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Earlier on Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell reached an agreement to end the government shutdown and raise the nation's debt ceiling. A Senate Democratic aide said that the ...

Jon Stryker, a philanthropist and heir to a surgical and hospital supply fortune, is selling his duplex penthouse overlooking Central Park for $48 million, according to celebrity real estate blog The Real Estalker. The 5...

Square Inc., the brainchild of Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has made mobile payments even easier with Square Cash, a new service that allows anyone with a debit account to send money via email in a snap.     

Last week, I wrote a little primer on content companies–what kinds are out there and how they’re making money. This week two media companies are announcing some big fundraising rounds. Vox Media, based in Washington ...

For 125 years, National Geographic has been photographing our sublime planet, bringing what few humans have witnessed into the average American living room. To celebrate its anniversary and encourage photographers to see...

The NFL has become an offense-happy league in recent years. But that hasn't stopped a number of teams from investing more money on the defensive side of the ball in an effort to keep the other teams out of the endzone. T...

It turns out that, on Twitter, growing your following is just good old behavioral science.

Westchester Community Council members had some questions, but they ultimately gave the project a unanimous OK.

How the tables have turned for Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase.

The proposed short-term deal would re-open the Federal Government for 13 weeks through January 15 and raise the $16.7 trillion debt ceiling for roughly 16 weeks through February 7.

Everyone knows how to be healthy:  Eat Right, Exercise, and maintain positive mental health (sleep, stress, etc.).  Very few people know the three keys to financial success, but they are equally as simple, and, after y...

NBC Sports launched their new $250 million English Premier League venture recently. And very impressive it is too, I thought.

After a very slow start, there is momentum at the SEC to enable crowdfunding at the national level. Title II of the JOBS Act, which permits General Solicitation to accredited investors, became law in September. It is exp...

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it" -Victor Hugo

This is the second post in our series sharing Ashoka?s key insights on leading trends in social entrepreneurship and the environment coming out of Europe.  Click here to read the first post in the series. 

Ethan Imboden, founder of Jimmyjane, knows a thing or two about hardware startups. He founded one back in 2003, when software was all the rage and  hardware was uncool. After toiling on Jimmyjane (which disrupted the se...

Debt is, by definition, something -- typically money -- that is owed to another party. Many people live with it, and some economies would not work without it. As the nation waited for Congress to make a deal and move the...

Anyone following the performance of J.C. Penney?s stock closely cannot help but be concerned about the continued slide?the stock is trading close to $7-mark, near its all-time low.

What are some of the surprising downsides of having your startup succeed? This question was originally answered on Quora.

16 women on the 2013 Forbes Most Powerful Women list took the biggest career leap of all--striking out on their own to build companies around the world.

Minority entrepreneurs made up just 8.5% of the people pitching their businesses to angel investors in the first half of 2013, according to a report on the angel market by the University of New Hampshire?s Center for Ven...

Veeva Systems is at the heart of two explosive megatrends: the cloud and life sciences. So it should be no surprise that the company had little trouble with its IPO. In today?s trading, the shares are up a sizzling 80%.