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The following guest post is by Craig Malloy, CEO of Bloomfire of Austin, Tex., a social knowledge base application that enables teams to find, share and create content.

In the lead up to Opportunity Collaboration, a four-day problem-solving, strategic retreat for nonprofit leaders, for-profit social entrepreneurs, grant-makers and impact investors engaged in economic justice enterpri...

In the lead up to the 2013 Borlaug Dialogue, the Skoll World Forum is featuring several keynote speakers writing at the nexus of three subjects central to the global challenges we face in the 21st century: biotechnolo...

The Filip for children is the first smart watch to get voice-calling approval from the FCC and its very own SIM card. An update for bigger wrists might eventually be in order.

In the lead up to the 2013 Borlaug Dialogue, the Skoll World Forum is featuring several keynote speakers writing at the nexus of three subjects central to the global challenges we face in the 21st century: biotechnolo...

From the time my children were small I encouraged them to be "go getters." I told them not to wait for things to happen, but to make them happen, and that one of the keys to success in life was to be assertive.  Sometim...

Here's how the IRS shutdown is causing grief for a new father in the Coast Guard, the owners of an Ohio small business and a retired California couple who were victims of identity theft tax fraud.

Coursera's co-founder, Andrew Ng, argues that most college-level classes don't need to run 12 weeks. In many cases, shorter is better.

The White House has signaled it would go along with a six-week extension of the debt limit while engaging in budget talks. Like many ideas that win bipartisan support these days, this one is terrible.

South African hotel and casino mogul Sol Kerzner is partnering with Chinese conglomerate Fosun International to build a $1.5 billion resort on an island in southern China.

What sort of relationship do have with your mother? Good? Difficult? Distant? Improving? Whatever your answer, you better be prepared to explain it to Laura Roberts, the CEO of Pantheon Enterprises.

The controversial Cybernetics Professor doesn't just implant chips in his nearest and dearest. Part of his research agenda is helping to usher in the first cooperative, self-driving vehicles. I find out what the car of t...

The field of marketing is always evolving, incorporating new technologies in order to wow customers and make an impact. As print and media marketing has given way to social media efforts, many businesses have spent so mu...

Starting a mortgage company in 2005 may have been an example of horrible timing. But for Jim Cutillo, it turned out to be a good move. His company, Stonegate Mortgage, launched its IPO today, rising about 17.5%.

This morning, a federal judge in Boston declined to grant Hearst Television a preliminary injunction against Aereo, the three year-old startup that streams broadcast television stations to electronic devices for $8 a mon...

Marissa Mayer, CEO of long-maligned Yahoo! (Photo credit: Peter Kramer/NBC/NBC NewsWire) Thirty years ago, researcher Virginia Schein coined the term ?think manager think male? to describe the perception that stereotypic...

Clinical psychologist Dr. Charlie Alcock is on a roll. Dubbed Europe?s Best Business Brain earlier this year, she is on a mission to improve mental health services for young offenders. A staggering one in three young p...

At the F2P summit, consultant and analyst Nicholas Lovell discussed free-to-play's development secrets, and how big studios fail to address them, from The Old Republic's slide into free to Diablo III's real-money auction...

Spira?s springloaded shoes campaign raised $42,700 in 2012. On A&E and RocketHub?s Project Startup they?ve raised $317,000 in 2013 so far.

Here are the best boot camps for hungry entrepreneurs.

No one likes to lose a client.  They are the foundation on which a successful business is built.  The problem, however, is that a client can sometimes stop being an asset and can actually inhibit the growth of your bus...

You might be surprised to learn that launching a startup is (relatively) easy. So is building technology. So are fundraising, hiring and all of the other things you may read horror stories about.