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If you've been sitting around cursing the absence of Tax Geek Tuesday for the past two weeks, your loneliness saddens me I apologize, but I've been tied up pursuing every American's dream of writing 20,000 words about ...

Predicting the future can be like "throwing guesses at the wall” and waiting to see which ones stick. Considering how quickly mobile has proliferated the marketplace in the last few years, with almost seven billion mob...

In light of the avalanche of trade press articles, analyst reports and vendor pronouncements, one can be forgiven for thinking the whole business world already exists entirely in digital form. But most products and servi...

The science of getting paid is on the minds of a lot of health care providers, entrepreneurs, and investors these days. And a wave of new health data startups have arrived to help the cause. One of them is Aver ...

Thatgamecompany raises funding to finance its next big game.

Data brokers collect tons of information about you without you knowing it, learn intimate details, give you little or no say in the matter, and could, in some cases, cause serious harm.

What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! Twitter’s user base is growing like gangbusters in the As...

The Internet is a big, big, big place. In the 200 seconds I watched the “Internet in real-time” infographic, Google ran almost a million searches and sucked up over $300,000 in revenue. Facebook users uploaded over a...

India's startup journey has lagged behind China's but now stands a chance of catching up with Flipkart and Myntra deals leading the way.

The annual White House Science Fair with Bill Nye is always a delightful place to renew one's faith in the future.

An already popular app sohuld become more widely used now with Intuit's backing.

Sponsored Post: Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt kicked off The 18th Annual Webby Awards with an opening monologue that simultaneously honored and spared no barbs for the weird and wonderful world of the Web.

Digg.com has again become one of my favorite news sources on the Internet.

After reading the excellent new book by virtual staffing expert Chris Ducker, called Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business (BenBella Books...

Acquia, a startup that helps big companies build and maintain their Drupal-based websites, just picked up a huge round of funding to scoop up new clients and add even more features to its services. Today, the company ann...

Powdered food replacement, Soylent, is all the rage in Silicon Valley, but a new study shows that it could have serious consequences for mammals.

2014's first quarter in venture capital was "up and to the right."

Sponsored Post: Foursquare, which made its name for popularizing the check-in, is becoming a leading contender for powering location in the age of wearable and connected devices.

A carbon tax has great appeal. It could reduce the risk of climate change by building emissions costs into market prices, thus discouraging the use of carbon-based fuels. And it would make a lot of revenue available for ...

The way to understand what a reformed healthcare system will do to the nation isn?t merely political. To see where the Affordable Care Act will take us over the next five to ten years requires an assessment of its social...

Staving off ARM seems like a big strategic goal for Intel in this deal.

A successful startup, TechChange is wrestling with the question of scale - be it in depth or breadth.  When should an enterprise scale and how?