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Someone in the data protection space is having a really good day — new funding and an acquisition. That someone is Infrascale, which announced today that it has raised $16.3 million in a second round of institutional f...

Everyone wants to be “GitHub for designers.” But now GitHub is GitHub for designers. The design biz has no industry standard for backing up old versions of files, monitoring changes, or even organizing documents. As ...

Dropbox’s latest startup buy makes perfect sense — and it’s not just because the acquisition’s name also starts with “Drop.” The cloud storage company has acquired stealth messaging startup Droptalk, accordin...

Linkedin Billionaire and education policy-enthusiast, Reid Hoffman, has an intriguing new theory for a new type of digital literacy: "Network literacy".

Facebook's latest acquisition could change the way humans interact with one another forever.

A publisher feud with Amazon just got the Colbert bump. Last night, the soon-to-be host of the Tonight Show literally gave Jeff Bezos the middle finger over his company's questionable tactics against the Hachette publish...

On its quest to create as many merchant-centric products as it possibly can, Square added today a feature that lets you ask customers for the money they owe simply through the Internet. — imagine that. Square Invoices ...

Silicon Valley investor and technologist Marc Andreessen today declared NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden a traitor on national television. Andreessen has defended the NSA in the past, but the investor’s latest statements m...

The future of college financial aid will include experiments among colleges trying to sort out new paths to providing maximum aid to students with less federal and state funds, forcing institutional dollars to be used mo...

As I leave the swanky raw juice bar near my house on my way to work, I couldn’t help but be struck by the clientele. The ultra-fit guys grabbing a protein shake with all organic ingredients, whose iPhone headphones wer...

GOG wants to bring its player-friendly policies to the PC client space.

The embattled live TV streaming service Aereo can now be accessed on the living room TV using Google’s Chomecast. In order to use Aereo's technology with Chromecast, users will download the Aereo app for Android in the...

The Witcher is coming Feb. 24.

The chat rooms of FireChat are brash and chaotic, but they're proving out a new technology that lets smartphones access the web without carriers, or government intrusion.

When determining market fit, entrepreneurs should position their products to be more like a pain killer and less like a vitamin. If you don't provide a product or service which relieves great and immediate pain, the cust...

While the Seattle-based coffee giant previously dominated and even threatened local brands with over 600 outlets in Korea, newcomer Caffe Bene has eclipsed that number with over 900 locations since first opening in 2008....

Hackers who commit cyber security crimes that threaten the U.K.’s national security could soon face life in prison, government officials recently proposed. Cyberattacks resulting in “loss of life, serious illness or ...

These days every semi-urban spread that can muster a university staff and a gaggle of investors is talking up its credentials as a tech hub brimming with promise. One prize that assures a burgeoning startup hotspot a bli...

By David Slocum

Today LinkedIn unveiled “Galene,” a year-long effort to scale its search engine and gather “all the economic data there is in the world — to obtain the world's first economic graph.” One day after launching red...

In the ongoing battle for new car-service app drivers, $500 bonuses and free tacos will not suffice. It's time for perks.

The top five pieces of customer service expert advice: Use these daily and your competitors will never know what hit tthem.