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Just today, Forbes ran a piece documenting the abysmal share of venture capital allocated to women. The Calvert Foundation is working actively to change that dynamic with its "WIN-WIN" or Women Investing in Women Initiat...

OI and The MasterCard Foundation plan to enter phase two of this partnership as they announce a $22.7 million expansion in funding, The Africa Growth and Innovations Initiative. The extension promises to support an addit...

Billionaire David Green believes God is the owner of his $3.3 billion (revenues) craft chain Hobby Lobby. Whether a for-profit corporation can have religious beliefs is at the center of Green's Supreme Court battle again...

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. "Mobile is the platform of today, and now w...

Facebook is a virtual-reality company now.     

By Tamara Monosoff, author of  The Mom Inventors Handbook

A handful of incredible African women are building successful tech companies that are upending industries and setting industry standards in Africa. These are 10 you need to know.

Sponsored Post: The MDM industry is quickly becoming the new standard for IT. Providers with holistic solutions--that fit not only into existing technology platforms, but into their end users' lives--will thrive in 2014...

iTherm is a Bluetooth 4.0 smart armband that not only takes a kid's temperature when wrapped around an upper arm, but does so every minute and keeps a record for the doctor.     

Birchbox for Slovenia? No thanks. Here are the actually cool products from YC's winter batch.     

The new rule comes after a lawsuit filed in 2011 by consumers whose kids were racking up hundreds of dollars' worth of virtual goodies.     

"Front-end designers, Ruby programmers, Node programmers -- people who haven't used a lot of databases, they're coming to us."     

Get all the tech funding news of the day delivered straight to your mailbox! Sign up for Funding Daily and never miss a deal. Here are the day’s funding stories: Hortonworks loads up $100M Big data company Hortonworks ...

What do you call a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? An alpha test group for Clio. Hah! Clio makes software for attorneys, and it’s just taken in a third round of institutional funding — $20 million led ....

There's simply no chance Google Glass is ready for the big leagues.     

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Wednesday's session are Movado, Paychex, and Sotheby's.

Washington refuses to control spending, and it certainly doesn’t control the costs of federal regulations it imposes on citizens at the rate of over 3,500 annually.

House Ways & Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) has a plan for what to do with scores of now-expired tax subsidies that are sitting in Congress’ lap. He wants to review each one on its merits and either make it per...

OK, maybe not quite that fast, but faster than I’ve ever heard of. Last week I met Evan Singer of SmartBiz for the first time. Yes, they specialize in small business loans. Yes, they have SBA loans under $150,000 figur...

The IRS has issued a bevy of questions and answers about digital currencies like Bitcoin. The biggest news is that it is property for tax purposes, which means that: Wages paid to employees using virtual currency are tax...

It rests comfortably in your hand when you first pick it up. Even though it's a larger than its predecessor, it still feels inexplicably lighter. I was surprised at just how polished it was.     

Digital change-makers, wired social entrepreneurs, and online organizers have been paying close attention to Turkish government's attempt to ban Twitter, the latest chapter in a year-long period of protest in Turkey, as ...