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Recently soft-launched Foundersuite offers entrepreneurs a set of tools and templates to lessen the burden of starting a company.

Big data startup has had an executive shakeup, with its CEO stepping down to make way for former ArcSight CEO Tom Reilly.

Darby Smart launched today to prevent mishaps of this sort, and to capitalize on the DIY movement's building momentum. It also announced raising $1 million in seed funding.

Google is taking a stand against FISA gag orders with a pretty simple but powerful appeal: free speech.

It's so good to hear that the Securities and Exchange Commission plans to refocus its enforcement efforts on accounting fraud. It would be even better for investors if the regulator used all the information already avail...

My longtime friend Les Gold has always been hardcore. He runs an enormous pawn shop in the heart of Detroit, buying and selling anything and everything to a slew of eager customers. On any given day, he's dealing in cust...

"File system as a service" startup Filepicker.io has rebranded as Ink and announced the close of its $1.8 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz and Highland Capital Partners.

GE just announced a new "big-data" and analytics platform it calls "Predictivity," and it has some big partners on board to give it reach.

Social-TV check-in startup GetGlue has lured away Evan Krauss from his post as executive vice persident of sales at Shazam so he can become GetGlue's new president, the company announced today.

With Candy Crush Saga generating massive revenue, King is considering going public.

Guest Post Rain Rannu is the founder and CEO of Fortumo, the mobile payments company that powers in-app payments for Rovio, Facebook, Barnes & Noble NOOK, EA, Gameloft and more than 60,000 other developers. The mobile ga...

As much as any enterprise I can think of, the online operation at Forbes is a great example of what Peter Drucker called "the corporation of tomorrow."

FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app that Apple named 2012 iPad App of the Year. It has raised $15 million deal led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz.

CareCloud offers cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) software that helps doctors improve patient care, increase collections, and streamline operations. It's the latest big deal in a "record year" for digital healt...

Guest Post How does this all relate to social media? Unless your insurance company does a great job determining your premium, they are likely to lose a lot of money on you because there's not much margin for error.

Sponsored Post Advisory boards can be invaluable. They can also be unbearable. But either way, you can leverage their networks and knowledge to grow your business.

Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, and Apple might breathe a little easier today as NSA Director General Keith Alexander lends credibility to their testimony.

Parakweet's core product Bookvibe combines natural language processing and social-media analytics to find the books that are right for you.

Electric-car company Tesla is planing to hold a demonstration of its battery-swapping technology, which should enable its vehicles to travel nonstop on long road trips.

Occipital develops computer-vision products, and the acquisition of ManCTL will make it easier to create 3D models of the real world.

When we think of estate planning, many of us have an image of old money being transferred from one affluent generation to the next. But estate planning is not just for the wealthy--because it's not just about the money.

The startup said it's closing in on a million students, and it serves up more than 8,000 courses. But the real stunner is the money earned by the site's top instructors.