Overstock.com is building software, based on the bitcoin digital currency, that could allow the big-name etailer to issue corporate stock over the internet, sidestepping traditional stock exchanges such as the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange.

Entrepreneurs who tell stories well can explain complex ideas, attract amazing talent, close customers, create partners, and raise financing with relative ease.

?First of all, don?t do it alone. When you?re alone, you have no one to bounce ideas off of; you don?t have someone to tell you you?re wrong.

Early-stage investment firm Y Combinator, probably the most famous and most successful seed-stage startup accelerator on the planet, currently doesn?t have any partners on the ground in Europe (or anywhere outside the United States for that matter).

With the relaunch of Bloomberg Politics this week, Bloomberg is extending Businessweek?s polarizing design aesthetic further into the Web.

?We have a chance to rebuild the system. Financial transactions are just numbers; it?s just information.

AT&T is warning consumers about a data breach involving an insider who illegally accessed the personal information of an unspecified number of users. The compromised data includes Social Security numbers and driver?s license numbers.

The lifespan of the tracking cookie is about to expire. With the rapid emergence of mobile devices, the big three ? Facebook, Google, and Apple ? have turned to new and more potent methods for advertisers to keep track of you across multiple devices.

Your smart phone would be simpler if it didn?t have a camera. But it would also be a lot less useful. A paint can is a sublimely simple way to store paint. But it?s a dreadful way to interact with paint: It?s hard to open, hard to close, and guaranteed to make a mess every time you pour it.

During the H-bomb testing frenzy of the 1950s, a RAND Corporation researcher named Paul Baran became concerned about the fragility of America?s communications networks.