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Valeant's 10-K filing may usher in a process of recovery after months of turmoil, but it also gives new insight into extent of the drugmaker's woes stemming from operational weaknesses, poor disclosure, and regulatory in...

Alanna York shows how success in business can be as much about luck -- on the level of winning the $1 billion Powerball -- as it is skill. She and her partner Erica Gray had invested more than $400,000 in their curly hai...

Life is 5 % what happens to you and 95% what you do with that. Although life doesn?t come with a re-set button, you can give your personal life a fresh start anytime you choose. Why not declare that ?This year is going t...

Mozilla today announced it will end Firefox support for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, OS X 10.7 Lion, and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion in August 2016. Unlike Google, which also dropped Windows XP and Vista support, Mozilla seems to...

Hackers Don't Just Want Your Credit Cards, Now They Want the Pattern of Your Life

This week, the Tax Court reminded us that even though your boss may have an expectation that you dress a certain way while at the office or while working the assembly line at the cracker factory, that doesn't necessarily...

The founder of Chobani, the upstart Greek yogurt maker recently valued at as much as $5 billion, just committed one of the most selfless corporate acts of the year: he’s giving 10% of the company to its 2,000 or so emp...

Microsoft today announced the availability of the beta version of the Azure IoT Gateway software development kit (SDK) to make it easier to connect devices to the Internet. The SDK was previously in a private preview aft...

Virtual reality is something that looks like a novelty to a lot of people, but the first wave of games rolling out now are already showing us how powerful the technology really is. Chunks is a new game on Steam for the H...

This entrepreneur is going to do the unthinkable: Unplug from his business for a full week. Can he do it?

Twitter’s Magic Recs is no more, at least in its current form. The company’s experiment to provide personalized recommendations on what you should follow is on indefinite hiatus, meaning that you will no longer recei...

Kirk-Anthony Hamilton envisions Jamaica as the next great business hub, like London or New York, and he's off to a great start making it happen. President Obama recently named him one of the top 75 emerging global entrep...

Activision Blizzard has started teasing Call of Duty 2016. In the Nuk3town 24/7 bonus playlist and in the map, Activision has updated it with teasers for Infinity Ward's new Call of Duty video game coming this fall. The ...

I surveyed 357 online marketers about what's working in online marketing. Here are the results of that survey!

If you're a smooth talker but bad at closing, this may be the missing link.

Social enterprise Affinis Labs runs an incubator for startups selling products and services with a positive social impact on Muslims globally, plus hackathons aimed at finding solutions to social problems

Small business capital comes from three primary sources: Profits left in the business; Debt, like a bank loan; Equity investment.

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) research group today announced that for all future research it will use TensorFlow, a machine learning library that Google open-sourced last year, instead of Torch, an old...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! We had a lot of news out of Nintendo, but we were also busy playing Hearthstone’s new expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods. We also looked at a virtual reality roller coaster...

A common occurrence in the agency world is to have a client call you up and request to cancel their services.

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

News and insights for business owners from around the Web, including why social media is too important to be left to the marketing department.