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As a kid I was a big game player. I especially enjoyed games like Monopoly and Clue. Back then I loved playing these games for the sheer enjoyment. I did not realize then that these games were providing me not just with ...

Editor's Pick: Under intense pressure by powerful activist groups and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, Facebook today announced major policy changes to its gun-themed fan pages. It’s a concerted effort to s...

The U.S. Supreme Court this week has a chance to strike a blow for judicial modesty and at the same time call a halt to a disturbing trend being pushed by the plaintiffs’ bar:  class-action lawsuits in which no one wa...

Forbes: Corporate culture keynote speaker and customer experience consultant Micah Solomon on cultural fit and its hazards--why following the Zappos and Whole Foods model may be hazardous to your HR and cultural health

Bino pointed out Israeli startups that have been acquired by big American players as something he would like to see happening more, especially for the outfits he may find himself seeding.     

"Airlines have access to vast amounts of untapped structured and unstructured information about their guests and very few are using this effectively."     

There's so much confusion about Bitcoin. Here are a few quick facts to get you started on figuring it all out.

At the heart of Musk's criticisms is the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a private company that provides the U.S. government with launch services. SpaceX launches cost $280 million less each.     

NASA and the Kerbal Space Program team will reveal more about their collaboration during the upcoming South By Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.     

TripleLift, an ad-tech startup riding the native advertising wave, just raised a $4 million round of funding. Led by True Ventures, this new round will help two-year-old TripleLift expand its engineering and sales team. ...

SAP is bolstering its cloud, but it still has a way to go if it intends to displace big cloud players like Amazon Web Services.     

The hard truth is that the olive oil you have at home is probably a scam. Here's what to do to make sure it doesn't happen again.

For some time, there's been a trusty saw which says the smart home industry is always one or two years away from being the next big thing, but every year some other 'next-big-thing' cuts in front of it in line.

In a free market, competition is one of its most important principles. But is competition between small business owners always a way to achieve maximum profit?

Samih Sawiris, a scion of Egypt's richest business family is reportedly buying a 25% - 35% stake in the FTI Group, the fourth largest tour operator in Germany.

Yahoo's buying spree has focused a lot on design-oriented startups. Add to that the company's treasure trove of Flickr images and you have an acquisition that makes total sense.     

SendGrid delivers a half billion new emails each day, so it won't be long until it leaves McDonald's and its burgers in the dust.     

So are VCs like the casino owners, and are business publications doing entrepreneurs a disservice when they promote VC? Many business-school students no longer ask, "How do I build a business?" What I am hearing is "How ...

Videogames have been around since long before 1972, when Magnavox released the first home game console. Here's a look at the games your parents, and grandparents played.

FreedomPop is launching a new black smartphone today. Not only black as in color, but black as in invisible to spying. The Privacy Phone, built on a Samsung Galaxy II, uses bank-quality 128-bit encryption for voice calls...

Facebook announced today that it would remove posts offering to buy or sell guns without background checks. The social network is also launching a campaign to educate Facebook users about its policies regarding the sale ...

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