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Sen. Bernard Sanders wants to rein in the runaway billionaires. In a recent piece for The Huffington Post, the Vermont independent (and apparent presidential candidate) made the case for a progressive estate tax.

Smartphone-based eye exams, pavement that generates electricity from your feet, a gelatinous way to store water, and a smarter beehive -- these inventions may not have the sex appeal of social media, but they could make ...

Venture investment volumes in Russia fell by 9 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) as the number of completed deals increased by 32 percent in Q2 2014.

One of the major beneficiaries of this week’s initial public offering of Alibaba stock is Yahoo, which owns 401 million shares of the Chinese e-commerce giant. Beneficiary, that is, in a purely financial sense. In a st...

One of the leading public clouds around, Microsoft Azure, sees its competitors Google and Amazon adding fast solid-state drives (SSDs) to their servers for running applications. Today it followed suit. The new D-Series o...

Stephanie Palmer is a former Hollywood studio executive who now teaches others how to promote themselves and sell their ideas.

“We may very well stand at one of those decisive turning points in history that separate whole eras from each other.  For contemporaries entangled, as we are, in the inexorable demands of daily life, the dividing line...

Adobe has acquired popular photo-editing toolkit Aviary for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced today. Aviary provides developers (and outside companies like Yahoo) with a set of photo-editing tools they can b...

Cloud implementations aren't exactly rocket science, but deciding which cloud hosting provider works the best for you -- and for your situation -- is crucial.

More and more devices are becoming MHL-complaint.

Netflix has signed an agreement to exclusively air a new television series based on the novel 11/22/63 from author Stephen King, the company announced today. Hulu has been locked in competition with other streaming servi...

The Google exec wants Europe to accept uncertainty

Investigators are looking into Home Depot's self-checkout machines as the culprit for a mysterious virus that boosted 56 million credit card and PIN numbers from the retailer.

Huawei will use Neul as the centerpiece of a major new push into the Internet of Things.

Swedish telecom Ericsson demonstrated a big commitment to the cloud business today, by announcing that it’s taken a majority stake in Apcera, a startup with software for running applications in clouds or companies’ d...

By Danielle Tate

Uber is squeezing every last drop out of its drivers' pay, and it's starting with its newest recruits.

Most leaders today are aware of the need to look confident and assured, but fewer understand the impact of empathy and warmth. And this may be more of a career-limiting factor than they know.

Otter Media, the joint venture between Chernin Group and AT&T, has purchased a big stake in YouTube multichannel partner network Fullscreen Media today. Otter was launched back in April by Chernin and AT&T to purchase, l...

For many startups, bootstrapping is the best method to build your company your way, without having to take investors’ interests into account. It also means stretching your resources as thinly as possible, and lends new...

Apple's new iPhones aren't just huge updates in terms of tech specs -- they're also a lot tougher than past models.

Apple recently unveiled the up-and-coming sixth generation of its iPhone, as well as its next gadget, which will arrive in stores in early 2015—the Apple Watch. SmartWatches have been experimented with by other compani...