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Formula One’s boss Bernie Ecclestone says that Bahrain's Mumtalakat sovereign wealth fund has sold a 50% stake in the McLaren team to its chief executive Ron Dennis.

This is the best alternative so far.

Now listed under the symbol "WK," the six-year-old company joins this week's tech IPO parade, as Lending Club, Hortonworks, and New Relic race to go public before the year ends.

The good news reaches beyond just the companies that went public today.

Tech investors took a shine to media companies in 2014, reversing their longstanding aversion to the news business.

It remains to be seen if the browser/search engine team-up of Mozilla and Yahoo will help either company.

VB Insight:We complain about brands an astonishing 879 million times a year on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media networks. A full 10 percent of us find something to be angry about publicly every single day. The m...

  Defying the gloom and doom predictions that flooded social media two years ago, electronics retailer Best Buy is still in business -- and rising again. For the third quarter of 2014, the company reported $9.4 billion ...

Google today announced it plans to retire the Google Earth API on December 12, 2015. The reason is simple: Both Chrome and Firefox are removing support for Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) plugin...

Meghan Trainor’s “All About That Bass” has resulted in hundreds if not thousands of parodies. We’d like to present you with the best one yet, courtesy of none other than the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis...

A country hungry for massive exits can now point to a big one. Sort of.

Ten years ago a psychologist by the name of Barry Schwartz, released a new book with a groundbreaking idea. In the book, titled The Paradox of Choice, Schwartz argues that the overwhelming number of choices consumers fac...

For the fomo generation, boredom must be avoided at all costs. Whether smart phones are the cause or cure is a matter of debate, but the tech in our pockets is certainly delivering the diversions we crave.

By Renee Smith

BBM keeps getting better and better on Android and iOS.

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The holidays are of course a time for family and friends; for spending time with those close to you. Unfortunately many people are unable to be with the ones they love for a varying number of reasons. To that end Western...

What should you do when you hear that a colleague has done something exceptional and you're not jumping up and down with joy? Here are three simple guidelines.

In a mere 0.47 seconds, Google returns about 20,200,000 results when searching the term ‘employee engagement.’ Obviously, it’s a hot topic. And, it should be.

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Ricardo Guadalupe, 49 years of age, is the CEO of Hublot. A career fueled by his passion for the Swiss watchmaking industry since his childhood days growing up in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

"Don't worry about mistakes too much."