The widely anticipated Apple Watch is due to hit the Chinese market on April 24, but makers of imitation devices just couldn’t wait, and knock-offs are already available on Alibaba’s Taobao.com, including some features not even offered on the real Apple device.

Ride-hailing service Uber may operate in 55 countries across the world, but its smaller rival Lyft is hoping to nip at its heels in the U.S., and it has raised $530 million in new funding to do so, Lyft said Wednesday.

Alibaba Group invests $200 million in U.S.-based Snapchat in its latest venture into social media, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Changing marijuana laws are attracting entrepreneurs into the legal pot industry as shop owners, bakers, tour operators, inventors and much much more.

I spent the better part of last week at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), checking out a number of new gaming-related innovations poised to hit the market in the next few weeks, months, and (maybe) years. I’m particularly interested in PC hardware, which was good because a number of the major…

How do Wikimedia employees feel about the suit against the NSA? This question was originally answered on Quora by Amir E. Aharoni.

Owning an employee agency can be quite profitable these days. However, not so much when this is not your intent. Here are three signs that your business has turned into an employment agency and what you can do to change this.

“The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.” —William Hazlitt, Characteristics

By Carol Ko

As part of Google’s new, hands-on experience shop, customers can fly around the world, and the universe, with a giant version of Google Earth, featuring a console-like joystick, touchpad and an immersive screen.

Email marketing has undergone many shifts in the past two decades. It exploded onto the scene when email started becoming a more popular medium, and businesses everywhere scrambled to send, seemingly, as many emails as possible to their audience. Then, spam filters and legal email regulations…

Modern storage infrastructure is evolving and often includes in-house as well as on-line cloud storage. The introduction of Google Cloud Storage Nearline expands the capabilities of professionally managed pay as you go storage services, integrated into Google’s other storage offerings. At the same…

Equity crowdfunding comes in two forms: Investor-led or Company-led. The former creates investor-led syndicates and has important financial benefits for investors whereas the latter benefits companies by providing cheaper money with less stringent due diligence. Investor-led platforms such as…

That Apple top call doesn’t seem so far-fetched now that the blue chips just took their biggest beating in five months, does it? Or is Tuesday’s carnage just another opportunity for the dip buyers who have been getting fat on nearly every market pullback this past year?

Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams took a blow with a $7.4 million verdict for copying Marvin Gaye's song when they 'created' Blurred Lines. As the parties jockey post-verdict, taxes become increasingly important.

His goodbye post started off like so many other trite corporate farewells. Google CFO Patrick Pichette, after seven years deep in the Internet giants financials, announced he’ll be retiring from the job “to spend more time with my family.”

The government's coffers are now 50,000 Bitcoins lighter.

Uber has formed a partnership with the United Nations to employ 1 million female drivers on its platform.

The S&P 500 Index and the Dow industrials are retesting major technical support amid renewed investor concerns over rising interest rates.

The Apple Watch is a "nice-to-have" accessory.

After a month-long trial and less than four hours of deliberation, a jury found Ross Ulbricht guilty of running the Silk Road in early February. But this legal story is far from over. Ulbricht’s defense is not only calling for a retrial, but is also asking for another look into the question of…

Like many Indian IT consultancies in the early 2000’s, Icreon Tech relied heavily on selling highly skilled, English-speaking engineering talent to the West at a cheap rate. According to the Economist, in 2008, India claimed 65% of all offshored IT work.

Hug your children and call your mom because we’re about to move on to the cold reality of life after the Apple Watch anticipation. Let’s wait at least a day or two before counting down Apple’s move to the Dow, which takes place next week.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is shuffling the top ranks at its Chinese shopping platforms amid challenges the e-commerce giant’s marketplaces have faced with counterfeit goods and other problems.

Twitter Inc. has quietly purchased Periscope, which had been developing a live-video streaming app, according to people familiar with the matter.

Apple used its Apple Watch media event on Monday to unveil ResearchKit — its audacious new effort to transform how medical research gets done.

Investors need to focus on Amazon’s free cash flow, not just its sales growth, writes Phil van Doorn.

Square, the card reader for small businesses, on Monday announced a new program to protect merchants from charge backs.

As Twitter and Facebook continue their fight against Islamic State, the group's supporters have come up with a new tactic: to launch their own social network.

It may be the most exciting piece of arm candy since the digital calculator watch, but should you buy one?

Across the world it’s high-income consumers who already wear smartwatches and buy iPhones, which is good news for Apple.

Starboard Value is continuing to push for a “major overhaul” at Yahoo that it says could boost the stock price 27%.

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