Crowdfunding meets equity. For years now, there’s been chatter about crowdfunding taking a leap further, offering not just donations, but investments. Like a design on Kickstarter? You can invest in the company -- not just offer a one-time contribution for a freebie. That’s yet to happen,…

Known for his uncanny court vision, the 38-year-old NBA point guard is one of just 12 players to win the MVP award multiple times. His eye off the court is just as daring, through nine investments that are mostly sports-centric, including Liquid Nutrition (juice retailer), OneBode (supplements), the…

GoPro’s stronger-than-expected quarter and expansion into virtual reality video get applauds on Wall Street.

For many of us, building with and taking apart to build again with Legos was a formative part of our childhood – there was a lot of creativity and flexibility built into the box of bricks and pieces. Now, when my son and I work with Legos, more often than not, there’s a specific end result. It’s a…

Twitter’s first-quarter earnings left a lot to be desired, but analysts see positives in company’s acquisitions and Google partnership.

New York State begins accepting medical marijuana applications and expects to announce the approved applicants in July.

I expect you’ve heard the line that ‘a camel is a horse made by a committee’? Well, it’s no truer than in the case of web builds. But there is a better way than tooing and froing with an increasingly angry dev team until you break the project, and I think I know how it's done.

Before you sign up for one more intensive, introspective “know yourself” leadership training course, take a look at the new trend in leadership development.

Twitter blew everyone away, in a bad way. But what’s it gonna take to move the needle on this market? What if that black swan just doesn’t exist?

At their core, Boards of Directors make strategic decisions and provide oversight, while Management makes recommendations and manages implementation

Information technology is the only sector trading for a lot less than its 15-year average, writes Phil van Doorn.

Wal-Mart is increasing its investments and opening new stores in China as the fight for Chinese consumers intensifies in the country’s tough retail environment.

Stock-based compensation at the unprofitable social-media platform rose in the first quarter, even as sales fell, says Phil van Doorn.

Details of NFL dropping exempt status missing in other coverage.

You may have heard them on iTunes: a group of food reporters, commentators, constantly talking about all things food.

Twitter Inc. shares add to losses in the extended session Tuesday after a steep selloff as earnings for the microblogging platform were disclosed early and shares dropped as much as 20%.

Real-life stories of entrepreneurs who built businesses with other people’s money and those who failed. The language of investors, how to pick the right ones for your company, and what second-time entrepreneurs know about money and investors that first-time entrepreneurs don’t.

Selerity Corp. does it again, by finding and tweeting about Twitter Inc.’s earnings report at least an hour before it was scheduled to be released

At the Defcon conference in August this year, Tesla is set to open up one of its cars for hacker attendees. It's likely the luxury electric car manufacturer will find some bugs and some future employees along the way. The news comes at a time when hackers are increasingly trying to expose security…

An ongoing theme in my research about retirement income planning is just how big of an effect that sequence of returns risk has for both pre-retirees and post retirees. We are really vulnerable to the sequence of market returns experienced in the years in which we are saving for retirement, as well…

Social media companies used to focus on connecting people to people. Now they also want to connect to our things.

Apple’s total cash hoard comes to about $194 billion. That sounds like a huge number on its own, but it’s even more stunning when put in relative terms. Bespoke did just that with this chart.

"We’re using women in lingerie as tools for seduction. But what if we use the power of lingerie and fashion to empower women?" Renata Black, the founder of Empowered By You, shows women how their panties can help other women build and grow businesses.

The greatest inventions are smart and timely ideas that fill a detected void, while making people's personal, and or professional lives easier.

Discriminating private equity (PE) investors have a long list of attributes they look for when deciding where they will put money to work. At a time when political, economic and social uncertainties are running high—as they are in most markets around the world today—PE investors are reflexively…

The U.S. markets’ worst six months — May through October — are approaching against a relatively bullish technical backdrop. Still, the late-month market skittishness keeps several well-defined technical tests in play.

Fidelity Investments and Charles Schwab (SCHW), have rolled out their own apps for the Apple (AAPL) Watch, offering investors real-time stock market updates, stock quotes and trading alerts. But so far the reactions from financial services pros shows the products are zeros more so than heroes.

A $58,000 speeding ticket would be annoying no matter what, but if you can claim it on your taxes, it would be at least somewhat less annoying.

Venezuela's already struggling economy has been devastated by declining oil prices. In a recent article Jason Mitchell explained, "Venezuela has one of the worst managed economies on the planet and its bonds are trading at levels that suggest a default is priced in." The country depends on oil…

Apple may not be able to do the heavy lifting, and perhaps a correction should be welcomed. That’s in our Call of the Day.

Search giant to offer grants for digital journalism experimentation.