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What costs $500 million USD and can churn out up to 1 million cattle embryos a year? A new livestock cloning facility in north China...

Bill Gates and a group of elite private investors — including Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg, Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Salesforce founder Marc Benio...

Half of all adult shoppers conduct product research on mobile devices while shopping in physical stores, according to the results of a new study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). The practice is called “show...

By Bill Udell

Swiss watchmaker Swatch, Visa Inc, and Visa Europe have launched a project that lets Visa cardholders in the United States, Switzerland and Brazil make payments with Swatch's new "pay-by-the-wrist" Swatch Bellamy watch.

The case below demonstrates the scope of “property” for federal estate tax purposes. The issue was whether a pending income tax refund was includable in the decedent’s federal gross estate. Interestingly, the case ...

Oranges may be Florida's best known agricultural product, but if Chris Cogan, the CEO of a startup called Healthy Earth has its way, the state could soon be known for its high-quality caviar, produced under the label Bla...

Skip the Champagne this New Year. Celebrate with bolder spirits, such as these whiskey picks from the experts.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just published an application from Samsung (via 9to5Mac) that attempts to patent a foldable electronic device. It’s likely that one of the examples depicted in the application r...

Through Etsy's new nonprofit, the company wants to create place-based business education for entrepreneurs seeking social change.

We may learn a little bit more about the Oculus Rift later this week. Oculus VR is going to make a “special announcement” this Thursday during The Game Awards, which is an annual livestreaming show that attempts to r...

It has been said that, "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry." The reasons may vary, but the result is always the same: an unmet goal! In this article we will discuss the "five major risks" most people face ...

Today?s news and insights for business owners, including the war over "dirty soda."

Israel is creating a new generation of game startups. One of the promising new companies is Jelly Button Games, whose Pirate Kings mobile game has generated more than 50 million downloads since 2012, even though it hasn�...

To maximize your reach, you need to harness the full power of a social media and other syndication channels. There are a ton of options for this, but this article will focus on Twitter.

This weekend's Small Business Saturday attracted its biggest crowds and sales, nearly $2 billion more than last year.

Meteor Development Group, the startup behind the popular Meteor JavaScript framework, announced today that it will be rolling out a new Developer Edition of its Galaxy service for building and hosting apps that use Meteo...

CNBC's Kate Rogers details the success of smaller retailers over the start of this holiday shopping season.

Microsoft today announced the release of Dynamics CRM 2016, the latest version of its customer relationship management software. Available both as a cloud service and on-premises software, Dynamics CRM 2016 comes with fe...

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by Stubhub. Anyone who manages at a startup or tech company knows how difficult it is to hire the right talent. From Silicon Valley to Austin, Boston to New York, competition ha...

Microsoft has partnered with Autodesk to make its HoloLens device more useful in the way that we design products. The Redmond, Washington-based company has built support for Autodesk’s Fusion 360 into its augmented rea...

This summer, Bill Gates announced that he is committing $2 billion of his personal wealth to energy innovations. Gates’ reported worth is $79 billion.  Not a small chunk of change.