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By now, we are all familiar with the Post-PC era: a time when SmartPhones, tablets and other mobile devices have pushed aside PCs. After all, we live in it.

Google has just amped up the storage speeds of its burgeoning public cloud by starting to store companies' data on fast solid-state drives instead of more conventional (and cheaper) hard disks.

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Brands come and brands go.  We've seen the business cycle get shorter and shorter in past decades (Facebook's 10-year reign seems like a lifetime) and it makes it harder and harder to carve out a lasting niche for yours...

The brightest young stars in the music business.

Most artists will bristle when contemplating the idea that the fine-tuning of their work could be taken over by software and automation. How can a code or algorithm adequately capture the nuances they envision in their w...

Wikipedia has tried tirelessly over the years to keep its online encyclopedia free from misinformation and bias by keeping those with vested interests from contributing to articles. As of today, that’s getting a slight...

BuzzFeed may raise a $200 million funding round -- its fifth to date -- a source close to the matter claims. It's unclear how far along talks are, nor is it clear who will lead the round, although existing investors ...

Despite all the talk about smartwatches — both the real and the hoped-for — activity trackers like FitBit are way more popular in the real world. Activity tracker shipments reached 2.35 million during the first quart...

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The feds are looking for help and offering cash for programmers able to help stem the onslaught of robocallers.

Building a business is serious work and should not be undertaken lightly. More importantly, in order to build a business that might endure, the entrepreneur needs to build a company culture that is focused on generating ...

3D printer pioneer MakerBot is bringing its signature printers to Panama! The company has entered into a reselling agreement with Anantek Inc., owner of Makerz, Panama’s first 3D printer shop. The store will sell many ...

Discussing buy-sell agreements with business owners, I sometimes get odd looks when I assign names to clauses they have, or don’t have, in their agreements. The owner might say, “If we’ve already set up a buy-sell ...

The vocationally focused nanodegree is designed to be a lifelong learning portfolio that would be widely recognized by the tech industry and far cheaper to obtain.

CounterTack, which provides information about and protection against targeted attacks against commercial and government networks, says it’s taken another $5 million in investment money to continue scaling its business....

Questions about the identity of the hero in the Zelda Wii U trailer split the franchise's fan base and spawned plenty of speculation. Luckily, we learned the truth.

Microsoft wants to give businesses an easy way to predict outcomes with data inside its cloud. Toward that end, today the tech giant announced Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, a service for engineers to build models of ...

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Not wanting to miss the consumer health data craze, MebMD has announced the launch of a new health portal that will wrap its physician-reviewed health information around biometric health data collected from all sorts of ...

Metal Gear fans love the cardboard box. It's more useful than ever in The Phantom Pain.

There is no shortage of streaming music services available, which means underdogs like Beats Music need to step up their game to grab the attention from music fans. Beats is doing this through a series of exclusive track...