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  Japan and China are lagging far behind the US in global entrepreneurship, according to the recently released 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Index. With a historical score of 85, the US tops the list of countries on the ...

Guest:When I started researching India's engineering education in 2005, my first conclusion was that Indian I.T. was doomed. The country was barely graduating enough engineers to staff this growing industry. The quality ...

Amazon says it will once again be lowering the price of an Amazon Web Service, this time its CloudSearch service. CloudSearch is a managed service that that can be used by enterprises to set up and operate a search servi...

Cambrian Genomics, which has created a promising DNA-printing technology, has raised a sizable $10 million round of funding, by far the largest in the company's history. The funding round was described in a Securities an...

GameStop's stock price is down around 13 percent in after-hours trading.

Greg Lais, the founder and executive director of Wilderness Inquiry, a national nonprofit sharing outdoor experiences with all sorts of people, explains his philosophy in a few short sentences, "Attitude is more importan...

Sponsored:Kabam reveals the 'who done it' behind their three-day Creature Academy mystery contest.

User experience, or UX, is one of the most important facets of any technology-focused product or marketing approach, including an e-commerce site or business website. Referring to the way that a customer interacts with a...

Google, a master of online advertising, has devised a new mechanism for helping publishers — and itself — monetize content on the Internet. It’s called Contributor, and in posting a website about it today, Google i...

You can finally share tweets through private direct messages, Twitter announced today. With the feature, you can send a public tweet to a follower privately as you would with a link, for example. To do so through the Twi...

Jonathan Rosenberg, co-author of the new book How Google Works (along with Eric Schmidt), started at Google in 2002. He helped create some of the company’s most iconic products, including AdSense, Gmail, Android, and m...

Texting has some nasty effects on the spine. Craning our heads downward to stare at a screen creates an additional 60 pounds of pressure on our delicate spines, threatening the body with permanent injuries. This is accor...

By Greg Fischer and Dane Stangler

Amazon Web Services is getting more serious about its Zocalo cloud file-sharing service, today announcing the release of new mobile apps for Zocalo. And the service can now handle files as large as 5 TB, according to a b...

Google today shared an update from Project Loon, the company’s initiative to bring high-speed Internet access to remote areas of the world via hot air balloons. Google says it now has the ability to launch up to 20 of ...

A work schedule that fits your life is in your future.

When I worked in private equity, we would often decide not to invest in an early stage company due to high customer concentration (a large percent of revenue from one or two customers) which made the investment risk too ...

It’s been a pleasant week for Pluto TV, it would seem. The company just announced it's received $13 million worth of investment in a series A led by U.S. Venture Partners. The Los Angeles-based online video platform in...

If investors express concern that a startup's market space is crowded, it should be a big warning sign to entrepreneurs. The risks of competing in a crowded market fall into two broad buckets: market risk and financial r...

Collecting it isn’t enough – loads of organizations have piles of data gathered over years and years that just sits there, waiting to be harnessed. Analyzing it isn’t enough – insight is of no value sitting in so...

"This is the first time an app developer can integrate with an API that gives access to product availability for hundreds of retailers," Two Tap CEO and cofounder Razvan Roman told VentureBeat.

A few weeks after launch, the inventory of screened products has grown from 4,000 to 17,000.