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There were some creepy scenes in Denver on Friday night when the Nuggets mascot crumpled to the floor after being lowered to the court in a harness during pregame introductions. The team told ABC7 in Denver that the man ...

On the first week of the NBA season, Saturday Night Live did a Weekend Update segment mocking TNT's Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley. Shaq was played by Jay Pharoah and Barkley was played by Kenan Thompson. The Shaq ...

Business Insider revealed the world's most disturbing Google Street View photos recently. In light of the positive response we got, we're bringing you the most awkward Street View images. Google suffered a pretty big blo...

Last week, we learned some big news from Facebook's earnings report: Teens don't want to spend their time on Facebook anymore.  Although Facebook CFO David Ebersman said almost all teens in the U.S. have an account, the...

At the end of New York Times reporter Scott Shane's superb report on the documents stolen by Edward Snowden and obtained by The New York Times, a former NSA director put forward a radical idea for the NSA: Reveal the inf...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Back in the late 1980s, when Maura Mazzocca was a human resources administrator with a Boston-area firm, a blind man showed up to apply for a job. Today, she remembers the encounter ruefully. "Wh...

The airline industry has been packing more passengers into smaller seats over the last few years and now one of the world’s largest jet manufacturers is calling for an end to the crush.

Kerry Washington decided to have a little fun with the viral video "What Does The Fox Say" on this weekend's "Saturday Night Live." But instead of singing about animal sounds, Washington sings of her suspicions about a c...

If you're the type of person who likes to know that he or she can email or send files with the knowledge that you're doing so completely securely, you'll want to check out Perzo. Perzo functions as a communications platf...

Startup Sunfunder helps to finance low-cost solar power startups selling to the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity.

Ashley Walsh, an assistant brand manager at the Boston Beer, is a member of a group of 18 MBA students from Babson College visiting Shanghai this week to learn about the business landscape here. I asked each for his or h...

It has rarely been so important for the central bankers of the world to mind their language. The $60 trillion global stock market valuation is riding on those words.

Sandeep Alluri of Boston is a member of a group of 18 MBA students from Babson College visiting Shanghai this week to learn about the business landscape here. I asked each for his or her best idea for a start-up company ...

With childhood obesity on the rise, everyone is trying to find ways to curb kids? sugar intake. Halloween is our annual free-for-all, but what starts as a one-night binge can quickly stretch out into months of sugar ove...

China's growth has enriched and frustrated many foreign entrepreneurs in the three decades since the country launched its economic reforms three decades ago and emerged as the fastest growing major economy. Eighteen curr...

Those who follow me know I?m an optimistic proponent of crowdfund equity and the new sources of early stage funding it brings. The cautions I?ve covered have been primarily to protect investors from fraud and to protect ...

Maria Gagne, a sales manager at Financial Engines of Boston, is a member of a group of 18 MBA students from Babson College visiting Shanghai this week to learn about the business landscape here. I asked each for his or h...

 Derek Fritz, a director at Prudential Mortgage Capital, is a member of a group of 18 MBA students from Babson College visiting Shanghai this week to learn about the business landscape here. I asked each for his or her ...

Tenzin Norzin, recently of JPMorgan Chase, is a member of a group of 18 MBA students from Babson College visiting Shanghai this week to learn about the business landscape here. I asked each for his or her best idea for a...

Rick Baker  is a Braintree, Mass. attorney and a member of a group of 18 MBA students from Babson College visiting Shanghai this week to learn about the business landscape here. I asked each for his or her best idea for...

Abhishek Moudgil, a consultant with Hewlett-Packard, is a member of a group of 18 MBA students from Babson College visiting Shanghai this week to learn about the business landscape. I asked each for his or her best idea ...

The VegasTechFund are now accepting applications for their new accelerator programme, Progression Labs. Part of the wider Downtown Project, VTF is a $50M seed VC fund investing in tech startups. People often think this i...