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After a few volatile sessions, the sell-off returned to Wall Street today, confirming that momentum is shifting—buyers do not seem to be anxious to jump in and buy on dips.

Reddit’s executive team has big plans for the community news-sharing site’s future … which apparently includes a new requirement on where employees can live. Reddit has instituted a new policy recently that gives i...

Want to discover an underground art scene, swim with sharks or take a private food tour while you're on vacation (or hanging out at home for the weekend), but don't know where to begin? Meet Ruzwana Bashir, the travel ju...

Joshua Wong, a student leader in the pro-democracy protests that have shaken Hong Kong, is the type of youth companies should be looking to hire and nurture.

Mayo Clinic was one of the first big-name health providers Apple tapped help with the build and launch of the HealthKit consumer health data platform.

 Windows 10 is coming out next year, and it’s a substantial revision to Windows 8. VentureBeat’s Devindra Hardawar called it Microsoft’s big fat apology for Windows 8. Maybe the company needed to put so much dista...

When Alibaba went public on Sept 19th, Jack Ma rocketed to the top of China’s richest with a net worth of $18 billion and a placement among the world’s wealthiest.  Not bad for a former schoolteacher.  And though h...

South African software multi-millionaire Mark Shuttleworth has reportedly been awarded R250 million ($22 million) - with interest, by South Africa's Supeme Court of Appeal after taking on South Africa's Reserve Bank, fol...

Low-key mad scientist and Paypal billionaire Elon Musk told CNN Money that “a Tesla car next year will probably be 90 percent capable of autopilot.” On the highway, Musk is “for sure” confident the car will be ab...

Major European streaming music company Deezer is finally bringing its paid music subscription service to U.S. consumers through a partnership with high-end speaker company Bose. Today the company announced that music fan...

Guest Post: PayPal needs to be run like a startup again. Or, to be more precise, it needs to be run like a big, aggressive, Facebook-style startup that moves fast, cuts deals, and focuses on massively improving its prod...

Last month California did something that may turn out to be revolutionary. The state's Office of Business and Economic Development banned consultants from receiving commissions for procuring the California Competes tax c...

Can you really 'hack' your self esteem? I think so. In this post, I break down how to reframe what you struggle with, how to diagnose if you're asking for permission and three ways to 'hack' your self esteem.

Building a culture of excellence is about little things. Like adding Don Draper clause to an employee contract. Or having fun with nicknames.

This article is by Peter Daboll, CEO, Ace Metrix.

SAN FRANCISCO — The connected note-taking app company Evernote today announced a completely redesigned Web client and an enhanced enterprise-focused productivity platform called “Work Chat,” complete with new artif...

In response to user protests over its controversial mood study, Facebook today said it has created “a new framework” which will limit and guide the way future research is conducted. Facebook vaguely states on its blo...

Facebook is just creeping its way more and more into our digital lives, and today it launched its mobile Like Button for developers. Mobile developers can now embed a Like Button into their app, and as Facebook explains ...

For the third time, the U.S. Supreme Court takes up a challenge to the Obama administration's disparate-impact theory of discrimination.

Three out of four kids who try Mars Generation One: Argubot Academy are improving their argumentation skills.

Resy, a mobile app that allows users to pay for dinner reservations at some of the hardest restaurants to get into in New York City, is expanding its network to include brunch reservations.

The first investor in traditional web-based marketing automation trailblazer Marketo has led an over-subscribed $15 million second round of investment into mobile marketing automation solution Appboy. For CEO Mark Gherme...