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Giant media company and TV/Internet service provider Comcast has decided it wants to own all of NBCUniversal, offering minority shareholder GE a huge bag of cash.

A clean slate provides some opportunities for car companies and their customers to get it right in 2013.

Rumors that Apple was working on bringing HBO's streaming video counterpart HBO Go to its Apple TV set-top box last week proved half-true today.

Guest Post Virtually all tech acquisitions are characterized by large companies buying small companies, often for cash. But why does this have to be the case? Why can't small companies also participate in this bonanza of...

"I'm very proud that we're out front ... that we're changing people's lives ... that we're doing what's right and just in moving the ball forward," Cook said today. "I don't mean to gush, but it's how I feel."

It's no secret that chip-maker Intel is planning to release a revolutionary new television service that will allegedly change the way people watch TV forever. What we don't know is the validity of those "revolutionary" c...

The cloud storage wars are heating up: Dropbox has released a series of features for its Teams service that will boost its appeal to large corporate customers.

Not feeling Valentine's Day? Neither are wireless carrier Virgin Mobile and online dating service OKCupid.

Yahoo took a big step toward making its mobile experience better today by acquiring location discovery app Alike.

Online insurance agency Consumer United forms consumer groups to access deals and discounts on insurance.

Thirst Labs' latest app is like a personalized newspaper.

Digital news magazine app Pulse has always been good at making sense of the many news sources available online, but now it wants to cull the insanity of your social circle to find only the most popular articles and links...

I recently ran across a very disturbing, but not surprising, statistic.

Why are there so many Pinterest clones and subscription-commerce sites? It's all thanks to a decade of engineering that has made it cheaper to start a company than ever before.

If you've been simultaneously intimidated and allured by the command line for too long, learn-to-code company Treehouse is here to help.

20 brilliant young female founders to follow on Twitter to build an online network of e-mentors.

BlueStacks is launching its Android app player for Windows 8, giving Surface owners access to hundreds of thousands of Android apps.

"If I ever feel I'm dropping down from an excitement level, I go in a store ... it's like a Prozak," Cook said. "It's a feeling like no other."

There's no reason to pay more tax than is legally required, but there's also no reason to make yourself a target for an Internal Revenue Service audit or to get your return flagged by the IRS' computers, which match bill...

So-called "boilerplate" contract language that is agreed to by franchisees (or their attorneys) should not be taken likely. Sometimes this language can make the difference between, say, being insured for a natural disast...

In trading on Tuesday, education & training services shares were relative laggards, down on the day by about 1.2%. Helping drag down the group were shares of Ata ADS (ATAI), off about 9.5% and shares of Capella Education...

Apple CEO Tim Cook poured cold water on the cheap iPhone rumors today at Goldman Sachs' Technology and Internet conference in San Francisco. Sort of.