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France will "go all the way" to ensure that multinationals operating on its soil pay their taxes and more cases could follow after Google and McDonald's were targeted by tax raids, Finance Minister Michel Sapin said.

In a report issued last week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) discussed the aging legacy IT systems used by many governmental agencies.

There's a lot of buzz lately that bots are the new apps, and that they represent the next paradigm shift in marketing technology. While it’s too early to tell signal from noise, it’s clear that the early developments...

The new GeForce GTX 1080 cards start reaching customers this weekend, but this powerful new video card is only a piece of Nvidia’s strategy to dominate gaming. Nvidia sees itself as a platform company, according to GeF...

Semiconductors have been the foundation of Silicon Valley for decades. The industry has grown to more than $335 billion in revenue, but growth has slowed. And in the past year, we’ve seen a tremendous amount of consoli...

GUEST: In the digital world, the three startup growth mantras we hear are, "move fast and break things," "release products early and often," and "sales overcome all problems." They’ve become accepted truths. They’ve ...

Nancy Friedman achieved what few entrepreneurs have in getting herself booked on an assortment of the nation's top broadcast shows. Business traction varied widely, however, for the visibility results she received.

While Twitter’s shareholders approved CEO Jack Dorsey’s plan to give his stock to employees last week, an unusually large number of investors voted against the plan, hinting at continued divisions over the company’...

The actress Eva Longoria will be a judge in a global startup pitch competition.

What we actually need is free markets, a strong dollar and less regulation, according to a new book by Reason Foundation scholar John Tamny.

GUEST: The self-driving car is on a roll. Some estimate that in just four years, there will be 10 million self-driving cars on the road, and at Ford, word is self-driving cars are just five years away from changing the w...

Antonio Lucio, the CMO for HP, provides insight on why he believes it's critical, as the head of marketing, to demonstrate expertise in social media.

Tesla’s “Autopilot” system can do some impressive things. It can steer a car through traffic, and execute passing maneuvers with no involvement from the driver other than a flick of a turn-signal stalk. But while i...

With the release of Oculus Rift came a whole new genre of gaming. Joining in the ranks of gaming technology that preceded Virtual and Augmented Reality, the technology powering VR and AR is truly helping define the futur...

One of Snapchat’s many quirks is the list of emojis it seems to randomly place next to your friends’ names. You know, these:   It turns out that these emojis, which range from baby face to grimace, aren’t random a...

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station on Saturday inflated an experimental fabric module that may provide a less expensive and safer option for housing crews during long stays in space, a NASA TV broadcast s...

First a response to Kirsty Russell, of Fawkham in the United Kingdom. I’m not surprised you’ve heard nothing from officials with Breitling, after you complained about the inappropriate sex-toy-like display at a Brei...

But the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Friday avoided the question of whether keeping the records that long violated Stavros Ganias' constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment.

It's close to midnight on a Thursday in San Juan Puerto Rico, and my friend and and I (let's call him Virgil) have finally found a restaurant that will serve us at this hour.  I am happy we are there, but confused by t...