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Law & Order: Intellectual Property Unit. We're gonna spider, parse, and scan like it's 1998, when Lycos acquired patents that could cost Google hundreds of millions of dollars in royalties. To understand the patent mess that is gripping Silicon Valley right now, you need to travel across the country to a dark-paneled federal courtroom in Norfolk, Virginia, just down the block from Bob's Gun Shop.

Even a 20-something billionaire could use a little help. He just got it from Microsoft--via a huge heap of AOL patents.

Facebook and Microsoft are partnering up for $550 million patent deal. Earlier this month, Microsoft picked up almost 1,000 patents from AOL, worth a shade over $1 billion, a deal that Facebook was also vying for .

Tech entrepreneurs flock to pricey events for the networking and the potential prize money. But there are cheaper ways to launch to the masses

A hot mobile app that gets attention does not a company make.

It's not too late to fill in your brackets Round 1 Winners: You Can Never Be Too Rich or Too Famous. In Inc.'s tournament of entrepreneurial titans, money wasn’t everything, but it sure helped, especially when combined with name recognition and staying power. Rich and famous though they are, Tony Hsieh, Jerry Yang and Arianna Huffington all lost to even more famous and wealthier entrepreneurs

The cost of starting a business today is lower than ever. If you have an idea, pursue it.

Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley both have incredible talent, but theyre two very different ponds for fishing.

In early 2010, Jane Byrant Quinn and Carll Tucker launched a community-based news website. Today they compete with AOL. Here's how they changed the game.

Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech .

Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech

Here's a list of the companies that may participate in an anti-SOPA blackout protest. The Stop Online Piracy Act is so polarizing in the tech world that huge web companies like Amazon , eBay , Facebook , and Google are considering going dark in order to spread awareness, reports ExtremeTech .

.bigbody a {color:#008CB3;} Arianna Huffington President, AOL Huffington Post Media Group The Acumen Fund : "I'm an admirer of this organization, which is headed by one of my favorite women, Jacqueline Novogratz. It invests in startups--from Kenya to Karachi to Dubai--that improve the lives of those powerless to do so on their own."

Mark Zuckerberg isnt the only entrepreneur good at making bank.

On the heels of social newsreader FlipBoard launching an iPhone app, personalized e-magazine Zite today expands from the iPad to the iPhone, too. The move by the nine-month-old startup, which CNN acquired in September for $20 million, demonstrates just how much competition and overlap there is in the highly competitive aggregation space