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For most women business owners, the biggest obstacle to success isn't men, or other women. It's themselves.

In 2010, when Shivani Siroya started developing an idea for a new microfinance model, predatory lending practices were changing the way people saw microfinance. Pioneer microfinance institutions like Muhammad Yunus’s G...

Not only does the low-cost international money transfer startup Transferwise have some very cheeky “anti-bank” TV ads, it now has the backing of super-investor Peter Thiel and super-entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson b...

The Super Smash Bros. competition starts at 4 p.m. Pacific.

Text and mobile and email marketing have opened a whole new world of timely marketing messages.

Mobile players PaeDae take a risk and re-brand as MobileMajority and raise $8 million.

The IRS Has Been Under Fire For one Scandal After Another For Over a Year. Now, it Rolls Out 10 Key Rights it Says Every Taxpayer Has.

Amazon is planning to launch a local services marketplace for discovering “anything from babysitters to handymen,” Reuters claims. Slated to debut in just one city this year, Amazon’s marketplace will reportedly ta...

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Oracle databases around the world, used for recording critical business transactions and performing analytics, are about to get faster. Larry Ellison, co-founder and chief executive of the legacy database vendor, announc...

"We see manufacturing as the first killer app for Google Glass, providing seamless connectivity to systems, machines, information, and transactions for workers on the shop floor, where hands-free is an imperative," Plex ...

Sponsored Post: The old world of marketers using intrusive, interruptive, and confined advertising tactics is changing into a world where marketing and content are becoming indistinguishable. Within the span of 15 years,...

Ross Levinsohn, a known name in Internet and media circles, has made his exit from Guggenheim Digital Media after failing to acquire a popular streaming service, namely Vevo or Hulu. Guggenheim Digital Media is an invest...

I didn't care about getting the top cash prize or the best car part: I just wanted to smash things.

GamesBeat spends some hands-on time with Destiny, Bungie's upcoming, big-budget online shooter.

Check out all of GamesBeat's Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014 coverage here. Destiny is receiving billing as one of biggest new titles of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game tradeshow this week. After yea...

If companies focused on this one thing, new hires would be hugely more successful.

If companies focused on this one thing, new hires would be hugely more successful.

Lots of media outlets have made a fuss about Rakesh "Rocky" Agrawal's departure from PayPal, and now he wants to be super-clear: No, he wasn't fired, and no, he wasn't told to quit or else get fired.

Social bulletin board Pinterest is on a roll: After raising a massive $200 million round less than a month ago, it just snagged itself two seasoned veterans to beef up its search and discovery department. Michael Lopp, a...

Apple and other large U.S. companies have been parking profits overseas for years as a way of reducing their overall tax bill. Apple has been especially aggressive lately, more than quadrupling the amount of its offshore...

Now Red Hat customers can get their hands on Docker containers and not worry about support for the hot-open source technology.