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Less than a day after releasing the stable version of Chrome 39, Google has announced Chrome 40 beta for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Details are still scarce on everything included in this new release, but we do know it fea...

Disclosure: The organizers of Slush paid my way to Helsinki. Our coverage remains objective. HELSINKI — In front of a giant and sympathetic crowd here, Nokia unveiled its N1 Android tablet. The new device marks the Fin...

Business communications should be just as easy and convenient as the personal cell phone plans and services you buy, says SendHub. The Y Combinator-backed startup has been putting companies’ phone systems in employee p...

Sponsored:Coming to LA on Dec. 3rd, the 10th [a]list summit curates a high-level conversation about the most critical topics concerning mobile with some of the most successful companies in the space -- both established a...

Keeping an eye on your house while you’re away doesn’t have to mean spending a lot of money on fancy cameras — or even buying cameras at all. CamioCam, a company that turns your smartphone or tablet into a surveill...

Online retail giant Zappos.com has just launched a 20,000-foot physical retail store in its home of downtown Las Vegas. The experimental space is run in partnership with retail logistics startup OrderWithMe, which just r...

I had the chance to meet Marc Benioff and listen to his keynote address at the Utah Technology Conference's 2014 Hall of Fame Celebration. Here are five lessons I learned.

Last week, my organization, Root Capital, celebrated our 15th birthday with friends from around the world. Included in the crowd was Jonathan Rosenthal, a steadfast supporter and trusted advisor, and a pioneer within the...

Thursday, November 20 the important role angel investors play in helping startups grow is being celebrated as part of the first ever Global Business Angels Day, part of Global Entrepreneurship Week.  Angels are often a ...

The primary objective of Retention Marketing – to keep customers engaged and interested in your products and services – has not changed, but the way companies approach customer retention has. Thanks to constantly-evo...

It's finally over. The October 15th tax deadline is behind us, which means for tax practitioners, our return filings are mercifully finished for the year. Unless of course, you chose to make your career in the not-for...

Today RelativeWave, makers of iOS prototyping tool Form for Mac, announced it has been acquired by Google. With this deal, RelativeWave is making its flagship Mac app free. The company also hinted that it may expand to n...

Smart home technology is beginning to show up in the kitchen, which could change the way we acquire, prep and cook food over the next decade.

Many Americans were enamored by Warren Buffett's calls for higher taxes, but actions speak louder than words.

Actor, Uber investor, and hair-trigger tweeter Ashton Kutcher complained this morning about how it’s unfair that journalists “should be exempt from ridicule and judgement and probing.” Not surprisingly, the reactio...

Apple’s plans for Beats Music are finally becoming clear: The company will reportedly bundle the music subscription service into iOS next year. The service will remain a subscription service after it becomes part of th...

Now there’s a whole new way to keep the latest version of an application’s code hanging around — and a new way to contribute code to existing apps, too. Cloud provider Heroku today announced a new integration with ...

Startup beats out 100 other applications to claim Helsinki event's big prize.

Today, the Federal Trade Commission and the state of Florida have obtained federal court orders for a list of companies allegedly selling fraudulent computer software and tech support services, according to a release. Th...

Mobile device owners are switching on Google’s Chrome browser en masse. Google announced new mobile usage figures at its Chrome Dev Summit in Mountain View, Calif., today, and the growth is clear. Chrome has picked up ...

Sync 2.0 is coming. So are three other Sync products, for a price.

California natives Leo and Oliver Kremer felt New York City was missing a truly outstanding burrito joint. So the two brothers founded Dos Toros Taqueria and successfully expanded to five locations.