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NEW YORK (By Jonathan Stempel for Reuters) — A federal judge has certified two shareholder class actions accusing Facebook Inc of hiding concerns about its growth forecasts prior to the social media company’s May 201...

If you're an entrepreneur, a marketer, or even just a social media junkie, get ready for these seven changes Facebook is bringing to the world.

2015 was a sluggish year for the global economy. Economic growth came in below targets set by major international institutions. Easy money failed to boost consumer and investment demand around the globe.

When Marc Wileman started his children’s birthday-party business, Sublime Science, he was a broke 22-year-old, crashing at his parents’ suburban house. Often, he got around by walking because he couldn’t afford gas...

Lithuania can become a big player in finance sector with a help of cryptocurrency.

Tis the season: a list of five notable occurrences in the world of social enterprise and impact investing in 2015.

Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup’s technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42. A cause of d...

In another end-of-year list, Facebook has compiled its team’s favorite in-house hacks of 2015. It's well-known that the social networking company has a healthy hacking culture, one which has produced ideas such as the ...

Niambi Cacchioli's Bloomsbury Sq., a fledgling maker and seller of plant-based skincare, is one social enterprise in Etsy.org's new business education program.

Touting himself as the “most connected man on Periscope,” Ryan A. Bell has quickly created a place for himself inside the fastest growing social media app in history. With a team of Periscope heavy-hitters, Bell has...

EXCLUSIVE: LG’s next flagship smartphone, the 2016 LG G5, will be its most premium handset to date, according to a person briefed on the company’s plans. The all-metal handset will borrow elements from past G-series ...

Uber is in the market of helping you get from point A to point B, regardless of whether you're using its app. That's the main benefit of its rides-based API that was released in March, and so far, it seems to be meeting ...

How do you really know that the food or medicine you’re about to ingest is what the package label says it is? With the LinkSquare from Stratio, you can actually run a test to get confirmation. Stratio is unveiling its ...

There are only two ways to improve your business's success--and no, they're not "the easy way or the hard way." Customer experience consultant Micah Solomon explains, with examples from Amazon.com

The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their expectations for virtual reality gaming. They showed me some demos of the Ocul...

Apple, Google, and Microsoft have very different app development strategies, in alignment with their respective business models. Last year, we took a look at the trio’s app stores to see how the three develop for each ...

A CEO once told me that he does the job HR used to do.  He said he spends most of his time with his employees building relationships with them, finding out how they are, asking what they think of the competition, what i...

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Cellar Angels CEO Martin Cody says that "there's really nothing sexy about what we do." Unless, that is, you consider giving back to be sexy. Here's my Q&A with Cody on motivations, trends, and examples of philanthropy i...

When it comes to owning a business in a scientific, or high-tech field, one of the biggest challenges you will likely face involve communicating with the public. While some of your target market of consumers may understa...

It's important to pause at the end of the year and evaluate what isn't working -- and look to your customers for what is.

A new report suggests that Iran might be an unheralded hotbed of entrepreneurial activity.