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A famous Taiwan plastics fortune has not spared Walter Wang his travails. But the plucky scion's luck could turn again and let new wealth flow.

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are the technology of tiny devices, such as earphone-attached microphones, accelerometers, and gyroscopes found in smartphones.

More than 200 executives, foundation leaders, and social sector professionals gathered a short breeze from the spring blooms of Washington Square Park in Manhattan yesterday for the inaugural Women in Philanthropy Sum...

Blue Apron delivers fresh, pre-measured meal ingredients to Americans who want to cook healthy meals without whipping out the cutting board.

Internet of things hardware and software startups now have a new place to pick up early cash and training to grow.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg made clear what we have suspected for awhile already: "We are a mobile company now," he declared at the company's F8 developer conference in San Francisco.

That sound you hear is Twitter’s shares hitting its lowest price yet. The opening price today of $37.65, sharply down from yesterday’s closing of $42.62, followed its quarterly earnings report yesterday. But here’s...

Earlier this month news broke that IBM had finalized an agreement to buy Atlanta-based marketing automation system Silverpop for about $250 million. In an exclusive interview with IBM’s Kevin Bishop, VP of enterprise m...

Natural-language understanding makes searching on Windows start screen more accommodating.

At Facebook’s f8 developer conference, Instagram owner Facebook announced absolutely nothing new about the photo-sharing app during the opening keynote. Despite Instagram now having over 200 million monthly active user...

Twitter’s very bad week has a glimmer of hope, thanks to a new study from Harvard’s Institute of Politics that shows teenagers might — just might — be latching on to Twitter. The Harvard report examines the digit...

By Ben Lorica

"It's the first time that there is a consumer lending API," Orloff said. "A single API that handles all the different aspects."

Much has been written about the paradox of labor in Southeast Asia – that is, the area’s large national populations suggest that the pool of available labor should be sufficient to meet industry demand. On the contra...

Music streaming startup Bloom.fm announced it is shutting down immediately, following a highly publicized ban from Apple's iAds advertising network. The U.K.-based startup, which offered both Pandora and Spotify-like fea...

Since 2010, much of the conversation for small business owners regarding Obamacare has been about how healthcare reform will or will not apply to their business.  During this time, great efforts have been put forth to a...

Ayla Networks, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider focused on connecting devices to its cloud platform, announced today that it has closed a $14.5 million Series B financing round with new investments from Cisc...

SAN FRANCISCO — Today at f8, Facebook’s developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is entering the big leagues. Along with Apple and Google, it will now host its conference every spring. Next ye...

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Shan Zhai - The Chinese term used to describe the culture and practice of producing fake and imitation products, services and brands.

SAN FRANCISCO — Today, at Facebook’s long awaited developer conference, the company officially announced its Audience Network. “Advertising, traditional advertising still works really well and it works well on mobi...

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