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China is all about competition, gambling, and -- increasingly -- women.

Tech blog Re/code just announced that it’s been acquired by Vox Media, home to publications like the Verge, Vox, SBNation, Polygon, Eater, Wracked, Curbed, and others. The terms of the deal have not yet been disclosed,...

Major regulatory changes are coming to the startup and alternative investing worlds. Starting on June 19, private companies will have a new way to raise money from both accredited and non-accredited investors.

The thieves accessed the data through an online service provided by the IRS and took financial data related to users' actual tax returns.

Instead of banners and pop-up videos, the platform uses websites' background as advertising space.

Oculus Rift is about to get better eyes.

The feature debuted on the Apple Watch, is now built into the trackpads of Apple's new MacBooks, and is expected to move to other Apple devices.

Last year, eight employees of the Philadelphia-based startup, Wash Cycle biked 160 miles on their bright, orange-colored trikes, hauling laundry from Philadelphia to Washington, DC.  It was a sign of victory -- their fi...

For Back to the Roots cofounders, Nikhil Aurora and Alejandro Velez, it all started in a business ethics class at UC Berkeley. The two learned they could grow gourmet mushrooms off of coffee grounds, one of America’s l...

Today's deal follows several acquisitions in the SDN space by the likes of VMware, Cisco, and Oracle.

More efforts to bring Microsoft apps to Android devices.

It was 10:15 p.m. when I finished my first day of work in Japan. I transferred to Tokyo to head human resources for the company I was working for. I worked late to get up to speed. When I opened my office door I noticed ...

Today Google announced that it’s opening up its Android font Roboto. Designed by Christian Robinson, the Roboto font files were first released in 2011 under the Apache license. Now, the company is organizing the files ...

If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing well. That’s why I’m always puzzled when I encounter someone at work who seems to believe just the opposite — that if something is worth doing, it’s worth doing with ...

Although teens can be obsessive (trust me, I know), and marketers even more so, does that mean businesses have to be ‘customer obsessed’ when marketing to teens? Merriam Webster defines obsession as “a persistent d...

Microsoft today updated Windows App Studio, its free web-based tool designed to let anyone create an app, with support for the Windows 10 Insider Preview. The company also redesigned the Windows App Studio beta site to m...

In today’s retail, the cost of failure may be success.

Today's news and insights for business owners, including the world's most powerful women entrepreneurs.

Email is dying. Silicon Valley business leaders are sure of it. Or is it just that they want email to perish and to do so very soon? Do you know many self-respecting technology sorts who own up to enjoying reading and se...

Uber is adding hybrid electric vehicles to its fleet of cars in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Pandora chief musicologist Nolan Gasser was featured in a recent ESPN Films special, performing a composition he wrote based on music therapy research and the Music Genome Project to soothe the pain and anxiety of cancer...

The Highway Trust Fund is about to run out of money. Again. This manufactured crisis may be Washington's most regular - and predictable - demonstration of failure.