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A survey of people who?ve quit full-time work finds they?re busy, but have made serious adjustments to their lives.

As Oracle departs the Nasdaq, Tesla will take its place in the Nasdaq 100 index.

Kymeta's effort to bring high-speed satellite broadband to the whole globe continues to grab Bill Gates's attention.

Smart diapers -- yes, diapers -- may end up being a more practical use of wearable technology than Google Glass, smart watches, or fitness bands.

Not too many years ago, Pandora and Evernote were tiny startups with uncertain futures. But these companies anticipated growth and made steps to prepare their infrastructure for rapid adoption.

VentureBeat announced its Mobile Advertising Index today, a listing of the top 10 companies helping marketers trying to reach mobile users. Here they are:

RSS reader Feedly is one of the most popular replacements for the non-defunct Google Reader. But its iOS app has been crippled for the last week, leaving users restless.

Guest Post Increasingly, it's difficult for traditional publishers to compete with the quick-fire, high-volume, and often high-quality content of blogs and leaner social news sites. Isn't it time for a new mindset on the...

Amazon is planning to refresh all three of its Kindle Fire tablets.

It's more than just bandwidth holding back the mobile industry.

Essentially, it's an iCloud for everything: Android, iOS, web, desktop apps, smart TV apps ... you name it.

Apple says "customers know where they can purchase their favorite apps" after leaving lawsuit against Amazon hanging.

Most of us will not consider our bank to be a hotbed of innovation. But banks are toying with various open source projects, and are rapidly developing ways to help you manage and share money from a smartphone.

Western Virginia University became the first university in the U.S. to use empty TV broadcast channels for something better than ye olde boob tube: internet.

Sprint has finally completed its acquisition of wireless high speed provider Clearwire, which will help give Sprint customers faster data speeds and more bandwidth.

Wearable computing like Google Glass is just beginning to invade our lives. Soon, it will be inside our bodies.

What must entrepreneurs do to avoid seeing their startup die? Here are the three biggest mistakes startups make over and over -- and how to prevent them.

Yelp is rolling out a new delivery feature so consumers can not only browse for food, but order it as well.

Cvent, which provides cloud-based software to manage events, has filed for an initial public offering of $100 million.

Amazon Publishing is launching its own imprint for original digital comic books and graphic novels called Jet City Comics.

By Annette Richmond

Next month an audience that has thus far gone woefully under-served by television networks will finally have its day?dogs. On August 1, Israeli-based Jasmine TV Ltd. will be launching DOGTV nationwide on Direct TV, offer...