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GUEST: For the majority of Americans, the cellphone is now considered a replacement or even the primary means of contact, according to a recent study by Pew Research. Nearly 90 percent of Americans own a cellphone, but o...

Fake candidates for president have been pouring into Federal Election Commission databases ever since Deez Nuts showed up. Brady Olson, a 15 year-old kid from Wallingford, Iowa, made headlines this summer when he registe...

GUEST: The security market is clearly red hot, as evidenced by the continued investment into — and related valuation of — numerous startups in the field. However, while rapidly maturing segments, including the endpoi...

A German website called Mobile Geeks has posted what it says are screenshots of Apple Music for Android and is reporting that Apple is currently conducting a private beta test with Android users. This is only the second ...

GUEST: The relationship between user experience (UX) and engineering is a crucial factor when it comes to generating technical innovation. After spending a week at the SXSW Interactive festival earlier this year, I was s...

A few years ago, Sally Jane Waite and her aunt, also named Sally Jane, were excitedly planning to launch a jewelry line with a positive message. Taking a cue from nature, they created necklaces with little bee charms to ...

(By Reiji Murai, Reuters) – Toshiba is set to sell its image sensor business to Sony for around 20 billion yen ($164.68 million) as part of a restructuring plan laid out earlier this year, sources with knowledge of the...

GUEST: Every VC says they are looking for great founders that are solving real problems in big markets. So why is it that so many "good" companies that seemingly meet these requirements still fail to raise money from VCs...

When did business people become “a brand”? Donald Trump. Mark Cuban. Jay Z. For 30 years before he became a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump built his name into a symbol of high end luxury and his personna as a g...

(By Laura Zuckerman, Reuters) – An Idaho man is suing the U.S. government for compromising his personal information in computer hacks revealed earlier this year at the federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that ...

It’s Friday night, and that means it’s time to play video games … unless you’re on Xbox. Microsoft’s Xbox Live service is not working for a number of gamers, according to complaints on social media. This outage...

We’re just a few days from the launch of Halo 5: Guardians, but one of the people responsible for ensuring that blockbuster will have a robust network for online multiplayer has left Microsoft. Eric Neustadter, also kn...

The Department of Justice has informed Congress that there will be no prosecutions from its investigation into whether any IRS officials committed crimes in connection with the handling of tax-exemption applications file...