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Corporate boardrooms are all talking about cyber security and risk - but they may be overlooking the obvious. A report just out reveals that 71% of employees in a new survey say that they have access to data they should ...

Intel's Mike Bell will leverage the Internet of Things platform to make better wearables.

Taking a leaf out of eBay's book, Amazon has announced a new "Make an Offer" feature that lets consumers negotiate prices with merchants.

Google wants technology companies to become more diverse. Now, through its Google for Entrepreneurs division, the company plans to lower the cost of data science education for people from groups that are traditionally un...

GoodGame helps popularize e-sports and draw brands into sponsorships.

Compared to Mozilla and Google, Microsoft is pitifully slow.

Music startup SoundCloud isn’t done raising money, especially now that YouTube has launched its own streaming music service that directly competes with SoundCloud. The company is rumored to be raising another $150 mill...

The study that manipulated the emotions of nearly 700,000 users was the top-cited academic report of the year. A dry ecological paper which included an explosive author comment was close behind.

Addvocate, a startup helping companies evangelize through employees’ social media presence, is merging with Trapit, a content recommendation engine. The new company, Addvocate-Trapit, also announced it has raised $10 m...

On-demand delivery startup Postmates is gearing up to launch a new system for brick-and-mortar merchants, enabling them to control their inventory and sell their wares online, VentureBeat has learned.

Network effects enable the biggest winner in a market to take both market share and market rewards disproportionately from other competitors. Establishing a unique customer proposition that is rapidly accepted by custome...

Google today announced a new feature called reactive prefetch for its mobile search product. The feature means Google mobile search is now 100 to 150 milliseconds faster, but only in Chrome for Android. The browser limit...

The public relations industry is a lot like the American economy. The rich are getting richer, the middle class is shrinking, and the poor must find novel ways of getting by.

Citigroup expects to incur a $2.7 billion charge to settle foreign exchange, LIBOR, anti-money laundering and compliance investigations weighing on the bank's shares.

Douglas Elmendorf has been the head of the Congressional Budget Office since 2009. His term is expiring, and The Washington Post, along with a few prominent Republicans and Democratic lawmakers, is calling for him to be ...

When you’re a hot technology startup making your case to prospective customers, you’ve got bigger companies beat hands-down in many compelling ways. You’ve got the agility to move quickly and flexibly to address cu...

Uncertainty is the last thing you want to worry about when traveling, especially when it comes to where you’re staying. VaycayHero offers a happy medium between renting home properties and ensuring that customer servic...

Apple has been awarded a new patent for a mobile device screen that orients images according to the viewer’s perspective relative to the phone. The first time we saw this technology in a mobile device was in Amazon’s...

Google has announced the most popular YouTube videos of 2014, and released its usual YouTube Rewind that attempts to mash the hits together. The top trending video this year was a prank about a spider dog in Poland, whil...

Intel has created a platform that customers can use to make everyday objects smarter and connected.

Twitter is adding even more audience targeting knobs for advertisers, announcing today “tailored audiences from mobile apps” for advertising. With the new targeting capabilities, advertisers can better target their a...

MasterCard has labs around the world. Now it is opening one in East Africa to be close to low income people to promote financial inclusion.