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Few companies truly understand how the consumer thinks, and even fewer are able to successfully translate this understanding into an integrated mobile experience.

Yahoo has officially placed a bid to acquire popular video streaming service Hulu, along with Time Warner Cable, Amazon, Guggenheim Digital Media, and former News Corp. President Peter Chernin.

It's all sunshine and lollipops over in Windows Phone land today.

Guest Post The perception of St. Louis is a nice, conservative Midwest town, possibly waiting for a rebirth of the industrial revolution. But over the past two-plus years the region's business and entrepreneurial ecosyst...

Erply provides POS system and inventory management software for commercial retail and e-commerce businesses. Today the company announced raising $2.15 million in its second round of funding.

Collegefeed aims to help college students present themselves professionally online, explore career options, and connect with employers. In order to test how well they accomplish these goals I recruited a current college ...

Guest Post In this month's startup shootout, Keynote Systems looks at how web performance affects site visitors and the best practices for creating the best user experience.

When idle, the new fourth-generation Core chips will use 20 times less power than the predecessor chips.

Dependency exemptions seem to take on a role in divorce negotiations that is out of proportion to their economic significance. Given the time that sometimes goes in to negotiating them, it is amazing how often the detail...

Silicon Valley's tech startups are increasingly using business process to drive positive social or environmental change. But what constitutes a "social entrepreneur?"

We?re excited to welcome five U.S.-based social entrepreneurs to the Ashoka Fellowship: Pamela Cantor, Cristi Hegranes, Cindy Kaplan, Kevin Kirby, and Susan Sygall. Every day this week, we?ll publish a new Fellow profile...

The first rule of iPhone is that it never, never goes on sale. The second rule of iPhone is that when iPhone does go on sale, it's only last year's model, or even older. The third rule of iPhone is that when this year's ...

By Scott Goodson, chairman and founder of StrawberryFrog, and author of best selling book Uprising: How to Build a Brand and Change the World by Sparking Cultural Movements. (McGraw Hill, 2012)

Science has come a long, long way in the past 100 years. So why can't tell which way the wind is going to blow in an hour?

In some ways, star power isn't supposed to matter as much in baseball. So I've been told.

Developer James Rundquist has just unveiled Glass Nest, an app for Google Glass that controls your Nest home thermostat directly from your nerdy, nerdy face. The future is here, and it belongs to white, male dorks. You h...

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.

Realtime firehose access will give Gnip data about every checkin that happens on Foursquare. Gnip then bundles and re-sells the data, mostly to big brands.

If you're involved in Bitcoin, you have no doubt been asked the question "So, who accepts bitcoin?" True, it is the quintessential chicken and egg paradox, but that is not unexpected for the world's first decentralized c...

The real hero here is Karl Sanford, the enthusiastic fan who took the time to put it all together. On the YouTube page for the clip, he says, "This is my first attempt at this process and hope to update and refine these ...

When Jeanne Harrison, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker's Capitol Hill office in Washington, D.C., takes clients shopping for a home, her preference is to do the tour using two wheels, not four.

Arrested Development, that short-lived but beloved comic portrait of the Bluth family, returns from the beyond this weekend. On May 26, 15 newly produced episodes of the show (which began its three-season run on Fox in 2...