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A new Development Impact Bond targets improving girls' schooling in India.

Federal policy will not be the gating factor that hastens the pace of small business loans in 2014-2015 according to Federal Reserve President Charles Evans, of Chicago's Federal Reserve Bank. It is the strengthening eco...

Soccer's Fake Injuries Would Have the IRS Reeling As It Slaps Tax Bills on Legal Settlements. After all, What's Physical, and What's Not?

If things work out the way organizers want them to, Metis could become more effective at actually training people in data science than lessons from massively open online course providers.

As an entrepreneur, you have some very specific skills and attributes that drive you and make you successful. However, as your company grows, those same attributes and skills are not always suited to building a solid, st...

Guest Post: There's just too much hype, demand and real results to shy away from predictive intelligence.

Here's what you missed from our MobileBeat conference.

Imagine you are working as a waiter in the cafeteria of a five-star hotel. You are on the phone with your supervisor. A group of customers walks in and calls you to take their order.

The best leaders aren't just smart, they're also socially adept. The good news is, you can take steps to become more socially adept.

you are no dumber or smarter than any of your competitors; they can teach you a lot about your marketing opportunities if you pay attention. Copying Other people's marketing ideas is fair game, as long as you gain insigh...

Eighteen years after launching the South India AIDS Action Program (SIAAP), Shyamala Natarajan reached a crossroads. Positioned as a civil society movement, the organization had succeeded in proving their model. The more...

Launched in April, the New Delhi, India-based UberHealth offers complete cloud- and mobile-based preventive health care packages for seniors.

The complainant, Nan Shi, was working as a software designer at Yahoo, filed the lawsuit against Yahoo mobile content exec Maria Zhang Friday.

As one RapGenius cofounder said at TechCrunch Disrupt last year, "Swaaaag, yeah." We've got the details of its funding round and more in today's Funding Daily.

The news just keeps on coming in the ever-changing game business.

The NEA director of government Relations Mary Kusler told VentureBeat today that the $2 billion E-Rate plan that the agency approved is "a step forward."

Transportation app Lyft halted its highly anticipated New York City launch after city officials filed a temporary restraining order against the startup, saying it is unauthorized to operate in the city.