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Ivanka Trump's business interests range from hotels and real estate to fashion, fragrance and fine jewelry. She talks about how the Trumps make their family business work and how Donald Trump's presidential campaign is i...

About 30% of Medicare recipients could face premium increases of as much as 52% , even as 70% of Medicare beneficiaries will have their premiums held to the same $104.90 per person a month they paid in 2015.

Microsoft wants to buy your old computer. The company has launched a new promotion called Easy Trade Up, where you essentially get money for your current PC or Mac (up to six years old) when you buy a new Windows 10 comp...

What originally began as a Celtic pagan tradition and became a celebration for kids in America, has in the past two decades become an occasion for adults. The Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, haunted attractions geare...

Hearing loss is one of those rare things---a gigantic pharmaceutical opportunity that hardly any drug company cares about.

Advanced Micro Devices chief executive Lisa Su said that ARM-based server chips have experienced slower-than-expected reception from the owners of data centers and server farms. AMD delayed its own ARM-based Opteron micr...

In my previous article, I touched on the importance of each investor’s opportunity cost when it comes to the discount rate (link to the article is here). One of the questions I received was how to go about calculating...

ANALYSIS: I was sitting in a conference on enterprise infrastructure this week when I realized that the generational shift long promised by cloud advocates is finally, irreversibly underway. That shift is away from “le...

No it’s not just you, Netflix is apparently experiencing some technical difficulties. We're aware that members are experiencing issues streaming on all devices. We're working to resolve the problem. — Netflix CS (@Ne...

GUEST: If I told you that my startup, Hours, built its own crowdfunding site instead of using Kickstarter — and decided to run a private campaign  -- you might think I was crazy. But that’s what we did. And it work...

REVIEW: Despite their recent surge in popularity, smartwatches can be traced back more than two decades–when the likes of Timex Datalink in 1994 or Samsung’s 1999 “watch phones” helped plant the seeds for future ...

Earlier this week, Americans celebrated National Coming Out Day, a time to raise awareness of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender, and queer identities and to fight homophobia. It was started in 1988 centered around t...

Advanced Micro Devices continues to struggle amid declining PC sales and tough competition with rival Intel. AMD reported revenue of $1.06 billion (on a non-GAAP basis) in the third quarter ended September 30, compared w...

Y Combinator has raised $700 million for a later-stage fund that will be run by now full-time partner Ali Rowghani. Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, this new investment vehicle will be used to fund select ...

Entrepreneurs face a lot of challenges when building a company from the ground up. The CEO of Prezi explains how to avoid three of the biggest obstacles that founders encounter--the key is to be mission-driven.

Look at this, because it’ll definitely be looking at you. Eye-tracking company Tobii revealed new technologies in the field today, the Tobii IS4 eye tracking platform and Tobii EyeChip. These technologies can create ne...

Some Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users this week started reporting they were being forced to upgrade to Windows 10, even though they had not reserved a copy nor indicated in any way they wanted to upgrade. We reached out t...

  Walmart’s (NYSE:WMT) business has been squeezed from all directions these days. The first is the impact of Amazon on the company’s top line, as we wrote in a previous piece here. Then came the squeeze from minimum...

Virgin Atlantic is influencing Delta Air Lines' design of its lounges and possible upgrades to its premium economy offerings.

Flipboard has announced that cofounder Evan Doll has “decided not to return” to the company after a long sabbatical. Instead, he will become an Entrepreneur in Residence at Redpoint Ventures. Chief executive Mike McC...

Syrian refugees could fill a gap for Berlin startups. Developers in Berlin’s entrepreneurial ecosystem are a hot commodity. The imbalance of supply and demand is great for programmers, who have high earning power, not ...

This article appeared in the August/September 2015 issue of Forbes Woman Africa