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Guest Post Canada's federal government moved impressively quickly to implement this new visa, which is aimed at encouraging entrepreneurs from all over the globe to call us home. Why is the U.S. falling behind?

A 1,713-strong survey of North American consumers says that 19 percent of us want a shiny new iDevice that doesn't even exist yet. Or, at least, isn't public and isn't purchasable.

Tracks is making yet another big leap, and it could be its most important one yet.

Fitbug claims Fitbit has caused irreparable harm and damage to their company, and it has asked the U.S. District Court in Northern California to order Fitbit to stop allegedly using its Fitbit mark and conduct that cause...

More than a decade in to the 21st century, one would think we would be closer to the "paperless society" information scientist Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster envisioned in 1978. Yet just last month news surfaced that the De...

With even the spluttering from North Korea growing more muted, bird flu relatively isolated and General Musharraf's troubles in Pakistan so far seen as comic, the world greatly turned away from Asia this week, to more at...

In celebration of International Women's Day, 20 promising businesses built by 100% female founding teams.

Guest Post This week's tragic events of the Boston Marathon explosions have given me a lot of think about. While I'm still deeply saddened, I couldn't help but notice the viral impact of social media during times like th...

Sponsored Post As app stores continue to get flooded with new games on a weekly basis, how on Earth are mobile developers supposed to get their games in front of the right audiences these days?

Can a global corporation be environmentally and socially responsible and still deliver a quality product at an affordable price? As chief sustainability officer of IKEA, the iconic manufacturer and retailer of Scandinavi...

Set aside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations' offer to reinvent the condom, condom manufacture Durex is conducting its own research and development -- for underwear.

Sponsored Post In this interview, Cisco's principal architect for WebEx Social talks about how he evaluates pitches from startups, and what you need to do to close a deal with Cisco.

For some time now, Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell (pictured above) has sought to take his company private in a huge $24.4 billion deal. But Blackstone and investor Carl Icahn opposed the deal, saying it undervalued th...

Android gamers may get a friends list, in-game chat, and more from Google.

If you follow VentureBeat but don't regularly check our GamesBeat site, here's a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Y Combinator-backed Verbling is a platform that connects people online to practice speaking foreign languages together. Today, the startup introduced Verbling Courses, a new product that seeks to make students proficient...

The Internet's not working. Or at least the self-styled "front page of the Internet."

Essays, both typed and handwritten, drawings, explanations, photo-copied book pages, manifestos, scribbled side notes -- It's not an easy read, and it's even a bit unsettling in places, but it's worth reading.

Time and technology has moved on since 1983, but the Commodore 64 continues to survive as a viable gaming platform, supported by a dedicated homebrew scene that's combining old school programming skills with a modern-day...

Before she was an internationally-known author Candace Bushnell was just a little girl growing up in Connecticut watching her mother get ready for work. "This was a woman whose hair and makeup were done and was already d...

So. Facebook Home doesn't work on your particular Android device. And you've seen that Facebook Home has an abysmal 2.2 average rating -- more than half of Facebook Home users rate it one single solitary lonely star. Wha...