There are few things certain in our world except for the uplifting tendencies of technology. I’ve spent the past few years trying to prove this to myself, at least, by interviewing hundreds of t
Tech stocks tanked today amid a broader stock market slide as nervous investors worried that the 10-year bull run in public stocks may be coming to an end. The S&P 500 dropped 3.3 percent while Na
The unfettered internet is too often used for malicious purposes and is frequently woefully inaccurate. Social media -- especially Facebook -- has failed miserably at protecting user privacy and block
Contributor Contributor More posts by this contributor The dinner that destroyed Gawker Author Ryan Holiday on “the nature of world-altering success” It could be said that the first few ye
Walmart and Hudson's Bay-owned department store Lord & Taylor just announced an interesting partnership -- Lord & Taylor will start selling its catalog of high-end fashion merchandise on Walma
I’ve seen startups come and go over the years and I was particularly interested to see what happened to August Home today. The company originally tapped Yves Behar to make a better smart lock,
The spleen does things in the body, real things. It filters poisons and biologists think it once did much more. But, if your spleen goes sideways you can take it out and not change your lifestyle much
It’s been a rough couple of months for Amazon competitors. First Canada’s Shop.ca declares bankruptcy and essentially has a fire sale, then Jet.com, which accumulated big funding and big
Last year, Groupon’s CEO Eric Lefkovsky said that his ambition was to make the e-commerce company’s Goods business more like Costco, not Amazon. Today, the company is launching a new busi
It's Thanksgiving in the States and tomorrow is the biggest shopping day of the year. In fact stores will be open tonight so you can elbow your way into a scrum of bargain hunters and frotteurists. I'
Same-day shipping became the big retailer craze this holiday season. Why? As the New York Times points out, retailers are living in fear of Amazon.com and trying to match what the online retailer offe
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<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/kobowalmartcom.jpg" />You can now find the <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/tag/kobo/">Kobo Wireless</a> e-reader on walmart.com. You c
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Solar City, a company that designs, installs, and leases out solar power systems to home and bus
Wal-Mart has the 16GB Zune HD available for $162.54 plus free shipping (and tax, if applicable). It usually retails for $199, so you’re saving quite a bit. Well, provided you were in the market
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-161344" title="avnno" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/avnno.png" alt="" width="300" height="224" />When it was announced that retailer Wa
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/flairwalmart.jpg" />It's so, so easy to hate on Wal-Mart, what with destroying this country's mom and pop culture, importing cheap junk f
American exceptionalism! Don’t scenes like this make you proud of your country? Then again, maybe these people really wanted that copy of Guitar Hero World Tour? ::shoulder shrug::
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ababooks.jpg" />Books, books, books! The American Booksellers Association, a trade group that represents small bookstores (not Barnes and
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/guy.jpg">Hey, lookin' good there Mr. Man. I like your protective booties. They look like slippers!
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