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SAN FRANCISCO (By Joseph Menn, Reuters) – Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials,...

Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy, creating countless jobs and driving innovation. However, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, for the first time since the agency began tracking small businesses thirty ...

Toward the end of its 10th anniversary event, WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange rattled off a short list of organizations that might be targets of its upcoming publications. Amid the geopolitical power players was one ...

Fear isn't uncommon when starting a business for the first time.

eBay announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Corrigon in a move to bring more image recognition into its online marketplace. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it’ll be the third such deal...

Matt Riemann is on a mission to evangelize Personalized Health, which falls in the industry of "biohacking" that is new and emerging itself.

GUEST: As the world of applications marches steadily away from visual interfaces to chat interfaces, it would seem that we need an entirely new set of axioms in designing this next generation of interfaces. After all, wh...

At its Dreamforce conference conference in San Francisco today, customer relationship management software company Salesforce announced the launch of LiveMessage, a feature of the existing Service Cloud product that will ...

Ubisoft doesn’t want to split all of its revenues with retailers. The French publisher announced today that it has relaunched the Uplay Store. This makeover gives the site a new design, but it also provides a new home ...

Not long ago a former employee wrote a scathing review of my company on Glassdoor. The review said our management team is inexperienced, our raises are marginal, and our performance-based pay structure is unclear and not...

The government of the state of Washington isn’t down with gamers gambling virtual items, and it has asked one of the primary companies enabling this practice to do everything it can to stop it. The Washington State Gam...

Kirsten Henry Fox, an executive sommelier, entrepreneur and cancer survivor has just launched a new business inspired by her experiences going through cancer. She's offering high-end gift boxes, typically including wine.

At one of the largest hardware events in Google’s history Tuesday, all software announcements made were around its Google Assistant, the new way to complete tasks and chat with the Google search engine. For now, Google...

The justices don't seem inclined to throw out longstanding precedent on insider-trading law.

A year after it was acquired by Google, Pixate announced that it will be shuttering its mobile app development products on October 31. The team said it believes it can have a larger impact if it moved “beyond its scope...

So what will the tech market look like in a few short years? The cutthroat atmosphere is not likely to die down any time soon although the exact challenges will likely evolve, thus providing us with new stories of succes...

John Carmack is enough of a rock star in virtual reality circles to fill a room at a conference, even if all he is doing is just staring into a VR headset and criticizing apps. Carmack, an Oculus technologist who helped ...

President Bill Clinton recently announced the $1 million Hult Prize winner for student-led social ventures, Magic Bus Ticketing. The new company hopes to revolutionize public transportation in Kenya nd the rest of the de...

Three of Britain's leading immigration experts assess the UK Government's announcement about immigration changes.

Google today said that it’s open-sourced Cartographer, a library for mapping movement in space in both 2D and 3D. the technology works with the open source Robot Operating System (ROS), which makes the software easier ...

OPINION: Sony is making VR for the masses. To do that, the company has potentially skimped on important technology that could cause problems for a lot of people. The PlayStation VR, which comes to the PS4 on October 13 f...

Companies with a compelling story will be more memorable than those without one. Entrepreneurs should look for their own stories - but make sure they're worth telling.