MIT professor Lee Gehrke wants detecting the Ebola virus to be fast and easy. His lab is creating a $3 device that screens for the condition by sopping up a drop of blood from a finger prick and analyzing it in under 20 minutes.

London-based private equity firm BC Partners has won the auction for retailer PetSmart Inc. PETM -0.02% in an $8.7 billion deal. This would suggest that BC Partners made a last-minute move to best Apollo Global Management AGM 3.72% , which yesterday was reported to be the front-runner.

Even as the for-profit education sector has been swooning for years under the weight of heightened government regulation, highly focused task-oriented ?nanodegree programs? are attracting attention from investors.

An Uber IPO might not happen for quite some time but Wall Street firms already are positioning themselves for a piece of the action.

When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested that a computer program?s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by making it answer a series of questions written by an interrogator in another room.

When the email arrived, Jordan Walker wasn’t ready for it. The message was from Ryan Hoover, founder and CEO of Product Hunt, a site that surfaces cool new projects.

Sometimes, you have to agree to disagree. But what do you do with clients who just fundamentally have terrible taste in design? They’re paying the bills, creating a problem that almost every designer has to face in his or her career at least once: How do you tell your clients that their taste sucks?

Companies like Apple are making design impossible for startups to ignore. Startups like GitHub, Airbnb, Square, and Fitbit have design at the core of their business, and they’re doing phenomenal work. But what is ?design? actually? Is it a logo? A WordPress theme? An innovative UI?

When Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and TNR?s newly installed CEO, former Yahoo News executive Guy Vidra, visited the storied magazine?s Washington headquarters on Friday morning to meet with the staff, they were greeted by a skeleton crew of a few editorial interns and junior employees.

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