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App recommendation engines are getting booted from Apple's app store because they suck, according to a new player in the app-finding business. But Hooked Media has come up with an entirely new take on app recommendation ...

3D printed guns are going to be tough to control, and the Department of Homeland security knows it.

Sponsored Post For those unfamiliar with the term, "cohorting" refers to creating user segments, or technically, a group of people banded together as a group. You can segment a user base in many different ways.

Mind control could one day take the pain out of 3D design.

Just days after landing on Facebook's campus, the founder of Parse says there will be no changes to his business -- and that means Facebook is increasingly a multiplatform development tool.

Loyal3 has raised $18 million for its platform that makes it easy for consumers to buy stock in their favorite brands.

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New Orleans leads a cadre of smaller, cheaper metro areas that are pulling jobs away from the likes of New York and Los Angeles.

Impersonal, mass emails are easy to dislike and ignore, which is why SimpleRelevance has raised $1 million. SimpleRelevance's platform gathers customer data and then personalized emails to specifically target individuals...

Sponsored Post In three weeks, the video game industry will descend on Los Angeles to attend E3 2013 to see the future of the video game industry. Will you be there?

Box announced that it has acquired the technology behind a mobile app called Folders.

Nextdoor is going mobile. Today, the 'private social network for neighborhoods' released an iOS application so people can be connected to what's going on in their community anytime, anywhere.

In other words, the giant that sold almost 400 million phones last year is getting bigger. And faster.

Following the lead of other recent tech-focused IPOs, e-commerce software business ChannelAdvisor's shares popped almost 40 percent in its first day of trading as a public company.

By Stig Nybo, Next Avenue Contributor

All that's missing are the streamers, balloons, and cheesy Best Price Ev-ah signs. Because the price competition between Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Rackspace is heating up so fast, the cloud market could be a massive...

Media discovery startup Shazam released a new version of its iPad app today that adds a ton of new features boosting your ability to identify music, TV shows, and advertising.

Earlier this week, word began to spread in sports circles that NBA fans may be in for another summer of incessant speculation regarding the future of L.A. Lakers' free agent center and chronic malcontent Dwight Howard's,...

Big data is a big trend right now, and Wibidata has raised $15 million to help businesses take advantage of it. Wibidata builds and sells big data applications that companies can use to uncover consumer insights and reac...

Is the HTC One floundering? Not if you ask a company executive.

Ride-sharing startup Lyft has closed a $60 million funding round led by venture firm Andreessen Horowitz, the company announced on its blog. It also confirmed raising $15M in October of 2012.

Yahoo just can't quit buying up companies. Today, the web giant has acquired PlayerScale, a gaming platform for consoles, the web, PCs, Macs, and mobile games that serves more than 150 million players.