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Accepting payments on a mobile phone -- or paying on one -- really isn't that hard anymore.     

Yahoo-ABC News Network’s news sites can take a healthy traffic hit and still lead in monthly pageviews. On desktop, at least. According to a news release today, the news giant says it’s dominating in desktop traffic ...

Drop the ruler and grab a mouse: hiring, evaluating, and managing teachers takes another step into the digital age.     

More data is coming in to businesses. VoltDB pushes a database that can store it reliably, and new funding should help it become more pervasive.     

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Hertz, Adobe Systems and Oracle.

"If you're wearing six different kinds of health metrics and personal analytics tracking thingies, and they're measuring all kind of different things ... the question is, what do you do with it?"     

By Candice M. Hughes, PhD, MBA

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. Facebook’s standalone news feed app Faceb...

Looks like landlines are still a thing in Europe — so much so that British telecom giant Vodafone just shelled out $10 billion (€7.2 billion) for Ono, a Spanish cable-and-landline company, according to a GigaOM repor...

Austin is open to many new forms of entrepreneurs, food trucks included. After both being featured in SXSW's South Bites food trailer park, Heidi Garbo of Garbo's and Paula Samford of Gourdough's take time to reflect on ...

A new report – one that contradicts others – indicates that late Apple cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs had said his company would not be releasing a TV. The report comes from information in a new book about Apple from ...

With March Madness descending upon us this week — and as a mega sports fan it's truly one of the most wonderful times of the year, I figured it was appropriate to infuse a hoops-theme in the title of this article, as ...

Manta.com polled 1,235 small business owners on their social media usage and strategy. These five platforms are the ones SBOs say are the hardest to maintain.

Google Docs and Gchat were both working intermittently, if not completely down, for at least two hours today.     

Compliance risk management has come a long way, but compliance programs still have some distance to go to become -- in their own estimation -- true strategic business partners.  The results of Accenture’s 2014 Complia...

TV discovery startup Boxfish has raised a fresh $7 million round of funding, the company announced today. Boxfish uses the real-time closed captions found for pretty much every show on broadcast and cable to help you dis...

Companies of all sizes must be willing to disrupt themselves before their competitors do. The ability to do that is a driver of productivity, competitiveness and growth.

During a meeting last month, I was asked, "Who's your mentor?" When I explained that I didn't have one - and that's a key reason my businesses succeeded - it was like I had just claimed that the earth was flat.

Millionaires. Centimillionaires. Billionaires. Every one of them gathered together in the desert at the 'Entrepreneur Of The Year' gala hosted by Ernst & Young and sponsored by The Kauffman Foundation For Entrepreneurshi...

The five most intriguing startup jobs this week include a data science opening at Eventbrite and a social media strategist position at a hot security startup.     

Twitch and Gameloft worked closely together to bring livestreaming functionality to Asphalt 8.     

To cash in online you need to be a game-changer. When Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, there was nothing like it. He is now worth $17.5 billion according to recent Forbes valuations. There are still fortunes to be made...