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John Medina, in his book Brain Rules, introduces data that forms the following graph: The data shows that student attention level takes a dive, approximately 10 minutes into a lesson.  This is a natural occurrence (and...

Americans like to think they honor and defend family values. Yet in international rankings measuring support for families, based on the amount of paid leave to care for a new child or an ailing relative, the U.S. has sun...

This summer, two of the leading tech conferences are breaking through the clutter of data, growth, marketing and customer experience. Starting with GrowthBeat in San Francisco, followed by the GROW Conference, in Whistl...

The popular CEO of Boston grocery chain Market Basket was just fired, and workers are furious.  Arthur T. Demoulas was fired in June after a family dispute, according to Boston.com. Two more executives were fired that d...

Oculus VR and Facebook promise to work together to build the next computing platform.

As China's Red Cross struggles to win back public trust after a big scandal in 2011, the country's largest charity is now under fire again for a "bizarre" donation to typhoon-hit area.

Months after the departure of former CEO Marcus Nelson, Addvocate is still on track and releasing a new version of its social media platform today. Addvocate’s platform doesn’t spend a ton of time trying to drum up e...

ParkWhiz's app lets you find and pay for parking in large cities

For months, Samm Newman filled her Instagram feed with photos of herself in bras and boy shorts. The photos were hardly risque. Baring a bit of skin, but nothing you wouldn't encounter at the gym or beach, it resembled t...

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a solid independent survey of HR tech trends that will affect the workplace in 2014. The Information Services Group (ISG), a leading technology insights, market intelligence and advi...

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Conservative pundit Laura Ingraham on Monday lamented that the media has not been focused enough on her pet issue, the crisis at the southern border. "So there's an attempt to switch the narrative. The NBC (sic) didn't d...

Deal making isn't just getting busier. It also is getting messier. Last week, announced global deal volume crossed the $2 trillion mark. But many of the discussed tie-ups have been far from friendly.

Yahoo's purchase of Flurry makes sense, but it has a long way to go to catch up to Google and Facebook

Polio, once a global monster, is now a cornered rat, lashing out in hopes of repopulating. Reduced 99.9 percent from an average number of cases around 400,000 thirty years ago, the number of global polio cases has been c...

Unhappiness isn't the "opposite" of happiness — they're related, but different, psychological states. So while we might obsess over the pursuit of happiness, knowing how unhappiness works is important for our well-bein...

Several Barclays PLC (UK:BARC) employees voiced concerns to top executives about high-frequency traders getting too much access to its dark pool months before New York's attorney general filed suit accusing the London ba...

Some parts of Europe are now threatening to impose sanctions on Russia as Moscow-supported rebels stand accused of shooting down an airplane carrying citizens of four different European countries, including 192 Dutch. Ot...

Chinese e-commerce industry leader Alibaba Group has decided to hold its IPO after the U.S. Labor Day holiday after Sept. 1 instead of late July as originally planned, China’s state media reported.

GrowthBeat, our new event exploring the data, apps, and science of successful marketing, is coming up on Aug. 5 and Aug. 6 in San Francisco. Today, we're excited to announce a new session with Adobe VP of strategy John M...

Netflix has hit a milestone 50 million total registered monthly subscribers of its streaming video service, the company announced today in its Q2 2014 earnings report. Netflix recently announced that it intended to raise...

A moderate level of stress can motivate you, but too much will take a serious toll on your health and well-being. No matter what's happening around you at work this summer, these tips can help you stay calm.