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Jeff Bezos' $250 million purchase of the Washington Post has shone a spotlight on the American newspaper landscape--and the billionaire media moguls who control it.

Legal stuff isn't fun to think about, but if you're starting a company, there are a few legal ducks you need to get in a row.

If you've ever spent time staring out the window of your commercial flight, chances are you saw the wing of your airplane and the geometric extension at its end. Called a wingtip, that section is an attachment to help co...

We all learn important lessons, and if we are smart about it we even remember them and use them once in a while. For me, one of the best lessons ever is one of the simplest ones.

When the average person runs out of money in their wallet, they hit up a local ATM and withdraw some cash. Jeff Bezos is not the average person.

What is it about your company that captures the hearts and minds of your people?

Twitter's IPO may be kicking up a froth in the major-investor community, but among Twitter's users it's not generating any excitement. And that's a red flag for investors.

Social enterprises are proving that principle is no bar to profitability, and picking up awards for their outperformance

Creating retirement income used to be simple and straightforward by using a balanced portfolio of stocks and bonds (often called a 60/40 portfolio) and only withdrawing a reasonable 4% per year to supplement your social ...

Today, there's not much we can't access online. But one area has fallen short in terms of the breadth and depth of online access: high quality education. Thankfully, that may be about to change thanks to the initiatives ...

By Tim Devaney and Tom Stein

It's been a bad month for the Luddites. It's been a good month for the Cyborgs.

Last month, unsigned rapper Nipsey Hussle made $100,000 by selling 1,000 copies of his latest mixtape, Crenshaw, for $100 each. Hussle - real name Ermias Asghedom - shifted every single CD in less than 24 hours at a pop-...

Ten years ago, in an effort to highlight the increasing danger of digital threats, the Department of Homeland Security established October as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.  In the time since, the threat landsc...

These are the really, really simple things you should be doing to keep casual intruders from invading your privacy.

This week as Twitter goes public, let's reintroduce the question about why aren't more women at the helm of technology companies and other growth industries. I raise this on the eve of Twitter's IPO because I believe thi...

Apple showed Intel that Big Data and analysis can be overwhelmed by simply having insight to new trends. In dynamic markets, analysis is insufficient for success, you must have insight to trends.

From the Bible Belt to Portlandia, stereotypes about the people that inhabit various regions abound. But are there any truth in the typecasts? Peter Rentfrow and colleagues set about analyzing data from 1.6 million Ameri...

The Supreme Court's June 2013 decision United States v. Salinas raised a few eyebrows among white-collar practitioners because its focus on the need to expressly invoke the Fifth Amendment in order to obtain its protecti...

Latin American airline Avianca Holdings (AVH) pulled off its IPO today.  In fact, getting to this point was far from easy. After all, the company was mired in bankruptcy a decade ago.

Undervalued gems from our annual ranking of America's best companies with annual sales under $1 billion.

This online restaurant reservations outfit has outlasted almost all rivals. Now, time for an upgrade.