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Guest Post: The consumer privacy status quo is unsustainable. It's time to move from the "wild west" of data, where anything goes, to an arrangement that's more like the real world, where strong relationships are built o...

Guest Post: Supervalu and Albertsons are the latest retail chains to get hit by credit card breaches, but they won't be the last. Here's why.

Sometimes its okay to build an entire company around a feature, as media ID service Shazam is demonstrating. Today, the company revealed it’s seeing 100 million monthly active users tagging songs and video from mobile ...

Microsoft’s Bing Maps team just announced a major update, introducing "street side views” (Bing’s answer to Google’s street view) to 64 new cities and 3D maps to 29 new cities. In addition, the company announced ...

Hewlett-Packard reported better-than-expected earnings for its third fiscal quarter ended July 31. The tech giant, whose earnings are a bellwether for the consumer and enterprise computer markets, said that its third fis...

From the NSA and Snowden to Target, Heartbleed and the U.K. phone-hacking scandal, privacy will likely be the tech story of the decade. A new Australian startup thinks it has the answer. But you're not going to like it.

Sponsored Post: "We all carry in our pockets a temple of science," claims Tyler Bell, VP of Product for Factual. He's talking about the power of mobile devices to collect location data points that let businesses and adve...

Healthcare might be the first major industry to benefit from Google Glass-based tech.

As flash gets cheaper, now companies will want and need to get the best bang for their buck as they buy more of it.

To bring some civilized order to this zoo of labs, Health Gorilla is looking to provide what it describes as "the first online healthcare marketplace to connect all doctors and clinicians" with the testing facilities.

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Today, Barnes & Noble and Samsung unveiled the “Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook,” the first Nook release since the launch of the Nook HD way back in 2012. The release marks a new direction for Barnes & Noble, as the compan...

Another digital health company is finding some market traction, and some new funding, in the home monitoring business.

COACH, Michael Kors, Apple and New Balance, as well as brands like GM and Rebecca Minkoff are all succeeding in China and with the Chinese Global Consumer Demographic.

During his stand-up comedy career, Steve Martin was the comedic equivalent of Bono from U2. He could sell out a stadium that seats forty-five thousand people, which at the time, was completely unfathomable for a comedian...

This week, we talk with Diego Oppenheimer, chief executive of startup Algorithmia, which is creating an app store for algorithms.

Earlier this month Google said it would be prioritizing encrypted sites in search results, but it's not equipped to include encrypted retailers in its Trusted Stores program.

First impressions count. From work events to cocktail hours, small talk is in every aspect of your day to day life. Making a great first impression at social functions can be a daunting task. According to psychologist Li...

Under the deal, Unity-based games will run fast on Intel's latest tablet processors.

Shortly after Uber’s API launch, taxi hailing app turned ridesharing startup Hailo launched its own transportation API. “A big day for transportation APIs!” reads a pitch from the company, which opened its API toda...

Today Twitter’s six second video sharing app, Vine, introduced advanced video editing and video importing features — two major additions which will forever change the service going forward. We’ll get to why in a mo...

Google Analytics is the most popular free tool you can use to measure the success of your inbound marketing efforts. With it, you can view the volume of your website traffic, track where your users are coming from and wh...