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Not to be outdone by Apple's upcoming mobile payment solution, MasterCard has unveiled its own vision of secure NFC-based payments.

AMD's new chief explains why the company is cutting jobs and downgrading its forecast for Q4.

Ron Klain will lead the Ebola outbreak containment program

Guest Post: Forty percent of patients want to use technology to deal with health issues without visiting a physician's office. Just 17 percent of physicians are in favor.

Each week, our friends at Backerjack bring us updates on some of the most successful gadget crowdfunding campaigns.   Darma Darma is a smart seat cushion that doubles as your posture coach. It monitors your sitting habi...

Snapchat today announced plans to roll out its first advertisement to its users this weekend. The ad will appear in “Recent Updates” and will only be sent to U.S. users. The company also revealed how its ads will wor...

Obama signs an order to protect federal financial institutions from cyber thugs. But it may already be too late.

The most interesting thing about Apple's newest OS X update? It goes way beyond the desktop.

Android tablets go 64-bit for the first time with the new Nvidia superchip.

Since launching its pilot app aimed at delivering test results direct to patients, Healthvana has achieved a 66 percent engagement rate.

The key take-away? When you give something to get something, you can get a lot.

As promised, Google today released the Android 5.0 Lollipop SDK and accompanying Nexus preview images. You can grab all you need by heading to the Developer Preview page. More to follow.

When I first saw the title of a recent research study from Forrester my immediate attention went to the word "modern."

People with multiple projects running inside the Google public cloud can now manage payments for them all in one central place, Google announced today. What’s more, Google is giving people more options for who can hand...

Twitter is aiming to launch its new Buy button to all organizations some time in the first quarter of 2015, VentureBeat has learned. The Buy button officially debuted last month with Twitter testing its functionality wit...

To celebrate the release of OS X Yosemite, Tumblr has launched on Apple’s desktop operating system. You can download the new app now directly from the Mac App Store. Tumblr’s Mac app has two features. It lets you bro...

Americans are afforded a privilege which, while not rare on Earth, is certainly unavailable to billions of other Earthlings: We’re allowed to vote for those who represent us in government. The words “privilege” a...

Venture capitalists are already surpassing last year’s investments in terms of dollars and are increasingly interested in later stage companies, according to a new report by PwC/NVCA MoneyTree based on data from Thomso...

The Population Reference Bureau recently reported that 68% of mothers with children ages six and under are in the work force. The recent economic recession, growth of single-mother households, increase in women's educati...

It's become too hard to ignore a controversy that isn't going away.

As an entrepreneur, I'm fascinated by the myths that people tend to believe. Somehow, entrepreneurship has built up a mythology that is founded upon legend, anecdotes, movies, and who-knows-what else. Here are few of tho...

Editor’s Note: You asked and Elena Bajic answered. Today is the third response in Forbes’ weekly Ask An Expert series, running from now through the third week of November.