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Crowdoptic, a two-year-old Silicon Valley startup, says it can now determine the most popular objects of photos taken during mass-interest events, such as Hurricane Sandy and the London Olympics. We’ve written twi...

Google Now, the search engine giant’s handy Android smartphone feature that helps automate your life by giving you an easy peek at things like traffic conditions, weather reports, trip departure reminders, and res...

Apple and Google have joined forces to offer more than $500 million for some of the 1,100 digital imaging patents from Eastman Kodak, according to Bloomberg, citing “two people with knowledge of the situation.â€...

Series A crunch? There ain't no Series A crunch, just too many inexperienced angels throwing dumb money after bad.

Bizarrely, a tracking company Dataium still argues that a shoppers' Web browsing is anonymous, even though it can be tied to their names. Dataium apparently adheres to the strict definition of anonymous: It does not give...

Onity, which makes hotel key card readers, may be recalling its locks. The locks, which can be hacked and unlocked, recently lead to a hotel room robbery in Texas.

Seven startups will come together with expert "growth hackers" to address challenges in distribution and acquisition.

My nephew Daniel, a buddhist and meditation teacher, sent me a wonderful message the other day.  On a recent meditation retreat, he realized that "many of the qualities that the Buddha describes as being properties of...

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg sold 946,588 Facebook shares across two separate transactions on Wednesday, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Groupon’s shares soared about 23 percent today on a sketchy rumor that Google was interested in buying it, according to a report.

By Natalie Burg