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Groupon reported its fourth quarter 2012 earnings today almost exactly where analysts had expected: with $638 million in revenue, up 30 percent over last year The problem was that analysts wanted a profit. "Record billin...

Sergey Brin keeps trying to convince me that I need Google Glass -- but so far I'm not buying it.

Code.org has taken the web by storm with its message of computer science for all -- and according to its founder Hadi Partovi, racial and gender balance in the tech world is a major underlying principle of that message. ...

Larry Ellison buys Hawaiian inter-island airline Island Air.

Guest Post Sony may be grasping the importance of mobile and social integration with its upcoming console, but it's too little, too late for plastic living room boxes. Smartphones and tablets aren't just the future; they...

A pilot program in Washington DC teaches kids how to apply their creativity to the real world, take risks, and follow their passion.

Game of Thrones director David Petrarca says that piracy is actually a good thing for his show -- and you should agree with him.

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50 tech companies, including Microsoft, Apple, and Google, are avoiding paying $225 billion in taxes by sheltering their assets overseas, according to a new report in the Bay Citizen. Is this "capitalism" in the words of...

Mozilla is releasing Firefox OS based on idealistic web principals and is betting that will attract developers.

After a pair of Google Glass hit almost $16,000 on eBay, the listing was taken down for violating the company's pre-order policy.

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has made a small but smart acquisition in ObjectRocket, a version of the MongoDB database that makes it lightning fast.

A new study from the location analytics company Placed shows which retailers are most at risk for showrooming from Amazon customers -- and the results might surprise you.

On 2/28/13, Supremex Inc. (Toronto: SXP) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.03, payable on 3/15/13. As a percentage of SXP's recent stock price of $1.06, this dividend works out to approximately 2.8...

Pinterest just raised $200 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. But if the company seriously starts to monetize what marketers like Sephora are finding in the social shopping platform, two and a half billion dollars is f...

Exactly how big is the universe? You can't just take out a telescope and easily figure it out, but thankfully popular YouTube channel Minute Physics has given us a detailed explanation in a new video about the size of sp...

The last remaining co-founder of Playfish heads back to startups.

With $2 million in funding, Kickboard plans to revolutionize how teachers assess student needs in the classroom.

Amazon's assault on Apple's iTunes empire continues today as the Seattle company released its Cloud Player app for iPad and iPad mini.

Clearwire's fate is beginning to resemble a daytime soap opera.

Guest Post I find the recent changes to Yahoo's work-at-home policy bewildering. Yes, Yahoo has a lot of deadweight. Yes, it needs to jettison that deadweight. But there's more deadweight working in Yahoo's offices than ...