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Massive, recording-breaking blooms of the algae Enteromorpha prolifera have been washing up on China's beaches in Shandong province, near Qingdao. The bloom is the size of Connecticut and officials have already removed 1...

Gray hair is the ultimate banker/hedge fund hair do. We couldn't help but notice that a handful of folks in finance have developed some really, really nice silver strands over the years. They're what we would consider th...

A sofa is one of the biggest furniture investments you'll make -- and one of the most permanent. Even if you're just buying one for a temporary fix, it'll eventually get demoted from the living room to the family room to...

3D television programming just inched a little closer to death today.

Guest Post Nearly all real estate professionals are using overly complicated technology that is 10 to 20 years old. That's about to change.

Meet Donna, a new personal assistant app launched just in time to reaffirm that sexism in tech is alive and well. The service, built by San Francisco's Incredible Labs, manages your calendar, organizes conference calls, ...

The first images of the all-new 2014 Mazda 3 sedan have hit the Web early, thanks to a number of leaks overnight. As expected, the redesigned sedan shares its styling with the 2014 Mazda 3 hatchback revealed last week, e...

Why can't you escape this duo's catchy tune? And what's the worst social platform for selling products? These stories and more in this week's scouting report on provocative ideas for business.

Spurred by changing transportation preferences, Boston officials are significantly reducing the amount of new parking required with major building projects, especially those located near MBTA stations. The goal is to enc...

If you follow VentureBeat but don't regularly check our GamesBeat site, here's a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Studies put the failure rate of organizational change at 70% or higher. Yet, managers face increasing pressure to implement change to meet short- and long-term goals. Gregory P. Shea and Cassie A. Solomon share their app...

Solve Media gives marketers the capability to both weed out spam and help customers remember their slogans with its new round of funding.

Startups on a plane, startups on a train. Startups having fun, startups in the sun?

While many digital companies are attempting to reinvent the travel agency industry, CloudArena wants to help it.

Daric enables its lender-members to buy payment-dependent notes -- up to $10 million in notes at any given time -- as peer-to-peer loans. It provides a social overlay and portfolio builder and says its investments/loans ...

A fake app mimicking Jay-Z's Magna Carta Holy Grail was programmed with anti-surveillance propaganda, but it also stole information about your phone in the background.

Mobile video has begun to accumulate scale, and has also turned out to be one of the few types of mobile content -- along with games -- that monetizes reliably and drives premium ad rates. That's reflected in the much hi...

China is huge, and AT&T is just about as big.

Sony is launching its own smartphone recovery service, and is making Google look pretty bad in the process.

The UK has taken bold steps this month to improve health care transparency. Why is the U.S. still trailing behind?

"With Glass I went closer to the action than I probably should have, and saw a couple fights going on. I think I got the first arrest with Google Glass ... kinda cool!"

Remaining bidders may include DirectTV, Time Warner Cable, and Yahoo. Another recent bid came from a joint venture between AT&T and the Chernin Group, led by former News Corp. exec Peter Chernin.