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Peter Thiel co-founded internet payments pioneer PayPal and big data consultancy Palantir Technologies and was an early investor in Facebook, in which he once held a 10% stake.

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This Year's Reggie Awards For Best Integrated Marketing Programs Included Some Lesser Known Brands As Winners Based On Strong Consumer Insights & Clever Brand Activations Of The Strategies

Big data software company Cloudera is getting bigger and bigger.

There's nothing very new about biosensing clothing; the clothing has for the most part been confined to athletic appeal. But that will change.

If you want to think of yourself as the smartest guy in the room (as I sometimes do) when the subjects of customer service, company culture, and hospitality come up, you’d better be sure the room in question doesn’t ...

Starting June 19, 2015, private companies have a new way to raise capital. Spurred by the JOBS Act, the SEC has approved changes to the little-used Regulation A that will allow companies two newly defined options to rais...

For opinion writers, it takes a special sort of gumption to deliberately antagonize your most loyal readers. In that spirit, this week's Profile in Editorial Courage award goes to Patrick Brennan of The National Review, ...

Smart scheduling tech heads over to Google.

Modern immigrants, like those who came before, are here to work hard and provide for their families. They want economic opportunity. They embody the American dream -- and they happen to be good for state governments' bot...

Who doesn’t love free stuff. Well, here at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, we just had the chance to speak with a startup that specializes in giving away free stuff. Gameit has built a pretty unique platform. Gameit is a mix be...

But even as Android surges past iOS, Google won't fully benefit from that.

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Phantom LogIn offers users a replacement password/login screen for their Android device. Rather than using a pin, text-based, or pattern password, Phantom LogIn users use pictures. What's more, once users select a passwo...

Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga has made a bid to buy Ivorian mobile telecoms operator Comium Cote d'Ivoire.

The feature works like Pinterest, in that you group content into collections, but the sharing part feels a little bit like Facebook.

VB Event: Shortly after taking over the CMO role at Zipcar two years ago, he began focusing on creating local relevance for Zipsters, introducing performance-based acquisition, programmatic ad buying, and the Zipcar blog...

The Office Delve app aggregates content from Office 365 apps, including Skype and Yammer, based on user relevance.

Five days to learn a new skill, no experience coming in, and some very high stakes--welcome to the Tim Ferriss Experiment.

Link building has been a subject of controversy for the past few months, as comments from Google’s own John Mueller and evidence from the latest round of the Penguin update have called into question the overall legitim...

Tom Wheeler was on the stage today at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. The discussion was pretty light, covering the normal positions on net neutrality, trying to dive into the FCC Chairman’s past as a venture capitalist (...

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