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After Beats Sale, Curation Platforms Are Hot, Hot, Hot. 

Will all the excitement (or craziness) happening over the holiday weekend, you may have missed that the "super PAC to end all super PACs" MayDay.us successfully hit its $5 million funding goal.

The Russian parliament passed a new bill (in both houses) that will require companies to store data about its citizens on servers located within the country, reports AFP. The vote happened on Friday, which coincidentally...

Guest Post: There's no better time than the present for established enterprise players like IBM, Salesforce, and Oracle to swallow up bleeding-edge business intelligence companies. From SAP to Microsoft, established play...

YouTube has recently started notifying users that their Internet Service Provider could be the reason for awful video streaming playback.

Here are 10 inspirational quotes from Zimbabwe's richest man, Strive Masiyiwa, to guide you through the week and always.

Year after year since the big app stores launched, native apps have asserted their hegemony over the mobile web. One big drawback of native apps was the inability then the difficulty to seamlessly access any content from...

Guest Post: 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 ticke...

I've often explained that "third-party payer" is a major problem in our healthcare sector.

Guest Post: Angel investing is the quintessential definition of risk versus reward. The reward is you might own part of the next Google; the risk is you have a statistical probability of losing every cent you put into th...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to be active when trading resumes on Monday are Lorillard, Lululemon Athletica, and GoPro. The stock market is closed on Friday due to Fourth of July holiday.

Strength in construction has contributed to privately held companies’ healthy and consistent growth in sales and profit margins, according to new data from Sageworks, a financial information company. Sales for private ...

The science journal that published the findings of Facebook's secret study on 700,000 unsuspecting users says the methodology was dubious