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The overall image of Chinese business is something like that of a flotilla of semi-independent, carnival speedboats: they look good, are flashy, fast-moving, and change directions quickly, and they are cheaper to build a...

The amount you can leave to your heirs federal estate tax free is on the rise.

Airbnb’s latest advertising campaign in San Francisco doesn’t appear to have gone down well with some local residents. It’s been seen as passive-aggressive, by all appearances telling the city how it should spend i...

By David Gonzalez

Mens Wearhouse founder George Zimmer made headlines over the summer with the launch of a startup service, zTailors, that connects tailors with customers in need. It turns out Zimmer is not alone in his belief that there�...

Urban Outfitters is partnering with star-quality chefs to open stylish restaurants in its stores, an example of the “experience retail” trend. In reality, experience retail has existed for years. The desired experien...

Universities and colleges are backing students' increasing instincts for start-ups. The current ‘golden age’ of entrepreneurship, as many are calling it, is leading to more and more colleges and universities offering...

Lesley West, Peter West and John West were the executors of the estate of their mother (June West).  The estate got hit with pretty nasty late file/late pay penalties - $317,821.05.  The executors were in district cour...

Bitcoin startup Abra will soon launch in the US and Philippines, and is rolling out a merchant services API. It also received investment from American Express and Ratan Tata.

Several research reports this month have pointed out that Google’s display ad business is growing far more slowly than Facebook’s. Most recently, IgnitionOne's Q3 Digital Marketing Report said that Google’s display...

The government drops charges against Michael Steinberg and six others after failing to reverse a ruling making it harder to prosecute insider trading.

GUEST: Amazon set the standard for online retail in an unsettling way. Following Amazon's model, the way to dominate market share is by posting a loss ... over and over again. Amazon didn't actually make a profit until 2...

Microsoft didn’t say how many Xbox 360s and Xbox Ones it sold last quarter, but it does point out that its online-gaming service is growing. Xbox Live now has 39 million monthly active gamers, according to Microsoft’...

Microsoft today reported its earnings for the first quarter of its fiscal 2016, including revenue of $21.66 billion and earnings per share of $0.67. Analysts had expected the company to earn $21.03 billion in revenue and...

It’s a good day for Amazon. After announcing third-quarter earnings, its stock is up 12 percent in after-hours trading. Today, Amazon posted better-than-expected earnings of $0.17 per share on revenue of $25.4 billion....

Amazon today disclosed in its quarterly earnings that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), the largest public cloud currently available for hosting websites and applications, brought in $2.08 billion in revenue for ...

Today the corporate behemoth formerly known as Google shared how much cash it made (and spent) during its third quarter. Alphabet Inc — the silly name for Google’s new parent -- scraped up $18.7 billion in revenue an...

Alibaba (BABA) and Jack Ma have been two hot names in the past year. Just this week, Alibaba announced another deal that made newspaper headlines – the proposed acquisition of Youku Todou Inc. (YOKU) for more than $...

At one time I was the host of a daily radio show. Often I’d invite successful entrepreneurs and NY Times bestselling authors on the air to discuss the “secrets” to their success–and do you know what the most comm...

Twitter today announced closer integration with Vine. If you’ve connected your Twitter and Vine accounts, you can put your Twitter account on your Vine profile and your Vine account on your Twitter profile. You can now...

In recent years, two landmark court cases have dramatically altered the treatment of same-sex marriages in our country.

We reveal critical points where companies are failing -- and failing hard, when it comes to the entire world of social media.