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Attorney Mark E. Schlussel ended up owing his former partner in a non-legal business, Terrace Dillard, about $500,000 on a judgment arising from the dissolution of the business. The judgment was entered in 2008 in Arizon...

You can't always point the blame elsewhere.

A lucky connection and shrewd management and marketing have helped Hengan's Hui Lin Chit become China's king of personal hygiene products.

Amazon.com is a great company, a dot.com survivor that has been growing by leaps and bounds. But it has yet to deliver any meaningful profits—even after special items are excluded from the calculations--as evidenced by...

Developing your business network is essential in growing your company. However, 21st Century technology has changed the way we all network. Instead of cold calling or sending out unsolicited email, we’re seeking out co...

As the debate over national education standards?aka the Common Core?continues to rage, one topic that seems to be missing from the discussion is writing style. If we're serious about teaching our children, we need to cha...

Facebook today announced an update to its Android and iOS apps that focuses on photos. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play and Apple’s App Store. When uploading photos, you can now choose the...

SAN FRANCISCO — A startup called Healthvana sends test results for sexually transmitted diseases directly to patients, so they can know the latest on their health and even share results on online dating sites. “It’...

Today Twitter reported better-than-expected fiscal third quarter earnings for 2014, with revenue of $361 million on non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $0.01. Analysts had expected EPS of $0.01 and revenue of $351.35 mi...

Mailbox is pretty much the same thing, for now.

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s easy to describe the world of health care as the industry — the hospitals, the nursing homes, the medical device makers, and so on. But to do that would be to overlook the family members and fr...

Amazon has acquired audio and video comedy company Rooftop Media for an undisclosed amount of money today. The move marks yet another attempt by Amazon to beef up the amount of original content found on both its complime...

SAN FRANCISCO — Big medical technology companies have the trust of hospitals. But digital-health startups are the ones developing the most exciting new technologies. Given partnerships and acquisitions lately, it looks...

Research suggests that a country can have too many small businesses. A recent RSA report suggests that the UK may not be producing enough high-growth companies. It's up to the government to reduce the barriers for entrep...

Microsoft today added emoji support to Bing, allowing users to search using the characters and get back results based on their semantic meaning. The feature has been added to Bing search in all English markets, both on d...

By Maria Chutchian

Doctors might be able to communicate better with an electronic health record that is controlled by the patient and lives in the cloud.

Guest Post: The biggest controversy of the week (so far) is unraveling as rival high schools /r/apple and /r/android unite under a single hashtag: #PayItSafe.

Search giants Google and Yahoo increasingly want to deliver results that not only pull data from the Web, but also from your personal reserves. Last week Google rolled out Inbox, a tool that highlights and organizes mess...

Microsoft today announced it is increasing OneDrive storage from 1 TB to unlimited for all its Office 365 customers, at no additional cost. In short, this means storage limits are becoming a thing of the past for both Of...

Brian Reynolds and Tim Train revive Big Huge Games with a Nexon-financed combat-strategy game for mobile.

After his junior year at Brigham Young University, Nick Walter, now 25, landed a great summer internship in the Seattle office of Pariveda Solutions, a Dallas-based tech consulting firm. Though he enjoyed the work and li...