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Are you able to keep your emotions in check when negotiating that big deal? It can be a struggle not to let natural human sensations negatively impact what you say or how you react. The best way to manage, and harness, y...

Launched in 2008 by Stanford graduates Maxim Faldin and Kamil Kurmakaev, Wikimart had the initial ambition of creating a Russian analog of eBay. Heavily funded by major U.S. investment funds, the startup has now become a...

Fundamentally, Bush believes that the marketplace, for lack of a better word, is good. "The marketplace works," he explains. "It rewards innovators, kills laggards, and provides consumers with better value and more choic...

Aardman Animations, the animation company behind Wallace and Gromit, is trying to get kids into coding.

Life360 founder Chris Hulls has faced his share of patent shakedowns before — at least three or four, by his count. But when the latest patent holder, AGIS, sent his company a notice alleging that Life360 was infringin...

The new owner of Atari discusses the direction of the classic video game brand.

When Marco Polo travelled to Hangzhou, China 700 years ago, never had he thought he’d be creating a dream job of social media ambassador in 21st century China.

Of Americans who know enough about net neutrality to have an opinion, a slim majority support the regulation. Most don't know enough to offer an opinion (57%), but knowledgeable respondents favor net neutrality 23% to 19...

A recent covert to social media marketing, Mark L. Poniatowski, reported in on his immediate success using just the basic networking tools LinkedIn provides. He reaped a 10x ROI in just a month of working that social med...

FastFWD, Philadelphia's unusual "super-group" accelerator, just held its first investor pitch day--and is ready for its next cohort.

Next Tuesday's release of Wolfenstein: The New Order now comes with free beta access to 2014's Doom 4.

Anyone who followed the action on Wall Street closely last week can’t help but be puzzled by three charts that are inconsistent with what’s going on in the rest of the US economy.

Dear Recent College Grad and Aspiring Entrepreneur,

When I began speaking at conferences, I measured my performance in business cards. The better my presentation, the more cards I collected. After an event, I’d rush back to enter every new contact in our CRM. Once the l...

Mobile apps can be fun to build, especially when they get traction with users. But there is a part of app development that often gets overlooked: testing. Yet it is critically important for success. If anything, users ar...

Nobody does inner city commuting like the Dutch. That’s because most of them do it on bikes.

A recent report published by Yangzhou Evening News, a city newspaper, carries a quote that can be easily ignored for its brevity. The one paragraph article quotes a Chinese central banker, unnamed, as saying that Yu’eb...

When you think about the role of community banks--as stewards for their communities and customers--they seem a natural fit to serve as a central resource, or incubator, for the next generation of small businesses.

Britain’s government-sponsored Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has just announced the winners in two more of its ‘Launchpad’ competitions, channelling funds of £500,000 and £700,000 to innovative companies in the...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Monday's session are Urban Outfitters, Campbell Soup, and Valspar.

“It was a wardrobe malfunction.” – Performer Justin Timberlake, explaining the 2004 Superbowl breast baring incident that resulted in public outrage and a $550,000 FCC fine on CBS (voided by the Supreme Court in 20...

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