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McDonald’s is a great American company. But it has an image problem: its brand is less appetizing to the younger consumers -- the millennial generation -- than competing brands like Chipotle, Panera Bread, and Five Guy...

The youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner addressed close to 1,000 young game changers at FORBES first annual Under 30 Summit Tuesday.

Guest Post: A new category of wearables --- "hearables" --- is makings strides, leveraging a mainstream consumer accessory: the ear bud.

Microsoft’s “Security Response Center” today highlighted a new PowerPoint bug that affects all supported versions of the Windows operating system (save for Windows Server 2003). But fear not: Microsoft has a tempor...

When Zachary Hamed took a break from school to be a Thiel Fellow, he and his partners created Bowery.io, a service for Web developers that more or less sounds like a miracle even our own tech team couldn’t believe. Tod...

Marc Andreessen on everything.

B2B marketers are attacking mobile with budgets that are jumping 11 percent over the next six months, and an additional 17.5 percent over the next 12 months. But it's clear they're not terribly happy with the tools vendo...

Josh Sommer didn’t want to accept his diagnosis. When he began experiencing headaches as a freshman at Duke University, he went in for an MRI. Doctors found a large tumor in Sommer’s head. They told him he had chordo...

A $10,000 limit per-student on federal student loans would weed out dozens of for-profit colleges - many with questionable methodologies, weak graduation rates and pathetic entrance standards - that prey on poor and mino...

Press Release: Acumatica, provider of cloud accounting software, today announced that the company has raised $13.3 million in a new funding round, led by investment from Australian accounting software powerhouse MYOB, an...

I only had to use Apple Pay a few times before I got over the novelty of paying for stuff with my phone.

Machine learning — the practice of teaching machines to make decisions using existing data — can do a lot of things. One academic researcher has devised a way to use it to predict the price of the Bitcoin virtual cur...

Uber, ever inching beyond ridesharing, today announced a temporary meal delivery service in Hong Kong. Launched in partnership with Hong Kong-based meal-in-a-box startup Secret Ingredient, Uber says the test will last ju...

Godin Almighty. Yes -- Seth Godin looms larger than life. Powerful on stage. Even more so in person. As I sat 24 inches from this legend in a dimly lit room backstage, just the two of us alone in our own little world, I ...

Guest Post: How we handle the Ebola crisis is just a prelude to how we face a future in which humanity is so tightly connected that local epidemics break out frequently and spread globally within hours.

The first phase of integration of the two data sets will be complete by early 2015, the companies say.

Google, a tech giant that’s been growing its public cloud capabilities, said today that it’s acquired hot real-time backend database startup, Firebase. The startup’s technology will be incorporated into Google’s ...

Yammer today launched a share button, which as its name implies, works just like all the other social buttons. If you want to implement the button on your own site, instructions along with the embed code are available on...

Leila Janah knows the value of a dollar. More importantly, she knows the value of three. Janah, cofounder and CEO of Samahope, illustrated what the cost of a cup of coffee means to the impoverished around the world at FO...

SnapLogic, a startup with software for integrating multiple business applications, has wrapped up a $20 million funding round, putting it in a better position to compete with longtime providers of data-integration softwa...

By Eliza Ronalds-Hannon

Three months after acquiring streaming music service Songza, Google Play Music has finally learned some new tricks. Today Google announced that it’s rolling out an updated version of its Google Play Music “All Access...