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Copyright holders must consider “fair use” before demanding the removal of videos that people post online, including on Google’s YouTube, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday. In a closely followed case over a home...

By Ryan Pinkham, Content Manager, Constant Contact

With the U.S. presidential elections a little more than a year away, Twitter has introduced a new way for candidates to solicit donations through a simple tweet. Partnering with Square for the initiative, Twitter is pitc...

Tsinghua University in Beijing has been ranked as Asia’s third best university and is leading a strong Chinese cohort in a new study by higher education data specialists QS that compares global institutions.

OPINION: Mark Zuckerberg finally shared the thought that Facebook may soon create a “dislike” button, in addition to its ubiquitous “like” button, to allow people to “express empathy” at events such as someon...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the newly created enterprise business of Hewlett-Packard, is considering 25,000 to 30,000 layoffs as it splits into two companies, according to a developing story by Bloomberg. We’re checkin...

GUEST: Although mobile data usage has risen 69 percent in the last year, tracking users across devices and channels continues to be among the biggest challenges for today’s marketers. Only 3 in 10 reported using cross-...

FRANKFURT — Google Inc. does not intend to become a vehicle manufacturer, the company’s managing director for Germany, Austria and Switzerland said on Tuesday at the Frankfurt auto show. Google has named auto industr...

Telecommunications API provider Twilio has committed itself to setting aside 1 percent of its equity to be used to support its nonprofit foundation, Twilio.org, over the next decade. This could generate more than $10 mil...

Failures are a part of life, but as women, we tend to get stuck in these moments. Whereas men can often shrug a negative incident and move on, women tend to absorb criticism and get discouraged as a result. This reaction...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, September 24 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. Tax compliance isn't sexy but reducing your start-up's cash burn and extending its operation...

If you were thinking that Apple TV could steal triple-A gaming away from consoles, you might want to think again. Apple TV games must work with the standard remote for the platform, which includes a clickable touch-sensi...

Frontier Airlines’s “Fly for Only a Buck” campaign which launched September 2, gained the company attention but not all positive. The promotion which offered last minute flights from select cities across the U.S. f...

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. Real State company Compass scores $50M to further expand in the U.S. market Real state company Compass a...

As a startup entrepreneur, you visualize the success of your business every day. You know that you need to surround yourself with a talented management team to grow your company. But not all management teams are alike. H...

Voice interaction platform ivee has begun an Indiegogo campaign for those interested in purchasing its smart voice assistant, throwing its hat into the ring to do battle against the likes of Amazon Echo, Google Now, Siri...

Entrepreneurs are hustling to develop new uses for the technology that underlies Bitcoin. 

Fresh Truck sells healthy food to low-income communities through a 312 square foot mobile food market.

GrowMobile has been tracking billions of events a month for its mobile app marketing platform for a while. Beyond helping companies acquire users, the company is now adding a new platform to track the activities of those...

Datos IO has emerged from stealth with $15.25 million and a solution its IBM Research veteran founders believe can solve recovery for a new breed of database.

The Leaf health-tracking smart jewelry line from Bellabeat has sold more than 40,000 units since beginning shipments in June. Now the company has restocked its supply and is selling its pendants in two new colors: silver...

There are two kinds of people in the game industry. Those who think that the industry is in fantastic shape and has entered a Golden Age where the sky is the limit. And those who think it is broken, a creative morass whe...