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Etsy, an online craft marketplace based out of Brooklyn, N.Y., may not be familiar to the West Coast tech set, but for the last three years (in the last year especially) middle America’s been using the Flash-heavy site to buy and sell handmade wares. And now that it’s scored $27 million in a round led [...]

Harvard thinks so.

“Entrepreneurs are, on average, significantly wealthier than people who work in paid employment. Research shows that entrepreneurs comprise fewer than 9 percent of households in the United States but they hold 38 percent of household assets and 39 percent of the total net worth.”

So writes Ramana Nanda, an assistant professor at Harvard Business […]

Regardless of what you believe about the current state of IP networks’ ability to handle online video, delivering video and voice over IP networks is a far less forgiving experience than routing data packets for email or documents. Brief glitches and network congestion don’t result in garbled email, but with voice or video they can […]

Research shows that your brain function is both broadened and improved by “interdisciplinary exercise.” What does this mean? Be eccentric. Use your brain to think about lots of different things, even things that have nothing to do with one another. This builds new synapses, exercises existing ones, and simply makes you smarter.

OK, you’re thinking, but […]

With costs for the latest technology rising, smaller startups and their venture backers have decided that in some cases, old-school technology may be the best way to make a product — and a buck. Instead of following in the footsteps of the top chipmakers such as Intel, AMD and Samsung, which are packing more onto smaller chips, startups are turning to process technology from up to 10 years ago.

The world’s top social network has finally bought its ticket for the third-party developer party. In a switch from its early days as a Fox subsidiary, MySpace has fallen in line with its competitors — it plans to ask programmers to its San Francisco development office on Feb. 5, where executives will invite them to […]