The era of making big bucks from TV sets has gone. They are now so cheap that the profits have all but been eroded, partly due to oversupply caused by increased manufacturing.

For all that has been said in and about the Steve Jobs book, there's plenty yet to say, for instance on whether the Apple founder's accomplishments outshone his shortcomings.

Not only has Pinterest received $27 million in venture funds over the last few months, the site’s popularity has exploded from 1.2 million users in August to over 4 million today.

A $200 Google tablet, 1 billion Facebook users, Twitter a huge business, and mobile advertising booming. Next year should bring more than all this, says Business Insider Intelligence.

Augmented reality will be mainstream, digital assistants will guide our every move, everything will be translated on the fly, we'll use digital scrolls. What else will 2025 bring?

Kim Jong Un is likely to consolidate his political power by sticking to his father’s "diversionary tactic", namely using military force to divert public attention from domestic affairs.

Brazil's rapid economic development–it is now the 6th largest economy in the world–is likely to come at the expense of the Amazon and its indigenous people, fauna and forests.

The unprecedented protests in Moscow at the weekend were new proof that Russia's growing opposition movement won't stand by idly watching Putin march to power.

Pakistan is drawing up what Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani calls “red lines” for a new relationship with the U.S. that protects his country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Revolution in north Africa and famine in Somalia grabbed the headlines in 2011 but Africa's underlying mantra of the past decade has been growth, growth, growth.

It's not an uncommon problem - it happened to McDonald’s, it happened to IBM, and it even happened to Apple, says Nancy Koehn, professor of business administration at Harvard. 

PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot developed by Boston Dynamics for testing special clothing used by US military personnel. PETMAN balances itself as it walks, squats and does calisthenics. PETMAN simulates […]

In this excerpt from his lecture for The Floating University, Dr. Kaku explains that time machines do not violate Einstein's laws of physics, and that future humans would be wise to build one and slip through a wormhole before the cooling universe extinguishes all known life. 

Legal experts have joined the chorus of complaints about the proposed PROTECT IP and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation, saying they'll hinder bids for better online security.

As patient records have been digitized, an unintended consequence is that health data breaches have surged. The number of reported breaches is up 32 percent this year.

What would you do if Google, Facebook, Paypal or another site you and your business depend on suddenly decided, on the basis of a fraud detection algorithm, you were dodgy?