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The excerpt below comes from Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Technology Report’s recent full-length interview with Kegan Schouwenburg, co-founder and CEO of SOLS Systems. (Full disclosure: my venture firm Lux Capital is an equ...

Run a ruler over the 31 most economically significant business clusters in the United Kingdom and what do you find?

Google's Chromecast streaming stick just gained a cool, new trick.

On September 27th, Jay Z will join No Doubt, Tiësto, fun., Carrie Underwood and The Roots as a headliner at the third annual Global Citizen Festival in front of an expected crowd of 60,000 on the Great Lawn in Central P...

Facebook founder and hoodie-enthusiast Mark Zuckerberg revealed his extremely optimistic prediction for how the Internet will reshape the lives of the poorest people on Earth.

IBM is exploring chip alternatives like graphene and carbon nanotubes.

Poor people lead incredibly complex financial lives. Cut off from even the most basic banking services, they are trapped in cash-based systems that are risky, expensive, and inefficient – systems that prevent them from...

Sponsored Post: BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin infrastructure provider, today announced it is launching "BitFury Capital": a seed investment fund. The fund will leverage BitFury's leading position in bitcoin and cryp...

App developers have to pay attention to what happens when an app crashes. Or they'll lose customers.

Much of the hype around crowdfunding has frustratingly proved to be so much hot air. The United Nations Global Compact and the U.S. State Department are working to change that by bringing crowdfunding forward to finance ...

Dronestagram just announced the winners of its first contest.

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! Eve...

MarketWatch has combined its coverage of the day's big movers in the premarket and regular stock-market sessions to give readers seamless coverage beginning at 5:30 a.m.

The first half of 2014 saw 30 technology company IPOs in the United States, including such firms as software-as-a-service company Paycom Software, cloud-based software company Castlight Health, and UK-based interactive g...

Dovetail Games hopes there's pent-up demand for flight games.

Real-estate information service Trulia has seen tremendous success with its mobile app. But the trick is turning people who are idle browsers into more serious, long-term customers.

There are plenty of brilliant ideas out there, but there are very few leaders who can build a successful business. Over 50% of small businesses fail in the first 5 years. Here is why.

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella won't stop saying it's now a cloud-first, mobile-first world. It's not crazy, then, to expect Microsoft to keep being aggressive in the burgeoning public-cloud business.

ServiceNow, a publicly traded IT software company, is shelling out $100 million for Neebula, a startup with software that maintains maps of available IT infrastructure and that competed with one of ServiceNow’s product...

On Wednesday, the Google Cloud Platform offered two terabytes of annual online storage to businesses for free. The free object store service is available to users of a newly free cloud gateway virtual appliance from Goog...

Scytl is trying to modernize elections by killing the ballot box and moving the voting process online. SAP Ventures just handed the startup another $20 million to help the company expand. The software focuses on providin...

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! As ...