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Guest Post Canada's federal government moved impressively quickly to implement this new visa, which is aimed at encouraging entrepreneurs from all over the globe to call us home. Why is the U.S. falling behind?

A 1,713-strong survey of North American consumers says that 19 percent of us want a shiny new iDevice that doesn't even exist yet. Or, at least, isn't public and isn't purchasable.

The Red Sox game versus the Kansas City Royals at 7:10 EDT has been cancelled tonight due to the lockdown in Boston. Jeremy Schaap just tweeted a photo of Yawkey Way, the famous street near Fenway Park, the most empty yo...

For a long time, Microsoft was a company whose success or failure was built around Windows. While Windows is still the heart and soul of Microsoft, it's becoming a smaller part of its earnings. In this chart, we have Win...

Posing the question, would you prefer to work for a man or women strikes me as treading in dangerous territory. For one, it insinuates that men and women fall into different stereotypical "types" as leaders. It also assu...

Lenovo Group Ltd., the Chinese personal-computer maker, is the most likely bidder for parts of IBM Corp.'s server division, a person familiar with the matter said.

Crumbs, the world's largest cupcake company, isn't doing very well. The company's stock plunged shortly after its 2011 IPO from $13 to $3.75 when its earnings missed Wall Street estimates. It started tanking again last w...

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Fitbug claims Fitbit has caused irreparable harm and damage to their company, and it has asked the U.S. District Court in Northern California to order Fitbit to stop allegedly using its Fitbit mark and conduct that cause...

More than a decade in to the 21st century, one would think we would be closer to the "paperless society" information scientist Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster envisioned in 1978. Yet just last month news surfaced that the De...

On the photo-sharing website Imgur, a user posted this photo (see below) of a store he identified as Gordon's Fine Wines & Liquors in Waltham,...

The great engine of global growth, the American consumer, is starting to sputter.

The great engine of global growth, the American consumer, is starting to sputter.

Regulators on Friday closed a small bank in Kentucky, bringing the total number of U.S. bank closures to six for this year.

One person died when a single-engine Cessna plane crashed in Williamsburg, Virginia, FOX43 TV is reporting. The plane went down in a wooded area around 50 yards from the Williamsburg Landing subdivision near the Williams...

Strong earnings from a pair of technology giants helped the stock market recover some of its losses Friday, a positive end to Wall Street's worst week in five months.

With even the spluttering from North Korea growing more muted, bird flu relatively isolated and General Musharraf's troubles in Pakistan so far seen as comic, the world greatly turned away from Asia this week, to more at...

In celebration of International Women's Day, 20 promising businesses built by 100% female founding teams.

Guest Post This week's tragic events of the Boston Marathon explosions have given me a lot of think about. While I'm still deeply saddened, I couldn't help but notice the viral impact of social media during times like th...

If you know Brian Dunning at all, it's probably as the host of "Skeptoid," a podcast that debunks pseudoscience. Recent episodes have discussed UFOs, aliens, and free energy machines. But for the last few years he's been...

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 07: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) at last years White House Science Fair (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Young video game designers will be included in the 3rd White House Science Fa...