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A government analysis of the economic and safety impact of small commercial drones appears to clear the way for proposed federal rules that would favor companies wanting to use the unmanned aircraft.

The executive chairman at Google is urging Congress to increase the number of high-skilled work visas made available to foreigners and to deal with other immigration issues later on.

The competition between lending startups is heating up with both Lending Club and OnDeck completing IPOs last December. Peer-to-peer lender SoFi is also in the pipeline, with CEO Mike Cagney confirming to FOXBusiness.com that the company looks to IPO in the near future.

In an interview with FOXBusiness.com, Uber investor and Eniac Ventures partner Nihal Mehta chatted about the changing landscape of mobile technology and explained how he plans to identify the next Uber.

Sofinnova Ventures, a firm that specializes in biotech and software investing, has closed a $500 million fund. This is the ninth fund for the firm, since it was founded in 1974.

Internships should be designed to promote a mutual exchange of information and ideas. The insight gained into a company by a twenty-something (or younger) is invaluable for improving not only how work gets done but also how your company can attract—and be attractive to—tomorrow’s future leaders.

Amazon is hiring 80,000 seasonal workers for its distribution centers as it looks to improve its shipping efficiency during the crucial holiday season.

AppDynamics, the mobile application intelligence company, has raised $120 million in equity  and debt financing at greater than a billion-dollar valuation, it was announced Tuesday.

Satoru Iwata, who led Japanese video game company Nintendo Co. through years of growth with its Pokemon and Super Mario franchises, died July 11 of a bile duct tumor, the company said Monday.

Toshiba's chief executive is stepping down to take responsibility for doctored books that inflated profits at the Japanese technology manufacturer by 151.8 billion yen ($1.2 billion).

SurveyMonkey has named a Hewlett-Packard Co. executive to take over for CEO David Goldberg, who died in May while vacationing in Mexico.

Tech giant Apple says it will invest billions of dollars to open a data center in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa that will be the company's fifth in the U.S. and serve as a control facility for the other four.

The uber-trendy Seoul neighborhood made famous by the "Gangnam Style" K-pop hit is known for status-conscious people, plastic surgery clinics and Ivy League prep schools.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson spent most of this year pressuring the technology industry into facing up to the glaring scarcity of women, blacks and Latinos at companies renowned as great places to work.

Cisco says it will lay off up to 6,000 workers, or 8 percent of its workforce, as part of a restructuring.

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A woman alleging gender bias at a prestigious Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified that she couldn't turn back the advances of a male co-worker with whom she'd later have an affair because of her injuries from an accident on a trip to Germany.

Jurors in a sex discrimination trial against one of Silicon Valley's most prestigious venture capital firms will hear a second day of testimony from the woman behind the high-profile gender bias lawsuit.