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VB INSIGHT: I recently looked at new data illustrating the time, activity, and consumer behaviors on mobile devices, and I've found it to be both staggering and irrefutable.

I’ve always wondered how cops felt about NYPD Blue, or how lawyers feel when they watch Law and Order. Now I know. I just watched the seasons finale of HBO’s reality/sitcom - Silicon Valley. If you haven’t seen th...

GUEST: As each of us comes to know and understand our own genome, we will naturally want to play to its strengths, minimize its weaknesses, combine it with other data sets, compare it to others, and leverage it to develo...

GUEST: Data management platforms allow brands for the first time to have a universal consumer profile that is truly "360." But there's currently a lot of confusion out there over the various flavors of these platforms.

EXCLUSIVE: Fourteen apps, which together represent a cumulative 80 million downloads, have serious flaws in the way they handle user logins, according to an analysis by AppBugs.

Each week our friends at Backerjack provide an update on a hot crowdfunded tech gadget. This week we profile the Myle Tap, which has exceeded its funding goal by more than 50 percent. The smartphone has become the main c...

Hitbox is taking on the giants by racing ahead on 4K video technology. It wants to be Red Bull to Coke and Pepsi.

With Baby Boomers retiring from the workforce at unprecedented numbers and realizing that retirement looks much different than it did decades ago. Today's retirement involves much more pre-planning. So, while Baby Boomer...

People often ask me for specific examples of how technology is impacting global education. I suspect they are looking for super glossy examples of futuristic classrooms. They hope I’ll describe some design innovation o...

The lone developer of ClamXav, the longstanding free antivirus software for computers running Mac OS X, announced yesterday that from here on out he’ll be charging money for the latest version of the tool, under a new ...

GUEST: I've been working with large companies and the U.S. government to help them innovate faster- not just kind of fast, but 10x the number of initiatives in 1/5 the time. Here's how.

Force Touch is a touch screen technology that detects the force with which the user is pressing a finger down on the screen.

GUEST: It's his tenacity and bias toward action that has made Netflix founder Reed Hastings such a formidable force across today's technology and media landscape.