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As monumental a year as 2013 was, 2014 promises even more. Here is a run-down of predictions for the evolution of mobile commerce and payments in 2014.

You?ve heard about disruptive new businesses popping up across the country. Well known examples of the sharing economy?Airbnb, Lyft, and TaskRabbit?are taking center stage and challenging business as usual.

This past week, Russian president Vladimir Putin freed several high-profile prisoners: Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oil magnate who spent 10 years behind bars, and two Pussy Riot girls, Maria Alekhina and Nadezhda Tolokonnik...

Against the backdrop of rising income inequality and associated social ills, there's the conundrum of Americans' contradicting values regarding wealth.

Most anyone that has been in business for more than a couple years is familiar with Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People" and specifically the habit called "Sharpening the Saw".  This basically refer...

In the distant past, when it came to retirement plan options, the self-employed or members of a partnership were at a distinct disadvantage relative to corporations. Although over time, those restrictions have been remov...

In these pages, we often write about "the enterprise." But we're rarely talking only about large businesses. Increasingly, the distinctions between differently sized businesses are disappearing. David Amerland explains w...

It's the end of the year, and what most bosses are thinking about, or should be, is the three Bs: bonuses, budgets and big bets. Each of these areas will have an important impact on the way employees enter 2014. Will the...

Once again, United Way tops the annual Forbes list of the largest U.S. charities. Find out what other organizations made the list.

In baseball terminology, a perfect pitch often results in a strikeout. But when it comes to the perfect pitch as made by an entrepreneur looking to launch a product or company - well, that perfect pitch often results in ...

Israel has a bustling startup ecosystem; here are some incredible female founders who have contributed to it.

When a brand is working with an ample marketing budget, it can be tempting to simply buy the media the company wants and call it a day. But today that's simply not enough.

The office can sometimes turn into a vacuum. Original thinking dries up. Ideas turn stale. Same people. Same projects. Same desk. Same desktop. And yet, a simple stride out of the known into the unknown can literally reb...

After a crowdfunding site made big promises to filmmaker Stuart Acher, then reneged on those promises, he was left with two days until his film #Stuck would launch with no crowdfunding in sight. So, he and his partners ...

Top 10 Trends that Shaped the Silicon Dragon World in 2013. Next, we preview 2014.

How one company is succeeding by encouraging employees to take better care of themselves...

This post is part of our series on the National Science Foundation I-Corps Lean LaunchPad class in Life Science and Health Care at UCSF. Doctors, researchers and Principal Investigators in this class got out of the lab...

The recent conviction of Michael Steinberg, a former senior trader at SAC, highlights the power of the government to obtain a conviction when armed with the ability to have a jury charged on a conscious avoidance theory ...

Three veteran sailing writers chronicle how Oracle won the 34th America's Cup in high-tech catamarans.

BrewDog has just raised more money than any other British company has ever managed through crowdfunding, all without using a crowdfunding platform

It's turned out to be another solid year for Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), with the shares up a tidy 45%. It certainly helps that the company develops key infrastructure systems for mobile operators.

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