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What To Do If You’re In Love With Facebook Stock

In the finance industry, where the footnotes are almost always more important than the body of the text, the most under-footnoted sentence ever is this...

Defense Chief Restricts Flights Of Stealth Fighter That’s Been Choking Pilots

For five years, America’s most expensive fighter jets have been poisoning their pilots and crew. On Tuesday, the Defense Secretary finally stepped in — restricting...

Why The IPO Model Is Broken

When Facebook goes public this year, it will raise at least $5 billion, making it the biggest Internet IPO the world has ever seen. The...

Is Your Dishwasher Spying On You?

All those new online devices are a treasure trove of data if you're a "person of interest" to the spy community. Once upon a time...

Study Says Most IT Guys Are Ignorant

In a recent report of over 500 U.S. business and IT managers conducted by CompTIA -- a non-profit IT trade association -- 93 percent of...

Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim To Web Ownership

After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas Technologies -- named after the Irish word for knowledge...

Texas Jury Strikes Down Patent Troll’s Claim To Web Ownership

After threatening web companies for more than a decade, Michael Doyle and his patent-holding company Eolas Technologies -- named after the Irish word for knowledge...

New Facebook For The 99 Percent

"I don't want to say we're making our own Facebook. But, we're making our own Facebook," said Ed Knutson, a web and mobile app developer...

New Stock Market Signal Identifies Bubbles

Complexity researchers who study the behavior of stock markets may have identified a signal that precedes crashes. They say the telltale sign is a measure...

State Department Readies Billions For Mercenaries, Despite Hillary Clinton’s Pledge: Wired

Get ready to meet America's new mercenaries. They could be the same as the old ones. Two State Department sources who requested anonymity say a...