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Twitter is discontinuing versions of its TweetDeck client for Android, iPhone/iPad, and Adobe Air.

FindTheBest is the first and only site that I've seen that lets you compare both STD clinics and dog breeds -- so it probably deserves the $11 million its getting.

Verizon no longer wants its wireless destiny tied to the European carrier Vodafone.

Every year, we toss out 152 million mobile phones, 52 million computers, and 36 million monitors. That's a massive ecological problem -- but it's also a massive revenue opportunity.

That’s the feeling I had recently as my school, The George Washington University School of Business (GWSB), launched the groundbreaking On the Board program, the elite fellowship program designed to prepare and pl...

Guest Post Silicon Valley is still the gold standard for tech entrepreneurship. However, Austin is now emerging as a new destination of choice for tech startups as well as larger enterprise companies -- for a variety of ...

Diagnostics, sensors, genomics and more world-class health tech might be the newest crop of innovations by and for China and its rapidly aging population.

With slick new version of its gesture-based mobile email app now available, productivity startup Taskbox announced that it's raised a $600,000 seed round of funding today.

Guest Post As Groupon's most vocal critic, I wanted to take a look at what changes we might see and the state of the business today.

While the Internet giants have become increasingly aggressive towards the notion of online anonymity, Vint Cerf says that the pseudonym still has its place. God bless him.

Appcore, a Des Moines, Iowa-based cloud computing automation platform startup, has just announced its latest round of funding: a $6 million cash infusion. This is Appcore’s second round of institutional funding; i...

Google has updated its outstanding Google Maps application for the iPhone with the ability to search for one of your contact’s addresses, Apple’s Maps app received a lot of criticisms after it debuted for i...

With 74 million daily posts, Tumblr is a big haystack to get lost in. Which is why the company is planning to monetize its mobile product the new old-fashioned way: pay-per-view. You pay, that is, and others view.

Guest Post Here we are in year five of the mobile app uprising, and the world of mobile ad attribution is still a hot mess. Yes, it’s a bit less of a mess, but still hot nonetheless.

It's clear that tablets are making a huge impact in businesses, but who's taking advantage of them first?

Aviary, a photo-editing tools startup, has just announced a few big milestones. First, it’s exceeded three billion photos edited to date. It’s also telling us it has a total of 35 million active users. Avia...

Late yesterday I got an email from FORBES Billionaire List editor Kerry Dolan looking for expertise in accounting and disclosure requirements for listings on the Saudi Arabia stock exchange. Yes, you heard that right. (O...

Ines de la Fressange, Catherine Deneuve, Bruno Frisoni, Tilda Swinton and Kwai Lun-Mei at Roger Vivier Book party  

Many of us don't know how many accounts we have online, though it's likely hundreds. Not knowing where you information is puts us at risk for losing that information.

GetGoing offers travelers up to 40 percent off airline ticket prices -- with one hitch.

FirstMark Capital, the New York venture firm behind the likes of Aereo, Knewton and Lumosity, announced today the addition of Matt Turck, founder of TripleHop Technologies and former Bloomberg Ventures managing direct...

Guest Post It’s no secret that smartphones are overwhelmingly the most popular and fastest growing mobile access point to the Internet today.