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WOODSIDE, Ca. — Steve Jobs hated the historic Jackling House that he bought in 1984 so much that he spent a tremendous amount of time and energy in his final years trying to have it torn down. After a decade of controv...

Product management tool Propel announced today that it closed a $4.2 million series A investment led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners. Propel’s product, built on Salesforce, promises a service that “helps everyone invo...

GUEST: Last week, I wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian expressing concern that Microsoft's new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) APIs comprised a first step toward locking down the currently open consumer PC ecosyste...

Amazon.com is having a little trouble loading today. Amazon Web Services and Amazon Prime Music also seem to be struggling, while the company’s regional sites, like Amazon.ca, appear to be working just fine. We first s...

CNBC's Kate Rogers reports small business owners in Wisconsin are fighting the state's baking lobby. One baker Lisa Kivirist, owner of Inn Serendipity B&B, could land in jail for up to six months if she charges for her m...

Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today, although the company still isn’t ready to share when the operating system will be available for older devices. The latest build includes improvements to the Pho...

Microsoft spends a lot of time and money developing many technologies that could end up being part of the company’s next products. For instance, the company has many researchers working on artificial intelligence, whic...

We’re busy getting ready for a full week of coverage of the Game Developers Conference. Our team includes GamesBeat news writer Jeff Grubb, GamesBeat community manager Mike Minotti, and GamesBeat managing editor Jason ...

Developers love using GitHub, and when it comes to managing projects, they’re likely to go through the platform’s task management offering — GitHub Issues. While it works well for developers, it can be a bit comple...

With the advent of blockchain technology and smart contracts, a new paradigm of global enterprises is quickly emerging. As organizations combine forces in innovative ways, a new form of partnership called a Decentralized...

Today Apple sent out press invites for a March 21 event at the company’s Cupertino headquarters in California. Apple didn’t share its plans for the event (it won’t), but the company offered a vague tagline: “Let ...

When MaxPlay debuted its new game engine for the cloud era in October, it said it would disrupt the development business. And today, it is announcing the second part of its plan to overhaul the industry with MaxCore, whi...

Another mobile company is getting into the virtual reality game. Colopl NI, the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese mobile developer that has a revenue of $700 million a year, announced today that it plans to move into the d...

Tovala's smart oven promises to home-cook meals at the press of a button, making its food fresher but still as convenient as a host of other food delivery startups. Can it stand out as more Jetsons than Easy-Bake toy?

If you are sharing confidential business information, learn when it makes sense to have an NDA in place as well as the important terms that agreement must include.

SPONSORED: It's bad enough that the current ETL times for structured data is already a big data pipeline bottleneck. Now companies also need to contend with unstructured and semi-structured data streaming in from multipl...

EXCLUSIVE: Depending on which chart you subscribe to or which article you read, Tel Aviv is either the fifth– or third-best startup ecosystem in the world. The city in Israel has become known for innovative, early-stag...

EXCLUSIVE: Technology evangelist, author, and blogger Robert Scoble is leaving Rackspace to pursue an entrepreneur-in-residence role with UploadVR. He says that he'll do the same kinds of videos and blogging he's always ...

Probably anyone with a phone has had this happen to them. You send a quick text to a couple of friends to meet up for a movie, and before you know it, you’ve got multiple text threads going as conversations about what ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has rolled out a significant update to its iOS app today, one designed to make it easier to find random new things to read. The refreshed app serves up a tailored feed based on a number of factor...

Back in September, peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform Prosper Marketplace acquired BillGuard, a crowdsourced security app for personal finance. Today, Prosper Marketplace is officially relaunching the app with a new bra...

Progress in artificial intelligence and machine learning has been impressive, but there is still much work to be done to advance learning science. While some progress is being made to bring artificial intelligence to the...