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It may seem like an impossible dream to join the likes of Al Gore or Anthony Robbins as speakers at TED, the legendary ideas conference. But with the creation of TEDx, independently-organized TED-like conferences through...

Immediately following his controversial departure, former GitHub president and chief executive Tom Preston-Werner today announced his next step: “immersive computing” (aka virtual reality). Here’s an excerpt from P...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are McDonald's, Yum Brands, Gilead and AT&T.

Ford Motor Co. is poised to tap COO Mark Fields to succeed Alan Mulally in the company’s top job later this year, according to Bloomberg News.

Current subscribers, which I'm guessing includes the majority of people reading this article, shouldn't have anything to worry about for now.

"We want to create a great place to work for all our employees and we can't do that without acknowledging the challenges that exist in providing an inclusive work environment."

Guest Post: Take a quick survey of the wearable industry today and the only thing that's clear is that there is no clear winner.

Expectations are that the Alibaba IPO could scale a very high pedestal, possibly achieving the largest tech IPO ever. And Weibo's IPO bodes well for that outcome.

More than 30 percentof Americans (enough to stall major legislation), disagree with scientists on a few key items -- global warming, evolution, the idea that the earth is really, really old.

We're on the hunt for a full-time graphic designer to take the lead on the design on meaningful projects across all of our departments, such as sales, marketing, development, and events. Responsibilities include but are ...

Beats Music needs to keep bringing in more paying users. And the company appears to be reaching for more money to achieve that goal.

Bringing fiber-optic Internet access to Midwestern cities seems to be in vogue: AT&T is in the game too. After launching its fiber-optic Internet service, Gigapower, in Austin, Tex. last December, and announcing earlier ...

Our favorite TV shows aren't just for entertainment. We can also learn a lot from their strong, controversial heroines.

It's State Department-sponsored, but it's also spy-proof. It's used in emergency situations, from earthquakes to censorship. This could be the tech to connect us all, one device at a time.

As a startup founder, do you ever think you might have had a happier life had you lived life as an employee? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Nominations are open for the DataBeat Innovation Showdown!

Discovery suffered a huge loss on the content farm, which it purchased for $250 million in 2007.

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings made it clear during today’s quarterly earnings video conference that his company is against the tentative merger of Comcast and Time Warner Cable. Last month Hastings wrote an essay calling f...

Nokia’s phone division will officially be part of Microsoft by the end of the week. Over six months since the deal was initially announced, Microsoft said today that its $7.2 billion acquisition of Nokia’s devices an...

I just read a white paper on best practices in employee financial security. I was struck by the comments employers of successful small- and medium-sized businesses were making about the value of the benefits they offered...

Manalto's platform helps multi-brand enterprises manage all their social media.

As other “stuff in a box” startups have folded, Birchbox has thrived. The New York City startup, which sells $10 curated boxes of beauty samples to around 800,000 subscribers, has raised $60 million in new funding, r...