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The online auction site is considering the elimination of as many as 3,000 jobs early next year, as the company gets ready to spin off its PayPal division into a separate company. The cuts will affect people in eBay’s ...

Despite being located in Silicon Valley, Cognilytics has not taken a single dollar of venture capital.

Lending Club closed at $23.43 per share, after an auspicious debut on the New York Stock Exchange this morning. The peer-to-peer lending platform got a pop at the market open, jumping 60 percent from its announced price ...

To put Adobe's fourth quarter financials simply, the company surpassed expectations.

Social justice protests have targeted tech folks before.

When I was first learning about organic food production and consumer values in the 1990s, the “organic Twinkie problem" was being hotly debated in both the academic and popular presses. Could a Twinkie really be consid...

Apple continues to treat games like throwaway toys that don't matter.

Google, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies, is donating $2 million in grants to San Francisco to help the city’s homeless population, the mayor’s office announced. The grants will be split up among thre...

King is already dominating iOS and Android. Now, it's heading to Windows Phone.

Today a startup called Ledger is launching a super encrypted physical Bitcoin wallet the size of a keychain. The France-based company is yet another champion of cold storage, marking a growing trend among recently launch...

Microsoft today announced it will revealing “the next chapter of Windows 10″ at its Redmond, Washington campus on January 21. As previously revealed, the company says it will be talking about the Windows 10 “consum...

Sony will debut its console four months after Microsoft's Xbox One launch.

Facebook today launched call-to-action buttons for Facebook Pages. It now has seven: Book Now, Contact Us, Use App, Play Game, Shop Now, Sign Up, and Watch Video. The new call-to-action feature is coming to the U.S. firs...

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Dropbox today launched its much-anticipated Project Harmony functionality, which brings collaboration tools to Microsoft Office desktop applications. Now known simply as “the Dropbox badge,” the new feature is rollin...

Google today launched a major revamp of its main iOS app, bringing a new look and adding new features. You can download the new version now from Apple’s App Store. If it looks oddly familiar, that’s because the iOS a...

Handy, a mobile app that offers consumers cleaning services on-demand, is launching on Android today and issuing an erie update to its iOS version -- real-time tracking of service professionals. At 15 minutes prior to yo...

The startup could expand its reach into software and gaming, but the growing popularity of cloud software means Framed could be in a great spot right where it is now.

Apple declared that Monsu is one of the best iOS apps of 2014.

Google today began rolling out new high-resolution 3D imagery on both Google Maps and Google Earth, starting with New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. The company is promising more cities will get the same treat...

RealSavvy is set up sort of like Pinterest for the Real Estate world -- both in terms of its user interface and ability to share.

Sponsored:For small companies, the initial price tag of traditional communication systems can be daunting. That's why many are turning to cloud VoIP PBX as a scalable, flexible, cost-effective alternative.