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It may seem like an impossible dream to join the likes of Al Gore or Anthony Robbins as speakers at TED, the legendary ideas conference. But with the creation of TEDx, independently-organized TED-like conferences through...

Universal Studios announced last week via Facebook that Paul Walker's brothers, Caleb and Cody, would be filling in missing "Fast & Furious 7" scenes in the late actor's last movie role. "We have resumed shooting and n...

Todd Redmond of the Toronto Blue Jays recently modeled one of the new protective caps for pitchers being produced by IsoBlox. Todd Redmond, modeling the new protective caps for pitchers. He and others I spoke to aren't f...

Priya Mathur has been fined $13,000 for previous reporting violations. She says the problem was improperly filed paperwork.SACRAMENTO — A longtime board member of the country's largest public pension fund is in trouble...

Anti-Western jihadist group Boko Haram has been terrorizing Nigeria for about a decade, killing thousands of people and jeopardizing Africa's largest oil industry. The group, whose name means "Western education is sinfu...

Apple was the most actively traded stock every month of 2013.

(Reuters) - Apple Inc and Google Inc are wooing game developers to ensure that top game titles arrive first on devices powered by their respective operating system, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familia...

10 questions to consider when you receive an unsolicited offer to buy your business.

The search and rescue non-profit, Texas EquuSearch, has filed a petition before the federal Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. seeking to overturn a February order by the FAA to stop using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV...

Just about every payments company out there either already has, or is working on, a way for customers to use their smartphones to transact a payment at a payment terminal. This is supposed to be the next big revolution i...

U.S. auto sales got off to a slow start this year, and though they showed a modest rebound in March, industry analysts are questioning whether 2014 will continue to see the sort of recovery forecast for the American car ...

DENG HONG’S AMBITION, according to a Chinese newspaper, was to build a city inside a single building; a "temperature-controlled paradise". Last September his dream edifice, the New Century Global Centre, formally opene...

When you work for a tech startup that has raised a lot of money but has an uncertain future, you — as an employee with stock options — should ask yourself: If the company gets bought or goes public, will I make any m...

Writer Kendra Eash wrote an amazing bit of satire mocking how the ad industry likes to use vague, inspirational nonsense to capture people's attention.

Abreast of the Market: Fund managers are shying away from U.S. IPOs after having been burned by once-highflying tech and biotech stocks. But many investors remain optimistic about the overall stock market.

As the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange sank deeper into trouble, its CEO was busy focusing on coffees and pastries for a bitcoin cafe he planned to open.

The Outlook: The recovery from the recession has been nasty, brutish and long. It also is shaping up as one of the most enduring.

Dmytro Firtash has made billions brokering gas deals, but he now faces both a criminal indictment and a racketeering lawsuit in United States courts.

Japan's trade deficit surged nearly 70 percent to a record 13.75 trillion yen ($134 billion) in the last fiscal year, the third straight year of deficit, as exports failed to keep pace with surging energy costs.

The Japanese trade deficit widened to 1.45 trillion yen about $14.1 billion in March, according to latest report from the Ministry of Finance. The number was wider than expectations for 1.08 trillion yen. This  came on ...

You can find tons of advice about how to get a job interview and how to snag a job. Most of it comes from the "Do whatever you have to do to get hired!" school of thought. The job market isn't a job-seeker's paradise, bu...

Immediately following his controversial departure, former GitHub president and chief executive Tom Preston-Werner today announced his next step: “immersive computing” (aka virtual reality). Here’s an excerpt from P...