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Guest Post: Older entrepreneurs are often shunned while younger entrepreneurs receive attention and funding. This is hurting the venture-capital system as well as Silicon Valley -- because the stereotypes are flawed.

Each week, our friends at Backerjack bring us updates on some of the most successful gadget crowdfunding campaigns. Snap! 6 Snap! 6 hopes to make the perfect selfie attainable. Aside from its functionality as an iPhone 6...

"This Frankenstein proposal is no treat for Internet users, and they shouldn't be tricked," consumer group Free Press CEO Craig Aaron said in a statement.

Ever since its release in October 2013, IE11 has been unable to pass IE8 in market share. It made steady gains, but then plateaued before it could become the world’s most popular browser. Now, Microsoft’s latest and ...

Apple Pay is aligned with major banks, Visa and MasterCard, which take a cut of every transaction, typically two to three percent. Retailers, operating on razor-thin profit margins, would like to cut or eliminate those ...

Everyone is well-aware by now that Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 have not seen the impressive adoption rate of their predecessor. Yet the duo had a particularly good run last month, finally passing 15 percent market share to...

Guest Post: Keep these five rules in mind, and you could dramatically boost your AdWords conversion rate and volume simultaneously.

University of Georgia head football coach Mark Richt is a very wealthy man.  Not only does he earn $3.2 million in salary per year from the University of Georgia, but, according to the Premier Athlete & Celebrity websi...

The new, plastic-based fuel mixture reportedly tested better for performance. Another possible factor in the explosion: this was the first test of the rocket engine in flight in more than nine months.

Here's a lesson in company culture.

Funny to think that, while Facebook is a native app on mobile, it’s still trapped in the browser on desktop. Scott Kyle, a Capitola, Calif.-based developer, decided to build his own: Current for Facebook. Current, whic...

The former White House CTO talks about new digital health approaches to personalizing health care for consumers, and about new federal initiatives that will pay health providers to begin sharing health care data with eac...

The alternative funding industry has changed dramatically over the last few years. Because of an increase in competitors and capital entering this market, small business owners (borrowers) are beginning to enjoy longer t...