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Twitter has filed to go public, though potential investors will have to wait a bit to get a sense of its financials.

Recent comments from Yahoo's CEO suggest U.S. technology companies can be charged with the high crime of treason if they meddle in the government's attempt to collect private data on citizens.

Apple says the fingerprint data stored by the new iPhone is encrypted and kept 'inside a secure enclave,' but there's still reason to pause.

While business owners reported a relatively low number of job openings and many cut jobs in August, they nonetheless said they planned to increase their hiring.

Jim Koch, who built the Sam Adams brand from a small microbrewery into the second-largest American brewery, has landed on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

In a troubling sign for the U.S. economy, fewer Americans are working and more are giving up even trying.

The private sector added 176,000 new jobs in August, down from 198,000 in July and marking the lowest level since May, according to the ADP Employment Report.

American small businesses increased their borrowing to their highest levels in six years in July, in a sign that many owners are anticipating an uptick in economic activity.

Perhaps there was a time when the Small Business Administration served a purpose for businesses, but that time has passed, writes Ray Hennessey.

Many entrepreneurs may not know Ronald Coase, but their work has benefited from his ideas.

No one wants families to suffer, or go hungry or not receive fair pay for the quality of their skill. But that's not what these protests are about, writes Ray Hennessey.

Despite his ouster from H-P, Mark Hurd is the one man with all the skills needed to help Microsoft complete its transformation.

Yahoo beat archrival Google in traffic in July even without having Tumblr traffic added to its tally, according to comScore.

Conventional wisdom suggests that companies have been able to maintain output with fewer employees because bosses took care to fire the worst workers and keep their stars. A new study is turning that logic on its head.

Groklaw, generally considered the go-to web community for legal issues related to technology, has abruptly shut down, citing the U.S. government's surveillance of emails.

A hacker who found a flaw in Facebook reported it to the company but was ignored. When he finally got the company's attention by posting directly on Mark Zuckerberg's wall, he was punished for it.

A taxi company in Los Angeles has found a way to allow passengers to hail cabs through their smartphones, notching a victory in the city's regulatory civil war.

The mobile-payment processor has been fined by yet another state for operating without a money-transmission license though it doesn't actually transmit money.

Along with pushing the Hyperloop, Elon Musk ponders supersonic air travel. Trouble is, it is against the law.

Carl Icahn took to Twitter on Tuesday to tease his latest target, Apple, which he said was 'extremely undervalued.' He also said he had taken a 'large position' in the company.

Small-business owners are marginally more confident than they have been, but their optimism remains below historic norms, a new report finds.

Forget Los Angeles to San Francisco. Given California's brutal regulatory climate, Elon Musk has a much better chance linking Austin to Dallas, writes Ray Hennessey.

New York state financial regulators have issued subpoenas asking Bitcoin-related companies for information into whether safeguards are in place to prevent the virtual currency from being used in illegal activities such as money laundering.

The IRS is sending letters to tens of thousands of small businesses asking if they are underreporting revenue, according to new reports.

Apple got a boost late Friday when the International Trade Commission ruled that rival Samsung infringed on some of its iPhone-related patents for older Galaxy phones and tablets.

Netscape's memory has left a complicated free-market legacy, with some good and bad effects felt nearly two decades down the line.

Two prominent secure email services have shut down, apparently under pressure from the federal government.

According to a new report, the number of transactions made in online auctions is shrinking even as e-commerce grows.

Despite other economic data to the contrary, U.S. consumer spending may not be as healthy as some believe.

There has been much angst over the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement, but the argument that freer trade is bad for workers doesn't hold water, writes Ray Hennessey.