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Shares of Exact Sciences Corp. plunged Tuesday morning after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Forceissued a preliminary recommendation, saying it considers the company's non-invasive colon cancer test as an "alternative test." The Madison company's stock dropped more than 40% in morning trading. The shares, which closed...

Jack Dorsey’s future as chief executive of Twitter will ride on the answer to a single question: Can he persuade the world’s Facebook-addled masses to take a fresh look at the bewildering 140-character messaging service that he co-founded in 2006, a service that millions have...

A new partnership between aviation giant Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University hints at the power of fields such as artificial intelligence and big data to transform huge, multi-billion-dollar industries. As part of a three-year, $7.5 million deal that will establish a new Aerospace Data Analytics...

'CMS has left physicians without any guidance or assurances that they will be capable of meeting program requirements' In the continued absence of a meaningul use final rule, physicians have been left hanging, according to the American Medical Association, which is calling for an "automatic hardship...

SAN FRANCISCO — Marco Zappacosta runs an Internet start-up called Thumbtack that matches plumbers, yoga instructors and other workers with jobs, putting him in the middle of what is called the “gig economy.” Now, that position has made him in demand with a group of...

Government workers see their own agencies as a bigger cybersecurity threat than hackers from China or Russia, according to a new survey. The Obama administration has worked to boost the networks of the federal government, which have endured a string of data breaches in recent years,...

All businesses must labor, to one degree or another, under a certain amount of mythology. Some are general myths, such as “We’re good friends and work well together, so let’s form a partnership!” Some are more specific, such as “I’m a great cook. I should start...

If you ever applied for device financing or service from T-Mobile anytime in the last two years, your personal information might have been stolen by hackers. T-Mobile says as many as 15 million people may have been affected by the data breach, an attack that didn't...