Facebook adds PGP feature that allows the user to receive mail from the social network in encrypted fashion. Given the content of messages is delivered to users in plain text via email, it should prove a useful addition from any user concerned about being spied on by governments or crooks.

Share price of Hong Kong brokerage more than doubles as it resumes trading following Alibaba’s founder’s investment.

Section 215 and a number of other controversial provisions in the Patriot Act expire partly thanks to a stand by Senator Rand Paul, though this week will likely see them reinstated in watered-down form.

I was in Los Angeles this weekend for my birthday. Chatting over sushi with my father-in-law, he mentioned he was listening to Rush Limbaugh on the radio. Limbaugh was talking about how millennials value experience over ownership of goods. I thought it was compelling to hear that these new…

Nissan is disrupting motor sports in a big way this summer with its new GT-LM Nismo race car, set to compete in the infamously challenging 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race. Here is an edited interview with Ben Bowlby, Nissan LMP1 technical director, discussing the reasons why Nissan chose the…

529 college savings plans are a great way for grandparents to save for a grandchild's college education costs. Grandparent-owned 529 plans don't get counted as an asset on the grandchild's college aid form, but distributions do get counted as income to the child. This post explores the real impact…

Student loan rates have dropped for the 2015-2016 academic year, making borrowing for college less expensive, but students and parents should still try to avoid college debt if possible.

Humanitarian aid is criticized for being disorganized, late, and inefficient. A new UN project, in partnership with San Francisco-based Frog, the global design firm, is changing that perception. The recent Nepal earthquakes on April 25th and May 12th are benefitting from this new technology --…

Early one Monday morning years ago I rolled into work. I dropped my bag on the floor and slumped into my office chair. It spun around slowly to the window and I clutched my coffee feeling that without it I would be completely lost. After a moments reflection I spun back around and stabbed at my…

Many people react to a layoff with anger. They trash their employer to anyone who will listen. Restrict your ranting to your nearest and dearest. Do ask your boss to portray your exit publicly as a voluntary resignation. Ask for services beyond severance pay, like outplacement help. Be pleasantly…

Looking to start a million-dollar, one-person internet business? Then Lewis Howes has a lot to teach you.

Anyone’s who’s ever stared into the eyes of a snake can attest to their cold-blooded instinctual ire. But the gray matter needed to create thinkers like Einstein and Edison requires more than steely instinct. That’s one reason most researchers scoff at the notion that dinosaurs --- whether…

I have been conducting some research lately by interviewing a group of 25 CEOs. One of the questions I asked them is, how do they want their customers and clients to feel about their company? They thought the question strange at first, so I gave them a comprehensive list of emotional responses to…

South Indian Sujit Nair is the Director and Chief Co-ordinator of the British South India Council of Commerce (BSICC). The group is an independent, nonpartisan, volunteer-run organization that promotes trade and investment between the U.K. and India, specifically South India. Over the last three…

M&A has exploded in the tech sector this year. In fact, the dealmaking – which is already at over $110 billion – is on pace to hit levels not seen since the late 1990s.

How to seal the deal and build long term relationships

Professional video gaming, known as eSports, is taking over. It is now a multi-billion-dollar industry and gaining steam.

For all the advances marketing has made in targeting consumers with campaigns, and even predicting their behavior, they still don’t have the full picture of consumers and how they make decisions about what to buy.

Application development (34%), managed services (27%), ERP implementations (22%) and cloud (20%) are the highest spending priorities for enterprises in 2015 according to the latest Cowen & Company IT spending survey.

As OPEC prepares to meet, with little expectation of any movement on the cartel’s customarily flouted oil production quota level of 30 million barrels per day (bpd), Iraq has provided the biggest pre-summit kerfuffle.

The indictment of former House Speaker Dennis Hastert has brought new attention to the crime of structuring. The attention is energizing the supporters of Kent Hovind, who is nearing the end of a long sentence, primarily, when considering the number of counts in the indictment, for structuring.

The Impact Angel Network focuses on small to medium-sized companies in Ethopia and just made its latest investment.

The word markdown is one of the most dreaded words in a small business owner's language. After all, if you're marking down something it means it has not sold as you expected and even worse, at the original value in which you intended it to. As a result? Markdowns are a must, and while they may seem…

Google announces plans to get deeper into virtual reality, and a new Android operating system at its developer conference.

If Google is any indication, most Americans wouldn’t even make it through the first round of the National Scripps Spelling Bee. And depending on where they live, their spelling problems may be particularly troublesome.

It’s known as eSports, and it’s grown significantly in recent years — even filling entire arenas.

Federal contractors should now have more clarity about the types of violations that may jeopardize their winning new contracts or maintaining current ones—if they can digest the mammoth proposed guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and proposed rule issued by the Federal Acquisition…

Ninety-one percent of health organizations have had a data breach in the last two years, and for the first time, cyber attacks was the top cause, according to a recent report.