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As the U.N. climate summit in Paris gets underway this week, a French startup has launched a live map of air pollution to show which cities are suffering the worst. (Hint: Check out China!) The World Air Map is produced ...

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Appodeal. Intro Stephan Schultz is an award-winning, 22-year-old app developer who lives and attends school in Potsdam, Germany. His productivity apps for iO...

Google today announced the launch of the Cloud Vision application programming interface, a tool developers can use to add image recognition to their own applications. The API is available now in limited preview through t...

No. Kylie Jenner is not a client of my firm's. In fact, I find her latest PR stunt offensive on so many levels. Yet, here I am writing about it, as an unwitting marketing pawn in a carefully choreographed chess game desi...

The reputational impact that Wikipedia, the seventh most visited website globally and free-content Internet encyclopedia co-founded by Jimmy Wales, has on companies is explored in a new study by the digital media organiz...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority has a preliminary plan of what Dorchester Avenue may look like in the future.

Atlassian, an Australian software company preparing to go public on the NASDAQ, is announcing today that developers can now deploy code from Atlassian’s Bitbucket source code repository software onto public clouds from...

The festive period is one of the best times for gamers, as developers and console makers rush to have the latest games and accessories available in time for the holiday season. From a leather gaming chair with a subwoof...

Buyers in the UK have collectively saved £1.9 billion since stamp duty was reformed in December last year, according to new research. An analysis of the figures by conveyancing services firm My Home Move says that buyer...

PRESS RELEASE: Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. ("Newron"), a research and development company focused on novel CNS and pain therapies, announced today the initiation of a U.S. Phase II study with its novel sodium channel b...

Reviewing the gadget trade-in and recycling programs offered by Amazon, Gazelle and Best Buy.

VB INSIGHT: Sales tech is so, so hot right now. In a new analysis by Spoke Intelligence, 317 inside sales startups over the past couple of decades have taken $9.7 billion in funding and turned it into $77 billion in exit...

Plans have been announced for the UK’s first affordable rent to buy homes to be built on a development in the south west of England. Plymouth based housing companies Persimmon Homes and Rentplus have signed an agreemen...

Three rulings by Spain's Supreme Court have left the owners of more than 16,500 homes built in Marbella since 1986 in legal limbo by declaring planning regulations void. In a series of decisions, the country's highest co...

The plan, involving a new organization to manage the money, was made in an open letter to his newborn daughter, Max.

A waterpark was sold at auction Wednesday over the objections of its owner, who had chained himself to a slide tower to try to save the business. …

A German-operated cargo ship and crew have been stuck at anchor outside the Lake Superior port of Duluth for close to a month for unspecified environmental violations and there's no resolution in sight despite the upcomi...

By refusing to use public office for private gain and pushing for cleaner, better government, Kenya's central bank head Patrick Njoroge has become a celebrity in the East African nation.

The board of Yahoo will consider major changes during meetings this week, people briefed on the plans said, as well as review plans for the sale of its valuable stake in Alibaba.

PRESS RELEASE: Contessa Health, Inc., today announced it has secured $3.5 Million in Series A Financing from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Sandbox Advantage Fund and Martin Ventures. Contessa Health creates and ...

Investment banks surveyed by The Wall Street Journal don't see the price of Brent crude going above $60 for most of next year, which will leave some oil producers' budgets in tatters.

U.S. government bond yields rose, with the yield on the two-year note nearing a five-year high, as fresh signs of strength in the U.S. labor market bolstered the Federal Reserve's case to raise interest rates this month.