The online lending service is thriving by making loans to struggling small companies. Its founder wants to turn it into a matchmaking system for business borrowers and lenders

President Barack Obama is proposing to expand tax cuts for businesses and boost federal spending on the nation’s transportation system to help bolster an economy that’s losing jobs heading into the November congressional elections.

The mobile software company's 25-year-old co-founder and chief executive talks about Facebook Places, Apple's iPad, and the challenges of persuading small businesses to advertise

Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham, an 18-year-old from Las Vegas, recently pulled off the world's first wheelchair double backflip, after several failed (and painful-looking) attempts at Camp Woodward, just east of State College, Pennsylvania.

Steve Jobs wasn't kidding when he called the iPod Touch the "iPhone without a phone." We have been calling it that for years, of course, but with each iteration the two iOS devices get closer and closer in terms of features. Now a vibrating alert has been added to the Touch.

BERLIN - Google gave a live demonstration of Google TV at Berlin’s IFA Tuesday, and CEO Eric Schmidt promised it would be a couch potato’s dream come true. 'Once you have Google television, you’re going to be very busy, he said. 'It’s going to ruin your evening.'

"I totally freeze when I am in an interview," a job candidate recently told me. "I have no idea what happens to me when I am in an interview, my mind goes blank, and I can't think of a good way to describe my skills. I can't even remember my skills." While her comments may sound extreme, a...



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A new technique may one day lead to solar cells that bring themselves together like a molecular flash mob and repair damage they sustain during the rough business of turning light into electricity.

Some jerk has fired a heat-seeking missile at your Black Hawk. You've got a few options. You can try to dodge the thing, but good luck with that. You can fire off a flare in order to fool the missile into no longer following you as you maneuver. Or you can shoot off a laser from on board your bird to do the same thing. Not really a choice, is it?

Hewlett-Packard's recently departed CEO will serve alongside President Safra Catz and report to Larry Ellison as Oracle expands into server sales

An animation assembly line in Taiwan renders breaking stories the way they might have happened.

A mile-long stretch of Exchange Street in Akron, Ohio, is the first in the United States to be paved with a rubber-asphalt compound.

Peer sharing is an old idea, but connecting millions of renters to owners was always hard. The internet's eBaysian ability has solved that problem.

Okay hipsters, toss that Moleskine away. The Doane Daily Arsenal Kit is the smart choice to take notes the analog way.

A portable scanner? That uploads every document it sees to the cloud effortlessly and seamlessly? You're not dreaming, you’re using a Doxie.

Packed with beautiful images and behind-the-scenes details, this rich tribute to the classic '60s sci-fi show is a must-have for any Trekker. Get a first look at the book and enter to win a copy.

Emirates Telecom Corp., the United Arab Emirates’ biggest phone company, said it’s considering investing in Idea Cellular Ltd. to expand its business in the world’s second-largest wireless market.

Nike has quietly released a new Nike+ app that costs $2 and doesn't require the use of an external sensor. Instead, the app is GPS- and accelerometer-based, meaning anyone with two bucks and an iOS device can now enjoy full Nike+ functionality.