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Could reports that a tech entrepreneur hit his girlfriend 117 times over half an hour --- leading to his firing from a company he founded --- affect the reception of his new company? That's not a rhetorical question.

Congress and corporate America are in a dangerous and mutually destructive race: The more lawmakers threaten to ban the practice of inversions—where U.S. based multinationals merge with foreign firms to lower their ta...

Late Wednesday night, Twitter announced it acquired mobile payment system CardSpring. Twitter’s advertising team says CardSpring will fit nicely into the company’s framework for recommending products and services, an...

AMD's PC chip business is slowing, but game console revenues are healthy.

Google reported a strong second quarter Thursday, highlighted by improved ad revenues on and off Google sites. Revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2014 were $15.96 billion, representing a 22 percent increase over the...

Sponsored Post: DesignMedix, Inc., a biotech startup with ties to Portland State University, has closed a second round of angel funding from investors in the Northwest. Investors include Portland Seed Fund, as well as me...

Starbucks plans on adding the ability to place and pickup orders to its mobile payment app.

IBM chief says business is strong in cloud, big data and analytics, security, and mobile.

The World Cup just ended last Sunday, as we may expect, passionate soccer fans who are lucky enough to visit Brazil probably have made a lot of international friends. Facebook data scientists now tell us from which count...

Guest Post: Viewing the mobile channel as a tool for browsing and not buying could blinker advertisers to its true value in driving users towards a purchase.

Data might just be the new driver of business success. Airbnb uses data to match lodging and travelers. Netflix uses data to personalize your entertainment. Amazon uses data to sell you more stuff. And Google uses data t...

The French are having a hard time adjusting to technology.

Author Aaron Hurst has a plan to replace LinkedIn with a purpose-driven alternative called Imperative.

Shopping for insurance is often boring and unpleasant, much like eating brussels sprouts, said one PolicyGenius cofounder. That’s why the cofounders of PolicyGenius have set out to make the tastiest brussels sprouts. B...

Microsoft has decided not to continue its pursuit of original programming, despite having spent the past several years (and boat loads of money) ramping up plans for an entire slate of exclusive TV series. Microsoft’s ...

Mayo Clinic and Canaan Partners led the round for the HIPAA-compliant cloud imaging service.

Google’s driverless car prototype makes autonomous cars look like they’re right around the corner, but the verdict isn’t out on when they’ll hit your local dealership. For now, we’re stuck with autonomous-inspi...

Google announced today that the company is preparing to launch a watchface API for its new Android Wear software developer kit (SDK), which will make building smartwatch apps much easier. In a Google+ update today, devel...

Picture this: You're on a camping trip, up on some mountain in the middle of nowhere, and suddenly you get hurt and need to call for help. Problem is, your phone isn't getting any service, and you're now stranded without...

Jobr gets $2 million in seed round and launches a new web portal for recruiters.

Amazon announced on its developer blog today that high-quality display ads from the Amazon Mobile Ad Network can now be incorporated into iOS. Before, developers on the network were only able to host ads on Android or Fi...

Microsoft is now matching Google in yet another area. This time, like its arch-rival, Microsoft is helping people become forgotten. Following reports that it was intending to do so, the tech giant from Redmond has now cr...