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Why does customer service have to be so difficult and mysterious? It's developed into a separate division grafted onto lots of companies, like an odd, extra appendage. It's created multi-billion-dollar upstarts like Sale...

A Google Glass startup incubator has launched what might be the first app directory for the device.

Vidora's Airplay integration is how I'd imagine what the Apple TV's UX would be like if Apple wasn't scared of cannibalizing iTunes video sales, and started sorting video content based on making it easier for users to fi...

Cuyana is a fashion brand that sells well-made, sustainably sourced apparel. Today it announced a "Lean Closet" movement where you can switch out unwanted clothing items with higher quality essentials.

President John F. Kennedy said, ''The slogan--'It's deductible'--should pass from our scene.'' See Special Message to Congress on Taxation, Apr. 20, 1961. JFK didn't like expense accounts and business entertainment in th...

With the magic of Wikipedia and the science of statistics and probability, Facebook managed to turn a garbage dump of letters into remarkably well-structured data. Here's how.

The heroine in Suzanne Xie's first interactive game for kids is no damsel in distress.

When Bono, one of the greatest entertainers of modern times, presents an award, he does it in rock star style. And when Warren Buffett, one of the greatest philanthropists in human history, accepts one, he makes the crow...

The Patriot Act has given the U.S. government broad-reaching powers to collect data on Americans. But now the author of the Patriot act thinks that the National Security Administration is going too far in its interpretat...

New York's Mayor Bloomberg announced that New York's highest court unanimously upholds the state law authorizing "street hail livery service." This means that startups like Uber, Lyft, SideCar, Hailo, Relay Rides, and In...

Springshot filed with the SEC for a $1.6 million first round of funding. Springshot is a "mobile worker productivity platform" that supports people who work on-the-go.

Take a vaporetto down the Canal Grande in Venice, Italy, towards Accademia Bridge and nearby you'll see a cheerful, multicolored banner that reads "Future Generation Art Prize" and a blue and yellow Ukrainian flag mounte...

U.S. Senators are downplaying the news that Verizon provides vast amounts of identifying details on its cellphone customers to the National Security Administration, saying the practice is nothing new.

ClubLocal continues its national roll out today, bringing the convenience of booking home services from a mobile device to people in the Bay Area.

The popular video discovery app ShowYou is stepping into new territory today.

You've probably never heard of WPP, but the communication giant's various brands drive $70 billion in media spend and took in $16.5 billion in revenue last year.

Activist investor Bill Ackman announced Monday he will trim his stake in the railway company he besieged in fall of 2011, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP). With lesser results in other recent investments at such as J.C. Pen...

This post is the third in a series devoted to my week-long trial of Soylent, the food substitute created by the company of the same name that has captured the hearts of the quantified self movement. Read my original post...

Who needs money when you can have iMoney?

While the job board will have a mix of positions at entry and management levels, Treehouse founder Ryan Carson said it speaks to his main passion: serving the underserved and marginalized.

In its ongoing quest to right some of the wrongs caused by Windows XP, Microsoft has taken down another massive botnot.

"Cybersecurity" can mean everything. And that's exactly the problem.