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Mayor Ed Lee and Board President David Chiu announced a partnership between the city of San Francisco and BayShare to develop innovation and technology around disaster preparedness and response.

Tibco today acquired Streambase to augment its analytics offering and appeal to the largest financial firms on Wall Street.

Locaid, a Location-as-a-Service (LaaS) startup, has closed $4.05 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing released today.

Guest Post For developers, this annual Mecca event sets the agenda for the next several months, and it's safe to say we'll all be busy again innovating for the Apple ecosystem.

The Oculus Rift just got that much more immersive thanks to a bump in its screen resolution.

Three female entrepreneurs have developed a website and interactive book called My First Website, which teaches kids to code.

eHealthMe is a startup trying to make healthcare big data accessible to the mainstream population. Today, it announced a new Q&A service where patients can anonymously post health questions and get answers from people wi...

The headline is not hyperbolic (although I truly wish it were.) Every day two branches of the U.S. government?the executive and the legislative?are needlessly putting our identities and financial lives at risk.

The new game will feature a first-ever multiplayer mode.

This story is part of a series exploring the convergence of design, technology, and commerce in the mobile industry. Find out more at MobileBeat 2013, July 9-10 in San Francisco. Read the full series here. In talking ove...

Guest Post IDFA does away with privacy concerns. App publishers can now directly attribute advertising to ROI without running afoul of privacy regulations or user preferences.

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Advertisers will tell you that they can't predict exactly why a video will go viral online. It's typically not an exact science: you make the best content you can, try to capture the moment, and hope people share your wo...

If you want to build a movement, you have to tell a good story. Julie Wiscombe (@jwiscombe) was at the 2013 Ashoka Future Forum; here, she shares her storytelling takeaways from the plenaries, workshops and breakout sess...

The online venture capital firm has raised a $1.1 million fund as part of its new "Accelerate Series" that will support startups from Y Combinator's Winter 2013 batch.

While Intel is chasing down improved power efficiency with Haswell, AMD is taking the brute force approach. Desktop PC users and gaming enthusiasts probably won't complain, though, as AMD just announced the FX-9590, the ...

Guest Post One of my ex-students recently gave me an update on his startup. When I asked, "What are you working on?" the first words out of his mouth was his fundraising progress. This is not good.

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Nintendo has retreated from the bright stage lights of E3 in order to inform its fans, via a low-key webcast, that some major games have been delayed until the end of the year while others aren't scheduled to arrive unti...

By Nicole Robinson, CEO, Gloss and Glam.

Sunscreen season has arrived, along with new guidelines for what actually constitutes defense from solar rays and new evidence that a daily slathering may not only protect you from skin cancer and sunburn, it may keep yo...

Marketing is the art of getting people to take a desired action. Common desired actions for online marketing include purchasing a product, donating money, sharing a link on Twitter, or signing up for an email list. Marke...