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Investors placed their bets on babes, games and manufactering startups.

Cloud storage goliath Dropbox has acquired the coupon and loyalty app Endorse and its team.

Guest Post In Silicon Valley, the notion of "work-life balance" is a joke. We can do better.

While the European Aviation Safety Agency announced that it will order the removal of emergency locator transmitters from Boeing 787s in the fleets of European carriers, the FAA is taking a wait and see approach, announc...

If you're bummed out about missing all the new digital comic book news and discussion coming through the pipeline this weekend at San Diego Comic-Con, rest assured you are not alone.

Just a day after Google invited media to attend the unveiling of the Moto X Android smartphone on Aug. 1, more pictures of the hyped device have been leaked to the web.

Al Alcorn talks about making games and gadgets in Silicon Valley.

Guest Post The ease of hardware prototyping combined with the power of crowdfunding is where the magic lies.

The Elf electric pedal car won't replace your SUV, but it can make for a fine urban commute, says Dan Neil.

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Fed Chairman Bernanke used his appearance before the House and Senate finance committees as yet another opportunity to soft-pedal his original ill-conceived effort to explain the eventual winding down of QE. In doing so ...

Of all the challenges I've had to overcome in my life, none come close to the loss of my son. To this day, five years later, it is still something incredibly difficult to share or write about. When great challenges or tr...

More than 100 teens demonstrated in near-100-degree heat in Boston's Financial District Friday, calling on businesses to provide more summer jobs for the city's youth.

One group described a venture capital model that helped allocate resources. Another examined the benefits of mergers and acquisitions. The role of board members came up often.

Guest Post The reason offline businesses persist is the difference between purchasing a product or service from a person versus a website. And with the data that generates, these businesses can survive for decades to com...

FlipOver.org is a crowd funding and crowd sourcing platform that empowers social entrepreneurs to create change in communities around the world.

Apple may soon provide public transportation information in its Apple Maps app with the purchase of HopStop.

Guest Post If Darwin was right and adaptive evolution is real, mobile devices of the future will be subcutaneous parts of our palm. Can Beats earlobes be far behind?

Investigators say state District Judge Tom Greenwell was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when he shot and killed himself in his chambers at the Nueces County Courthouse.

GROSSETO, Italy -- An Italian court on Saturday convicted five employees of an Italian cruise company over the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 crew and passengers, handing down a maximum sentence of two years an...

Sarah Robb O'Hagan, president of Equinox Fitness, has her office just above the top floor of one of its health clubs.