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Marketplace for short-term jobs Shiftgig announced today that it raised a $22 million series B round. Renren led the round, while Chicago Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, and others followed. Shiftgig aims to connect emplo...

The global economy is poised for economic growth comparable to recent years’ performance, but with a somewhat different texture. European countries will do a bit better, Asian countries not a hair worse, and natural re...

Sales of the iPhone 6S drove a spike in popular free iOS daily downloads in October, with consumers installing a total of 7.9 million popular apps, according to that month’s Fiksu Indexes, released this morning. Downlo...

When Black Friday starts to roll around, every company wants to jump on the bandwagon, including tech firms. Google is no exception, though this time it’s trying to differentiate itself by sharing more than just a list...

85% of the turkeys that Americans will consume on Thanksgiving have been in a freezer since April. But the other 15% of turkeys, like those on Lee’s Turkey Farm, had a good few months up until early last week.

ANALYSIS: Almost everyone I know in the mobile industry is pulling for BlackBerry. No one likes to see a company fail — even if they personally don’t use its products — because failed companies lead to layoffs. And...

Vine today updated its iOS app to add support for the Apple Watch. The updated app, version 4.4.0, is available for download from the App Store. In a move that seems like a natural fit for the bite-sized, Twitter-owned v...

Vulnerability is not just how you build success - it?s how you build a company powerful enough to transform an industry.

Alphabet, Google’s recently formed parent company, is making a bunch of bets. One of them is a project for broadcasting Internet to people who ordinarily wouldn’t get it — using big, fluffy balloons. Googlers — n...

Yesterday Automattic, the company behind WordPress, revamped and open-sourced its biggest asset: WordPress.com. It’s a massive change for WordPress, which claims to already power about 25 percent of the Web. So we sat ...

Tickets for Queen Elizabeth's four-day-long 90th birthday bash next May - 25,000 - sold out within hours for what will be the second of three rounds of celebration pegged to the beloved monarch's special day.

Have you considered hosting an online webinar as part of your lead generation and sales efforts? If so, you need to ensure that you have conversions in mind while preparing, producing, and promoting your webinar. Here ar...

Black Friday may just be transforming from a day of gluttony to a day of minimalism. Quite apt given that it falls right after Thanksgiving.

The concussion last Sunday of the Rams quarterback, Case Keenum, provided an unwitting preview for a major motion picture opening Christmas Day called Concussion.

Instead of battling for cheap flat panel TVs, plan your winter getaways on Black Friday and Cyber Monday with these hotel deals.

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. DoorDash is raising new investment, would set valuation at $1B Food delivery service DoorDash is rai...

More than a month after Burner launched its native integrations with Evernote, Slack, Dropbox, and SoundCloud, the provider of disposable phone numbers is opening itself up to developers. The company has released a way f...

Google is really stoked for the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. So much so, that when you Google the phrase “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away” on desktop the search page changes from a white screen ...

More than $14B in sales is expected to take place the day after Black Friday. Here's how your biz can grab some of the action.

The only thing I used to know about Confucius was that he gave great quotes. If it weren't for my brief Wikipedia search this morning, that's all I ever would have known.

The mobile advertising platform Leadbolt has made its user acquisition and in-app monetization services available to developers via the Marmalade development platform. Leadbolt is one of the tools included in Marmalade�...

U.S. Christmas tree inventories are said to be tight after years of oversupply, and entering a "short supply" period.