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The Born Free Foundation a global organization devoted to saving endangered species started from the 1966 film Born Free. Where Virginia played a conservationist raising an orphaned lion cub name Elsa. Through the film, ...

The United States is quickly losing it’s appeal to the world’s most talented immigrants, according to a new study. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington culled a large dataset from LinkedIn and fou...

When will you ever learn not to buy clothing for her? Anyway, your annual trip to the returns counter might be a bit more high tech this year.

To bind customers to you through customer service and the customer experience requires what I call ‘‘The Art of Anticipation.’’

Guest:Arizona isn't going to suddenly usurp California or Texas any time soon when it comes to things like venture funding, but the sleeping giant out in the Southwest is starting to make some noise.

Guest:The human brain can process images in as little as 13 milliseconds, according to research from MIT released this year. That's a hell of a lot faster than earlier studies, which suggested it takes 100 milliseconds. ...

Guest:Software's always been the sexy sell of Silicon Valley. With low startup costs, margins on par with the most illicit drugs and the boom or bust mentality of the Internet era, it's been the sweetheart of startups fo...

The Global Impact Investing Network is launching a training program for freshly minted impact investing fund managers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

Jessica Mah, the founder and CEO of Indinero, was only 11 years old when she started her first business. Having learned how to code in fifth grade, Mah built websites for people and got paid a few thousand dollars a mon...

The Amazon of Southeast Asia, Lazada, has raised a whopping €200 million (about $250 million USD) to secure its position as a dominant force in ecommerce for the region, the company announced today.

Feature:Let's say your "client" is the United States of America, the "events" are the elections, and the response is the abysmal voter turnout that currently characterizes America's defining event. How can digital market...

I've interviewed tech blogger Steve Cheney before in Forbes, but - about a year ago - he became SVP of Business and Operations for Estimote. Estimote is an NYC-based start-up that produces beacons and software to allow f...

Bangladesh is going digital. Not in smart watches, sensor-based clothing or electronic health records, but in money. Mobile money. Money, that according to BRAC and the Gates Foundation could improve the economic and hea...

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At Facebook and LinkedIn, data scientists analyze site usage and develop features that take user information into consideration. Inside the cramped office of Hampton Creek, a 3-year-old San Francisco startup, data scient...

Socrata, a startup working to make government data more easily accessible to companies and services, has raised $30 million in new funding. Socrata has raised at least $30 million out of possible $35 million it’s seeki...

Earlier today, arbitrator Barbara S. Jones ruled that the NFL acted arbitrary and capriciously by suspending Ray Rice twice for the same off-the-field misconduct.  Jones ordered Rice immediately reinstated into the l...

Guest:We're in the midst of a transformational moment as the makeup of the workforce changes, as does the outright speed in which business is done -- all of which impacts enterprise technology development and solutions.