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If you can't be cool, why not buy someone who is? That's what Yahoo is looking to do with a potential $1 billion acquisition of hot blogging service Tumblr, according to Adweek.

Nevahold is a platform where people can 'crowd source' their social media accounts put more weight behind their customer service complaints.

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Yahoo is holding a New York event this Monday for a mystery announcement.

Photos from the floor at the greatest gadget show on Earth.

The National Football League (NFL) has officially entered the business of rugby. The league recently announced a formal partnership with the Premier Rugby League with the intention of creating a professional rugby league...

Google has gone from a company that approached design through cold, hard algorithms to one that's employing gorgeous, user-centric interfaces.

Online petitions are playing a more crucial role in the healthcare industry every day. Change.org is right in the middle of it.

Skyword has announced closing $6.7 million in growth financing for its content marketing solutions. This Boston-based startup provides agencies, brands, media, and retail customers with a platform to publish content and ...

In 2012, Google made more than $50 billion, almost entirely via plain, boring little text ads. So it's more than a tad ironic that Google has won the Clio advertiser of the year award for 2013 for creativity and excellen...

Guest Post We're just at the beginning of an ed-tech revolution. I believe that MOOCs are the first step, and are still struggling experiments.

Google used 400 custom-built data-sensing "motes" to collect 150 million database records during Google I/O. Here's how the team built the devices and collected the data.

(Kitco News) - U.S. dollar direction and comments from Federal Reserve Chairmen Ben Bernanke will influence the gold market next week.

Guest Post Google has made a fateful choice that may leave it with an exposed flank at a critical time.

Abbey Post is a fashion marketplace that brings social e-commerce to the plus-size community. The company just released a totally rebuilt version of the site, which now features an internal social network and expanded in...

A new report casts considerable doubt on how well many Americans will fare in retirement: Those born between 1966 and 1975, the so-called Gen-Xers, will be the worst off, able to replace only half their working income. O...

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.

Unemployment figures may be improving, but young people today still face a tough road summers and after graduation. Even professional school isn?t the job offer bonanza it once was. That can make offering kids a job in t...

Nokia's latest Lumia has a lot to like, but its hurt by a lot of unfortunate design decisions.

Judith E. Glaser (@CreatingWE) and Lori Polachek (@LPolachek1) offer advice to business leaders at a fork in the road.

Creation science is back in the news. There is the fourth grade quiz gone viral. Then there is Kent Hovind's doctoral dissertation being rereleased on wikileaks. I'm not sure the latter is actually news, but the buzz mak...

Marketo shares surged after the company's initial public offering today, rising more than 50% from its offering price.