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Google is brining voice recognition to Chrome with the latest beta version of the browser.

Conway urges the tech community to support a nonprofit founded by the community of Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Guest Post As cloud service matures, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are re-segmenting the market. Get ready for some silly sounding -- but very lucrative -- new acronyms, like BaaS (backend as a service).

Judge Gary Chang ruled on Friday that online booking sites owe the state of Hawaii for over a decade of unpaid taxes.

Can Big Data play a role in alleviating poverty? Here's what the experts had to say.

No. 3 PC maker Dell's stock has skyrocketed 13 percent on a report that the company is "in talks" to go private.

In the nation's capital, smartphones users can hail a DC cab, as well as one of Uber's sedans or SUVs.

Arctic Sand raises $9.6 to commercialize power-saving technology for computer chips.

When the word "inflatable" comes to mind, I don't I'm alone in immediately thinking about toys and devices that allow you to float while in water. NASA's latest contract with Bigelow Aerospace has me rethinking that asse...

Our best pattern recognition reveals the tech trends that will be copied over and over again until someone gets it right.

Netflix has reached yet another big programing deal with Warner Bros. today, which should improve the number of children's programming options as well as options for late night hooligans, who enjoy adult cartoons.

PayPal surpassed its goal of adding 20 national retailers onto its in-store payment platform.

News aggregation service Pulse is turning its attention to the mess of news that's shared by friends across multiple social networks.

To fill out its BlackBerry 10 ecosystem, RIM is turning to the most effective bargaining chip of them all -- cash.

VentureBeat is looking for a full-time, paid editorial intern to work in our downtown SF office.

As leaders, why do we spend so much time trying to fix our employees' circumstances? If we're listening to conventional management wisdom, we probably believe (or hope) that a stress-free, obstacle-free working environme...

It's hard to image the public library without any books at all, but if San Antonio's Bexar County has its way, the first completely bookless library in the U.S. will open in fall 2013.

Marie Moody, Founder and President of Stella & Chewy?s, a multi-million dollar pet food company, reflected on her company?s history as we were sitting in a café in New York City. In 2002, she had just been given the boo...

"I am succeeding because people are talking about how they would do it better."

The latest shipment numbers show why Samsung Galaxy S line continues to rule the smartphone universe.

Social TV service Viggle will no longer be purchasing one of its big competitors GetGlue, according to a blog post written by GetGlue founder Alex Iskold yesterday.

Apple may have overestimated just how many display panels (and other components) it needed to meet the iPhone 5's demand.