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Anyone can get a degree in Taiwan. The island’s 146 universities graduate as many as 300,000 students per year,with spaces left. Taiwan is unwinding meanwhile from decades of poverty and risky business ventures, with e...

With a little creativity, anything is possible — hedge fund investing for previously unqualified investors included. Sliced Investing, a startup that graduated from Y Combinator’s accelerator in August, helps investo...

However big you’re hoping to make your marriage proposal in this age of viral one-upmanship, you’re going to have a tough time topping Japan’s artist known as “Yassan.” In 2010, Yassan (real name: Yasushi Takah...

Mobile apps are no longer just for big name brands only. Learn some of the concrete benefits of building a mobile app for your small business.

For a country that prides itself on savoir-faire and style, on manners and being well-dressed, France is sorely lacking in leadership communications directives. You will find few management books written originally in Fr...

Google today updated its Keep app with new sharing and searching functionality. You can download the latest Android version now from Google Play, the Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store, and of course access the l...

Snapchat today announced it is partnering with Square to launch Snapcash, a new service for sending money to friends. Snapcash is initially only available to Snapchat users 18 years and up in the U.S., though it will pre...

Seventy percent of corporate tax professionals are in favor of lowering the U.S. corporate tax rate, even if that assumes giving up tax loopholes.

Managers at every level complain that many of their meetings are a waste of time. Making them more productive however requires managers to better understand the unconscious and non-rational aspects of meetings. Here are ...

TRUSTe, a service that certifies companies that are safely handling private consumer data, is settling Federal Trade Commission charges that it misled customers about its online business-recertification process and about...

BitTorrent today announced it is opening up paygated Bundles, the company's direct-to-fan publishing platform, to all artists.

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Trump Entertainment Resorts said it expects to close down the Trump Taj Mahal resort/casino in Atlantic City, N.J., by Dec. 12, according to an amended disclosure statement filed in the bankruptcy court overseeing the c...

Microsoft today announced its content aggregation and presentation application Sway is launching on the iPhone. Initially available in New Zealand, the iPhone version will roll out to the U.S. and other English-speaking ...

Is there ever an upside when a risky startup investment evaporates right before your eyes? Absolutely! The US government provides a tidy benefit to angel investors who take on the risk and economic impact of these invest...

In a broad-ranging interview, Shawn Layden tells us about Sony's plans for winning the console war.

Only 30% of girls in the world receive a secondary education. And while there are many reasons why this is so -- many girls must work to support their families, or are socially stigmatized by their communities, or can’...

Most marketers have a common goal:  Increase profits.

Squarespace is acquiring the team behind Brace, a minimalistic website building service powered by Dropbox and Amazon's cloud, the companies announced today. With this deal, Squarespace plans to bolster its “developer ...

Google today added an Autoscaler feature, which helps apps handle varying traffic and workloads, to its Compute Engine on the Google Cloud Platform. The service, first demoed at the company’s Google Cloud Platform Live...

Sponsored Post: Marketing has shifted from talking at people, or focusing on transactions, to engaging with people - building meaningful, life-long, and personalized relationships.

To answer the question of how widespread mystery cell phone interceptors are, the Tinfoil Hat Road Trip will randomly conduct sweeps across the lower 48 states.