checkers When Running a Business

Whether it's detective work, coaching or entrepreneurship, the best people are playing chess while the rest are playing checkers.

Franchise

Starbucks Banned at Sochi? No Problem. NBC Finds a Way to Smuggle It In.

While Starbucks isn't an Olympic sponsor, NBC has managed to set up its own shop for coffee addicts.

Science & Technology

In Sochi, People Are Using Matchmaking App Tinder Like Crazy

Tinder CEO Sean Rad reports a 400 percent increase in new users since the Olympics started last week

Leadership

Go for the Gold: 5 Business Principles to Learn From Olympians

Looking at the world's best athletes can teach you some important lessons about entrepreneurship.

Science & Technology

Sochi Organizers Did a Terrible Job Stocking Olympic Souvenirs

Olympic spectators are grumbling that Sochi merchandise is both hard to come by and severely overpriced at this year's Games.

Science & Technology

The Winter Olympics by the Numbers (Infographic)

A sampling of fun facts and figures from this year's Olympic Games.