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Dave Carlson is running one of the largest Bitcoin mining operations there is. He's set up an army of number-crunching computers in two warehouses at an undisclosed location in Washington State. The computers generate a ...

He sees targets amid turmoil: Jewel a trophy — will Sears be another? Hersch Klaff, a one-time bidder for the Chicago Cubs , has partnered with some of the biggest names in the investment business — the Pritzker fami...

Changing face of American ads

Michele Mosca is co-founder and Deputy Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, and a founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He's got a front row seat to all things quantum computing ...

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Two florida cases over the shooting deaths of black teens underscore the growing clout of the unofficial “black’’ corner of the Twittersphere.

A Malaysia Airlines that took off with more than 200 people on board has been missing for nearly three days, and a massive search of the South China Sea has turned up nothing conclusive. While lots of theories on what ha...

The lead proponent of a proposal to ban plastic bags in Chicago says he has enough support for his legislation to become law. Alderman Proco "Joe" Moreno (1st) told the Chicago Sun-Times his plastic bag crackdown has the...

Billionaire Chicagoan Gigi Pritzker doubled-down on the movie industry Monday, announcing that she will form a studio that will release as many as 10 films a year.

If you bought a computer or a video game console from 1998-2002, chances are someone owes you ten bucks.     

Chipotle, Whole Foods, and Deutsche Bank are all major companies run by two CEOs. Samsung even has three of them. But why? The co-CEO system is nothing new, though it is certainly uncommon. Previous implementations sugge...

Last summer, Jennifer Sigler, the Chief Operating Officer at Global Giving, shared with me that her entire staff was reading the Lean Startup by Eric Ries. The idea that a senior manager of a non-profit would have all of...

European finance officials will consider banking rules on Monday, and the Senate will consider Stanley Fischer as the Fed's next vice chairman at a hearing on Tuesday.     

Guest Post: Here's how one entrepreneur used persistent problem-solving to turn a lot of rejection into a solid, well-backed startup.     

The public radio entity will use most of its gift from the Jerome L. Greene Foundation to support the development of digital operations, including a new feature on the WNYC mobile app.     

There were two big events over the weekend: The tragic disappearance of the Malaysian Air flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing and the terrible Chinese export data. Both of those events are producing notable reactions in ...

Chinese exports plunged 18.1% year-over-year in February, missing expectations for a 7.5% rise.  This was down from a 10.6% rise in January. But what was behind the fall? "We believe the real situation is not that bad, ...

The apparel agreement would pay the English soccer club roughly $100 million a year for 10 years starting in 2015.     

A newly released trove of internal emails and documents, mostly from 2006 and 2007, paint a troubling picture of how Credit Suisse operated as the housing bubble inflated.     

Sponsored Post: iAffiliate Management, a Minneapolis-based Outsourced Program Management Agency, announced today the hiring of affiliate marketing veteran Mike Allen who will join the Client Development team. Mike Allen ...

Join Akamai's security expert Matthew Mosher and GamesBeat lead reporter Dean Takahashi to hear about the latest online attacks and the toolkits companies are using to take worldwide gaming platforms offline.     

"Americans benefit profoundly, [from keeping the NSA in check] because we've got the most to lose from being hacked, At the same time, every citizen in every country has something to lose.