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Electric vehicle maker Tesla grabbed the attention of both Chinese media and car buyers since the very beginning of its entry to Chinese market. Elon Musk, founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley-headquartered company, is ...

Seventh Generation, the Burlington, VT-based maker of environmentally friendly laundry detergent, trash bags and diapers, takes its name from an Iroquois law that says, “in our every deliberation we must consider the i...

Apple is moving more of its stores to renewable energy, and all its data centers are now in line with that guideline.

The FBI warned Boston-area businesses and academic institutions earlier this month of "scams involving malicious [Russian] venture capitalists."

"The Internet is changing the future of business and entrepreneurship. Never before have people been so empowered to build global businesses with huge flexibility," said Tencent USA chairman David Wallerstein in a state...

The feds are set to begin slapping app developers and mobile game companies with hefty fines for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act starting any day. And software startup AgeCheq’s software soluti...

Before today, you had to be a developer to test out an early release of OS X. Now, a shift in policy permits anyone to try the latest beta of Apple’s desktop operating system, TechCrunch reports. This is a major ...

Ok I realize I usually and generally deal with and write about brands that are way beyond their first 100 customers. But, I figured with so many startups popping up plus the fact even the biggest of brands had to start s...

We might be witnessing the future of news, or a failed attempt at trying to stay afloat on a data life raft in a sea with no rescuers looking for survivors. Happy Tuesday!

Are you a mobile addict? You probably are if you open apps more than 60 times a day. That’s how Flurry, the mobile marketing and analytics firm that monitors data from 500,000 apps across 1.3 billion devices, defines a...

Whether you like it or not, Twitter’s new Web profile design is now available to all. The new look is technically still rolling out, but Twitter permits users to skip the line by visiting this link. Twitter’s redesig...

Aereo is confident that it’ll score a victory from Supreme Court justices that are currently deciding whether the ‘TV anywhere’ service infringes on copyrights owned by major TV broadcast stations like ABC. Aereo l...

Samsung is king of the Android market — and its Galaxy S5 smartphone is helping solidify that position. After a single week on the market, the Samsung Galaxy S5 already makes up 0.7 percent of all active Android smartp...

One of the hardest parts of being a 20 or 30-something (or just a person) today is loneliness.

Birst wants to open a data cafe at companies far and wide. It's bringing in a new chief executive to push that effort forward.

Time to ditch the 15-year-old TV box you're renting from your cable TV provider.

When is a battlefield like a factory floor? When you’re using enhanced reality headsets. A Herndon, Virginia-based company that has focused on military applications for augmented reality has scored $10 million to expan...

There was an entertaining article in this Sunday's New York Times Style Section about a gang of rich kids who got to go on a field trip to the White House to “empower” them and let them schmooze about their charita...

Impact sourcing can be described as connecting the technology industry’s’ philanthropy with social entrepreneurs.  Although less than a decade old, impact sourcing carries with it the hopes of the information techno...

The company faces hundreds of competitors, but its extreme real-time reporting could help it stand out.

This new program is planning to churn out 10 new data scientists every three months.

Brandcast fits somewhere between old-school on-premises software and template-oriented cloud services for publishing websites. And that position makes sense to Marc Benioff.