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Everyone learns the number one rule about triangles in high school: the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees.But did you know that sometimes they don't? Triangles are much more interesting than you ever imagined. W...

How do 13-year-olds, Snapchat's core demographic, use the photo app? Ruby Karp, a teenager in New Yorker, documented on Mashable how she and her friends use Snapchat. "Snapchat is used in multiple ways, but this is how I...

Seems like there's a startup for everything these days, and yet somehow the solution we're really aching for just hasn't been created yet. We decided to put together a list of the startups we wish existed. Any entreprene...

Summer is the time for relaxing, taking a vacation, and traveling with friends and family.  But "vacation" means something a little different when you're a tech millionaire or billionaire.  From massive island retreats...

“We are going to patent it all,” Apple co-founder Steve Jobs reportedly told his team in 2006, according to Fred Vogelstein’s book “Dogfight.” Since then, Apple’s policy on intellectual property has been exac...

Customers are confused and angry

Investment banker Terence Kawaja is a big-time player in the advertising technology field. His advisory firm, LUMA Partners, has worked to help companies like Google and Yahoo make multimillion-dollar acquisitions, and h...

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New Jersey lawmakers are sending Gov. Chris Christie a bill that would legalize sports gambling at casinos and race tracks.

This is the year we stop shaming Millennials at the office or, uh, wherever it is they work.

The recent run-up in global oil prices has reawakened worries about emerging economies already struggling with a slowdown in growth.

There was a scary moment during the third round at Wimbledon when top-seeded Novak Djokovic slipped and jammed his arm on the ground. The incident came against Gilles Simon with Djokovic cruising with a 2-0 lead in sets....

Three-member teams on which at least 1 person was in a good mood were more than twice as likely to collectively solve a murder-mystery puzzle as teams on which all members were in neutral moods, according to an experimen...

Richard Branson opened a small record shop called Virgin Records in 1970. He had dropped out of high school a few years prior, and his only other business experience was running his own magazine. Today, Branson is worth ...

On August 8, 2014, shares of Alibaba,  the Chinese e-commerce giant, under the ticker symbol "BABA", will go on sale to the public. It has the potential to be the largest tech IPO in history and perhaps one of the large...

Today is one of the most incredible times in history to be an Entrepreneur or project owner. Startup costs are low. Talent abounds. Business platforms and solution providers are cutting prices to compete for your busines...

In the latest setback for the Pentagon's pricey F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, the U.S. military has grounded all of the fighter jets from flight operations after a fire that occurred at Eglin Air Force Base in Flori...

Hortonworks announced that the high-performance analytics engine Apache Spark is fully enabled for YARN, meaning that it can be deployed with other engines on a single Hadoop cluster.

The White House proposes a major program to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels, in a significant expansion of the U.S. role in a civil war that officials fear is bleeding into Iraq and across the region, The Wall Stree...

It is true that the acquisition of cultural awareness and language capability makes a global leader's challenges greater, but there are specific competencies that enable leaders to find success across all borders.

Foursquare, the location-based social network that's recently been struggling to find its identity, announced today it will charge businesses for access to its data, the Wall Street Journal reports. The New York startup ...

(Reuters) - Big banks have started pulling their business out of Barclays' dark pool, after the British bank was sued by New York's top securities regulator for allegedly misleading institutional investors over its anony...