Wikipedia chronicles the lives of plenty of the most important figures to ever walk the Earth. Unfortunately, for those countless people who fail to d... read more »
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AT&'T and smart meter company Elster announced today that they have teamed up to offer a wireless smart meter system for utilities.The agreement li... read more »
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This holiday season should be a crazy time for gift-card exchanges, where users can unload unwanted cards. And one of those exchanges, CardPool, just ... read more »
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At Le Web I ran into Rodrigo SepÆ‚ºlveda Schulz, serial entrepreneur and now investor. I asked him about the startup market in France, a market which ... read more »
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Today during the Media Panel at LeWeb &'10 in Paris, France, there was one thing on everyones&' mind: WikiLeaks. &''This is a turning point for the In... read more »
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MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe earlier this year, has landed a big new part... read more »
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The National Renewable Energy Labratory (NREL) recently tested thin-film solar modules made by MiaSolÆ‚©, and verified that their energy conversion e... read more »
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The political paralysis over network neutrality might be a microcosm of the broader political paralysis in America. Last week, after FCC chairman Juli... read more »
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Foursquare cofounder and chief executive Dennis Crowley just took the stage at Le Web, an Internet conference held in Paris, France, and noted the com... read more »
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Nathan Myhrvold, the former chief technology officer of Microsoft, has insisted for the past decade that his firm Intellectual Ventures has been colle... read more »
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Electronic signature cloud platform DocuSign announced today it has closed $27 million in third round financing and added two key hires to its executi... read more »
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As it faces more business and political pressure, WikiLeaks has beefed up its web infrastructure so that it will become harder to take down.The WikiLe... read more »
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Last spring, we did a preview post on Offermatic, a new deals site that we described as the &''freak love child Of Mint, Groupon and Blippy&''. Seven... read more »
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Here&'s some of the latest action in cleantech today:Ford and Azure Dynamics ship electric vans &8212' The Ford Transit Connect Electric (pictured, ri... read more »
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In digital game distribution, big companies are starting to dominate the market. But Jared Kim, chief executive of WeGame, believes there is room in t... read more »
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Salesforce announced today that it has acquired Heroku, which develops and deploys web-based applications that rely on the programming language Ruby o... read more »
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Intel has quietly formed a new business unit dedicated to tablets and netbooks, the New York Times reports.It will be spearheaded by Douglas L. Davis,... read more »
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GM announced it will join an initiative to build hydrogen car fueling infrastructure and increase hydrogen cars on the roads in Hawaii by 2015.The ini... read more »
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George Bernard Shaw once claimed that England and America were &''two countries divided by a common language&''. This adage may hold true even when th... read more »
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Salesforce&'s newest product, a cloud-based database called database.com, isn&'t going to unseat Oracle&'s database products any time soon, according ... read more »
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