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The Business for Peace Foundation in Norway is honoring six entrepreneurs with its 2014 Oslo Business for Peace Awards. The awards are intended "to accelerate a reappraisal of what it should mean to be regarded as a succ...

"All the great entrepreneurs I know don't start out to create a business," Theresia Gouw says. "They start out to create something they think is missing in the world."

If Mark Zuckerberg wants to connect the world, he needs China. Now Facebook is eyeing a China step forward.

Did you remember to report alimony payments on your 1040?

If informal guidance is the only guidance available to practitioners and taxpayers, can they rely on it?

Retail-cash flows for high-yield funds were squarely positive this week, with $337 million plowed into mutual funds and $135 million infused to exchange-traded funds, for a net inflow of $472 million in the week ended Ma...

It could be Cheech and Chong‘s vision of what the future would look like if grownups ever got hold of marijuana. Next week, the first co-working space in the U.S. for grass-related technology and startups will open in ...

16 women on the 2013 Forbes Most Powerful Women list took the biggest career leap of all--striking out on their own to build companies around the world.

The FTC heads to the Hill, tells pols what they're doing to protect online users.

Workday makes software that helps companies manage their employees and related activities. Not surprisingly, it takes its own “people relationships” seriously, and today the company has announced that it no longer ha...

This would be a big bump up its most recent valuation of $3.5 billion at the time of its roughly $350 million funding round last year.

Data giant Acxiom, like much of the tech industry, finds the concept of inaccessible data absurd. That’s the message Nada Stirratt, Acxiom’s chief revenue officer, conveyed to VentureBeat while explaining why the com...

Guest Post: Mozilla jumped into bed with Adobe in support of digital rights management standards, and open source advocates are furious. Mozilla’s decision marks a strike against the open source software movement. For ...

After toying with the idea 14 months ago, Google has finally made it possible to pay for apps, movies, games, and books with PayPal. That’s a bit unusual, given that Google has its own payment method, Google Wallet, th...

Four years ago the NSA and FBI turned Facebook into a vehicle for mass surveillance. In order to gain access to the private Facebook photos of targets, NSA slides allege that the two government agencies went after Facebo...

Apple might be buying Beats Electronics, the headphone and streaming-music company founded by rock impresario Jimmy Iovine and rapper/producer/businessman Dr. Dre. Would this acquisition of an unquestionably successful m...

Google Glass is going to medical school. On Thursday, the University of California at Irvine (UCI) School of Medicine announced that it is integrating the already-iconic wearable into its four-year curriculum for medical...

Black Gold Online is a different kind of MMO: You ride giant mechs and must deal with a "wanted" meter as you explore its realm.

With increasing pressure to deliver against key objectives and meet performance targets, it shocks me how frequently organizations miss the mark.  Well-intentioned leaders craft optimistic plans, only to fall short.  I...

We received over 100 quality startup applicants to the DataBeat Innovation Showdown, one of the highlights of VentureBeat's second annual big data event (next Monday and Tuesday, May 19-20 in San Francisco). We’ve narr...

The new polymers could turn industrial manufacturing on its head with cheaper and stronger products.

It's all about wrestling all of those cloud apps into submission, so admins don't lose their minds.