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Forget health or messaging. The forthcoming Apple Watch could end up being a lynchpin for e-commerce. eBay, whose website allows people to buy and sell all sorts of things, both new and old, is seeking an iOS Engineer/Ar...

Monthly active users are a fine metric, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to grow the number of people who touch her company’s products daily. To do that, she’s considering messaging. “We want fewer tourists and mo...

Which site will be known as The Pirate Bay?

VB Insight:Mobile marketing automation is the new new marketing tech that helps mobile publishers engage and monetize users in a very fine-grained, right down to the individual level. According to our recently-released m...

Rusdi Kirana has taken Lion from one leased plane 15 years ago to the largest airline in Indonesia, and he's just getting started.

Taiwan touchscreen-maker Wintek guessed wrong on where the market was going, lost most of its business with Apple and ended up in bankruptcy.

Graham Turner and two friends began selling cheap plane tickets 30 years ago with a chain of shops called Flight Centre. Today, after fending off threats from the Internet to the occasional war, all three are rich.

Asian investors are pushing up Australian property prices and property fortunes.

The drive to be perceived as strong is becoming ever more prevalent in today’s society and is especially present in some members of our younger generation.

Today Facebook shared its latest revenue numbers, revealing that it brought in $3.59 billion in ad revenue over its fourth fiscal quarter, 69 percent of which unsurprisingly originated from mobile ads. Back in October, F...

In its Q4 2014 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed that it now has 1.39 billion monthly active users (up 13 percent year over year), and 1.19 billion mobile monthly users (up 26 percent year over year). Facebo...

Facebook today reported its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings for 2014, with revenue of $3.85 billion on non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $0.54. These figures beat analyst expectations of $3.77 billion in revenue and $0...

Last week, Microsoft got us all excited about, well, Microsoft (again), with the announcement of HoloLens, its upcoming augmented reality headset. Now Meta has raised $23 million in new funding for a similar technology. ...

Bill Gates thinks humanity should fear the rise of intelligent machines. In an “Ask Me Anything” forum on Reddit today, Gates explained that artificial intelligence will eventually pose an existential threat, but onl...

Look, here's the deal. Just because your top rep is killing it and bringing in bank she isn't untouchable. She has to be a good employee, with a great attitude and be aligned with the organization. There is a cost if sh...

Today Gates made his first public remarks on the Microsoft technology during an Ask Me Anything chat on Reddit.

Araxid's identity matching platform could be used in other industries -- like retail, which relies on accurate customer data to operate loyalty programs and better engage potential buyers.

Field Innovation Team or FIT is bringing hi-tech into the disaster recovery arena by training responders to use it and developing strategic relationships with technology partners to bring their best to bear when it's nee...

GitHub loves its bug bounty program.

The study suggests that Audience Network drives impressive customer loyalty, on par with News Feed and far better than display networks.

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Ever bent on competing with everyone, Amazon launched an email service called WorkMail this morning. The new service is exclusively for the workplace -- not personal use. Amazon will be charging subscription fees of $4 a...