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It's pretty impressive to win a streaming media popularity contest when you ... aren't ... actually ... streaming. But Apple has accomplished that impressive feat with iTunes. Mainly by cheating.

The iPhone 5S better better be very, very nice. Because this plastic-backed less expensive iPhone looks every inch a polished Apple product.

The company launched last year, but claims to already have over 35,000 developer customers, who have developed 340,000 virtual servers. IA Ventures, the firm that led the round, invested off the back of this growth.

Groupon up 20 percent in after-hours trading after officially appointing executive chairman Eric Lefkofsky to CEO.

YuMe initially intended to raise $65 million, but significantly lowered its share prices to begin trading.

Just like his leadership strategy for the world's largest online store Amazon, Jeff Bezos is likely to provide The Washington Post with something it desperately needs to prove itself as a worthy business: time.

While Azure is about a billion-dollar business for Microsoft, Amazon likely will almost quadruple that revenue in 2013.

Microsoft has done an admirable job making Windows Phone 8 a good mobile OS. But it's still desperately missing a ton of big name apps.

The LG G2 feels so similar to the Galaxy S IV that it might as well have been announced by Samsung.

Bringing out a good Latin phrase in a discussion is like brining a gun to a knife fight. It gets people's attention. But if you are quoting Lucretius at the start of every meeting "nil igitur mors est ad nos" (Death, the...

The growing scale of the oil and natural gas boom in Texas continues to stun most observers. We have discussed this phenomenon periodically (see prior pieces here and here) , but the newest developments are so off the ch...

BlackBerry lost three more senior executives today after cutting out 250 employees as part of a restructuring effort.

It is easy to find material that will tell you what a great thing it is to "avoid probate". Maureen Mangiardi's father, Dr. Joseph Mangiardi,managed it for the bulk of his estate. According to a recent decision in US Dis...

The movies that earned the most, and the least, as a percentage of their production budgets.

'The Purge' earned the most at the box office as a percentage of its production budget.

President Obama has canceled a meeting with Russia's Putin citing political issues including Edward Snowden's asylum.

When asked about his goals for the coming year, Arpeggi chief scientist David Mittleman immediately hit back, "Our intention is to offer people the best reconstructive model of their genome."

Many celebrities rent out their holiday estates when they're not in residence. The latest is Sting's 900 acre estate in Tuscany.

The mobile app integrates audio content from a range of sources, including music apps, radio stations, and news broadcasts, to make finding good stuff to listen to easier.

Bitcoin got love from a judge this week who said a Ponzi scheme case involving the currency should go forward because Bitcoin is, in fact, real money.

"But with a new iPhone and revamped iOS coming out later this year, Apple is well-positioned to re-capture market share," he said.

VentureBeat spoke with Lumosity CEO Kunal Sarkar about his bold decision to relaunch an entirely new iPhone app.