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While Olympic figure skaters tend to look incredibly graceful and elegant on screen, the still photos of their performances tell a somewhat different story. The intense facial expressions of these skaters convey how phys...

Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice, who helped his team win last year's Super Bowl, faces assault charges from an alleged incident involving his fiancee in an Atlantic City casino. A copy of a New Jersey court summon...

Anti-government protests in Venezuela are a new phenomenon, having only started a few weeks ago, so it's not surprising that protesters aren't as prepared to stand up to their government as their counterparts in Ukraine....

Putting aside the controversial military application for remotely-piloted aircraft (aka drones), the unmanned platforms are bringing on new opportunities for really great aerial photography. Last month, we found an examp...

At $400, Samsung's new small tablet serves as one of the best alternatives yet to the iPad Mini with Retina Display.     

Editor’s Note: This interview is one in a series produced by the Skoll World Forum with the participation of today’s leading thinkers and innovators in education.  All of the contributors represent projects that...

It’s now cheaper to rent than own.     

One of the insane stories of Facebook's $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp is that the CEO of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, was on welfare a few years ago, and is now a billionaire several times over. WhatsApp itself only has 55 ...

The five-year bond maturing on 26 February 2019 is offering a yield of 3.91% and will be listed in Singapore

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape:  Justin Moore, Founder and CEO, Axcient...

The two investment banks that worked on the $19 billion Facebook acquisition of popular messenger app WhatsApp could make more than $80 million in advisory fees, according to preliminary estimates. Dealbook reports th...

On Wednesday, Facebook announced that it will purchase mobile-messaging company WhatsApp for $16 billion in stock and cash.

As they prepare to launch the first publicly-traded U.S. fund for Bitcoins, the Winklevoss twins--Cameron and Tyler--have introduced the Winklevoss Index ("Winkdex"), an index for pricing the virtual currency.     

Steve Perlman intends to redefine the capabilities of wireless technology. On Wednesday, the serial Silicon Valley entrepreneur behind technologies like OnLive and WebTV introduced his new wireless innovation, pCell. Per...

The world's top deal adviser for nine of the past 10 years, Goldman Sachs Group Inc has been notably absent on 2014's largest mergers and acquisitions, including Facebook's $19 billion deal to purchase mobile messaging s...

In a story that could come straight out of Total Recall, the Pentagon has started testing the application of running low level electrical currents through soldiers' brains as a replacement for coffee and energy drinks. T...

Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based financial services company, said Thursday that Charles Morrison has been appointed to succeed Ronald P. O'Hanley as the president of its asset management unit. O'Hanley recently ann...

The telecom and broadcast regulator wants to lower minimum channel spacing from 800KHz to 400KHz to allow for more radio stations

Coca-Cola is raising its quarterly dividend by 9 percent.

By Marcelo Teixeira SAO PAULO

While snooping through SEC filings today, we saw that IDG Ventures‘ San Francisco team has been out shaking down the moneybags of Silicon Valley and beyond. The firm is about $65 million down, $35 million to go in a pr...

HP beats both profit and revenue numbers. Will 3D printing supply the innovation?