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Kent Hovind returned to Pensacola this week.  He will be serving the last month of the sentence from his 2006 conviction in home confinement before beginning a three-year period of supervised release.  There will be a ...

Tremendous credit to Pixar, Facebook - and large companies like them - that cherish the creative impulse, and maintain cultures that welcome change, thrive on exploration, and encourage individual initiative. Collectivel...

#DaléTwitterMiami, or should I say, #TwitterWantsToConquerTheLatinAmericanMarket? Twitter officially opened offices in Miami earlier this week with six employees commanded by Twitter Latin America VP Guilherme Ribenboim...

This is Firefox for Windows 10.

Because most buyers of businesses prefer "asset" sales, sellers of "C" corporations face a big problem: double taxation. In certain circumstances, however, sellers are not doomed to "tax death" and might eliminate or min...

It looks as though there wasn't so much to worry about the collapsing stock market in China.

Two years ago, sports documentary “Rising from Ashes,” cataloged the journey of American cyclist Jack Boyer who moved to Kigali to help produce Rwanda's first national cycling team for the 2012 Olympic Games. Yet, i...

A lawsuit over whether Uber drivers are employees may come down to what the drivers think, even if that isn't the law.

It all sounds a little vague, but if the technology works it could be a boon for health and exercise apps that run on Samsung phones.

Anything worth doing is going to be hard. Let me repeat: no matter how simple, easy, or straightforward something appears to be, it will be difficult. In the beginning, it’s just not always obvious why.

Carlson's next chapter sounds like a tech founder's daydream: moving from his home in Oregon to Paris, to write novels.

OPINION: With the arrival of the first major upgrade to the Watch's brains -- watchOS 2 -- the device will be able to connect directly to a Wi-fi network. This should be the catalyst for a major expansion of the Apple Mu...

If you're a married man like yours truly you more than likely do not automatically jump up the first time your significant other asks you to do something. If you're like me it normally has to go from a question to a comm...

Employees are leavings thousands of dollars on the table by failing to enroll in employer stock purchase plans.

It takes incredible humility and strength on the part of leaders to build a culture of constructive candor. But if building it is hard, living with the failures that result from insufficient candor is so much harder.

EA has rebuilt its value after more than a decade of struggling to do so.

VB EVENT: At MobileBeat 2015, speakers from Fanatics, Groupon, and Home Depot will be discussing how offline and online are converging and how brands can create a seamless experience across channels.

After comparing two videos, one uploaded in standard quality and the other in HD, we perceived little change -- bummer.

Microsoft has decided to retire its Photosynth mobile app. The company explains the move by saying its latest Photosynth Preview tool “is a more immersive way to capture a place than the spherical panoramas that our ap...

Microsoft for the first time today talked about a fascinating new research initiative: machine teaching. The technology giant is looking for people who can teach computers how to perform machine learning, which can make ...

VB INSIGHT: Martech continued a strong trend in funding in the past quarter, with over $3.5 billion in new funding across 96 new investments by nearly 250 venture capitalists. That’s up from 85 investments in Q1, and m...

Some personal news: This is a story about “personal news.” You are no doubt familiar with (and perhaps tired of) the farewell post, the one announcing some “personal news” on a choice social media platform. It is...