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Very few college students plan to start at the family firm immediately following graduation, though many say they may work there someday, according to a new report from Ernst & Young’s Global Family Business Center of...

Sometimes, things go viral: The Dress, the llamas, the Ice Bucket Challenge, the How Old Do I Look? app, and so on. One can’t fault companies for trying to figure out how to go viral and gain huge exposure. But many ma...

Twitter announced today it has improved its Summary Cards on its iOS and Android apps in a way that includes more details about web content.

The VR movie, called "Gone," comes from the production company that made The Walking Dead, and is being directed by veteran movie and game producer J.T. Petty.

Microsoft today announced that it has hired the two creators of Glimpse, an open-source debugging and diagnostics tool for ASP.NET applications. Until now the creators, Anthony van der Hoorn and Nik Molnar, have worked a...

EXCLUSIVE: The Toronto-based Andrew Boos used a sports analogy to explain why he thinks the recent purchase by app attribution firm Tune of his still-in-prototype Appfuel company crystallizes where mobile adtech is head...

When Arlene Samen was invited to meet with the Dalai Lama, she couldn't imagine how it would change her life. Ultimately, she left her position as a nurse as the University of Utah School of Medicine to found One Heart W...

(By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Reuters) – Mapping technology advancements from Google Inc and Facebook Inc that provide more precise user location data than ever before are starting to dent advertisers’ longtime skepticism ab...

Sony's online network is down once again.

Drivers who respond to uberAssist requests have bigger vehicles and training in how to accommodate riders with special needs.

Google Drive just got a useful new feature.

The Gold Club, a San Francisco strip club, has become the go-to lunch spot for many tech employees with its all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. Some say its an obvious manifestation of a Silicon Valley boys' club.

1000 entrepreneurs from across Africa gathered in Ota, Southwest Nigeria, between Friday and Saturday for an intensive two-day boot camp hosted by the Tony Elumelu Foundation.

On stage at MobileBeat 2015, CEO Mike McCue revealed that, after its web launch, the digital magazine platform grew its active user base 75 percent since February.

Nothing encourages creativity and connection like storytelling. As entrepreneurs, we try every day to introduce new stories to the world. The key, therefore, is making sure we tell them in a way that our audience will un...

The AppThwack team is encouraging people to sign up for AWS Device Farm, which does not (yet) support iOS devices.

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. AnyClip lands $21M for targeting movie and TV clips to the right Web page Online ads in video clips can ...

Google today announced the general availability of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems on the Google Compute Engine public cloud. The news follows the arrival of Windows Server 2008 R2 Dat...

Twitter needs to do a better job of building itself into a platform, cofounder Ev Williams said today.

A fake Bloomberg website and a fake story sent Twitter's shares to its highest in months.

Wish, a mobile commerce company that recently appears to have raised $500 million at a reported $3 billion valuation, has acquired Locket.

In addition to quality control closures, Etsy killed 176,137 product listings as a result of intellectual property removal requests.