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Working from home is fraught with distractions. Use these powerful Jedi mind tricks (and a little bit of the Force) to overcome obstacles to your productivity.

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs passed away on Oct. 5, 2011, due to complications stemming from his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 56. The three-year anniversary that historic passing is this Sunday, so Tim Cook sent a...

Guest Post: New startups are finding it difficult to differentiate from the swath of other companies unless they have something extremely novel.

Redbox Instant, the joint venture between Verizon and Outerwall, has decided to shut down the service effective early next week. The news was communicated to customers earlier today via the official Redbox Instant websit...

NFL players and coaches that are fans of Apple-owned company Beats Audio’s high-end headphones would be best advised to leave them at home come game day. News broke today that the NFL has issued a new policy banning th...

Managers who utilize the tried-and-true managerial methods of mothers will find themselves more likely to have happy, efficient, committed employees.

After taking over Wall Street for one day with its much-hyped IPO, Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) wants to beat America’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.— in size, that is.

As one of the biggest, most active communities on the Internet, every single move Reddit makes gets scrutinized, analyzed, and philosophized. If Reddit sneezes, discussion will be had. And until now, that didn’t mean m...

Guest Post: Intel's latest tablet chips offer a lot of horsepower for games and multimedia.

Intel gets caught in the struggle over gaming's soul.

Mary Shaw broke glass ceilings for female programmers in the 1970s. The medal is the highest technology award given by the president in the U.S.

Humans (including customers) will adapt to any situation, good or bad, over time.  And, over time, the bad will seem less bad (which is handy), but what's good will also seem less good (which can be kind of a problem). ...

Today, tiny startups announced they've raised tiny bags of cash.

New York City is getting its own domain extension, and starting on October 8, the .nyc address will be available to that elite subsection of the general public known as New Yorkers. Like everything in the Big Apple, this...

It’s uncanny how often otherwise zippy mobile hotspots suddenly fail once you walk into a hotel conference room. Could somebody be blocking their signal? The FCC has found at least one hotel that actually did it. Marri...