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The price of Bitcoin might not be hitting record highs these days, but that doesn’t mean startups in the cryptocurrency business have hit a low point. Hardly. Today we hear that KnCMiner, a company that cranks out chip...

Bridj offers comfy buses with dynamically updated routes that take into accounts tons of data points about passengers' trips and needs, traffic, and so on.

Everybody always knew that Tesla Motors' $5 billion gigafactory would be an expensive proposition for the state that won the deal. Until Thursday, it looked like the price tag would be $500 million, or 10 percent of the ...

In the developed world, financial institutions use credit history in order to assess a person’s creditworthiness and subsequently issue them financial products at personalized terms. Unfortunately, that’s difficult t...

Regular browser tabs are boring, and they need a little sprucing up. Fortunately, the folks over at Pinterest seem to think so too, and today the company released Pinterest Tab for Chrome, a Chrome extension that greets ...

Cloud providers — those companies that store remote data — are coming around to welcome a new kind of operating system, one that updates itself not unlike Google Chrome browser. CoreOS, the fledgling startup behind t...

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E-commerce giant Alibaba sets its IPO price range at $60 to $66 per share.

Pango Mobile Parking app lands $6.5 million in venture funding

In this week's podcast, we chat with IDG Ventures partner PHil Sanderson about the game industry, where the growth is, and why so many VCs are reluctant to invest in game companies.

Today Google announced it has settled a class action lawsuit involving six different photography trade associations. The six organizations collectively sued over copyright infringement involving books scanned for Google ...

A massive investigation into a sophisticated cyber breach at retail giant Home Depot enters its fourth day with zero answers about what actually happened.

LucidWorks has gone through two rounds of layoffs, struggled to ship software on time, lost customers, and installed a chief executive with no prior C-level experience. And yet, investors have poured more money into the�...

Jade lived every day as if it were her last. That's because... Well, any day, it could be...

Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama and Ugandan multi-millionaire tycoon Ashish J. Thakkar, on Friday officially launched Mara Mentor, an African multi-lingual online portal and mobile App for youth mentorship and ent...

Our newest speakers come from Tencent, Sony Online Entertainment, Pixelberry, and Fyber

Microsoft wants to provide more natural experiences for people to interact with computers. The latest product of that desire: a bot on social networks that can interact with Chinese speakers.

It’s been a while since we heard from noted investor Tim Draper, who first told me he wanted to break California into six separate states last December. His advocacy organization, aptly named “Six Californias,” has...

Days before Apple is expected to announce the media-dubbed “iWatch” wearable, Google has jumped in to tease upcoming features to its Android Wear platform: offline music support, GPS support, and downloadable watch f...

The Federal Trade Commission found that minors were easily able to make unauthorized payments, and Google has agreed to comply with the government's ruling.

Sponsored Post: Big data, analytics, and consumer online behavior are all things that we hear a lot about in the marketing and sales worlds, but what do they really mean, and what are their practical uses?

It's not that hard to see how mobile games will bury game consoles anymore.