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Each purchasing decision we make is actually quite dependent upon the context in which it is made.

In a recent front page article, the Washington Post tells what it casts as the story of how Bill Gates, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, used his fortune to promote adoption of the now-controversial Common ...

Mobile gaming will grow around the world as people in developing regions earn more and get more access to smartphones.

“The seeds of great success are often right in front of you, hidden in the ashes of adversity.”     

Disaster recovery isn't hip. But big companies and cloud providers splurge to ensure their information is available if their data centers go haywire. So more funding for Zerto makes sense.

Cloud provider UCloud focuses on game hosting and related cloud services. Now UCloud will be able to build a data center in North America.

ABN AMRO, the bailed-out once-proud Dutch bank that fell prey to a carve-up after a period of ambitious expansion, plans to raise the salaries of its top 100 managers by 20 percent just in time before an announced salary...

Jim Clark: pioneer of computer-graphics technology, cofounder of Netscape and web browsing, and now, an investor in a shopping-rewards app, Ibotta. Clark is leading Ibotta’s second funding round, which is $20 million, ...

So just scratch IBM off the list, OK?

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[Disclosure: VentureBeat uses Outbrain.] The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), “the UK’s independent regulator for advertising across all media,” dealt a blow to so-called “native” ads often found along th...

By now, everyone has read that the Trademark Office issued its long-awaited decision, ruling that the word “Redskins” was disparaging to a substantial composite of Native Americans, and as a result, ordering six of t...

More than 50% of surveyed teens send sexual texts to each other as minors, and 28% of them are pornographic photos, according to a new study from Drexel University.

A new Kickstarter project from Japan seeks to eliminate the stigma associated with wheelchairs with a futuristic design that goes way beyond assisted mobility.

The House of Representatives has advanced a bill to permanently ban a tax on Internet access, as the November 1st moratorium deadline looms.

As David Rubenstein of Carlyle Group once succinctly remarked, “If you can make 20 percent of the profits on other people’s money, you are going to make a lot of money if you are good at what you do.” Never have tr...

You’ve been able to post GIFs to Twitter with Giphy since last year, but its never been an inherent feature in Twitter’s mobile platform. Now that’s all changed. Twitter is allowing you to upload animated GIFs from...

Just hours after receiving the software development kit for Amazon's Fire Phone, social networking startup Squarehub had elements of its Android app running in the Fire Phone environment, said Squarehub chief Dave Cotter...

Whoever said education is entirely moving onto the Internet and our devices might need to hold that thought. Today, Galvanize, a network of urban campuses focused on education for tech and Internet entrepreneurs, is anno...

Sponsored Post: Cloud Gaming, originally conceived as a streaming service, the Netflix for video games, has evolved to enable advanced game design at studio level.

Those concerned with criminal penalties may opt for the offshore voluntary compliance program. For many others, there's now a simpler ? and less costly ? alternative.

PayPal president David Marcus was shown the door because his vision for the company didn't jibe with eBay brass.