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Fred Todd and to co-conspirators bilked their victims out of millions of dollars by promising early access to Facebook IPO shares. Now they're all going to prison.

Uber is still raising money, it turns out, with a new $1.6 billion in convertible debt from Goldman Sachs. In December, transportation company Uber announced it had raised $1.2 billion in new funding to help it expand in...

Ello will now support content from YouTube, Vimeo, DailyMotion, SoundCloud, and Mixcloud.

To reach young netizens, the president will be responding to questions from popular YouTube personalities Bethany Mota, GloZell, and Hank Green.

Starting a business means taking a risk. This week I am writing about 5 start-up businesses that I believe will have successful years in 2015. Each of the companies are at very different stages in their development but a...

College Board's Susan McCrackin tells parents how to update their income tax information on the CSS Profile financial aid form. Many students are required to submit their CSS Profile financial aid form early, often betwe...

Apple Watch uses a powerful processor and a high quality screen, both of which can soak up a lot of battery power.

A Series of Forbes Insights Profiles of Thought Leaders Changing the Business Landscape

Twitter has been experimenting with this, but starting today, Bing’s translation engine will enable users to view tweets in multiple languages, Twitter announced. Twitter started testing this in 2013, folded the projec...

With the cloud file sharing company finally due to hit the New York Stock Exchange, let's review the winding course Box charted to reach its IPO.

The focus of the fund will be enterprise mobility, connected devices, marketplaces, personal utilities, mobile commerce, and mobile user-generated content.

This article is by Eddie Newquist, chief creative officer at Global Experience Specialists. He more than 25 years of experience creating and producing events, exhibitions, attractions and tours for Hollywood brands and s...

Getting into a top business school requires demonstrating a certain level of success. Many people believe we need to push ourselves hard in order to succeed in business and in life. I used to believe this too. I went to...

Omidyar Network, founded by Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and his wife Pam, is a driving force in the movement toward impact investing, using investments to drive social impact.

Microsoft’s Build conference for developers is always popular, but this year, that’s especially so. Tickets for the multi-day event in San Francisco sold out in less than an hour. Compare that with last year, when Mi...

GlobalGiving is one of the oldest crowdfunding sites on the web, having been launched half a decade ahead of industry giants Kickstarter and Indiegogo. GlobalGiving is a highly curated platform--an application process is...

One Windows 10, but two browsers? We're not yet sure.

Kittens are hot. What else can explain it?

Today, Braintree announced that merchants in the U.S. can now accept Bitcoin via its v.zero SDK in a private beta. Braintree first announced the v.zero SDK back in July last year. The SDK allowed automatic shopping cart ...

Small businesses need better access to alternative finance, but we're beginning to get there

At around 11.00 am on January 20, a coach pulls up outside the Intersection for the Arts on San Francisco's Mission Street and the passengers disembark. A close observer might detect a palpable sense of heightened expect...

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