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Google today announced the Asus Chromebit, an $85 HDMI stick that allows users to plug into any screen and run Chrome OS straight out of the box — assuming they also link up a USB or bluetooth mouse and keyboard. The 7...

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In the fall of 2011, I listened to Steve Blank present his lean startup ideas to an audience at Columbia University. Given his focus on achieving product/market fit, he glossed over the fourth step of customer developmen...

Google has redesigned its Google+ social network with more of a focus on Communities and Collections. The updated service has become more mobile-friendly and is situated around helping make “life easier for people.” ...

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There’s a locally grown incentive program in Seattle that’s not only giving families access to healthier food, it's providing the farms growing the food a much-needed boost to their earnings.

FanDuel has temporarily suspended paid contests on its site while it sorts out its legal problems in New York. The company is being investigated by the state’s Attorney General over allegations that what it and competi...

Google today announced that it has open-sourced a new tool for pushing emails in Thunderbird up to Gmail, where it can be accessed on mobile devices. The tool doesn’t come with a simple one-click interface. “It is no...

Descartes Labs, a startup with image recognition technology that can help companies answer questions related to agriculture, is announcing today a $5 million round of funding. The startup can work with satellite images t...

Like you, I assume that the environment I am sitting in right now is pretty safe. I mean, I don’t see anything dangerous, feel uncomfortable, or smell anything that I should be worried about. Yet I may be filling my lu...

Does skiing change year to year? Of course it does. So, too, do the best ski resort rankings in the world.

In 2014, Facebook launched an initiative aimed at giving assistance to local developers to help them produce applications that would have a beneficial impact on their community and region. Since that time, the company ha...

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London's V&A will reveal everything in its 2016 exhibition tracing the history of the clothes under the clothes in A Brief History Of Underwear."

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During its Chrome Dev Summit event, Google announced that its browser has passed 800 million monthly active users on mobile. Put another way, the number of Chrome for Android and iOS users has doubled from the 400 millio...

Mobile analytics software startup Mixpanel is announcing today the launch of a new component called Predict, which will give companies the ability to make guesses about what users will do within mobile apps. Rather than ...

EXCLUSIVE: Web chat service LiveChat has launched its annual Customer Service Efficiency Report, and the findings show a big change in some industries’ grasp of web-based customer service. While the company has an obvi...

An entrepreneur, it’s been said, isn’t someone who owns a business. It’s someone who makes things happen.

An innovative program in Connecticut that supports and funds social enterprises is now accepting applications for its Impact Accelerator

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Braintree. For 15 years, ecommerce provided a good framework for how merchants could accept and securely process customer payments. But the advent of new tec...

"If you want to start a business in Cuba," the Americans were told, "you need three things: money, time and a good liver."