After a bruising six-session losing streak, it looks like the Dow might finally get back in the win column. Maybe that’s because Donald Trump gave us hope for a better tomorrow with his jab at Rosie O’Donnell or because Mike Huckabee’s “pimp tax” plan is the answer to a secure financial future. …

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A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for an #ILookLikeAnEngineer billboard in San Francisco raised $10,000 on its first day.

Some argue that ethics require self-driving cars to reduce fatal human error, but the ethical landscape where humans and cars share a world is more complicated than that.

What tools do associates at venture capital firms use for their daily activities? This question was originally answered on Quora by Crystal Huang.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with complimenting people at work as long as it doesn’t progress into creepy ...

Dozens of the nation’s largest retailers including Macy’s Inc., Amazon.com Inc., and Home Depot Inc. have quickly moved to disassociate themselves from new discount retail website Jet.com.

As the price of flash memory declines the number of applications and the amount of flash memory will increase, making it even more significant in enterprise and client applications.

Windows 10 has been available for over a week now and tens of millions of PCs around the world have already upgraded to the latest flagship operating system from Microsoft. Windows 10 represents an evolution of the concept of what a desktop OS should be or the role it plays in an increasingly mobile…

Brooklyn could soon get its first tower exceeding 1,000 feet, ushering in a new era of construction in the borough.

According to internal Uber documents Gawker says it has obtained, the ride-hailing company had a net loss of $56.5 million in 2013.

Facebook launches a live-broadcasting feature called Live for Facebook Mentions, but celebrities like Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson are the only ones with access.

It was announced earlier this week that the German trio of BMW, Daimler, and VW (Audi) will pay about 2.71 billion euros to acquire Nokia's mapping business, HERE. The consortium is planning to hire more software engineers to continue the path-breaking work done by HERE in the field of navigation…

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Etsy shares fell Wednesday after weak second-quarter earnings. Analysts say the company could lose out to bigger rivals such as Amazon.

As self-driving cars get closer to the point of being street-legal, the engineers designing them are recognizing that the decision-making they build in embodies something like ethics ? and are consulting with philosophers about how best to do that.

There is increasing concern these days about young people in North America who are being radicalized and then declaring allegiance to foreign extremists such as ISIL, Al Qaeda or Boko Haram. For example, according to an article in The Telegraph, American officials believe that about 150 of their…

Photography is one of my hobbies. And I’ve become a big fan of the camera inside my iPhone 6. It’s easy to use, yields astonishing photo quality and has a very fast lens. In fact, I use it as my go-to camera now -- it’s completely replaced my 35mm Canon digital SLR -- and tap it frequently for…

The Walt Disney Co. shares were down as much as 9% on Wednesday after a conference call that focused largely on issues facing ESPN.

Twitter needs to find a CEO fast to stop the recent pullback in shares, analyst says

Shocking ways parents use their children for Facebook ‘likes’.

Much has been made, especially by the Return on Investment crowd, of the value of undergraduate study in the so-called STEM fields: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Lost in the conversation is the way the true liberal arts underpin such study, often because the liberal arts are…

Inspirock is a startup that is predicting the future by changing the way that people plan their vacations. Learn more about the founder's vision for the future of trip planning in this Roadmap Video.

With 70% of employees disengaged, the opportunities for improvement are substantial. However, a pool table in the cafeteria or a pay raise to match an existing offer may no longer satisfy the needs of an increasingly younger and more diverse workforce. Fun workplaces do not call forth loyalty or…

Marketers are looking well beyond their traditional advertising agency base for expertise to drive marketing performance and handle exploding technology, data, digital migration, channel fragmentation, and a more diverse, multi-cultural consumer base.

Dress Circle Publishing is the only publisher that caters to the Broadway community, and has found massive success in its niche.

Facebook reversed a planned change to its advertising policy Tuesday, in the face of protests by game developers and other advertisers.

Apple and Google are preparing new smartphone apps that will monitor and predict users’ activity and supply information before it is requested.

To survive and thrive, businesses must create a culture of innovation, writes Brian Solis.

DNA sequencing has been an area of focus of many of the biggest brains in science for multiple decades. The National Institutes of Health, among others, invested billions of dollars in this area of scientific discovery. As a result, DNA, sometimes referred to as the first genome, has become less…

Technical cross currents remain in play across the major U.S. benchmarks. Broadly speaking, the market backdrop is bending, though the S&P 500’s sluggishly-bullish bias hasn’t cracked just yet.

As social media companies move toward native, local and video ads, Yelp and LinkedIn say goodbye to display ads.

When one crawls through Microsoft's latest 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, there is an unstated theme. The company is going to be very wary of big deals -- unless it's really good.

Yahoo is paying about $200 million to acquire social shopping site Polyvore, plus as much as $40 million in incentives to its employees, said two people familiar with the matter. Yahoo didn’t disclose the price in its announcement on Friday.

With these tools and know-how in the public domain, the number of people with the ability to conduct a sophisticated hacking operation has skyrocketed.

When you’re trying to build up a rich store of customer data, mobile is one of the most powerful resources you have at your disposal. Just ask Starbucks, which referred to mobile and digital as “the big prize” in the context of where to focus executive leadership. The company last year announced it…

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Citizens United won a game-changing case in the Supreme Cout in 2010 allowing corporations to make independent political expenditures. Now it is in court trying to make extra sure that nobody, other than the IRS, knows where the money is coming from. Both Citizens United and Citizens United…