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Ikea's new German ad puts a twist on the traditional family tree.  The campaign shows Ikea furniture between generations with the tagline "where family starts," according to AdWeek.  The series of advertisements are ba...

In technology, it's not unusual for young, ambitious tech entrepreneurs, like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, to make their mark before their 30th birthday.

Shares in ChinaVision Media, a media and program content production company that Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group tentatively agreed to buy 60% of in March for HK$6.2 billion, or $800 million, fell by 6.5% in Hong ...

With the housing market showing signs of slowing, the nation's regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said he doesn't want the giant mortgage financing firms to start reducing the federal government's outsized role in h...

This chart of Snapchat's download ranking over time (below) gives you an indicator of just how massive the user base is becoming inside the disappearing photo messages app. Snapchat may have seen its share of troubles re...

Some entrepreneurs think they need to spend, borrow or raise a lot of money to start their own company. This is an urban legend since according to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, most companies can start for about ...

YouTube can be a big moneymaker for anyone with a big idea, a camera, and some basic video editing skills.  You may have heard of some of YouTube's biggest stars, like Bethany Mota, who's best known for her charming sho...

U.S. student debt rose to an unprecedented $1.1 trillion for the first quarter of 2014, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York reported Tuesday, according to the Washington Examiner. The record-breaking number came after t...

A new restaurant is taking over Hooters' niche. While sales at Hooters were flat last year, Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery's business soared 18%, according to estimates by Technomic, a food industry research firm. Both compan...

The heated takeover fight over Allergan Inc., the maker of Botox, continued Tuesday with the Canadian pharmaceutical company Valeant vowing to increase its $46-billion offer this month. Meanwhile, the Canadian firm's par...

It is virtually impossible to find one person who can display all the requisite skills for effective leadership as a single founder. Co-founders can often split the workload in different ways—startups often have techni...

As your business develops you quickly realize that your skill set is not enough. You need experts. Where is the natural place to turn for help? Your best friends.

Facing pressure from content owners and competing browsers, Mozilla today detailed plans to support digital-rights management (DRM) technology natively in Firefox. Five years ago, this wouldn’t have happened. We’ll g...

The pound is at a significant level against the US dollar. Dominic Frisby looks at where it's likely to go next. The post The pound is at a crossroads - which way will it turn? was first published on MoneyWeek.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the rights to the new book by journalist Glenn Greenwald about fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, the studio said Wednesday. James Bond franchise producers Michael Wi...

Events engine SpinGo acts as a database for local events, connecting people with more than 100,000 monthly events. Think of the calendar section on a newspaper’s website, but with a more visually-appealing design and m...

Ellen Ochoa is a former astronaut and the first Hispanic women to go into space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1993. She is now the director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, which wa...

    Cubic Zirconia, better known as "CZ," are lab grown diamond simulates cut to mimic the color and brilliance of diamonds. Brian Driscoll from the Gemological Institute of America explains how they are made and how t...

The Kalisman Kid has beaten billionaire Ron Burkle for a third time. Jason Taubman Kalisman's Morgans Hotel Group said shareholders voted to elect seven of the nine board members proposed...

Used cars that get recalled by manufacturers need to be fixed before they're sold. That's what a bill pending in the California Legislature would require of all new and used car dealers in the state. And with 2014 on pac...

It's only fitting that an app that delivers mobile messages would disappear when a big tech company buys it.

Several news reports over the weekend noted that Tesla’s contract to supply Toyota with electric powertrains for its RAV4 EV crossover would end next year. In the words of Tesla’s latest quarterly report, cited by Bl...