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As the U.N. climate summit in Paris gets underway this week, a French startup has launched a live map of air pollution to show which cities are suffering the worst. (Hint: Check out China!) The World Air Map is produced ...

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Appodeal. Intro Stephan Schultz is an award-winning, 22-year-old app developer who lives and attends school in Potsdam, Germany. His productivity apps for iO...

Google today announced the launch of the Cloud Vision application programming interface, a tool developers can use to add image recognition to their own applications. The API is available now in limited preview through t...

Atlassian, an Australian software company preparing to go public on the NASDAQ, is announcing today that developers can now deploy code from Atlassian’s Bitbucket source code repository software onto public clouds from...

Analysts from Forrester Research released the firm’s top privacy predictions for next year, urging companies to rethink approaches as consumer worries increase along with worldwide regulations. The webcast entitled, �...

PRESS RELEASE: Newron Pharmaceuticals S.p.A. ("Newron"), a research and development company focused on novel CNS and pain therapies, announced today the initiation of a U.S. Phase II study with its novel sodium channel b...

VB INSIGHT: Sales tech is so, so hot right now. In a new analysis by Spoke Intelligence, 317 inside sales startups over the past couple of decades have taken $9.7 billion in funding and turned it into $77 billion in exit...

TV viewing habits are changing in the age of anywhere, anytime media. A survey from Tivo’s Digitalsmiths division shows the rise of tablet viewing, a decline in pay TV, and a boost in “cord cheaters,” or viewers wh...

PRESS RELEASE: Contessa Health, Inc., today announced it has secured $3.5 Million in Series A Financing from BlueCross BlueShield Venture Partners, Sandbox Advantage Fund and Martin Ventures. Contessa Health creates and ...

Samsung has launched second-generation versions of the mid-range Galaxy A3 and A5 smartphones it first unveiled last October, and the Galaxy A7 it introduced in February. The refreshed Samsung Galaxy A (2016) lineup is: ...

Bluecore, a marketing automation solution focused on personalization, has raised $21 million in its series B round of investment. The company has been growing quickly, adding $1 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) ...

A study by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and EY (Ernst and Young) says the interactive advertising industry in the U.S. is losing $8.2 billion a year to fraudulent impressions, infringed content, and malvertis...

Do not panic. Breathe. Now, try to log back in; your Instagram account is safe and sound. Instagram users were affected earlier today by a bug that logged out their accounts, leading many to believe that their profiles h...

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CRM provider for healthcare companies, Evariant, raised a $42.3 million series C round led by Goldman Sachs, the Connecticut startup announced today. Evariant welcomed the venture firm’s vice president, Jason Kreuziger...

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After a long battle with regulators and domestic smartphone companies, things begin to look up for Qualcomm in China. On Wednesday, the company announced that it reached an agreement with Xiaomi whereby Qualcomm will giv...

Moxie Marlinspike has been working for years to make an easy-to-use, end-to-end encrypted communication app. Last month, his organization Open Whisper Systems launched a protected voice calling and texting app called Sig...

Google today announced the Songza website and app will be killed off on January 31, 2016. The Google Play Music team has been working hard to port over Songza’s features, and as of today the two apps have reached featu...

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Microsoft today announced a preview of its new Azure Container Service, a tool for deploying code wrapped up in containers — many of which fit on a single server — on the Azure public cloud. The service was first ann...

It’s time to put your face into a galaxy far, far away. Disney is amping up its marketing for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which debuts worldwide December 18, and the company is using virtual reality to hype up the mo...