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At least 12 billion-dollar families, worth a total of $54.3 billion, owe their fortunes to businesses founded during the Great Depression.

When one looks at the data, over the long run, states with no income taxes are way ahead of the highest tax states across all relevant indicators. The evidence of this is overwhelming.

Guest Post: Of the 120 companies in the firm's portfolio, more than 50 percent are games companies. And Decent Capital is constantly on the hunt for more.

Financial tech might not be the sexiest thing happening around town, but one company is putting all its bets on it. Yodlee Interactive (YI), a division of financial software company Yodlee, is beefing up the part of its ...

No question investors have been growing weary of low yielding fixed income funds.  This is especially true in light of Fed expectations to slow bond purchases later this year portending a rise in interest rates.   So ...

Planning for marketing and advertising efforts isn’t all that difficult.  It’s just hard work and a lot of detail.

Despite being an unstable facilitator of black-market transactions created by an anonymous hacker to skirt government control, consumers can't get enough of the cryptocurrency.

Some games are putting LGBT issues front and center.

Silicon Valley's green horn high school interns are raking in a lot more dough than the average San Franciscan.

By now you've heard the news that Facebook recently conducted an "emotional experiment" whereby they manipulated the news feeds of users, nearly 700,000 of them. Conducted in 2012, the experiment or study or whatever you...

The New York attorney general and the Taxi and Limousine Commission jointly filed a temporary restraining order against Lyft Friday.

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Forget thinking outside the box. If you want a long creative career you have to learn to create inside other people's boxes.

For the first time, events from your Gmail account will be added to your Google Maps, so you'll know where that party is without ever having to glance at the invite.

President Obama has launched a new program to ensure that large corporations pay small contractors in a more timely fashion. Tech giants Apple, IBM, and Salesforce have signed on.

SoundCloud, the Berlin-based audio streaming site, is getting worried about copyright violations on its site. SoundCloud is like YouTube for audio; it allows anybody to upload any kind of audio. This naturally opens the ...

Will it really cost Zack Danger Brown more than $21,000 in taxes to make potato salad?

A new radio show on SiriusXM, programmed by YouTube fans, starts today. Current Analysis analyst Brad Shimmin told VentureBeat that this kind of crowd-based programming “represents both the peril and promise of analyti...

It's an extension of the idea that Microsoft will be the cloud platform for backing up data and applications.

The U.S. Supreme Court term that began in October 2013 was stocked with cases that threatened to limit the President's power, software patents, campaign-finance laws and affirmative action. After the dust cleared, howeve...

Civil disobedience is meant to be noticed. It is a price paid in the hope of creating social change. What I'm talking about is not based on hope; in fact, it has given up much hope on social change.

Researchers at Georgia Tech are enlisting humanoid robots to play Angry Birds with the help of kids suffering from motor-skill and cognitive disabilities. Kids rehabilitating from these types of disabilities generally pe...