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Samsung is the leading smart TV vendor worldwide, accounting for 26.4% of global smart TV shipments in the fourth quarter, according to Strategy Analytics data. Samsung maintained its top spot from the previous year, gr...

Hubertus von Hohenlohe, the 55-year-old skier from Mexico is the most interesting man at the Olympics. Aside from going to six Olympics for Mexico, von Hohenlohe is a German prince, a pop-star, and a professional photogr...

Lonely Planet has published a new book, "Beautiful World," an image collection of the most stunning places on Earth.  The book showcases 200 photos taken by travelers everywhere from Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah t...

A screenshot of a Russian figure skating judge hugging Olympic gold medalist Adelina Sotnikova is being passed around as evidence that the event was fixed. The judge, Alla Shekhovtseva, is married to Valentin Piseev, w...

Perk Hixon, a powerful New York investment banker, on Friday become the latest Wall Street high-flyer to crash into Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's sprawling insider-trading probe. The 55-year-old ex-Evercore...

Two big secret sharing apps have recently hit the mainstream, and it's kind of creating a divide in the tech community.  At their core, both apps are all about sharing secrets. Cool, but what's the difference?  With W...

An unidentified Chinese man in his thirties or forties stole an alligator coat valued at approximately $128,000 from a Hong Kong Burberry store by putting it on and just walking out the front door on Wednesday, authori...

We recently posted Reddit user Alexandr Trubetskoy's map showing that half of all U.S. GDP comes from just 23 metropolitan areas. Trubetskoy went a step further and broke all American economic activity down into quartile...

Marketers need to start taking publishing seriously. It's not a gimmick, but a craft and one that takes work to master.

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Last weekend I got an iPhone 5S, upgrading from an iPhone 5. While most people scoff at Apple doing "S" upgrades, I have to say I am really impressed at everything Apple packed into the phone.  In one year, Apple made b...

When the savviest small companies grow up and become midsized, their management teams inevitably come to a profound realization:  meetings can’t just be meetings anymore. Instead, they must become highly disciplined, ...

Sake is among the soft goods that the government is promoting to help improve the country's exports.     

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David Alves is one of the main brains behind Facebook's Hacker Cup, one of the most anticipated gigs for young coders looking to make a name for themselves.     

US authorities say bidis contain levels of nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide several times greater than normal cigarettes

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The United Automobile Workers has asserted that Tennessee lawmakers interfered with a unionization vote at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn.     

Guest Post: I handled Viber's public relations from its soft launch in Israel until its $900 million acquisition. Here's what you can learn from my experience.     

Coders have found a way to adapt the popular Evasi0n jailbreak to the latest minor update of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS 7.0.6, and may already be working on iOS 7.1, which isn't even out yet.     

Guest Post: In a startup culture that glorifies funding, it’s not often that entrepreneurs hear that too much funding can actually harm their company. For the rare bootstrapped tech startup, there are dozens of seed-st...

Small-town business owners afflicted with wanderlust don't have to move -- they just have to put in the time (and mileage) to find the community they're looking for.