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Researchers use microscopic tools to create a stop-motion animated film with atoms.They also use it to create Star Trek images.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke frankly to a roomful of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs about the crisis in our current education system.

Most startup founders fresh off raising $15 million from Andreessen Horowitz would show up at a tech conference ready to prove themselves further. Not Rap Genius.

"We've sent a team of people around the world to see what they use, and we care about everybody, not just you guys," Facebooker Peter Deng said to a room full of tech elites.

A pro-gaming league made $3,700 "mining" for Bitcoins using malware they installed on their customers' PCs.

More than half of Facebook's revenue comes from international sources, and only around 20 percent of monthly active users are based in the U.S. and Canada.

MapMyFitness made the most significant web update and redesign in three years to become a "more beautiful, cleaner, easier to live in" house for all your workout activity.

A recent Hyundai ad in the UK made fun of suicide to demonstrate its zero-emission cars. Here in the US, an online video from Mountain Dew (its cans read Mtn Dew) parodied a police lineup to establish its street cred. Th...

Mozilla is taking action against Gamma International, makers of spying software FinFisher. The company says FinFisher is masquerading as its FireFox browser to trick people into trusting it.

Microsoft still isn't divulging official Surface numbers, but it looks like it's at least making a dent in the tablet market.

Adsolut launched today as the "admeld for Africa." It is an ad network and management platform that helps web publishers more effectively sell and manage their ads online in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Yankees are worth $2.3 billion, more than any other U.S. sports team. The average MLB team is valued at $744 million, 23% higher than last year.

Traditionally centered in Las Vegas and its legendary Strip, the casino industry at one time was viewed as "recession-proof" by its proponents. This perception led to oversaturation, disappointing returns on investment, ...

Curious opened the digital doors on its marketplace for lifelong learning today to connect teachers and students interested in continuing education.

World leaders converged on the Beverly Hills Hilton this week to discuss the big issues facing us today. Among the topics discussed at the conference was impact investing, which is where I focused my energy during the co...

A CRM (Customer Relationship Management) is probably one of the most valuable systems that any small business can implement. It is as important as the people that are hired and will have a more significant effect long te...

The loan market's 2013 rally persisted in April. Fueled by another month of muscular technical conditions and positive investor sentiment, the S&P/LSTA Index returned 0.6%, versus 0.82% in March. The larger names that co...

Sprint announced a mixed set of Q1 2013 results in its earnings report April 24th, reversing the spate of recent losses with an operating profit in a quarter that saw flat revenues and deep postpaid subscriber losses. Wh...

Las Vegas Sands' will report its 1Q 2013 earnings on May 1. Despite a slowdown in the Chinese economy last year, the company continued to do well in Macau, the world's biggest casino market.

Card processing giant Visa is expected to report earnings for the second fiscal quarter of 2013 on Wednesday, May 1. The company has done well in navigating the tough global economic environment in the U.S. and Europe, a...

Jonas Furniture has created a name for itself in an rarefied niche of the furniture industry for over five decades, selling ultra-luxury handmade upholstery to the world's top interior designers and architects and their ...

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