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No One Likes Paying Tax, But Pulling a Gun Over a 22-cent Tax May Be a New Record.

Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba is widely expected to set the record for biggest tech IPO — and it may file next week. The Hangzhou, China-based company is expected to file the prospectus for its U.S. IPO next week, r...

Whoever said manners and courtesy were dead, clearly didn’t know about Paperless Post and its little invitations and cards empire. Tonight, the company confirmed that it has raised $25 million in a third round of insti...

Guest Post: In the words of Aldous Huxley: "There is only one corner of the universe that you are certain of improving and that is your own self." Wearables are THE tool for self-improvement, or as we like to call it, s...

The company will trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ZSK, according to the S-1 document it just filed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

According to its latest earnings report, Google’s average cost-per-click dropped sharply this quarter compared to last year’s Q1. If you ignored this stat, you’d see that the company’s ad business looks relativel...

Company management needs to think through the scope of work assigned to compliance personnel, especially when questionable conduct is detected. Under these circumstances, an important question should be addressed: who sh...

It’s the small business owner willing to be creative that gets financing these days. At the very least, successful small business owners need to be flexible when weighing their options and less dependent upon tradition...

"We are using the set of possible authors identified in the media, and we are comparing the bitcoin paper to their writings -- and he is the best match. Szabo is the only plausible main author."

Google today reported unimpressive first quarter earnings for 2014, with earnings per share of $6.27 on revenue of $15.4 billion. Google’s Q1 Google bought Nest for $3.1B Google is selling Motorola Mobility to Lenovo G...

Squarespace has grown from a personal project into a company with hundreds of thousands of customers. Now it's seeking to broaden its scope by becoming more flexible for developers.

Facebook has returned a username that it peremptorily took away from an Instagram user recently. A post today on story site Medium tells the tale. In a piece entitled “They say ‘nothing will change’/*Everything* ch...

Watch out photo-sharing apps -- an Internet-of-Things company is now in the "billion-dollar valuation club."

There are a million thoughts and feelings a person has when starting a new job. You’re anxious, nervous and excited at all of the possibilities. You’re also completely overwhelmed. You have to start from scratch and ...

Text messaging may be the secret to getting tech-shy brands and users interested in Passbook's potential.

Some companies do reference checks decently, some do it poorly, but pretty much all of them do it too late in the process. This rewards candidates who talk a good game more than those who play it. The next billion-dollar...

Sometimes things don’t turn out how we expect them to. Just ask Alamo Drafthouse owner, Tim League. The now film-famous Austin resident started his career with Shell Oil after graduating from Rice University wit...

Guest Post: In order to attain unprecedented adoption, we'll need to see the creation of devices that address specific market segments so that all of us can be represented in wearables.

Robert S. Kaplan, co-chair of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, the largest venture philanthropy firm in the U.S. will join me for a live discussion of the strategies and impact of their approach: treating nonprofit...

FireHost doesn't drop its prices every few months like other cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon Web Services. And its focus on security has been helping the company increase revenue.

Crowdsourcing software review company TrustRadius revealed its latest marketing automation ranking and buyers’ guide today, and here’s the consensus: Software for the enterprise still lacks the appeal of consumer ver...

"The average person buys or sells about nine or ten cars in a lifetime. They don't know how to do this -- dealers know what they're doing and can take advantage of that situation."