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Microsoft today announced the availability of a new preview build of Windows 10 Mobile for Windows Insiders. This new update, Build 10512, mostly fixes bugs and makes minor improvements — but there’s nevertheless som...

Entrepreneurs may be more likely to jump in and take a risk rather than making the calculated decision of an economist.

You may think that Publishers Clearing House (PCH) is just the company that takes a big sweepstakes check to some lucky person's door. But, in fact, PCH is a massive archive of first-party data — the best kind because ...

Microsoft today announced the preview availability of a new version of its Remote Desktop app for Mac, which gives people the ability to access applications and data on other computers. The app is a revamp of the Remote ...

Note-taking app Evernote today announced that it’s rolling back unlimited storage for its Premium subscription tier of service, which first became available in late April. Going forward, Evernote Premium will be capped...

In this get-things-done world, many well-intentioned business people default to a jump-to-solution approach to problems and challenges. Sometimes they get lucky and a quick solution works. Yet just as often, hair-trigge...

Y Combinator-backed Zen99 is shuttering, the company announced in a blog post today. Zen99 helped on-demand economy workers and other freelancers to file 1099 tax forms with the IRS. In addition to logging income and exp...

EXCLUSIVE: Software engineers who worked on Salesforce’s Heroku platform as a service (PaaS) cloud have launched their own startup, Convox. The startup is building tools that companies use to easily start running appli...

This week, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin did something baffling: They created a new company called Alphabet. So what is it? As Page explained, “Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies. The largest of ...

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. Event coordinating app DoubleDutch closes $45M round DoubleDutch, a company that says to have "the only ...

Mobile games have gone Hollywood. The latest example is Pocket Gems’ deal with singer and actress Demi Lovato. Today, Pocket Gems is releasing its Demi Lovato: Path to Fame game as a stand-alone app as well as an inter...

Dropbox today announced that it has started to allow users to log in using USB keys as a universal second factor (U2F) of authentication. U2F, a protocol promoted by the FIDO Alliance, isn’t the most trendy form of sec...

The gloves are off. Somewhere in a strategy room deep in the bowels of Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., a group of executives are gathered in a breakout area, discussing how they can take down YouTube, th...

Pure Storage, a company that sells all-flash storage hardware for companies to deploy in their data centers, today filed a Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, kicking off the process to go public. ...

Startup accelerators offer mentoring, seed capital, access to investors, networking and other great benefits to founders. Those founders tend to be men. Now Techstars, one of the best-known programs, is making a push to ...

Western developers publishing mobile games in China may wind up with revenue shares that could be as low as 20 percent — or even 10 percent. That’s the grim reality of taking your game to the world’s biggest mobile...

The magic number is no longer 140. Twitter has officially lifted its 140-character limit on direct messages. Users will begin seeing this change today across Twitter’s iOS and Android apps, Twitter.com, TweetDeck, and ...

The Canadian biometrics company Nymi, working with TD Bank Group and MasterCard, says it’s completed the first wearable credit card transaction authenticated by the user’s heartbeat. Nymi’s dedicated payments authe...

VB EVENT: Sid Patil is an interesting character. Head of data science at Twitter (the TellApart division: TellApart was recently acquired by Twitter), Sid held senior analytics posts at DemandTec (acquired by IBM) before...

In May, Microsoft unveiled a massive Outlook.com update, featuring new Inbox, collaboration, and calendar features. But that update was only made available in preview “to a small group of customers.” Today, the previ...

Robert Steven Kaplan, the former Vice Chair of Goldman Sachs, Harvard professor, venture philanthropist, author and regular guest on my show, will see his new book, What Your Really Need to Lead, published on September 1...