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Harvard Business School released a case study on Google Glass. The students will analyze Google's marketing strategy and debate how the company can maximize the potential of Glass. In the Harvard Business Review this mon...

The gig: Jonathan Mayer is not a typical Stanford University graduate student. Already, at age 27, Mayer is an expert on consumer privacy and government surveillance. His research has been cited by a presidential task fo...

If the reported $2 billon sale of the Los Angeles Clippers by the Sterling Family Trust to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer goes through, reports Bill Bischoff, the tax hit to embattled owner Donald Sterling will be ma...

We have no doubt in our minds that Steve Ballmer has big plans for the LA Clippers. He's a man without fear, and always willing to sweat for what he loves, literally.

A long-running insider trading investigation by the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in Manhattan is focusing on a well-known gambler, a widely-popular championship golfer and a 78-year...

"I was not a victim," declares John Browne, the former chief executive of BP, in his new book, "The Glass Closet: Why Coming Out Is Good Business," published by Harper Business. "We must own up to our choices and I had m...

This one might leave Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Jo White a bit red-faced. The tough-as-nails former federal prosecutor, who has pledged to turn the regulator into a more...

The debate reflects both the stability of current Fed policy and the considerable uncertainty about what the Fed should do next -- and how.

Get all the tech funding news of the day delivered straight to your mailbox! Sign up for Funding Daily and never miss a deal. Today’s edition is short but juicy: We learned that at least one startup in San Francisco ....

Investment funds that take into account environmental, social and corporate governance criteria have experienced explosive growth in the last five years.

Angelina Jolie's return to the silver screen is looking to be one of her very biggest hits ever. Walt Disney's Maleficent, a darker re-imagining of the Sleeping Beauty story with the emphasis on its conflicted villain...

African-Americans in the tech industry still seem to be relatively few and far between. Tech behemoth Google's US-based workforce is only 2% black, the company recently announced.  But that is changing — very slowly, ...

For years, Hernan Argueta's small plot of coffee plants seemed immune to the fungus spreading elsewhere in Central America. The airborne disease that strikes coffee plants, flecking their leaves with spots and causing th...

Pay for chief executives at the Chicago area's largest companies continues to rise. And the biggest rewards go to a handful of executives. The 20 highest-paid CEOs earned 45 percent of the total compensation last year. O...

Startups in Europe may not be in the best environment for starting up because of the new court ruling upholding individuals' "right to be forgotten," says Google.

Nelson Peltz just survived another turn on the grill at Wendy's. The billionaire investor -- who took control of the fast-food chain in 2008 after agitating for change as a...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The NBA canceled a hearing to oust Los Angeles Clippers co-owner Donald Sterling, instead moving forward to vote on a record-breaking deal negotiated by his wife to sell the team to former Microsoft C...

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There is no way to exercise the right to be forgotten, without taking away someone's right to express and educate themselves.

In less than two weeks, the world's greatest golfers will gather at Pinehurst in North Carolina for the U.S. Open, one of the world's few elite sporting events that is actually "open" in the true sense (meaning anyone ca...