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Microsoft's new Office 365 is cloud-integrated, saving documents up to SkyDrive right as you save them on your PC. Now, with five new Bing-powered apps, Microsoft is bringing the power of the cloud back down into your lo...

Christie Street, the product-focused funding platform, has just funded its first project. Kickstarter should pay attention.

Sponsored Post If you've been hunting for a bundle of PC software that will allow you to code in seconds, easily publish intuitive elements to your website, and edit your images in a snap, then this VentureBeat Store dea...

Starting today, Verizon Wireless retail stores will start selling Square hardware -- the nifty credit card-reading dongle for smartphones and tablets. The craziest part: The iOS and Android dongles are selling for $9.97,...

Will.I.Am wants the youth of America not to look up to rapper and musicians, but instead start becoming inspired by tech entrepreneurs and disruption.

Amazon's homepage went down for 51 minutes this afternoon in a highly unusual outage.

Andresseen Horowitz leads the first round of venture funding for PagerDuty, which provides IT alerting and incident tracking software.

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42floors raises new funds to better connect companies without office space and office space without companies.

Guest Post Developers, listen up: Everything you're doing now is about to become irrelevant. Especially when it comes to clients, servers, and end-user input.

The newest firm on Sand Hill Road is Amplify Partners, which will invest solely in IT infrastructure startups.

Last week, I published what I believed to be a story of one woman's triumph against incredible odds. Ping Fu, founder of tech company Geomagic, which is in the process of being acquired by publicly traded 3D Systems, pen...

That fancy new app the marketing department wants so you can sell more paperweights may not be your best investment. In fact, unless you're lucky or really, really good, the app might just end up being the digital equiva...

Samsung, Amazon, and Asus continue to snatch some of the tablet market away from Apple and the iPad.

This morning, Facebook is rolling out Cards, a new kind of Gift product. Cards are like regular, plastic gift cards, except that they work at a large range of retailers. (For the initial rollout, the partners Facebook is...

For the first time since launching its incubator program, 500 Startups is requiring companies in its 2013 spring batch to submit an application through AngelList, which goes live today.

You may think Samsung is crazy for bringing back the stylus in the touchscreen smartphone age, but surprisingly strong sales of its Galaxy Note smartphone line don't lie.

As much as we try to control our circumstances, there simply is no stopping change - in the workplace, in our personal lives and in the world at large. Good, bad or indifferent, change is a-comin'!

The New York Times reports that Chinese hackers secretly attacked its networks for four months.

History came to life as PBS hosted a screening of Silicon Valley, the latest film in the American Experience documentary series.

Amazon Studios, the arm of online retail giant Amazon responsible for creating original programming, has approved production on five new children's shows. The move is part of Amazon's effort to make its Prime Instant Vid...

Employees fired by the British entertainment retailer HMV decided to get even today by broadcasting their "mass execution" on the company's official Twitter account, which has almost 64,000 followers.