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The family-friendly online game Wizard101 is bigger than World of Warcraft and poised to grow even quicker as it spreads to China. But creators KingsIsle are making quite a few changes and installing esoteric systems so the Chinese government will let them play there

As iPads are being seized by authorities in China, you may be wondering how to protect your brand globally. Here's what you need to know. I was recently reading an article concerning Apple’s ongoing battle over the sale of its iPad tablet computers in China.

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Greg Brooks, founder of Sub Sea Research, a small business in Maine, is setting off on a journey to salvage a $3 billion underwater wreck. One Maine entrepreneur is hoping to turn a $5 million investment into a $3 billion payday. Greg Brooks, founder and owner of Sub Sea Research, a Portland, Maine-based business that hunts for treasure, recently came across the biggest find of his career: 1.7 million ounces—62,500 pounds—of platinum aboard a scuttled cargo ship that sank in 1942

When a marketing initiative fell through, my husband and I were left holding hundreds of thousands of dollars in inventory. Here's how we turned things around.

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'wichcraft co-founders Sisha Ortuzar and Jeffrey Zurofsky talk about how they source artisanal ingredients and replicate a high-quality meal experience across 14 locations in New York, Las Vegas, and San Francisco.

Bessemer Venture Partners picked up a piece of everyone's favorite pinboard site back when it was barely making a blip on the Silicon Valley radar. Jeremy Levine tells us why he decided it was a good bet

Picture the scene: It's 2004, and Brian Chesky , the future cofounder and CEO of Airbnb , runs up on stage in full cap and gown to the pulsating bass line of Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean." Chesky's set to give the student commencement address at Rhode Island School of Design--but before reaching the mic, Chesky rips off his black robes, revealing a white tuxedo underneath, and starts dancing to the beat: moonwalking, crotch-grabbing, robotting.... Fast-forward a mere eight years, and rhythmically dubious Chesky's the chief executive of a company now valued at $1.3 billion . (His comical graduation speech is pretty much the opposite of Steve Jobs's Stanford address .) On second thought, don't imagine that dance number from yesteryear

Welcome to the "Silicon Roundabout," which is luring young companies with government funding, Google-sponsored office space, and a new start-up competition. The start-up scene in London may not be as well known as the hotbeds of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley or New York City, but it is striving to offer entrepreneurs looking to launch companies a buzzing business environment.

I would have written this article sooner, but I was busy on Pinterest .

Fear is the main obstacle to success in business--in business as well as elsewhere. Don't let it rule your life. Most people aren't as successful as they might be, simply because their fear is keeping them from taking action.

Travel lighter! Get more work done! Never run out of power! Don't leave home without these tech essentials. I travel frequently in my job as a reporter—in fact, I’m typing this on a plane right now. After each trip, I start to evaluate which gadgets I used the most, which apps I found most useful, and—most importantly—which gadget mistakes I made.

Barclays bank, which already intertwines NFC chips and antennas into its banking cards in the U.K., has just taken a page out of Apple's book and released a new mobile app that should shake up the U.K. financial game.

If you're not devoting a small percentage of your time to working for free, you're making a big mistake.