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This is my second "transfer of wealth" cycle.

China’s Alibaba Group has been gathering attention in the US for some time.  Its impending Initial Public Offering (IPO) is expected to potentially be the biggest in history, even if, as was reported in Bloomberg, it ...

Facebook upgrades Embedded Posts with slick new features while giving a nod to reporters with FB Newswire.

Negatism is “the act of learning from negative outcomes or behaviors” — and boy, will we petition heavily to officially add this word to the dictionary. However, if “negatism” can’t be a real word yet, it sur...

After releasing $99 smartphones in Europe earlier this year, Mozilla plans to launch super-low-cost smartphones in India and Indonesia in the second half of 2014, the Wall Street Journal reports. Mozilla hinged the succe...

Zynga's experienced a host of problems over the last couple of years. You might want to add a public-relations kerfuffle to that list now.

With Google working on Project Loon, its Internet-delivering balloons, and Facebook’s Connectivity Labs also working to bring Internet connections to remote and developing areas, accessible, Internet-enabled devices ar...

The IFC's investment arm acquired a $6 million equity stake in Viamericas Corporation.

The magic of Lytro is that it lets you play with the focus and perspective of an image after you’ve shot it. This opens up a whole creative process after the fact. Now Lytro wants to make this creative process ...

NASA scientist Harold White unveiled a new concept design for a spaceship with a faster-than-light-speed warp drive engine yesterday that most sci-fi fans will probably describe as gorgeous. It also features the most fam...

The moment of epiphany occurred in a bar with friends. Twenty-five-year-old Isabel Campanelli, had recently broken up with her boyfriend and was considering a career change. “I am living through it and it is not so pre...

Venture Capitalist firm Insight Venture Partners is taking a majority interest in cyber security purveyor FireMon, which has seen a massive 120 percent growth since Q1 of last year. FireMon specializes in software packag...

The initial public offering on Nasdaq could give GoPro as much as $427 million, with the company angling for a valuation as high as $3 billion, Bloomberg is reporting.

The popular Twitter client, TweetDeck, suffered a massive security breach.

Six Sigma and other efficiency seeking approaches can dramatically reduce variance and inefficiency in an organization. But if you’re not careful, innovation and growth may be swept away in the process.

It’s finally on the Web: Pinterest’s Guided Search feature, which helps you figure out what you’d like to find when you’re not even sure what you’re looking for to begin with. Pinterest, a social network on whi...

Health-focused big data company Health Integrated has borrowed another million from its backer, Western Technology Investment (WTI). Health insurance companies and risk-bearing health providers use Health Integrated’s ...

Is that a bulge in your pocket or are you just trying to avoid fatherhood?

Last month, Google released its Google Wallet “Instant Buy” API for Android apps. Now the technology is available on iOS. Google says 97 percent of online shoppers abandon their carts once they have to enter their pe...

A Q&A with Huge on how startups can make their early forays into a crowded marketplace more successful with world-class design, branding, and magic.

Activision publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg takes on the big topics of E3, including his upcoming blockbuster games.

Tech entrepreneur Sean Parker wants to re-energize American democracy through increased civic engagement, so he's directed Brigade Media to buy online campaigning platform Causes and its voter network subsidiary Votizen ...