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We wrote about Vibease back in early September and I called it the long-distance relationship you've always wanted. Since, LovePalz (with his and her's toys) has launched, along with quite a few other players in the gene...

If you can't stop yourself from buying accessories, clothes, handbags, apartment decor and recipe ingredients after seeing them all in pins, you're not alone. A recent survey of 7,431 online shoppers, conducted by BizRat...

Starting a company, the venture capitalist says, requires intense courage, determination, and the willingness to come across as crazy. [Read more]

The amount of energy that the big tech companies are expending to document and defend software patents makes no sense. A couple of weeks ago, The New York Times wrote that, "Last year, for the first time, spendi...

The only point to entrepreneurship is to get rich, so I?ve outlined below the keys to getting there faster and easier. Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano (French plate erased). Taken in France. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Get a nice ...

Our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy at The Joy of Tech have detected distinct ways tech corporations treat their customers. More About: Facebook, Google, RIM, Sunday Comics, The Joy of Tech, Twitter, apple, microsoft, trendi...

According to Ace Metrix, the all-dancing Surface ad is "the most effective" tablet ad of the year. Yes, even better than the Galaxy Note ad. And in an entirely different realm from Apple's offerings. [Read more]

Guest post written by Ram Menon

Only two months after Dalton Caldwell successfully crowd sourced more than $800,000 in funding for App.net, a real-time messaging API, the fledging platform can already boast a small but growing developer community.

Today, at Y Combinator's Startup School at Stanford University, Rakuten Founder and CEO Hiroshi Mikitani took the stage to talk about the company's culture, acquisitions and its crazy growth over the last year. Mikitani ...

Red Bull topped this week's chart for soft drink brands with the highest social media engagement -- and you can probably guess why. More About: Social Media, Starcount, brands, chart

While many Facebook job apps are trying to give LinkedIn a run for its money, none of the job search and recruitment apps available today are true competition for everyone’s main professional network, LinkedIn. Ap...

You probably don't give much thought to your kitchen faucet, but here's proof that it can be awesome in the right hands. Sure, these aren't functional so far as their intended purpose is concerned, but they're cool. Whic...

Want to sleep outside without having to lower yourself to sleeping on the ground? Lucky for you, there's an extravagantly complex and probably super expensive solution; The Cocoon Tree. More »

Since we missed you so much last week we have prepared an Engadget Mobile Podcast MAXX Edition for you to feast your hungry ears upon: dial it in and be prepared to have your wildest mobile news fantasies unfold before y...

Dish customers will get their AMC programming back beginning tonight as part of a $700 million settlement. [Read more]

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Microsoft has finally revealed details on the pricing for the all-singing, all-dancing Surface RT. True to Steve Ballmer's word, the Windo...

A Russian exploration of Antarctica's subglacial Lake Vostok has so far turned up no signs of life.

19 years ago, id Software revealed its first first person shooter to follow up its groundbreaking Wolfenstein 3-D. That follow-up was called Doom, and it enthralled players when it came out. When I was 14, I was one of t...

In this series titled “Defining a growth hacker,” I will be exploring the meaning and practical application of growth hacking through a number of interviews with prominent growth hackers. This is the fourth p...

George McGovern died this morning.  I hope one of my favorite commenters, russpoter, will forgive me for straying from the tax reservation to reminisce, again.  McGovern was the first candidate I voted for�...

Plaintiffs claim the company violated the Sherman Act and Digital Millennium Copyright Act by not obtaining customers' permission to have their iPhones locked to AT&T's network. [Read more]