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"When there is an application from a woman, we look at it very closely. We would like to raise the quota of women within the company."     

But the death - or at least the declining reliance on - the survey means that we can engage with consumers in a more reciprocal, dynamic, and democratic way.     

"Treatings gets you access to people you don't know, but you then have an easy way to communicate with people offline."     

Among its clients are a dozen major global pharmaceutical companies, which view the community as one of the few legal channels to promote prescription drugs.     

"There are a lot of food blogs with beautiful pictures, but they are more targeted towards experienced cooks. So, we came up with the idea of Kitchen Stories."     

Streaming music service Rhapsody has stopped using music recommendation data from partner The Echo Nest, the company announced today. Echo Nest’s platform gives music app developers access to lots of music data-related...

Artificial intelligence company Vicarious raked in some big money this Friday from a handful of prominent investors, including Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla founder Elon Musk. We've got the details on that f...

A new startup is harnessing the power of the crowd to help entrepreneurs and tech companies do their jobs better. Testbirds, a German crowdtesting company, just raised €2.1 million ($2.9 million) as its first instituti...

How much do patients remember about the information they receive on their way out the door of a doctor’s office or a hospital? Not much, according to Portland, Oregon-based WelVU, which announced today it has received ...

Guest Post: Publishing has changed drastically with the shift to mobile, and reinventing the software that goes with it will happen as well.     

Off Grid Electric charges as little as $5 per month for any home in Africa to access solar power through its M-Power energy hub in Tanzania.     

A Seattle-based startup called Mindbloom, which develops healthy living mobile applications, was bought by Denver's fast-growing health-tech company Welltok.