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It's often true that the more proficient we become in our role as managers and leaders, the less preparation we think we need. As a result, we become less effective at motivating and inspiring others, and our ideal messa...

Fans are used to seeing "The Walking Dead" crew solemn, serious, and killing zombies, so seeing them out of character, rocking out and playing around on set is a surprising treat. Following the series finale of the AMC s...

More viewers may have tuned into "The Walking Dead" season finale Sunday night; however, when it comes to most pirated television series, HBO's "Game of Thrones" takes the crown. The season three premiere became the most...

A vegan who brings his own pasta to restaurants flipped out when he was charged full-price for his dish and wasn't allowed to use a coupon. Jack Litsky and his wife are vegans and bring their own pasta to restaurants to ...

Lululemon said Wednesday that its chief product officer is stepping down, as it updated the production problems it has had with see-through pants.

Fresh off an explosive essay in the New York Times, a debate with former Obama official Peter Orszag and a torrent of criticism, former Reagan budget director David Stockman says the gold standard gets a bad rap and that...

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- If you want to go into business during tough economic times, you might want to do it with family.At Sokol Blosser winery in Dayton, Ore., siblings Alex and Alison Sokol Blosser took over as co-presiden...

Udacity is growing up. The online education company, founded by former Google research whiz Sebastian Thrun, made awkward waves last year when Thrun suggested that in 50 years there would be only 10 higher-education inst...

SiSense closed a $10 million funding round today for its "big data" technology that competes with giants like SAP and Oracle.

Apple is preparing a major overhaul of iOS, the software that runs the iPhone and iPad, says plugged-in Apple blogger John Gruber. He says the "word on the street" is that engineers inside Apple who are authorized to car...

In the Twitter era, marketers have to be extra careful that what they put on their websites isn't offensive, even intentionally. Extra, extra careful.

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) -- A tiny Samoa airline is offering a new reason to drop extra weight before your next trip: Tickets sold...

The controlling shareholders of Quintiles, a group that includes executive chairman and co-founder Dennis Gillings, are in line to share a $25 million one-time payment when the world's largest pharmaceutical...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of the premier art institutions in the world. But with tens of thousands of works of art on display at any given time and two million square feet of exhibition space, it ...

Today, NASA and European Space Agency scientists announced that they've detected the first hints of dark matter from a detector on the International Space Station. What is dark matter? Dark matter makes up about a quarte...

For much of the latter half of 2012, nitrogen-based fertilizer companies were great investments. These firms often utilize natural gas as a key input for their processes, so when prices of this potent fuel are slumping, ...

Guest Post As I'm writing this post, I'm sitting in an apartment that our business development guy is renting in Oakland. I'm practically homeless at the moment but I couldn't care less.

Americans learned some difficult lessons during the Great Recession. The question arising from two recent studies of financial habits before and after the crisis is whether we learned them too well.On the one hand, the c...

Nineties cover boy Yasumitsu Shigeta.

The price of Bitcoin has been on a tear, with prices surging from $100 a few days ago to $145 earlier today. But an outage of the largest Bitcoin market and an unrelated Bitcoin hacking incident have knocked the price do...

We may now know who is behind the Flashback trojan, one of the biggest Mac viruses ever.

The old Star Wars game business apparently wasn't enough to carry the longtime studio into the new age of games.