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Any.DO launches Cal, simplifying calendar management and task planning.

The lobbying groups for the major carriers have been hard at work trying to rewrite history. Even though the Wireless Association (CTIA) was the main group petitioning the Librarian of Congress to ban individuals unlocki...

San Diego-based WeMonitor provides monitoring systems that "demystify" home energy. It has raised $5.3 million in financing to expand its team and release its first product later this year.

I, C, G or L -- figuring out what layout to use for your kitchen is almost like learning to speak a new language. Luckily, Houzz's kitchen layout guides can help you find the right translation for your kitchen remodel, o...

I have been an IT security industry analyst for 13 years. For much of that time the epicenter of the business was indeed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Industry giants like Cisco, Juniper, McAfee, Symantec, and Fortinet ...

A series of Forbes Insights profiles of Thought Leaders changing the business landscape: Patrick Quinlan, Co-Founder and CEO of Convercent...

Like Shutterstock itself, which serves as a marketplace for freelancers to vend their wares to end customers, Skillfeed will be a middle-man-type service between instructor/experts and learners.

Today, Gary Vaynerchuk starts "tripling down" on content - because "doubling down" doesn't begin to describe how important he thinks it is. The social media expert is relaunching his blog today. Why? "The more content I ...

A look at what will get you unfriended, unliked, and ignored on social networking sites like Twitter this year. Results are from a survey of 3,000 social networking specialists conducted by marketing firm SocialToaster i...

It is just before 5 pm on a hazy Tuesday at the Diridon transit station in downtown San Jose. The ACE commuter train hums and rumbles as it waits in its bay. Overhead, men and women are making their way, not yet hurried,...

High yield bond volume in the U.S. hit a lofty $43.5 billion in May, the largest monthly total since September 2012. The impressive May figure comes despite a tepid end to the month. Issuers priced only $2.5 billion in o...

Sponsored Post On Wednesday June 12, many of the leading names in social discovery will take the stage at the Bently Reserve to uncover what social discovery is today, where it is going from here and why it matters - and...

The CIA has invested an undisclosed sum in "robot journalism" startup Narrative Science through its venture arm In-Q-Tel.

Search is the gold standard in the internet marketing world. Nothing beats customers finding you via organic search, arriving at your website straight from Google, ready and willing to make a purchase. Perhaps almost not...

Digital health accelerator Rock Health has selected its fifth class of startups. Given the burgeoning interest in the space, the team says this was its most competitive application process yet.

Breather launched its "Zipcar for rooms" at the LeWeb conference today. The startup also revealed closing $1.5 million to accelerate development and growth.

SanDisk is one of the leading designers and manufacturers of NAND flash storage solutions. NAND products are re-writeable, non-volatile semiconductor memory devices that retain content even when the power is turned off. ...

The opening of a Whole Foods Market store in the "food desert" of Detroit is a welcome development for a downtrodden city where "fresh-produce deserts" and "food insecurity" are daily realities and the emergency financia...

Studying abroad for cheap isn't easy to do no matter what country you live in. Now Russia has WeStudy.In, a new site dedicated to helping Russian students study in the U.S., Europe, or Australia.

Today we had another great #AskForbes Twitter chat with Forbes reporter Parmy Olson. Tweeting from @forbes, she answered readers' questions on the world of Anonymous and hacktivism. (She wrote a book on the subject: We A...

Ayla's mission is to build an ecosystem for the Internet of Things. Today, the startup emerged out of stealth mode and revealed $5.4 million in financing.

In the court of public opinion, Google is the star quarterback with the big pickup truck and all the friends, Apple is the top running back, and Facebook? Well, Facebook might be the captain of the debate team.