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Today I missed lunch. I frequently do when I write these articles. Sometimes I end up writing through the night despite the fact that I was tired at 11 p.m. I lose track of time. Why? Because writing these articles and h...

These former contestants all made $1 million or more over the past year.

Louisiana lawsuit against oil companies for destroying the wetlands ignores geology and history.

Earlier this year, the 2013 Social Innovation Summit convened at the United Nations Plaza in New York City. To spotlight some of the ideas and initiatives represented at the conference, The Skoll World Forum asked some o...

New Ultra HD "4K" televisions have 4x the resolution, and sometimes 4x the price, but are they enough to help a stagnated industry?

Fab.com has laid off more than 100 employees in its Berlin office as it consolidates certain operations in New York.

Former Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs has been named the new CEO of web security and privacy company AVG. Kovacs will help the company focus more on mobile.

In a post earlier this month, I recounted my recent heresy in Hong Kong, a suggestion that the GDP growth rates of the U.S. and China would cross briefly in the next few years. Therein, I laid out a case for a dramatic s...

One of the things we can expect to see a lot more of in the future is the concept of Big Data for Infrastructure. By that I mean the intersection of cloud infrastructure and cloud services and Big Data capability and fun...

RelayRides has scored a major victory for car-sharing startups. Today the company announced that it will launch free parking for its peer-to-peer car rental service at SFO.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) released a long-awaited report today investigating its actions in prosecuting programmer/activist Aaron Swartz for his role in hacking the school's academic research paper ...

Just a month after launching the Windows 8.1 preview for consumers, Microsoft has released the preview of Windows 8.1 Enterprise edition with lots of goodies for businesses.

The only thing standing in the way of Protos's custom 3D printed glasses is the funds needed to get the project off the ground.

"Minion favors accuracy and simplicity and is designed so every developer, regardless of security expertise, can use this platform to increase the security of their applications," says Mozilla's security director.

Twitter has responded to a petition saying the company needs to add a "report abuse" button to all of its Twitter account pages saying similar functionality is coming to its Web product soon.

I've never said the word webinar as many times in a single day as I did when I talked with the folks from Hublished.

Ferris automatically connects user-generated video clips based on user, location, date and time, hashtag, and category to create a single stream of any given experience.

While Bradley Manning was found not guilty of Aiding the Enemy, he was found guilty of most other charges.

Saga passively captures data logged on your phone and uses it to make insights and recommendations. The company released social features today so users can share this data with friends.

It's not just penny-pinching startups looking crowdsourced design. Reps said they've also seen projects from huge brands such as Microsoft, Absolut vodka, HTC, and Amnesty International.

The Samsung Galaxy S4 runs a Exynos 5 Octa central processing unit with multiple cores and a GPU, or graphical processing unit, that hums along at 480 MHz GPU. Unless, of course, you're running benchmarking applications.

As Fab expands internationally, its founders realized two things had to change. First, the flash sales model. And now, its entire base of operations.