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Two of the most significant pieces of legislation in decades, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, are poised to transform the entire spectrum of health...

I could hear Meet the Press on in the background at my house on Sunday and the reporters were discussing various means of reducing the budget deficit. I didn’t bother to sit down and listen, however, because I knew tha...

Manage risk well and you can make a fortune. Manage risk poorly and you could lose a colossal fortune.

Courtesy of seven leaders drawn from Forbes? list of America?s Most Promising Companies. Edited by Max Mallet

Samsung's next flagship smartphone is here. And it's a bit of a snoozer.     

For years, Isko was content to operate as a business-to-business player, a well-known global manufacturer of functional fabrics to which high-end designer denim brands could turn to make their jeans stretchier or stronge...

Dropbox has a lot of new cash in its war chest. The cloud storage company has raised $325 million in venture funding over the last several months — and it appears to be aiming for an even higher total. It ...     

The downward plunge in prices for smartphones forecasts a day, possibly not far from now, when the actual phone may well be given away.     

Google just announced a website where developers can determine how much it would cost to run an application on its public cloud.     

The company's LinkedIn profile reads: "We plan to change the way we view our personal health forever by combining next generation sensors and services."     

China’s Weibo microblogging service has changed the country’s social landscape, offering Chinese citizens an alternative to government-operated media properties. Now its owner, Sina Corp., is reportedly planning to t...

Currently, Zuckerberg is looking to add a small number of partners, but plans to expand to a large number of carriers.     

hack_app wants to make it simple to find and apply to boot camps and coding schools all over the country.

IBM is buying managed cloud-database provider Cloudant, which gives it new customers, big and small. The deal could help Big Blue do a better job of going up against Amazon and Google in the cloud game.     

In addition to the new funding, AdStage is also announcing it will open up its platform with a new API and add support for four new apps, including Wordtracker, Unbounce, and Optimizely.     

A lot goes into a building a startup, but the values you build on will make all the difference.

The Sega Genesis versus the Super Nintendo was one of the earliest battles in the “console wars,” and now some filmmakers that specialize in stoner flicks are going to adapt the story for the silver screen. It kinda ...

It’s no secret that much of the job growth since the recession has been in temp jobs. Now, the billing rates that staffing agencies charge employers for this temporary labor are leveling off, according to new research ...

Soon you can check out with MasterCard's online payments service right from your apps.     

This article is by Denise Lee Yohn, a brand-building expert, speaker, and writer. She is the author of the new book, What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest (Jossey-...

The Andreessen Horowitz partner isn't immersed in gaming, but he has made some pioneering game investments.     

A look a the past, present, and future of one of gaming's most-important companies.