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The iconic brand returns--with a 21st-century upgrade for iPads. LeVar Burton, a children's literacy advocate and the former star of Star Trek: The Next Generation, plans to make an ambitious comeback, giving the once-loved Reading Rainbow brand a 21st-century upgrade.

A presentation about the connection between climate and weather in 24 locations around the world, every hour for 24 hours, culminating tomorrow with a presentation by Al Gore himself. Watch and learn. It's been five years since former vice president Al Gore managed to delight the world with what was essentially a feature-length slideshow

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A mother's attempt to save her son spotlights holes in the Family and Medical Leave Act: It doesn't apply to businesses with fewer than 50 employees. Claudia Rendon , a 41-year-old Philadelphia mother, says she was fired from her job in a school admissions office after she took time off to donate a kidney to her son. Rendon's employer, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, put her back on salary Tuesday after a media firestorm .

AT&T is making it drop-dead easy for developers to use the company's internal infrastructure to build mobile apps--including some that could be used by customers of other carriers or networks. Here's why. Amazon Web Services was a game-changer for application developers.

The LPGA has canceled a tournament in China that was supposed to be held in two weeks.

Tekscape founder and owner David Smith uses his experience as an engineer and his belief in his business to manage pressure and his employees.

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Geneva-based wine purveyor, Wine & Trust SA and legendary Italian motorcycle brand MV Agusta recently released a limited-edition wine case, and its purchase grants the buyer a chance to win a 2012 MV Agusta motorcycle.

After four years and about $10 million of renovations, the Ecuadoran mansion Casa Gangotena reopened on September 1. Located in the UNESCO World Heritage city of Quito, whose history dates to the Incas, the boutique hotel has 33 rooms and suites ranging from $425 to $550 per night.

It’s no surprise that, on the heels of its sold-out R8 GT supercar, Audi would reveal an open-top version based on the R8 Spyder—but that doesn’t diminish the thrill of its arrival. As they did with the R8 GT coupe, Audi’s engineers examined every aspect of the R8 Spyder for possible ...

David Toms has been around long enough to realize that good play takes care of everything. That's especially true at the BMW Championship, where a strong week could pay big dividends.

We can debate all day if the chicken came before the egg. We can also debate whether it is smarter or not to have the carriage in front of the horse. But what is not debatable is the need for you to have sales, any sales, in order to get investors excited

Imagine that you are an employee at a hot Silicon Valley startup. Your salary is solid, but you know that your real payoff will come one day--in a year, or four years, or some undetermined day down the road--when your company has an IPO and its much-lusted-after shares get bid up by eager investors. But, for whatever reason--you want to buy a house, you want to diversify your personal assets, you want to leave the company before it goes public--you don't want to wait that long

Just a couple of apps dominate the mobile photo-sharing landscape. That's because they either have massive reach (à la Facebook and Flickr), or offer unique, proprietary tools to attract users (à la Instagram, which boasts a dozen or so one-click filters that have helped rocket the startup to 10 million-plus users). But today, Aviary is evening the playing field