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FATCA's massive worldwide reporting scheme is ambitious. Yet a watchdog report reveals that the IRS may not be taking key steps that are needed to collate and match the data reported by taxpayers and foreign banks.

Justin Goff, 31, has created two million-dollar businesses with no employees other than the owners—an eBook company and an online health supplements store. The secret of this entrepreneur from Columbus, Ohio has been m...

Once upon a time if you were going on a long journey it would be advisable to equip yourself with a camel or two, plenty of water, some preserved food and a possibly a couple of muskets and a priest. Fortunately, these d...

Microsoft today announced that it’s making changes to the way in which it handles upgrades to Windows 10. Soon Microsoft will mark Windows 10 as an “optional update” in Windows Update on Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, ...

Google plans to “fold” its Web-only desktop operating system, Chrome OS, into Android by 2017, the Wall Street Journal claims. Translation: Chrome OS is probably dead. Or, at least it’s dying, because Android sure ...

Apple is encouraging developers to create more secure apps with its latest open-source release. Today, Apple announced it will open up its cryptographic libraries to third-party developers in an effort to persuade them t...

Electronic Arts chief executive Andrew Wilson said that the video game publisher has “strong momentum” moving into the holiday season as it prepares to launch its big Star Wars Battlefront and Need for Speed titles i...

EXCLUSIVE: Google Now is showing me some interesting place recommendations this week. They’re courtesy of Foursquare. The Foursquare app isn’t installed on my Android phone. Nevertheless, I’ve seen tips about resta...

LinkedIn now has 400 million cumulative “members,” the company revealed today, up from 380 million in July. But LinkedIn’s active user-base is far smaller: the company averaged 100 million active users per month fo...

This week the world of tech saw two fierce competitors in an emerging space experience a strange twist of fate in which a victory for one turned into a windfall for the other. The companies in question are part of an imp...

Social media can make a big difference for small businesses at a low marketing cost. According to Social Media Examiner’s seventh annual Social Media Marketing Industry Report, 92 percent of marketers working with smal...

Some of the biggest ad agencies and ad networks are putting their weight behind a new program that will hopefully verify legitimate digital ad impressions and make sure advertisers are fairly paid. New York-based Trustwo...

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook is working to increase its reach throughout the world, including emerging markets. To do that, it has increasingly become mindful of connectivity speeds and modifying its tools to make sur...

Team communication apps Slack today is announcing the launch of user groups for teams that pay for premium tiers of service. The feature provides more granularity than the channels for group discussions that existed sinc...

User acquisition costs for mobile games and apps rose again in September, according to mobile marketing firm Fiksu. That means that life will continue to be hard for small app makers who don’t have highly viral apps an...

With the right resources and a proper ongoing strategy, it's completely possible for any business to earn their way in (or back in) to one of those three coveted positions.

Who would have thought technology would be able to give humans a run for their money? Well, we all knew it was coming. With a bit of Indian technological prowess, finUNO's multi-modal financial intelligence assistant has...

Despite grand commitments to innovation, many large and established organizations are sluggish when it comes to change.  It’s easy to blame processes and red tape for the lack of agility, but a large part of the probl...

The marketing world has substantially evolved over the last few years, in terms of how you can target prospective customers for your business.  Before, your primary options for targeting, were largely around demographic...

Paris's Grand Palais, with its blockbuster exhibit, Picasso.mania, is only the latest major museum to mount a massive retrospective of a rock-star painter to help draw immense crowds and compensate for budget shortfalls.

I’ve been a testing junkie all my life. Whether as the founder of the Single Grain digital marketing agency or as one of the co-founders of Content Marketer, I’ve always been obsessed with pitting web page variations...

Home services platform Porch.com has made its first-ever acquisition, snatching up the on-demand answers app Fountain for an undisclosed price. As a consequence of the deal, Fountain’s service will replace Porch’s Ho...