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Sony's Wake-up Club app helps you start your day by making getting out of bed fun and rewarding.

Employee feedback system 15five has raised $1M in seed money to improve communication flow between employees and managers.

Facebook finally announced search today, but investors weren't blown away.

Wikivoyage officially launched today, a global, community-generated, non-commercial travel guide.

Yelp's stock price has dropped an alarming 8 percent following the announcement of Facebook's "graph search."

What it's really going to do is open up the vast hoard of Facebook data and eat the lunch of a thousand large and small companies that make money by aggregating and rating what people do and where they go.

Facebook just announced its ambitious new Graph Search this morning, but even more intriguing to me was a slightly minor side-announcement: the company is also relying on Microsoft's Bing for web searches within Facebook...

Facebook's 1 billion users have uploaded 240 billion photos and created 1 trillion connections to date, an incredible amount of data hosted by the social network.

Samsung is benefitting from a massive surge in demand not just for its flagship Galaxy S III, but also for its "phablets," those unfortunate offspring of mixed marriages between tablets and smartphones with screens great...

Google wants to change the way you measure your energy consumption, but the aging energy grid is standing in its way.

China added more than 51 million new Internet users in 2012, largely due to the steady adoption of mobile devices that can connect to the web.

Pantheon now serves more than 1 billion pageviews a month, an impressive milestone for a service that launched fully nine months ago.

Sponsored Post Vator is now taking applications to be one of the top 10 promising startups to present onstage and compete for a chance to win prizes, such as one-hour sit-down meetings with Morgenthaler Ventures, Alsop L...

Editor's Pick Apple doesn't believe games are capable of social criticism. What do developers have to say about that?

"The question was: how do we become like your wristwatch ... so essential that even if you know the answer you still check it?"

Qui Audet Adipiscitur "Who dares, Wins!"

Silicon Valley's top "turnaround" guy has formed a new firm, which helps distressed tech companies turn their fortunes around.

This oddity from CES plays CDs and more.

The nation's largest cable service provider Comcast is investing $150 million into cable box manufacturer Arris, the companies announced today.

Fueled by concerns that iPhone 5 demand has weakened, investors are abandoning Apple, sending the company's stock under the $500-per-share mark.

Google Doodles are so simple that Google wants your kids to design them for it. (And win lots of prizes in the process.)

Guest Post Rovio's success with Angry Birds, the fastest growing game in history, is a great example of how app developers are applying some 'traditional' marketing lessons to drive more revenue.