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An app that helps cannabis users find new friends to smoke won the top prize of $10,000 at Boston University's seventh annual Cannabis Start-Up Competition last week. The stoner-friendly app called JoinME enables consumers to find and meet up with other like-minded people...

For many investors, the most coveted super power – assuming super powers were possible -- would likely be the ability to foretell the future accurately. Personal finance social network, WalletHub, with help from a panel of experts, offered the next best thing with 11 economic predictions...

As with any controversial topic, the question of corporate incomes taxes – whether to impose them or not - has two sides. In a January 5 OpEd in The New York Times, Boston University economics professor, Laurence Kotlikoff took the “dump them” side. According to Kotlikoff, eliminating or...

A recent report titled, Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud, by assistant Harvard Business School professor Michael Luca and Georgios Zervas, assistant professor of marketing at Boston University, determined that 20 percent of reviews submitted on Yelp (NYSE:...

A number of major U.S. corporations have had it with patent trolls. On Tuesday, the companies added their names to those urging Congress to do something about entities that buy up patents and then sue other companies for infringement, according to Reuters. Among the companies asking lawmakers...