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Although the History Channel’s reality TV show Pawn Stars is entertaining, it reinforces a number of potentially harmful negotiating tactics.

Guest Post Patent trolling is putting a significant strain on innovation, and its time to change the system.

The British Serious Fraud Office (SFO), which is said to be investigating Autonomy on charges of fraud, is also an Autonomy customer.

Salesforce announced plans to offer $1 billion in convertible senior notes in a private placement to institutional investors.

Produced in Association with UKTI A score of UK-based companies showed off their stuff at SXSW in Austin this year. We've got rapid-fire interviews with more than a dozen of them right here, so you can get their pitches ...

Investors will get a better picture of how the retail sector is faring with several well-known clothing chains due to report quarterly results on Wednesday.

"We're seeing a billion pageviews per month," CEO Gil Dudkiewicz told me on the phone this afternoon.

Guest Post Our findings show the disconnect between social media strategies and business value is forcing many executives to rethink their overall approach, and the infrastructure they built to support it.

Web-performance monitoring startup Catchpoint Systems has raised $3.2 million in new funding that will help it better keep an eye on companies’ web services, APIs, DNS, and more.

Today, FirstRain is bringing that platform alive with its first third-party enterprise integration: a drop-in HTML5 component that offers advanced in-app business analytics.

To make it easier for roommates or colleagues at a small company to order items for a shared kitchen, Instacart has launched a new feature called "Shop with Friends."

Stephanie Burns is the founder and CEO of Chic CEO - a free resource for female entrepreneurs. You can follow her on Twitter at @StephanieABurns or Chic CEO at @ChicCEO.

Kim Dotcom is the poster child for why the current set of copyright laws have gone horribly wrong, so naturally he made his way to the South by Southwest interactive show -- sort of.

The most recent short interest data has been released by the NASDAQ for the 02/28/2013 settlement date, which shows a 511,738 share decrease in total short interest for ITT Corporation (NYSE: ITT), to 3,085,406, a decrea...

Metro Mobile here we come. The FCC has approved the $1.5 billion merger between MetroPCS and T-Mobile USA.

Real fishermen have a saying: “a bad day of fishing is better than a good day at the office,” but perhaps not at McDonald’s. Not this month, anyway. It turns out that Fish McBites – offered in t...

Guest Post Saving someone's feelings? You might not be doing her any favors in the long run.

Back to the future? Everything old is new again?

South by Southwest Interactive is a successful experiment in startup community building. It may be crowded, noisy, and overhyped, but it's still an excellent place to build connections.

Today, the storied venture firm funded Spiral Medicine, a company that processes genetic information for the purposes of clinical medicine and research.

Technology certainly has changed the way I do my job. In fact, in many ways, it's changed my profession. Digital media, including social channels, search engine marketing, and search engine optimization have changed the ...

Sponsored Post Once upon a time, searching for a new house was a complicated, painstaking affair.