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Paris-based startup TVTY has just nabbed $4.5 million to lower the chances that you can avoid ads from a specific company by going online during TV commercial breaks. “TV viewers are looking at another screen during yo...

It's another effort for the cloud-based file-sharing company to get Box woven into applications.

The latest example of why bipartisanship is not necessarily good: A bill proposed by senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Pat Roberts (R-KN) to require the IRS to hire private debt collectors. The last time Congress mad...

HP misses quarterly earnings targets.

The House just passed an altered NSA reform package

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Appearing alongside a pack of velociraptors, for most people, has been pretty much impossible — because dinosaurs are extinct and casting has already closed for the new Jurassic World film due out next year. Fortunatel...

The paper medical chart is not long for this world. After 25 years of false starts, doctors are now accepting the electronic health record (EHR). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report this ...

Apple?s rumored acquisition of Beats Music has generated a whirlwind of conjecture about Apple?s strategy: Are they overpaying? Will Dr. Dre become the first hip hop billionaire? These are valid questions, but they overl...

If you think some of your best ideas happen when you're just messing around...you're probably right.

Learning to be a better CEO is key for entrepreneurs who don't set off to be managers and have fallen into the role by virtue of their own creation.

New York-based Smartling provides a cloud-based platform built around translation, and on Thursday the company announced it has scored a fourth institutional round of $25 million to support its sales and marketing expans...

For years now, the good people of Silicon Valley have been telling us that the rest of America should be more like them.  That we should focus more on entrepreneurship and innovation.  Last week, on a visit to the regi...

Madonna is living up to her nickname: the Material Girl tops our annual list of the top-earning musicians by a wide margin. How much did she make, and who was her closest competition? Read the full story here or click th...

This week, What to Think is a glorious trainwreck. In this episode, you’ll hear about adult-entertainment options for your Oculus Rift, the most technologically incompetent Congress in American history, and a song abou...

There's no denying that the artisanal food market is booming. From the increase in small, niche brands on supermarket shelves over the past year to the emergence--and almost-immediate success of--niche food delivery busi...

How are new generations channeling their power and influence to impact the global dialogue? Meet the women who are shaping the new dynamics of feminism for the next decade and beyond.

SAN FRANCISCO — Declara founder and chief executive Ramona Pierson is a math whiz and former Marine who survived a horrible accident and relearned basically every normal human function. And now she's founded a company ...

Last week, in the midst of a discussion on the future of the networked economy with a couple of my colleagues, one concept that really crystallized in my mind is just how much of power and influence the individual person...

Entrepreneurship is the most dynamic catalyst for growth, ultimately with the power to lift communities, cities and entire nations. The question is, how do you scale and amplify the most successful entrepreneurial models...

Steve Forbes, talks with Jessica Simpson, at the Forbes Women Summit.

Entrepreneurship is the most dynamic catalyst for growth, ultimately with the power to lift communities, cities and entire nations. The question is, how do you scale and amplify the most successful entrepreneurial models...