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Many people today prefer texting to talking on the phone, which can present businesses with a serious challenge. How do you get in touch with customers who won't pick up the damn phone?

Who would have thought that a full-on debate would erupt with such a simple question, "What is open cloud?"

Apparently, Scribblenauts Unlimited now knows everything from urinal cakes to keyboard cat.

The deal isn't exactly a breakup, but it reflects changing conditions in the market.

More is better for cloud executives. The industry is feeling good about cloud investing in the next year, particularly because their technology helps entrepreneurs create many more companies, faster than ever before.

Don't call it a home run, but slumping deals company Groupon isn't striking out with Major League Baseball -- quite the opposite, actually. The organizations announced Thursday that Groupon is now official daily deals si...

Business software behemoth SAP is betting big on a next generation in-memory database known as "HANA."

While the hype for group messaging apps has died down considerably over the past few years, that hasn't stopped Kik Messenger from continuing to improve its app.

In today’s modern world we count on things like power, heat, the Internet and cell phone service. These make our lives comfortable and our businesses far-reaching and productive, but they also leave us more vulner...

The newly redesigned 2013 Toyota RAV4, unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto Show, looks more appealing than the model it replaces.

After a month of waiting, Apple has finally released iTunes 11, which includes a handful of new features and user interface enhancements.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose— a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelley Six years ago, a major biotech firm conducted a six-month double-blind ...

LivingSocial, once the promising number two deals company behind Groupon, confirmed today that it has laid off 400 workers, or around 10 percent of its global workforce.

Tickets are on sale now for the 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, which will be held January 31, 2013. It's not too late to nominate your startup for the awards!

Today, Scanadu unveiled three health products that help people get in touch with their physical health using mobile, sensor, and social technology.

Using Kickstarter, the VLC team aims to turn the open source video player from an ugly duckling into a Metro-fied swan.

In this post research analyst at CEB, Naomi Kaplan, describes 3 reasons why measuring the right metrics matters.

As I traveled around Europe, I was struck by the enduring history and the respect those countries have for remembering what came before them. This resonated because it wasn’t too long ago during the Internet bubbl...

Part of the benefit of being an entrepreneur, besides having complete control over your schedule (which, depending on whether or not you have 50 Shades of Grey on your iPad, could be a good or bad thing), is that y...

Welling up in the pit of your stomach. You know the feeling. It’s the ugly monster called fear.

Garrett Hartley knows a thing or two about big games. Just look back at his 40-yard field goal in overtime of the NFC Championship game against the Vikings to send the New Orleans Saints to Super Bowl XLIV. It was arguab...

A study detailed in the most recent New England Journal of Medicine confirms what opponents of tobacco litigation said all along -- the government makes money off of smokers, and could spend more if enough of them ...