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So you like your iPhone 5 or iPad 4, but want to live outside of the app store's "garden of pure ideology?" You're in luck: A group of hackers known as evad3rs has released the first jailbreak for iPhone 5, EvasiOn.

San Francisco-based Ajent is all about curation, and feeds its users just one "look" per day.

Samsung Electronics said today it is creating a $1 billion investment fund, dubbed the Samsung Ventures America Fund, and a separate $100 million Samsung Catalyst Fund to invest in global innovation. It is also setting u...

Tide's "Miracle Stain" ad took top honors in the Kellogg School of Management's ninth-annual Super Bowl Advertising Review. M&M's, Best Buy, Axe, Wonderful Pistachios and Jeep also ranked highly, while BlackBerry and Lin...

The positive identification of remains of King Richard III (1452-85) "beyond a reasonable doubt" should give pause to entrepreneurs, as well as historians and anglophiles.

The Department of Energy emailed its employees, announcing that it had been hacked, but no classified information was taken.

Today, Openstack private cloud player, Piston Cloud closed an $8 million funding round. Investors see potential in the space, despite that it has become increasingly flooded with competitors, such as Hewlett-Packard and ...

If Microsoft wants to win in 2013, it needs to win in the mobile realm. That much is clear. But how does it take the crown from the likes of Apple and Google?

Anonymous released information for 4,000 bank executives as part of OpLastResort, a campaign to bring about cyber crime prosecution reform after coder and activist Aaron Swartz committed suicide.

Kongregate is making the shift from web to mobile gaming.

Ann Bowers, the widow of Bob Noyce, put a human touch on memories of the father of Silicon Valley.

Industry fell just shy of $300 billion goal

Guest Post With Facebook's Graph Search, advertising is just beginning to get disrupted by social. Here's why.

Betable's deal with 3Oak is the first that will apply real-money gambling to non-casino games.

We tell all sorts of lies at work. We flatter, exaggerate, omit, and mislead -- primarily to avoid punishment, to make ourselves look better, to control information, or to protect others.

But in spite of its strong showing, it's all all sweetness and light for Cupertino. Apple's share is not growing -- anymore -- so much as Nokia's is falling.

Guest Post Watching the Super Bowl on the iPad was convenient, but laggy.

Enterprise software titan Oracle has agreed to acquire networking technology company Acme Packet for $2.1 billion, the company announced today. Oracle announced agreements to purchase 11 companies in 2012, including high...

IGN, which runs a network of video game and entertainment news websites, was sold by owners News Corp. to Ziff Davis, the companies announced today.

Today's economic uncertainties have fueled an unstable job market and created an unsettling environment in the workplace - where the lack of transparency, internal politics, the growing number of siloed departments and h...

20 years after its initial release, Wine is just as relevant as ever.

Twitter destroyed Facebook and Google+ during the Super Bowl in social media mentions.