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The new lawsuit looks like an extension of Amazon's awareness of Google as an increasingly serious competitor in the public-cloud market.

Young people these days are wired differently. And that's a good thing, according to Dr. Vera Cordeiro, founder of the award-winning Saúde Criança Association in Rio de Janeiro. “Through my contact with a significant...

One of the last things that is on an entrepreneur’s mind when they start a company are legal issues. Unfortunately, it is exactly these types of things that trip them up and can sink their company.

Today, Yahoo announced it’s killing off a series of products — an extension of some cleaning it did last year. Many of the features will be incorporated into Yahoo’s other offerings. For example, Yahoo will close s...

You started your business for a reason - but greatness doesn't happen with an employee mindset. If you're ready for entrepreneurial freedom, you need to switch your thinking and your day-to-day habits.

In Michigan, there is a non-profit called SPARK and it was co-founded by Michigan’s Governor Snyder.  SPARK’s annual report claims that they helped 13,024 new jobs, $1.5 billion in investment and 547 new companies; ...

Cyberbully's now have the law on their side in NY when it comes to smearing people on the Internet

Brian Chesky, wants a world more like the villages of old: highly trusting and filled with micro-entrepreneurs who shared their assets to make a living.

Restoration Hardware’s Chairman and CEO Gary Friedman remains dead set on expanding far beyond the four walls of the home and the company’s existing legacy. Importantly, though, it seems he honors those four walls, t...

Cloud Engines, the company behind Pogoplug, raised another $2 million in funding for its cloud storage service.

While the majority of people may be happy with the plethora of options available when it comes to streaming music, Samsung would like to remind you about its own service, Milk Music.

Coinbase, one of the better known digital wallets for cryptocurrency, has decided that just storing bitcoin is not enough — it’s now adding a new type of account called a “vault.” The digital cryptocurrency walle...

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. There are only a few tickets left! And...

If you're running a small business all by yourself, you've likely become a master at figuring things out. But sometimes it's smarter to get out of the way and let a professional handle it.

Surfwatch Labs aims to provide small enterprise with big data security solutions

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. There are only a few tickets left! Twi...

Attention, newspapers, magazines, and radio. For the first time, mobile ads will zoom past your ads this year. That’s the forecast today from market research firm eMarketer in its quarterly report, studded with record ...

With the threat of global warming looming, software developers are using mapping technology in innovative ways to challenge our changing climate head-on. Mapping firm Esri today announced the finalists for its Climate Re...

They say good design is about doing more with less. Yo is pushing that adage to the limit with a single-purpose app that the founders claim has garnered over 1 million users — 750,000 of them in just a few days of furi...

Apple said in April that it would discontinue support for AIM in iChat for people using a me.com or mac.com ID on Macs running OS X Lion 10.7.1 or earlier. Today is the the day.

Today, Facebook announced that it has acquired LiveRail, a video advertising technology company. Facebook vice president of ads product marketing and atlas Brian Boland writes in an official blog post: Today we're announ...

A new university study suggests that violent games make players more aware of violence in real life.