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The International Space Station will continue its home improvement project next year, this time by adding a large, inflatable workroom from Bigelow Aerospace that will be put into orbit by the SpaceX Dragon rocket.

In tribute to the leadership of Steve Jobs, flash back to 1997, when Jobs had recently returned to the company after Apple's acquisition of NeXT. At an internal company meeting, Jobs talks about the reboot at Apple and r...

Guest Post: Not everything about the merger/acquisition process is picking daisies. As a founder, here's what you need to know.

Sharing is caring...and cheaper.

There is something marvelously human and real about a selfie, and I was wondering today if that “human-ness” can be created in your website.

Apple today released its second “golden master” update of OS X Yosemite to developers, as rumors of an October launch surge. Typically, a golden master (GM) release indicates that a public — non-beta — launch is ...

Guest Post: Get out of the weeds of your organizations and focus everything -- strategies, tactics, organizational initiatives, marketing, sales, and human resources -- on how the networked consumer is going to engage th...

I deeply believe that transformative scientific advances occur when a small group of passionate investigators - Folkman's "inquisitive physicians" and researchers - relentlessly pursue a question, armed with the best tec...

Tech companies have been under pressure to reassure customers that they aren't eager to hand over user data to the government, and to be more transparent cases where it had to.

Has Warren Buffett not read that average visits to a dealership before buying a new car is down from five visits in the pre-digital era to about 1.3 visits in 2014? Gone are those days when people would go into dealershi...

Stella Goulet is Avanade's first-ever CMO. Created in 2000 by Accenture and Microsoft, the enterprise technology provider wanted to bring brand and marketing to the next level--at a time when getting close to customers a...

Today, one-tap messaging app Yo is stepping up its game with a new location-sharing feature. Now you can set up the app so that it sends your current location when you “Yo” a friend. In addition to enabling location ...

Some startups burst onto the scene and become instantly famous. Think Mailbox, Yo, or Ello; they cause a firestorm and it seems like everyone is talking about them. Others work hard, develop a product, app, or service, a...

Today Squarespace unveiled the seventh major iteration of its flagship site builder tool, Squarespace 7, and announced partnerships with Google and Getty Images.

Once upon a time when we admired someone for their grit and determination we said they had moxie. It’s an old-fashioned word popularized in movies of the Thirties and Forties about those who battled the odds. It’s a ...

For the record, the NFL team in question did not put on the pads and literally blitz its fans; that would be quite the story for sure. However one NFL team's marketing department, with the help of a large retailer, absol...

In addition to its new mobile Audience Network, Facebook today also launched a new advertising type for business owners: local awareness ads. Local awareness ads are rolling out to US advertisers “over the coming weeks...

Scientists turned the data gathered from the Large Hadron Collider into a symphony?call it the real music of the spheres. And this music gives us a look at the radical future of data visualization.

Advertisers, this one’s for you: Google is making its affinity-based ad targeting even sharper now with its new custom affinity audiences. A little over a year ago, Google launched Affinity Segments for AdWords and You...

I love stories that have unexpected beginnings. Alexandra Diracles and Melissa Halfon met at Startup Weekend EDU in New York City this past January. They left with a first place winning prototype and the start of Vidcode...

Many of us have limiting beliefs about ourselves in at least one area of our lives. These limiting beliefs lead to a decrease in confidence. You may be an expert and thriving in one area of your life, but in other areas ...

The digital health accelerator StartUp Health said Tuesday it has added 13 new companies to its portfolio, increasing its total to 84. The new companies represent a diverse range of subsectors, from big data and medicati...