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You'd think Twitter cofounder and Square CEO Jack Dorsey would be a whiz at social media. But his posts to Twitter's young video-sharing service Vine are a mix of weirdly creepy and just-plain-boring clips.

EdgeSpring, making data analytics easy for the average user, launches with $11 million in Series A funding.

"Google X is the hardware division of Google," Jepsen said. And while she couldn't say too much about the hardware follow-up to Glass, she gave the I/O audience a few clues.

For the second time in the last month, Yahoo is making some changes to its newsfeed that will presumably attempt to boost interest and improve the overall experience of reading the news.

is more than doubling its commitment to the SAP HANA Real Time Fund, going from $155 million to $405 million, to support innovation surrounding real-time applications and big data.

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There's no shortage of money being thrown at digital currency Bitcoin. Now relatively young Bitcoin startup BitPay has announced that it has raised $2 million more in funding

Will the Sand Hill Road firms open their check books for you? We caught up with Sequoia Capital's Warren Hogarth and Morgenthaler Ventures' Missy Krasner to dig deeper into their investment thesis.

Luvocracy is a San Francisco-based startup that lets you buy products you "luv" based on recommendations from the people you trust. You can also earn rewards if someone buys a product you recommend.

So far we have only isolated accounts and studies. They may not hold up to rigorous scrutiny. Nonetheless, it does seem as if the final accounting will be brutal. From Michael Scaturro "Greece is an example of perhaps th...

The four startups are Enplug, Dealflicks, Close.com, and Taste of Blue.

A "don't get Scroogled" Microsoft video leaked out to the world today mimicking Google's most recent Chrome advertisement.

There is much more to the Bordeaux wine region than the select, highly sought-after classified growths (known as Grand Crus). Most of the fuss and attention are directed towards very expensive wines that require decades ...

Systemically, Apple is falling out of the race for smartphone supremacy. And that puts Apple at risk of being in Microsoft's sights for the number two position in the global smartphone market share battle.

The screen size is more limited than any other modern screen, so what is presented on the display must be drop-dead simple. Compared to these challenges, building the tech is a cakewalk.

Talk about eating your own dogfood.

MicroVentures has reached $16 million in investments today, and claims to have surpassed any other equity-based crowdfunding platform.

Loyalty and payments startup Marqeta has raised $14 million from Greylock IL, Granite Ventures, and Commerce Ventures. The company also announced that it will power the Facebook Card.

"Azure is a billion-dollar business," Laderman says. "Azure is Microsoft's best-kept secret in the enterprise."

Sometimes regulation puts the brakes on innovation. Now car-sharing startup RelayRides has suspended its service in New York City after being served with a cease-and-desist letter.

A pretty hefty sum for a company initially shot down by VCs.

Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO, Mike Jeffries, doesn't like fat people. Or unattractive people of any kind. At least, he doesn't like them as customers in his stores. The latest firestorm of criticism came after retail expert...