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Investigating a murder is how startup Body Labs got its start, according to the opening sentence from Issie Lapowsky at Wired. Computer vision expert, Professor Michael Black from Brown University, was asked by police to...

For a long time, the CIO and the CTO have been the traditional IT buyers in the top tier of an organization. However, this trend is slowly beginning to change. Speculations are rife as to whether CMOs are going to take o...

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Derek Rapp, CEO of JDRF, reports on the organization's progress toward finding a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. This article includes a live video interview.

Normally when some new phone maker startup pops its head up, we sigh and maybe feel a tinge of sympathy for another young company entering a brutally competitive business. But NextBit has managed to drum up some real int...

If your business is struggling with money, it?s not a money problem.

The Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship set a goal to impact 1 billion lives by 2020. The entrepreneurs they are supporting are an impressive group that make that goal look almost achievable.

In his book The Lion Awakes: Adventures in Africa?s Economic Miracle (Palgrave; August 25, 2015), Ashish J. Thakkar, a 34 year-old Ugandan millionaire, gives readers an intimate, on the ground view of Africa?s astonishin...

EXCLUSIVE: Redbooth, a company that sells software with task management, videoconferencing, and messaging features, is announcing today that it has built a new native desktop client for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Until now...

Comcast intends to upgrade its entire communications network with new technology that will bring 10 gigabit per second connection speeds to its whole coverage area within two years. Comcast’s VP of network architecture...

Microsoft today announced the availability of the IT Preview for its SharePoint Server 2016 document-sharing and collaboration software for deployments in companies’ on-premises data centers. Updates include a new 10GB...

EXCLUSIVE: IndoorAtlas has begun to deliver its service that lets you navigate inside enclosed buildings such as shopping malls. The Palo Alto, California-based company, which was founded in Finland, launched a private b...

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Twitter is making some updates to how users are being made aware of new direct messages. The company announced today that over the next few days it will start allowing users to receive desktop notifications for direct me...

(Reuters, Jonathan Stempel) — A U.S. appeals court said the Federal Trade Commission has authority to regulate corporate cybersecurity, and may pursue a lawsuit accusing hotel operator Wyndham Worldwide Corp of failing...

Apple investors are willing to overlook many things, but the health of the Chinese iPhone market isn’t one of them. On news of a tanking Chinese stock market early today Apple investors were running for the exits. Appl...

REVIEW: The original Gears of War might be the most influential game of the last generation of consoles, second only perhaps to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Its behind-the-back perspective and cover-based combat have ...

Minecraft fans are a passionate lot, so you have to figure they’ll go crazy about scanning their own characters into the voxel-graphics game. Mark Day, chief executive of VoidAlpha, has created Minescan, an app that al...

Google today announced Offline Media Import/Export, a new service companies can use to send data stored on hardware to Google for storing on the Google Cloud Storage service. That way, companies don’t have to upload da...

With tuition bills skyrocketing, millennials are looking for creative ways to cover the cost of their college education.

Microsoft today launched Cortana for Android phones as a public beta. To try it out, you have to be a U.S. resident willing to become a tester using this Google Play link. In May, Microsoft revealed that its digital assi...