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A summer business can be the perfect breeding ground to help your child's confidence and entrepreneurial spirit take flight. It encourages creativity, while also teaching some very practical skills like balance sheets an...

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, newly formed Stanford venture capitalist firm Danhua Capital raised $91.2 million. Since its founding in 2013, the fund has invested in several young com...

BioCatch has raised a total of $10 million in its most recent financing round. The company, which focuses on behavioral biometric authentication and threat detection, intends to use the money to support its research and ...

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An acquisition of Micros would give Oracle some more hardware to sell, not just software.

American businessman Gene Haas has revealed that he is launching a Formula One race team in 2016 in a bid to double the sales of his machine tools business to $2 billion over the next five years.

Oyster is going cross-platform. The e-book startup has finally launched its Android app, bringing its all-you-can-read subscription service to all Android devices, including the Kindle Fire and Nook HD tablets. Since Oys...

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A former NSA cloud architecture player and his brother haul in $6 million in venture funding, showing that VC's like the security space.

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More than 12 million unique gamers tuned into Twitch throughout E3.

Eos, Maxjet, Silverjet and the original OpenSkies couldn't do it. But where those all-business-class transatlantic airlines failed, French airline La Compagnie hopes to succeed.

It’s that time of year.  Your focus is somewhere out there—on a sandy beach, in a fine hotel, or up on the side of mountain. And, while many of you might feel guilty for leaving the office, or cringe at the notion o...

In the ESBT context, the Final Regs retain the Proposed Regs’ calculations as they apply to NIIT UNII and MAGI. However, the Final Regs relocated the ESBT provisions from Proposed Reg. §1.1411-3(c)(1) to Reg. §1.1411...

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run," Ruth once quipped. But few people today appreciate how radical that notion seemed in its day--how reckless, how irresponsible.

In 1864, John Lewis opened its retail doors in London selling silks and haberdashery. That was innovative. Times have changed. Today, John Lewis, with 43 department stores throughout the United Kingdom, carries more th...

The IRS recently issued a taxpayer bill of rights. The press release announcing it states: "Similar to the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights, the Taxpayer Bill of Rights contains 10 provisions." Wait a minute. We're goi...

The anthropological research across cultures indicates that groups of seven people, plus or minus two, create the strongest trust bonds and best reinforce cultural norms.

One of our earliest team members, who left to start his own company, sent us an email recently. I'll paraphrase here, but the gist of it was that despite his being one of the first people to join the team at Ampush, noth...

A few months ago, David Rubenstein, co-founder of private equity powerhouse The Carlyle Group, was on air with Jim Cramer, the host of Mad Money, explaining the good qualities of his business to a scoffing Cramer.

There may not be a CEO or entrepreneur on the planet who doesn’t smile just a little bit when they hear the phrase ROI.  In a world that is fueled by obvious returns in periods to short to make meaningful progress (th...

By Katrina Lake