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Here's what you can learn by spending six months studying the profiles of 10,000 porn stars.

The average angel is 47 years old, makes $90,000 a year, invests in one out of every ten deals he sees, invests $37,000 in each deal, and lives in California. The halo and the wings? Those are just for show.

A copycat hack hoax in the wake of actual hacks to Burger King and Jeep? Super classy, guys. Keep up the hilarious work.

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All clues point to a PlayStation 4 announcement this week, but it's not clear how much Sony will reveal during its conference.

An enterprising pair of toy designers have managed to cram a 3D printer into a pen. And it's pretty amazing.

Guest Post Since I decided to go into web search, I immediately applied to Google. Along the way, the same question came up over and over "Who do you know at Google?"

Big data and analytics startup Sociocast has raised $1 million in new funding, which it will use hire new stuff and to beef up its flagship Prediction API product.

Prestigious venture capital firm Sequoia Capital confirms existence of its Scout Seed Fund, which provides entrepreneurs with liquidity to make angel investments in early-stage startups.

Jeep's Twitter account has been hijacked by the same jokers who hacked Burger King's Twitter account yesterday.

It's not just gadget geeks who are eager to see HTC back on top.

The Giving Pledge gained a new crop of signatories today. The growing group of wealthy philanthropists who commit to giving away at least half of their fortune away now extends to billionaires outside the U.S., notably t...

Apple has started pushing out its latest iOS update, version 6.1.2, to fix bugs for people hooked up to Microsoft Exchange, including serious battery drain.

Taboola's marketplace connects brands with publishers to put their video content in front relevant users.

Guest Post Vivek Wadhwa is vice president of innovation and research at Singularity University and Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. At the Women 2.0 "The Next Billion" conf...

TweetDeck, the official Twitter client for desktops, has just introduced a new set of search filters for columns. The new features, a Twitter rep said via email, "make it easier for you to find the exact content you're l...

NYU will create a Center for Data Science composed of faculty from across the university, and will offer a variety of graduate-degree programs to its students

Since December of last year, Google stock is up 20 percent. Since December of last year, Apple stock is down twenty percent.

Ohio has passed a new law that sets it apart from other states in how much power it gives franchisees to litigate against franchisors. The Ohio Business Opportunity Law was revised to ensure that franchisees could bring ...

Canonical is serious about its "one OS, all devices" strategy.

There's been quite a visceral reaction to Gearbox Software's latest release, Aliens: Colonial Marines.

Having a presence on the Internet is becoming more and more important for small businesses and those who are not up with the times are sure to fall behind, according to experts. One of the biggest upgrades small-business...