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What if musicians - tired of having their music used to grow subscriber numbers for streaming services - pulled their music from these services? The Reddit revolt may be a harbinger of things to come for the music busine...

Waevio What is Waevio ? This site is made because there’s too much information circling around us, and a lot of them are fragmented and unorganized to people. With Waevio the main goal is to sum all that information in...

In an update to its Window’s Lifestyle Fact Sheet, Microsoft says it will offer support for Windows 10 for 10 years. The post notes that it will offer “mainstream security” support until 2020 and “extended securi...

Grovemade's co-founders Ken Tomita and Joe Mansfield have found a niche in making wooden accessories for your desk, iPhone, and computer.  True Portlandians, they give their staff a 35-hour work week and believe in doi...

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has upended his company, in hopes that a new management system called holocracy will make everything run better. Current results are a bit problematic.

Mozilla has released a road map for the next version of its FireFox mobile operating system. The Firefox 2.5 OS will debut in November. Mozilla says that the Firefox OS 2.5 will be its “most customizable, secure, local...

GUEST: The more I talk to funded cofounders, the more I'm certain we have an entire generation of summer entrepreneurs on our hands.

With his recent dive into the exchange-traded fund industry, Kevin O'Leary spawned a means for individual investors to put their money alongside his in the stock market. Also known as Mr. Wonderful, he hopes to grow his ...

GUEST: Halfway through its third wave of creative self-destruction, Silicon Valley is delivering the biggest shift in consumer media ever and its fourth wave will make us truly mobile in time for its 50th anniversary in�...

In a new experiment, Twitter has started displaying a Related Videos section when people are not logged in to the social network’s desktop web client. Twitter appears to be using favorites as a signal to figure out whi...

Was the riot in Malaysia's entertainment and commercial district racial?

Quirky might seem like one of the more extreme examples of Silicon Valley excess in recent years, but its recent pivot -- and the way its CEO handled it -- is a rare example of honesty and transparency.

GUEST: The influx of tech knowledge into healthcare is a very good thing -- but watch out for the pitfalls.

I've never liked the term "As a Service," not only because it sounds awkward when associated with various offerings (Software as a Service, Database as a Service, Business Processes as s Service, and so on), but also bec...

Messaging app Telegram today announced some nice improvements. In version 3.1.0, you can now search for something in a chat with a specific person, and the app now supports playback of media from services like SoundCloud...