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Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk’s younger brother owns an expanding restaurant chain that’s taking off After the brothers sold their company, Zi p2, for $300 million in 1995, Kimbal Musk moved to Boulder, Colorado and f...

Volkswagen dealers are angry about U.S. CEO Michael Horn's departure.          

If we see the rules as fixed, we'll tend to be limited by conventional barriers of achievement. But if we see that paradigms are, to a large degree, self imposed, the possibilities are endless. We are only bound by what ...

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In its 2016 Guide to Retirement, J.P. Morgan Asset Management included a powerful illustration of how compounding returns lead to huge differences between investors who start out young and those who wait until later in t...

Wall Street looks like it's getting ready to fall off a cliff. The world's biggest banks are bracing investors for lower first-quarter profits this year, as roiled markets have slammed trading and all but put the brakes ...

Chewing tobacco has long been a part of baseball. So were the reserve clause that once prohibited free agency and the one-time agreement to keep players of color out of the majors, and no one mourns them, either. Where c...

Sony’s Future Lab unveiled the first of many concept prototypes that it wants your feedback on. At the South by Southwest Interactive conference, the company touted its first project called “N”, a hands-free headph...

Reuters/Olivia Harris If clichés like "follow your passion," "give 110%," and "be true to yourself" just aren't cutting it for you anymore, we've got some fresh takes on how to get a head start on your career. From "don...

Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk’s younger brother owns an expanding restaurant chain that’s taking off. After the brothers sold their company, Zip2, for $300 million in 1999, Kimbal Musk moved to Boulder, Colorado, and ...

VB WEBINAR: With marketing covering more territory and tasks than ever, marketing clouds are becoming indispensable. But figuring out where to start and how to choose can make walking on hot coals a more attractive under...

Edovo, a startup with a tablet-based education platform for inmates aimed at slashing recidivism, is in a SXSW pitch competition

GUEST: Each year, SXSW brings together a unique mix of people in the world of technology, design, media, film, music, and — as of late — an increasing number of people associated with the worlds of philanthropy and s...

Valve just announced that it has launched an early beta test for the SteamVR Desktop Theater Mode, which enables players to play non-virtual-reality games with VR systems. The new mode will work with the upcoming HTC Viv...

I was recently at a marketing conference talking with Mike Murtagh, the VP of Advancement at Eureka College, about Ronald Reagan. Reagan happens to be the Illinois school's most famous graduate. I was listening intently ...

GUEST: There's been a healthy amount of chatter lately from analysts and tech writers that we are approaching a meltdown in startup financing. Unicorns, those startups valued at $1 billion or higher, are being downgraded...

Here's a look at how to avoid the Obamacare tax penalty.

European banks with excess reserves have two choices: first, deposit them with ECB -- and pay ECB for this privilege -- or lend this money out and get paid by the ECB for doing so! Simply put, under the new ECB policies ...

Dividend stocks are a great way to build long-term wealth. But how do you pick the right ones—and steer clear of companies whose payouts are headed off a cliff?

Mobile gaming is more a science than an art, and that’s a problem for some developers that are heavy on creativity and lacking in a capacity to crunch through data. That’s why one company is offering a boot camp-styl...

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It was another strong week for the stock market even though there was little US economic data the positive momentum from the past three weeks pushed stocks even higher. The further easing by the European Central Bank on ...