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MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- A swimmer was bitten Saturday by a juvenile great white shark that grew agitated trying to free itself from a hook a fisherman had thrown into the water off Southern California's Manhattan...

On this Fourth of July weekend, there is much to celebrate about the wonders of the greatest economy on earth -- home to Hollywood, Apple, Google and a broad array...

As July 4, 2007, dawned on the Chesapeake Bay, Christopher Nassetta, then the chairman and chief executive of Host Hotels & Resorts in Bethesda, was preparing to take his daughters fishing. He pulled the fishing poles to...

After Beats Sale, Curation Platforms Are Hot, Hot, Hot. 

Will all the excitement (or craziness) happening over the holiday weekend, you may have missed that the "super PAC to end all super PACs" MayDay.us successfully hit its $5 million funding goal.

RENO, Nev. (AP) -- U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say they agree with a Nevada sheriff's position that rancher Cliven Bundy must be held accountable for his role in an April standoff between his supporters and ...

There has been a great deal of controversy over the minimum wage in the United States. Some argue that raising it is vital to our recovery, while others say that the real route to prosperity lies in lowering or even elim...

By day they are accountants, lawyers, technologists, salespeople. At work they're focused, productive, successful, often rising to senior positions within their profession. Yet these unassuming salary men and women harbo...

Investment banker Terence Kawaja, founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, has a new, epic presentation on the future of the television industry.  He built this presentation after talking to people in the digital media busines...

Rohan Marley, the son of reggae legend Bob Marley, has his sights set on new and emerging regions, including Asia, for his successful Marley Coffee. Fans of the coffee include...

As most Americans celebrated independence this week, a class of citizens -- families with college-bound kids -- suffered monetary dependence, as bills are due very soon. For the incoming freshman...

Pundits love to pile on to 18-to 29-year-olds for everything from narcissism to crimping sales of sugary sodas to stalling the housing market with their aversion to mortgage debt. But...

On a narrow road in South Durham, Alex Watson, 20, is running the family farm stand, one of the only urban farm stands in Durham County. This year, Watson will…

The Russian parliament passed a new bill (in both houses) that will require companies to store data about its citizens on servers located within the country, reports AFP. The vote happened on Friday, which coincidentally...

Subcategories are becoming a cornerstone in new app discovery programs, and image-based searches are growing in popularity.

Guest Post: There's no better time than the present for established enterprise players like IBM, Salesforce, and Oracle to swallow up bleeding-edge business intelligence companies. From SAP to Microsoft, established play...

YouTube has recently started notifying users that their Internet Service Provider could be the reason for awful video streaming playback.

Here are 10 inspirational quotes from Zimbabwe's richest man, Strive Masiyiwa, to guide you through the week and always.

Year after year since the big app stores launched, native apps have asserted their hegemony over the mobile web. One big drawback of native apps was the inability then the difficulty to seamlessly access any content from...

Guest Post: How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. There are only a few ticke...

I've often explained that "third-party payer" is a major problem in our healthcare sector.

NASA has approved work on the core stage of a rocket for its forthcoming Space Launch System project that will take us back to the moon, to mars, and even beyond. The core stage, aka the middle portion of the rocket that...