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Despite the devastation Hurricane Katrina caused 10 years ago, the huge disaster that hit New Orleans brought a silver lining. With a giant microscope on the area, young people were drawn to New Orleans and the surroundi...

WhatsApp today passed 900 million monthly active users, according to founder Jan Koum. The popular mobile messaging app most recently hit the 800 million monthly active user milestone in April. Koum tagged Facebook found...

Twitter is tweaking what you’ll see on the home timeline when using its mobile app. Besides Tweets from those you follow, ads, and Tweets you may have missed, the company is adding interesting accounts to the mix. It�...

Microsoft is using a new tactic to keep Windows 10 users from switching away from its Edge browser. The first time Edge users search for “chrome” or “firefox” using Bing — presumably with the intent of download...

Is the venture capital industry in Silicon Valley efficient? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jeff Meyerson.

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There comes a point when I have to stop for a moment to appreciate how far technology has come. The new Aspire One Cloudbook 11 from Acer is modest in many regards — limited storage space, diminutive monitor — but it...

Researchers and psychologists have spent decades working to dissect, analyze and zero in on the personality characteristics that are intrinsic to entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial success. They have amassed a sizeable bo...

GUEST: Today BlackBerry announced it is buying Good Technology for a reported $425 million in cash. While this is not a huge sum given the size of the acquisition, and BlackBerry does have cash in the bank to make this h...

“The system is rigged!” says a video at Larry Lessig’s webpage announcing his run for the presidency. Lessig is using a Kickstarter campaign to raise the money for a “credible” run Democratic presidential prima...

A reported $630 million round of funding into China’s food delivery service Ele.me last week — making it the third-most funded startup in China — may have actually been less than $400 million, a source familiar wit...

Forgot about video games for a second. Virtual reality could add a lot of culture to our lives. Reload Studios has launched a new virtual reality division, and its first project is fascinating. It has partnered with Woof...

Facebook is entering the digital assistant game, creating an artificial intelligence algorithm known as "Facebook M" to rival the likes of Siri and Cortana, from Apple and Microsoft, respectively.

Nick Hanauer and David Rolf are an unlikely pair of troublemakers. Hanauer is a Seattle venture capitalist and was the first non-family investor in Amazon.com. David Rolf is a labor organizer who once rallied enough supp...

Chris Heatherly, head of Disney Interactive's mobile and social games business as well as Disney Club Penguin, is our newest speaker at GamesBeat 2015. He is the latest among the who’s who of gaming who will join our e...

How some small businesses independently are raising wages above the federal mandate.

Mozilla today detailed a security attack on its bugtracker and testing tool Bugzilla, as well as the steps it is taking to mitigate a repeat incident. In short, a hacker compromised the service, stole security-sensitive ...

Sunny Dhillon is a Principal and co-founder of Signia Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital fund based out of San Francisco. Sunny spends his time focused on consumer mobile apps, e-commerce, gaming, and virtu...

To get in front of potential catastrophes, you have to really understand your employees -- and that's not easy to do for the average CEO.

Uber's turf war in China with local powerhouse Didi Kuaidi brings back memories of the dual between Alibaba and eBay to own the Chinese e-commerce market.

LinkedIn today is announcing the release of new open-source software for machine learning called FeatureFu. It’s meant to help programmers with the process of feature engineering, which involves creating high-quality n...

Song-tagging and recognition platform Shazam is opening its artist verification program to all artists today, after a two-month pilot phase. The London-headquartered company is best known for its mobile app that lets use...