The S&P 500 is failing to beat a big technical barrier these days. There’s only one company that may be able to kick things into gear.

Working in a focused way can greatly boost our productivity. It also helps us stay calm, as we tackle tasks with our full attention rather than flitting from thing to thing. Here are some ways to regain your focus and combat distractions.

But that’s only the beginning of the story of outrageously high stock awards, says Phil van Doorn.

Google is set to unveil its new U.S. wireless service, a move that will inject uncertainty into a wireless industry already locked in a price war.

A $15.8 billion dollar bidding war for Salix Pharmaceuticals just came to a dramatic end as Valeant Pharmaceuticals beat Endo International with an all-cash offer for the company. While some sectors would view this as game changing, the pharmaceutical industry is beginning to see this as status quo.…

Indie Lee's brain tumor taught her what she was passionate about and changed her life for the better.

A high-stakes clash between search engine Baidu and an association representing about 8,600 hospitals is rocking a relationship at the heart of China’s online advertising sector, reports Caixin Online.

There are more than 360 million people worldwide with a disabling hearing loss, including 32 million children and one-third of people over the age of 65. Recent advances in technology have the potential to improve the quality of life for those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is under pressure after another lackluster quarter, and her comments about studying how to best spin out Yahoo Japan assets are meant to pacify investors for now.

Gurbaksh Chahal, the 32-year-old embattled and often self-aggrandizing CEO who was convicted of domestic violence last year and fired from his ad-tech company RadiumOne, hoped that his new startup, Gravity4, would give him a clean, more woman-friendly slate. He was wrong.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. shares fell in the extended session Tuesday on slowing sales growth at the burrito chain.

Last December, I wrote about Poshmark adding luxury authentication to their already-addictive mobile fashion marketplace. Investors must have liked that effort—plus the fact that the company is set to double its revenue in just six months this quarter with a $200 million run rate in annual sales.…

Facebook is expected to report solid earnings with growth in mobile and video advertising.

These three strategies can help you stick to a productive routine without getting stuck in a rut.

Google launched a new mobile-friendly algorithm today that has some small businesses on edge.

Verizon insists it will move ahead with plan to unbundle in face of protest from some customers.

Most of the articles you’ll read about Facebook marketing discuss how to increase engagement, traffic and sales via a business Page. While we don’t have current data on the number of businesses that have a Facebook Page, we do know that around 80% of marketers are active on the platform.

Amazon is scheduled to report first-quarter earnings after market close on Thursday.

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A big contrarian investor has more than one reason for sending U.S. investors to look elsewhere for those gains.

Microsoft and Yahoo amend the terms of their partnership to let either party terminate the deal at any point in time after Oct. 1, The Wall Street Journal reports.

The Australian operation of Intuit, a leading U.S. software company and the maker of cloud based accounting product QuickBooks has revealed the results of its first national small business survey.

Anthony Noto, the former banker who left his lucrative career at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to become financial chief at Twitter Inc., was the top earner at the social media company last year.

Google is changing its search algorithm to favor sites that look good on smartphones, a move some are calling “mobilegeddon” because of its impact on website operators.

Yahoo is expected to report lower profit and sales when it reports after the bell on Tuesday.

Analysts on Wall Street expect Google to report revenue growth of 15% for the first quarter.

Enterprise level software application development is becoming software application composition. Or at least there is a strong 'whiff and scent' of this being so. The justification for this statement rests upon the suggestion that these days, apps are more composed than built.

In recent weeks, at least eight states have proposed new bills to regulate the fantasy sports marketplace: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Texas and Washington. The recent rush to regulate "fantasy sports" is triggered by new investments in the industry by entities such as…