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Guest Post: Articles and blogs have called Fire everything from a "showrooming nightmare" to a "threat to retailers." But is all this doom and gloom really warranted?

A new study adds some empirical firepower to the idea that poor patent laws are crushing innovation in the technology industry.

Web streaming giant Hulu has landed a major deal with the creators of South Park, securing exclusive rights to the TV show’s massive content backlog. Since 2008, South Parks’ creators have made nearly every episode o...

Investment inspiration can come from many highly unlikely sources. Wisdom is typically gained from an expensive education of real-world experience and painful losses. Occasionally, though, we can find important nuggets o...

First Rap Genius helped the Web understand rap. Then the startup set out to annotate everything, from literature and history to sports and film. Now with 40 million in new funding from Dan Gilbert and Andreessen Horowitz...

It seems everyone is a self-described entrepreneur.

IBM is pushing big data software to Chinese universities, by way of an agreement with China’s Ministry of Education. Under a program called IBM U-100, IBM is donate a whole mess of big data and analytics software worth...

We held our annual MobileBeat conference this past week, and boy, did we have a great time. In case you missed it and all the news that came out of it, catch yourself up by taking a look below at all the new stuff compan...

The American people demanded that President Obama help Tesla battle state regulators and sell directly to consumers.