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In his forthcoming book, Wharton professor David Bell reveals how location still matters in surprising ways, even in the supposedly "flat" world of e-commerce.

How to explain the toxic atmosphere in Israel and the occupied territories Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories. By Ahron Bregman. Allen Lane; 416 pages. To be published in America by Pegasus ...

Aerial photo-sharing website Dronestagram announced the winners of its 2014 Drone Photo Contest. The winning photographs show a stunning birds-eye view of an eagle's flight an Indonesian national park, a beautiful waterf...

"Game of Thrones" was just nominated for 19 Emmys and it's not difficult to see why. The HBO series is now the most-watched show in the network's history. It recently surpassed "The Sopranos" with an average of 18.4 mil...

The sex industry in the Valley is still huge, Jessica Guynn of USA Today reports.  "Silicon Valley is like a military base: There are very few civilian women and lots of money," one Silicon Valley entrepreneur told USA ...

The Hidden Cash treasure hunt phenomenon has gone digital. In May, someone started hiding envelopes of cash all over San Francisco, and now someone is leaving bitcoin wallets around the city, sending people on a digital ...

Adam Orenstein spent years cross-breeding marijuana plants before arriving at his proud new strain, a tall stalky plant frosted with white crystally hairs prized by growers and smokers.

China's central bank is focusing on allegations by a central government television broadcaster that the People's Bank of China has been laundering money offshore for clients, the official Xinhua news service reported Fri...

In the high desert some 50 miles west of Idaho Falls, the terrain is so rugged that the vehicle in which your correspondent was touring the facilities at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) ended up with two shredded tyres. ...

If PlayBuzz's name doesn't already conjure up the quizzes and shareable content associated with BuzzFeed, just take a look at the two websites' front pages.  Shaul Olmert, a 39-year-old Israeli tech entrepreneur and t...

At least 12 billion-dollar families, worth a total of $54.3 billion, owe their fortunes to businesses founded during the Great Depression.

The point of counting everything, including the wages of sin, is to get a more accurate reading of each country's gross domestic product. Because G.D.P. is such an important number -- one that can sway national policies ...

How and why lofty ideologies cohabit with rampant corruption Casual observers of Russian politics could be forgiven for feeling confused. On the one hand Vladimir Putin, the president, portrays himself as the helmsman of...

If you've been desperately trying to find a good Scud missile to add to your military arsenal, there's a Silicon Valley auction that's right up your alley. Up for sale on Friday and Saturday in Portola Valley, California...

When one looks at the data, over the long run, states with no income taxes are way ahead of the highest tax states across all relevant indicators. The evidence of this is overwhelming.

Economists cut US growth forecasts, but remain optimistic economy will recover from grim 1Q

Guest Post: Of the 120 companies in the firm's portfolio, more than 50 percent are games companies. And Decent Capital is constantly on the hunt for more.

Today, Salesforce.com announced it was acquiring “relationship-intelligence” company RelateIQ. Soon, Salesforce will use the acquisition to create a new research-and-development division, likely called Salesforce X, ...

Financial tech might not be the sexiest thing happening around town, but one company is putting all its bets on it. Yodlee Interactive (YI), a division of financial software company Yodlee, is beefing up the part of its ...

No question investors have been growing weary of low yielding fixed income funds.  This is especially true in light of Fed expectations to slow bond purchases later this year portending a rise in interest rates.   So ...

Planning for marketing and advertising efforts isn’t all that difficult.  It’s just hard work and a lot of detail.

Despite being an unstable facilitator of black-market transactions created by an anonymous hacker to skirt government control, consumers can't get enough of the cryptocurrency.