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Philip Morris International's next generation of cigarettes are designed to heat tobacco, not burn it, cutting down on harmful substances.

Flash back to the year 2000. File sharing of digital tracks through Napster is all the rage for tech savvy music junkies. The record labels are annoyed but not yet distressed. After all they are just coming off of the be...

Microsoft and Salesforce.com chiefs say it's about giving customers what they want. But the moves should also pay off in greater usage and less frustration over a lack of interoperability.

The division that created Warhammer Online and Dungeon Keeper on mobile has shuttered.

Get ready to shop in a store where the store lighting is telling your smartphone about coupons, specials, and product placement. Next week at the big Lightfair show in Las Vegas, GE will show a new generation of LED ligh...

The NSA says they have only one copy of an email sent by Edward Snowden to his bosses inquiring about the legality of the agency's metadata collection efforts.

Australia's deputy prime minister Warren Truss announces that the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has discounted the 330-square-mile search area in the Indian Ocean as the final destination for Malaysian Airlines flig...

"Kalanick's comment displays the same lack of consideration for people that Uber has shown when it comes to public safety in its transportation business," says a taxi industry spokesperson.

Sponsored Post: Data management for mobile applications is exactly what it sounds like: it's all about moving data around. It isn't an application design problem, yet so many people approach it at the API layer.

San Jose-based Qeexo says they are revolutionizing the touch screen experience with a new software program called FingerSense.

Sadly, the House Ways & Means Committee has turned on its head a proposal by its chairman, Dave Camp (R-MI) to repeal bonus depreciation for business capital investment. Instead of scrapping the measure, which Congress o...

Last month I connected with Robert Brooke, cofounder of Stevia First — a company that hopes to make stevia—a plant-derived, zero-calorie sweetener—into a viable alternative that’s sweeter, cheaper, and greener t...

General Casey writes, "VUCA environments thus become invitations for inaction - people are befuddled by the turmoil and don't act. And to succeed, you must act!" In today's business world, inaction triggers the certain, ...

Guest Post: Augmented reality and cloud computing have had similar trajectories on Gartner's Hype Cycle, so why has AR struggled to attract capital investment to date while cloud investment is strong?

One of the best-known names in consumer LED technology, Royal Philips, is teaming up with indoor farming company Green Sense Farms (GSF) to create one of the largest commercial farms yet to use LED grow lights – approx...

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? 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! There he g...

Don’t get me wrong—I’m an exhaust-smoking, manual gearbox-shifting oil-stained wrench when it comes to enthusiasm for automobiles and driving them. Cars represent freedom: to travel, to tour, to just sit and listen...

London is gearing up for a celebration of its technology credentials, organizing a vast collection of happenings and events to entertain and inspire players from all sectors of the techonomy.

Startle.com chose ten of the best, off-the-beaten-path London attractions you'll want to visit on your next trip.

I recently spoke to etail expert Michael Ross, chief scientist at eCommera, the software-as-a-service and big data company, about how ecommerce will evolve in the next decade. The changes will be subtle, but marked; here...

This weekend, news broke that Apple's entry into the smart home space could be imminent. As with any new market that Apple enters, the news caused some to speculate that an Apple smart home effort could hurt some of the...

A woman who has raised $200M in VC money offers tough talk - and solid advice - to female founders who are fundraising.