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Ninety-three percent of human interaction relies on non-verbal queues, so how can brands communicate effectively via social and mobile technologies?

Mobile advertising is hot, and lots of startups are trying to get a piece of it. Actually, one mobile advertising startup, San Francisco-based LiquidM, wants to help other companies get a piece of it. LiquidM makes a mob...

Hortonworks just got some more acknowledgment in the Hadoop businses as Pivotal comes around to the open-source Ambari management tool

Years ago, quite early in my development career (which itself is a second career to journalism), I was sitting comfortably in the board room of a white shoe law firm with panoramic views of midtown Manhattan. The occasio...

Over the last six years, Facebook's growth team has led the company’s explosive global expansion from 100M users to over a billion. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Facebook VP of Growth Alex Schultz will be jo...

Point-of-sale (POS) technology has made huge leaps over the last decade, and yet most business chains are stuck using bulky, ridged, and costly systems that have been around for decades.

Famed Silicon Valley startup incubator, Y Combinator, has published the gender makeup of their founders.

"Love Child" explores the story of a South Korean couple who let their real baby die while they played online games at an Internet cafe.

After more than 100 years of use, it's not that the funnel concept is obsolete; it was just never the right way to model the problem in the first place.

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Yeah for charts!

It's also good for democracy.

Every business wants the same two things: Intelligence in decision-making, and the agility to reposition itself in the marketplace. Armed with these two, no business can ever fail -- in theory. But that's not how things ...

"Please don't destroy all that effort" that went into "building the Bolt brand and technology to where it is today," Bolt co-founder and CEO Stephen Bolt asked Instagram.

Amazon has begun paying attention to games, and that's going to shake up the industry.

Technology and customer preferences are evolving so rapidly that the only businesses that will survive are those that are constantly adapting to changing conditions. Leaders must train themselves and their organizations ...

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As I'm reaching for my morning coffee, I see this email: "You’re invited to Lesbians Who Tech, a global community of over 4,000 queer women in and around tech (and the people who love them). Whether you work at a tech ...

CNRY, Inc. announced today that it has raised $700,000 in new seed funding. The company, better known as Birdi, is dedicated to building a “better” smoke alarm. This alarm will be connected to mobile devices via Wi-F...

With most of the world turning to mobile devices to listen to music and other audio content, NPR has rolled out a new 'NPR One' app today.

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