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Online commerce continues to gain share from physical store sales.

Zindigo collects $4 million for its social commerce platform that lets users open boutiques on Facebook and keep 40% of the profits.

NASA probes Ebb and Flow are set to smash into the moon's surface today. It will be livestreamed on NASA TV.

Some agreements require written contracts to protect the parties involved.  Other agreements are so basic to our nature that they are taken for granted, considered something that “everybody knows.”

A few months ago, Steve Denning published a post that included this graphic. It made me think of Warren Bennis and his classic, On Becoming a Leader.

Conventional wisdom says that viral videos are supposed to be fairly short. But Apple's most popular video of 2012 turns out be almost seven minutes long.

The Japanese martial art, aikido, keeps appearing in my life. First I read that Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist, studies aikido. Then I spoke to the director of Naropa's Authentic Leadership program, and she said t...

Daniel Burka, Kevin Rose’s longtime co-conspirator from Digg and ill-fated mobile shop Milk, has just joined the team at Google Ventures. “Very excited to announce our latest Design Partner @GoogleVentures, ...

Hulu's "evil" plot to destroy the world and turn your brain to mushy mush is working -- at least in part.

Just days after rolling out a new iOS upgrade, YouTube gives its content creators their very own camcorder app.

Facebook has updated the "Nearby" feature on its iOS and Android mobile apps, a move that could hurt Yelp and Foursquare in the location data wars.

Credit-card-sized computer Raspberry Pi now has an app store for games, programs, tools and tutorials.

I encountered this quote during my last visit to New York City's Museum of Modern Art, "Play will be to the 21st century what work was to the industrial age -- our dominant way of knowing, doing & creating value."

These screenshots are a hot mess, much like RIM's future if current trends continue.

Thanks to Facebook's new mobile ads, the entire mobile ad sector saw a huge boom in 2012.

Streaming music service Rhapsody has launched an attractive new iPad app that could steal a little attention from its biggest rivals, the company announced today.

In an event scheduled for January 30, RIM will showcase the operating system that will decide its fate.

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom played a dicey game of semantics in order to expedite the close of the deal between his company and Facebook.

It's one small step for Twitter, one giant leap for the legitimacy of second-screen data for marketing purposes.

A Swedish businessman is in jail today after aiding cyber criminals who used scareware to trick victims into paying $129 for fake antivirus software.

As we wind down a busy 2012 and take time around the holidays to reflect, it can quickly become overwhelming, with so many differing theories on ways to lose weight, increase productivity and improve family relationships...

After gathering and offering quotes from Shakespeare and the Buddha, I asked people for ideas - other well-known people whose quotes they'd like to see.  My daughter Rachel suggested Abraham Lincoln.