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To paraphrase Elvis — Costello that is, "As I walk on through this wicked world, searching for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself, Is all hope lost? Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery? And eac...

Mind Pirate is making augmented-reality games for the wearable, smartphone, and tablet markets.     

On my team are people who worked at Disney, Sony, Warner and companies with 100x our revenues. We have been able to grow to being a multi-million dollar generating company with under 10 full time staff in part because we...

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We still don’t know what exactly the stealth payments company Clinkle is working on (something something revamping the way we pay for things forever), but its drama never seems to end. Best known for raising the bigges...

Guest Post: By replacing the original plastic cards with digital ersatz, they unintentionally simplify the flow of the stolen credit card data.     

Google and non-profit American Rivers have partnered up to draw attention to America's most endangered river.     

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Ulta, Aeropostale and SeaWorld.

Desktop search ad growth has been declining steadily over the past few years. Mobile search ad spending, on the other hand, has more than doubled its growth over the past two years.     

A new platform promises to act as a signposting service for the alternative finance sector, but there is no guarantee the banks will play ball

Customer demand is the primary trigger for business transformation, according to 33%, or the largest group, of the more than 900 respondents surveyed for the Forbes Insights/KPMG report "Business Transformation and the C...

On the search for the the best cities to launch a business, we analyzed more than 27 million U.S. businesses, and where the next generation of small business owners are (or should be) flocking might surprise you -- think...

Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. After two years of rumors, Facebook announc...

A newly published Apple patent application that details ways to improve a wrist-based pedometer could represent another piece of evidence pointing to an iWatch. The application, “Wrist Pedometer Step Detection,” came...

There seems to be no end to the security breaches. But then again, all this has driven up the valuations of security software operators. Just look at the red-hot IPO of FireEye (FEYE).

Its 100GB plan, previously at $4.99 per month, is now $1.99. There's also a massive price cut for its 1 terabyte plan. Originally at $49.99, 1TB of storage now costs $9.99 per month.     

By Jake Sorofman

For private, middle-market companies, the main traditional sources of growth capital have been internal capital generation from profits, family and friends, and bank lines of credit. But there are other ways to finance t...

Spawned from traveling concert series Glowfest, RECESS brings the best of tech and music to college campuses.

A couple of weeks ago, we introduced five rules of white space investing along with their associated ratios.

We're looking for a veteran web developer with professional experience working with WordPress.     

Despite the potential for online courses to democratize higher education, the sector has experienced setbacks lately. A major cause for these disappointing results, some claim, is the extremely common feeling of disconne...