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The 7-inch Amazon Fire tablet was a Black Friday hit, according to receipts data collected by Info Scout. Info Scout makes a series of apps that allow users to photograph and manage sales receipts. The 8GB version of the...

Small retailers have been outperforming their larger counterparts for more than a year.

Thanksgiving and Black Friday online sales set a new record in 2015: $4.47 billion, up 18 percent over last year. More specifically, $1.73 billion was spent on Thanksgiving and $2.74 billion was spent online on Black Fri...

Activist hackers from the Anonymous collective have claimed responsibility for bringing down five government websites in Iceland in a protest against whale-hunting by the North Atlantic nation. The sites, which included ...

When I began teaching as Visiting Professor in the MBA program at the University of Hong Kong in February 2012 I had entitled the course “Asia in the New Global Order”. At the first class one of the students asked, �...

A malfunction by an American Airlines bidding system program provided at least 200 legacy US Airways flight attendants with December schedules --including holiday schedules -- they don’t want to fly, provoking an angry...

Many times when we (myself included) speak about  the future of work, the conversations tend to skew toward larger companies. However, the reality is that smaller companies are actually poised to do quite well when we ...

GUEST: The consensus approach for building a great product is to craft a vision and then jealously guard that vision from outside interference as you drive it home. Product thought leaders have a simple strategy for this...

The cryptocurrency exchange behind the recently launched OBITS currency initiative, CCEDK, is increasing the future payouts derived from profits and fees generated through user registrations on OpenLedger and other assoc...

Building an efficient supply chain in rural India is tricky --- to say the least.

Computer security startup Cymmetria has hired a well-known retired U.S. government computer-forensics expert, Jim Christy, as vice president of investigations and digital forensics.

Monomy is an iOS app that offers an online marketplace for creatives, allowing people to make accessories they like with ease using smartphones.

As the financial crisis was being resolved in December 2008 I heard someone say, “Wait ’til the startups get going – they’ll end this recession and crank up the economy again.” Of course, this maxim had caught ...

China-based Mi (formerly Xiaomi) has been working to show that it's more than just a phone manufacturer, even branching out into its own class of accessories. Earlier this month, the company released its latest high-fide...

Google has applied for a patent on a surgical system for removing biological tissue with a laser that delivers electromagnetic radiation. The patent was published yesterday. Google first applied for it in May 2014, long ...