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The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has officially declared New York City's One World Trade Center the tallest building in the U.S., at 1,776 feet. The committee is the go-to body for determining building hei...

Hollywood's favorite leading man, George Clooney, said he's no fan of Tinseltown's favorite electric-car company, Tesla Motors. "I had a Tesla. I was one of the first cats with a...

Shane Smith, co-founder and CEO of VICE Media, talked about exit strategies for his media company  at Ignition 2013. Click for sound.     Produced by Kamelia Angelova, Alana Kakoyiannis and Justin Gmoser. SEE ALSO: H...

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This is the third posting in my cyber awareness series for small to medium-sized business owners.  One of the biggest buzzwords being used right now is "the cloud."  So, what is the cloud? There are many different defi...

Of all challenges facing today's employers, one stands out: Find and acquire talent. And for a good reason: talented employees are in limited supply, and very much in demand.

In the last ten days, two important reports have been released that should make people optimistic about the future of the American economy.  The first was a report by the Science Coalition, a group of American research ...

Carried interest gets a lot of media attention -- probably because it involves many rich hedge fund managers -- the kind of people everyone loves to hate, admire, and envy, thanks to their "hugely outsized earnings." Las...

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To this point, Instagram has been the best Internet acquisition ever and Facebook deserves enormous credit. Although it may seem like one of many popular mobile services today, it's very monetizing-friendly and the best ...

Yo Gotti released his first independent album 13 years ago. Thirteen mixtapes and four albums later, he is now on his second major label deal with Epic Records. Find out how he stays focused.

The road to a billion-dollar fortune is paved with $60 blazers. While the young tech titans behind today's social networks might get all the press coverage, there are still plenty of fashion merchants making big bucks in...

A guy known on Twitter as @Moonlightswami was happy to get a package in the mail a few days ago. He had ordered an Xbox One from Target, he said, and, even though the video game console won't officially be available unti...

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Jumping on a plane. Headed to Palm Springs for the Annual Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards hosted by Ernst & Young, LLP. Yes -- the top high-impact entrepreneurs in America all gathered in one spot and I'm in the middle o...

With the volume of competition that businesses face in most industries, it's never been more important to stand out and develop a unique identity and value proposition through strategic branding. While it's obviously imp...

The World Entrepreneurship Forum has named Ugandan-born Ashish J. Thakkar as the World's Best Young Entrepreneur for 2013.

WE'VE is an innovative social enterprise that sells artisan goods via a unique pre-order system that protects the price for buyers and sellers alike by assuring that production doesn't begin until a minimum order quanti...

As always, it pays for investors to keep an eye on governmental and regulatory actions. In the case of Congress, CBM and patent trolls, a hand has been tipped and gives investors a direction to watch.

One of the ground-breaking tech companies of the past decade is Salesforce.com, which is the mastermind of Marc Benioff. So what are some of his takeaways? Here's a look at three lessons.

When you make personal calls at work, employers can figure who you are talking to, how often you call and how long you stay on the line. Is such ability simply good management oversight, or creepy extension of NSA-style ...