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Has anyone ever considered that the problem with Microsoft is that the company still too successful?  Before you call me crazy, look at the company’s recent Q1 FY2014 earnings report.  The top line numbers all look very good and at the time the…

Transparency may have entered the mainstream in 2013, but did it deliver on its ‘revolutionary’ promise? Zoe Smith looks back at the achievements of the movement this year

Tesla Motors is arguing against a recent claim against its car chargers. The company claims that its own investigations into a Southern California garage fire that’s been associated with Tesla products have actually yielded no evidence that they’…

As you’ve probably heard by now, the news for BlackBerry over the past several months has not been good. And this morning’s quarterly earnings report—which, according to Engadget’s breakdown, saw a 1.8 million drop in smartphone shipments and…

(NewsUSA) – A lighting switch is just a switch, right? As it turns out, not really. Technology is changing the…

Voicebrook’s Commitment to Customer Success Helps the Company Expand Its Leadership in Pathology Reporting Lake Success, NY, December 21, 2013…

Vine, the video centric social network owned and operated by Twitter, has today announced that they’ve begun the early stages of rolling out one of the most oft requested features of the network – web profiles. Starting today, users will be able…

Mobile phone company Samsung may be lining up a new slate of tablets for release in the first quarter of 2014. As rumor has it, the new tablets will be part of the Galaxy Pro family, and will come in 3 varied screen sizes. This potential news comes…

The United States and the European Union on Friday ended a third round of talks to create the world’s largest free-trade area to boost growth and jobs in their huge economies. US and EU trade officials wrapped up five days of negotiations in Washington…

BlackBerry said Friday it fell deeper into the red in the past quarter as the struggling smartphone maker unveiled a new manufacturing partnership and a revamped organizational structure. The Canadian firm reported a massive $4.4 billion loss in its…

The Standard and Poor’s ratings agency on Friday downgraded the European Union’s long-term credit rating one notch, from “AAA” to “AA+”, citing weaker credit worthiness among the bloc. “The downgrade… reflects our view of weaker creditworthiness among…

Prismatic chief Bradford Cross believes that online social networks should go beyond following people to pursuing interests. To that end, the San Francisco-based startup on Thursday released a Prismatic app that lets users of Apple mobile gadgets tap…

The United States has signed anti-tax fraud pacts with six countries and territories including some considered tax havens, the US Treasury Department said Thursday. The Netherlands, Malta, and the British territories of Bermuda, Jersey, Guernsey and…

Spain’s data protection watchdog ordered US Internet giant Google on Thursday to pay a 900,000-euro fine for “serious violations” of users’ privacy. The Spanish Data Protection Agency accused the popular search provider of “illegal processing of personal…

What was hot in 2013. Topping Google’s search list was Fast & Furious star Paul Walker, 40, who died in a car crash on the last day of November. News of the actor’s death Nov. 30 of this year spiked to the top of Google’s list. Second was the Boston…

By Cale Guthrie Weissman On December 19, 2013 Sometimes the descriptor ‘entrepreneur’ is definitely pejorative. You’re at a party drinking a beer, minding your own business, and some dude comes up to you. He’s nice enough, is (of course) wearing…

Why is everybody making such a fuss about the latest Warren Buffett wind power purchase? Okay, so the legendary investor’s MidAmerican Energy Company has just ordered a huge mess of wind turbines from Siemens, but it was all the way back in May that…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will sell 41.35 million ‘B’ shares in the company for tax purposes, US stock market regulators said on Thursday. These shares will allow Zuckerberg to retain power over Facebook because each has 10 voting rights. Proceeds…

Ready for a little bit of change, Spotify users? The popular music streaming service is getting ready to release a new, totally refreshed desktop application for Mac and Windows users in the very near future. According to a report by The Verge, who…

Though most computers that run Google’s Chrome OS come in the form of affordable laptops, LG has decided to target a new demographic with their latest computer, the Chromebase. Announced this morning by the company, the Chromebase is an all-in-one…