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When you’re sixteen, people want to help you, teach you and mentor you. But by the time you’re eighteen the world expects too much and offers too little, thinks David Fagan, the founder of a summer camp for teenage e...

Guest Post: It's easily to get bummed out when your stock price drops. Each time it goes up, you get one unit of happiness. Each time it goes down, you get -5 units of happiness.

From Made in China to Invented in China to Bought in China is the story of the recent surge of Chinese IPOs in the U.S., including Alibaba and its impact on the market

"Reduced access will yield exactly that -- less access to information, less involvement with the outside world, less self-worth for me and so many others," said one multiple sclerosis patient.

Sponsored Post: Big data is more than a buzzword now: it's a drumbeat that underpins strategic thinking across all industries, businesses and regions. Despite the value of big data projects there's still confusion around...

Get all the tech funding news of the day delivered straight to your mailbox! Sign up for Funding Daily and never miss a deal. In this very special Friday edition of Funding Daily, you’re going to learn all about iZettl...

Ex-McKinsey consultant turned entrepreneur, Kathryn Minshew is CEO of New York-based job search website The Muse. It’s a company she founded to try to make job hunting less painful - using videos and interviews alongsi...

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Into the stew of the American political finances system, a hot new ingredient has been thrown in. On Wednesday, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) accepted a request by a political action committee (PAC) to accept Bit...

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This article is by Jeff Fromm and Jason Parks, executive VPs at independent advertising agency Barkley. Fromm is also co-author of the book “Marketing to Millennials: Reach the Largest and Most Influential Generation o...

What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! Instead of joining his new colleagues at Microsoft, a forme...

Outcome-based opinions should be avoided. It is not for the court to worry about how the state will fashion a remedy. Its task is to interpret and enforce the state's laws and strike down those that are unconstitutional.

Unity was at the right place and time when mobile games took off. Now it is expanding into services and game asset sales because it doesn't like to see game developers die.

Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors for your startup is challenging at any stage and requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their company.

My mom was my greatest champion, an endless supporter, my biggest fan, and my best friend. I think back to the challenges she must have faced raising kids for many years as a single mother. At times, we didn't have any s...

We don’t often hear tacit confirmations of $3.2 billion acquisitions in the presence of a beer as lame as Heineken — but that’s exactly what happened last night. In a brief video posted to actor Tyrese Gibson’s F...

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Can Founders Evolve Along with the Needs of their Business?

Apple’s biggest potential acquisition ever is also its most confusing. News broke yesterday that Apple was nearing a $3.2 billion purchase of Beats Electronics, the music streaming and flashy headphone company. The Fin...

As rumors of financial issues at mobile payments provider Square swirl, Swedish rival iZettle is refueled and ready to expand. The Stockholm-based payments processing startup today announced a €40 million funding round...

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