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For many years in the Middle East, the harsh weather, the oil wealth, male dominance of the public space, as well as a traditional patriarchal society made it difficult—or unnecessary—for women to enter the business ...

It’s a tough economy out there, financing and managing supply chains can be challenging for some business, but one startup is providing them with an alternative means to keep the balance sheets going. Taulia is a San F...

Latest earnings from social networking giant key up investors.

A canny developer decides it's time to seek safer terrain.

This is the digital Magic game that fans have been wanting since 2009.

Twitter finally released its own diversity report, revealing the micro-blogging giant is roughly similar to Google, Facebook, and most other major tech companies. “We are keenly aware that Twitter is part of an industr...

Now Uber works as a native mobile app, not just a web service, on Windows Phone.

Today Facebook posted its second fiscal quarter earnings with revenue $2.910 billion, a 61 percent increase from Q2 2013, and 30 cents in earnings per share. Analysts were expecting Facebook to report earnings of $0.32 p...

This article is by Simon Preece, director of effectiveness stuff at Elmwood, a brand design consultancy whose clients include Procter & Gamble, Fairway Supermarkets, Kimberly-Clark and Nestle.

In a recent article about Facebook’s “diversity”, a major news publication reported their employment as 69% male, 57% white, 34% Asian, 4% Hispanic  2% black and 3% other ethnics.  There was no mention of age or ...

Instead of selling one or two "iWatches," Apple and its partners will offer a family of smartwatches to suit all tastes "from geek to chic."

New private offering lets employees sell some of their holdings.

Get ready for Trifacta's Hadoop-focused data transformation to become a more common piece of the big data toolkit.

Mobile game maker, Social Point, just received $30 million in funding in a round led by Highland Capital Partners Europe.

In 2012, women held just 3.8% of Chief Executive Officer positions in Fortune 500 companies, and 90 out of 535 seats in US Congress.  Much has been written about why women are so severely underrepresented in senior lead...

Consumers and their sentimental postings on social media have become a treasure trove for advertisers and their mobile ad campaigns.

Guest Post: In 1973, Martin Cooper of Motorola used the earliest handset to make the first cell phone call. Since then, the mobile phone has evolved from a portable telephone to a personal digital assistant to a device f...

Yetang.com, an online Chinese retailer specializing in fashion and design from independent designers, has raised multi-million RMB in angel funding from IDG Capital Partners.

This article was co-authored with Dyan Crace.

New features in Version 2.0 include a looping feature for mash-ups and Key Lock, "the piano that can't play wrong notes."

Increasingly, technology can give companies a competitive edge in hiring. Data can help track which of your managers are best at identifying and recruiting "winners"--and can help them spot potential winners from within ...

This article is by Scott Sterner, senior VP of Search & Performance Marketing at Beeby Clark+Meyler.