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Remember when eBay was cool? You'll have to think hard, because those days are long gone. The online auction site used to carry cool, quirky merchandise, as well as serving as a source of last resort for otherwise impossible-to-find items. Nowadays, it's basically being held up by PayPal, which will soon face challenges of its own.

Wilson is known as the dean of New York City venture capitalists, an emerging community that has tracked nicely with the rapid uptick in startups in the Big Apple. Now, the word is out that he's raising a new $200 million seed-stage venture fund. Here's why.

They may not make headlines, but the folks on this list of key corporate execs will likely have an outsize impact across all sectors of American business in 2011 -- from TV and household products to fast food and social networking.

Procrastinators take heart, it may not be too late to find something for the remaining names on your gift list. Nor are you limited to whatever's left on the shelves of a big box store. Unique finds can still be had. Customization as a trend in retail isn't new, but the Internet has blown the...

This week, Greg Doyle and his cohorts at InLab Ventures dropped a bomb on the struggling venture capital sector with the public launch of a radical new model for VC. Dubbed VC 3.0, it could revolutionize the game -- but it gores a host of Sand Hill's sacred cows in the process.

Here's news from the business world and other money matters to watch out for Friday (last updated at 7:09 a.m. Eastern time): New 'Tech Titans' Emerge: Economic downturns typically breed innovation in the business world. Given the depth of the Great Recession, it's no surprise then that a whole...

As the U.S economy emerges from recession, a new crop of start-ups is blooming. From microblogging to social gaming and genetic testing, DailyFinance takes a look at 10 companies that stand a chance of becoming the tech leaders of the next decade.

For the anti-corporation art school student, technology is a tricky thing. With every major piece of tech comes a major corporation -- Apple, Microsoft, Google, Sony, etc. But in today's world, it's near impossible to live without technology. It's how we communicate, hear music, watch movies and...

Signing the dotted line on the first apartment is only the beginning of independent living. Gone are the luxuries of furnished dorms, but then again, so are those hefty on-campus housing rates. You might be glad to leave behind that standardized wooden dorm furniture and express your inner...

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