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"People really underestimate how important hiring decisions are at startups," says Elli Sharef, co-founder of HireArt, a recruiting firm serving San Francisco's rising tech community. "If you're a team of two founders an...

Guest Post You know that you want to quit your job and that you want to start a startup. You've had this desire for quite sometime now and you really must begin. But you don't.

The University of Melbourne launches a startup accelerator program for students, modeled after Stanford's StartX.

A portion of former vice president Al Gore's cut of the sale from Al Jazeera's acquisition of cable channel Current.tv is going into Apple shares, according to an SEC filing released today.

Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system is about to become a lot more expensive.

Public companies are safer, more boring, less innovative, and take fewer risks than startups, right? Stanford professor Shai Bernstein tracked almost 2000 technology companies to find out.

Today marks a calendar year since passionate Internet activist and major tech companies helped defeat bad tech legislation SOPA and its Senate cousin PIPA. It's also the day set aside by activist as national Internet Fre...

The two companies complement each other in speeding data center performance.

The TSA will soon remove all body scanners that show nearly nude images of people trying to board flights.

Using 3D printers, Nokia wants to give Lumia 820 the greatest gift of all: Unhampered customization.

In what is being billed as a first, a new nonprofit association of angel investors just held a pitch evening for B Corporations.

If Google has its way, you could soon use an electronic ring rather than a password to login to websites.

The co-founder of Playdom is funding game companies; he thinks Zynga's chief executive ought to give up his supervoting rights.

With entrepreneur-friendly government regulation and high-quality late stage companies on the cusp of going public, VC's expect to see solid returns in the coming year.

10 jobs for enterprising personalities, by average salary and required skills

Barack Obama's second inauguration isn't till Monday, but his post-Presidency years began to take shape today.

The winner of these battle will carve out a transmedia empire.

Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Consumer demand for the iPad mini is spelling bad news for the iPad -- at least at Sharp.

While plenty has been said about Apple's often sassy voice assistant feature Siri, the technology giant thinks it can do even better, according to a recent job posting.

LinkedIn will shutter its Answers Q&A service at the end of January, a sign that the service wasn't driving enough engagement on the site. Could Quora use this moment to take the spotlight?

Today I stumbled across one of the most interesting infographics I have seen in a long time. Not only is it chock full of interesting small business data (which we'll get to in a second) but it's the first "interactive" ...