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What's the next innovation in health IT? According to Boston-based entrepreneur Zoe Barry, it's about time we made it easier to pick up a prescription at the pharmacy.

I recently spoke to Scott Harrison, who is the Founder and CEO of charity: water, a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. In seven years, with the help of more than ...

MaskMe proves why web users don't have to trade being able to the web for holding on to their data.

Last year Apple sold 26 million iPhones and 17 million iPads for revenues of $35 billion and profit of $8.8 billion in its third quarter. It was up from the year-ago quarter, but it wasn't stellar. Expect something simil...

Two of our favorite deals stories of the day, involving Spike Lee's latest project and an ambitious suprphone that runs both desktop-grade Ubuntu and Android, are crowdfunding stories. Will Spike and Canonical meet their...

While reverse engineering is protected as fair use, Snapchat is using DMCA Section 1201 to tell one programmer his app based on a reverse engineering of Snapchat needs to be shut down.

Guest Post Now that the dust has settled and another MobileBeat has come and gone, we're left wondering what the big lessons from the show were.

Uniiverse released a Direct Payments feature today which helps anyone to set up peer-to-peer payments for activities and services on their personal website or blog.

While Netflix is gaining praise from its original programming, it wasn't able to hit its subscriber growth estimates, according to Netflix's Q2 2013 earnings report.

Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, gave birth to a boy moments ago. What the new heir to the throne will receive in gifts from family and friends is anybody?s guess. However, a look back at the gifts given to past royal ne...

Microsoft has detailed more features of its SkyDrive cloud storage app inside the upcoming Windows 8.1 operating system update, and surprisingly enough, a few of them are pretty awesome.

You knew the launch of the first Corvette to bear the Stingray badge of honor since 1976 would be a big deal in social media. The Corvette, after all, is America's iconic, beautiful, and above all powerful sports car.

On top of launching a new website, eBay Now is opening its delivery service to more areas around New York and San Francisco.

If you want a better Airbnb experience, don't look to the Big Apple or Hollywood's fabled boulevards. And don't even think about a college-aged host.

Kathryn and David Clarke got the idea for a math practice game when their daughters were in middle school. Decades later, they have released the game on the App Store.

The famed director launched a $1.25M crowdfunding campaign today to create a movie about 'Human Beings dealing with each other on a Human Level'

New speech and voice recognition technologies would likely be used to augment Google's "conversational search" offering.

As of this writing, nearly half a million dollars has been raised toward the fundraising goal. Will the Ubuntu Edge become the Linux lover's dream device, or remain a mere dream?

A "white hat" security researcher who says he found 13 bugs in Apple's software claims to be the cause of Apple shutting down developer.apple.com. He also claims to have over 100,000 users' private details.

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It?s been about a month since I made the ultimate futuristic fashion statement? that is, a month since I picked up my sky blue Google Glass from the Big G?s sprawling headquarters in Silicon Valley. In my four weeks as a...

Wayfair is really good at selling things online. The Boston-based company sold $600 million worth of home décor products last year, and CEO Niraj Shah says that revenues are growing at 40% quarter-over-quarter. At that ...