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Denmark's winning business culture can be incorporated into any startup.

Economic growth and environmental sustainability have often be seen as mutually exclusive. It seemed like countries could not really boost their GDP without sacrificing a bit of sustainability.

Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing (李嘉誠）might be the first Hong Kong tycoon to be accused of abandoning the motherland at a time of sharp economic downturn. He is not the last. This month, the Cheng family of New...

Browsers are complicated pieces of software designed to open websites. But sometimes those websites are designed to cause problems for browsers. That’s exactly what crashsafari.com was created for. A simple script keep...

The Supreme Court upholds the federal government's power to regulate programs that encourage energy conservation.

Six months ago, Wall Street was gloom and doomy about McDonald’s, sending its stocks below $100, towards the $90 mark. There was a good reason for that: the company was in the midst of a prolonged same store sales decl...

Considering how vital a company’s Internet connection is, finding out that your network is down can be a crisis for engineers, who often are notified about outages from the end user. Not having access to servers and ap...

Design-minded website builder Squarespace has a new competitor. Adobe, the $44 billion company with a monopolistic hold on design software, launched its own site-building tool today, Adobe Portfolio. The service succeeds...

The Pokémon Company is celebrating the game’s 20th anniversary by spending a few million dollars on a commercial during the biggest sporting event in the United States. Next month, Pokémon turns 20 years old, and the...

A woman’s shopping cart carries more than goods; it carries stories about her and the many influencers in her life. If retailers better understood that journey, they could ensure the correct products are there for her ...

Payday 2 developer Starbreeze Studios said today that it will set up a virtual reality arcade in Los Angeles as part of a bid to expose more people to VR — and make it popular. The place will be called Project StarCade...

Airport car service Wingz announced today that it closed an $11 million series B round led by Expedia. The startup also announced that it appointed Chris Brandon as its new CEO. The investment, Wingz said, will be used t...

The 23andMe founder on why being naïve is key to entrepreneurship and how to lead through crisis.

The global esports market is expected to grow 43 percent from $325 million in 2015 to $463 million in 2016, according to a new report by market researcher Newzoo. By 2019, esports are expected to grow to $1.1 billion. Es...

It's not whether you build, buy, or collaborate to develop new products -- it's how intelligently you do all three. Here are 5 secrets to innovation success.

In 2012, Manchester, England-based software development entrepreneur Stephen Tucker, 32, discovered that he was a victim of an attack by a competitor who was repeatedly clicking on his Google ads and sending bogus notes ...

Today's news and insights for business owners, including two immigrant entrepreneurs who have built thriving businesses.

Ask any entrepreneur, successful or not, what it was like becoming an entrepreneur.

Microsoft’s smart digital assistant — Cortana — is getting a handful of new features from today, with those on the early-stage Windows Insider Program first to get a glimpse of the new tools. Cortana promises to ge...

Twitter’s stock opened today down by more than six percent following the departure of five key players at the company. The departures so far include engineering vice president Alex Roetter, product vice president Kevin...

Google has announced a new $5.3 million grant to help equip nonprofits working with refugees in Germany with Chromebooks. Chromebooks are generally low-cost laptops that use apps running in the cloud, meaning they requir...

Microsoft is announcing today that it’s moving the repository for its Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) open-source deep learning software from Microsoft’s CodePlex source code repository hosting site to GitHub, a...