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"You can build a person, build a group, build a spaceship, or build a Cylon," Mehr says with a smile.

With the old revenue models falling apart, musicians have needed to get entrepreneurial. Check out these three music-tech startups.

Shaken by the death of a friend and empowered by her health care fortune, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw pushes to modernize cancer care in India.

Microsoft's decision to aggressively push its Office software into the cloud looks like a smart move now that Office 365 Home Premium has passed 1 million subscribers.

Set-top box maker Roku has just closed a $60 million round of funding, the company announced today during AllThingD's D11 event.

It happens at every startup. The core team looks around and agrees, we can't do this all ourselves. The business needs to grow and the team needs to be built out.All of a sudden, both the native programmers and business ...

Dating site HowAboutWe announced the launch of its new Couples product in San Francisco today, intended to help people in relationships have as much fun as their single peers.

Lies in the workplace are expensive. According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, a typical organization loses 5 percent of its revenue to fraud - a potential global loss of $3.5 trillion dollars.

IAC chairman Barry Diller has expansive plans for his Internet TV service, Aereo -- including, eventually, original programming.

Video game retailer GameStop's consolidated global sales fell 6.8% compared to the last year. Comparable store sales declined 6.7%, with a 6.9% fall in the U.S. and a 6.3% decline outside the country.

We can't technically go as far as saying that everybody wears underwear - you know who you are - but we can safely say that drawers, panties and underthings are fairly ubiquitous. Just ask Hanes, Boxer, Playtex, Calvin K...

As many as 9,000 homeless veterans across the country will have the opportunity to move into public housing and receive clinical services at a nearby VA medical center, according to an announcement made Wednesday by the ...

Twitter updated its iOS and Android apps today to make tweeting pictures faster and better. And showed us the benefits via Vine, the social network's own video-sharing startup.

We're excited to announce that the following industry leaders will be joining us at MobileBeat 2013 to explore how to build a winning mobile experience...

Supreme Court watchers are pretty sure Justice Anthony Kennedy will write the opinion in the long-awaited Fisher vs. University of Texas case challenging affirmative action. But how he will rule is a real puzzler that ha...

Serial entrepreneur and "PayPal mafia" member Max Levchin's new pregnancy app is a promising application of big data to real-world problems.

When we did our remodel, our contractor suggested a thousand things I had never really thought about. They weren't necessarily design considerations; they were more quality-of-life considerations -- just little things yo...

Google is increasingly focused on e-commerce, and today signed a multiyear partnership so it can access ratings and reviews of online retailers.

Interestingly, Facebook says it will proactively reach out to verify accounts, but there is no mechanism to request verification. Instead, Facebook recommends that celebrities or public figures who believe that they are ...

In a quest to solve email overload, Google is revamping the way Gmail handles messages. But it's not actually solving the problem.

While others might see tech companies as competing with the media, Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo doesn't see things that way.

Helpshift made its SDK available to businesses of all sizes that want to integrate a mobile-first, customer service experience into their applications.