<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Anthony Lombardi practices litigation and patent prosecution at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP.</em> Software patents continue to command the spot

Stanford's student startup accelerator, StartX, had its eighth demo day tonight in Palo Alto, showing off the latest class of 11 companies* to go through the program. The accelerator, which just raise

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.alchemyapi.com/">Alchemy API</a> has raised $2 million to extend the capabilities of its deep learning technology that applies artificial intelligence to read and

Car insurance is a necessary evil for all drivers. Of course, if you don't happen to be accident prone, paying expensive monthly or annual bills is a headache and seems equivalent to setting your wall

Canalys <a target="_blank" href="http://www.canalys.com/newsroom/android-powered-third-all-mobile-phones-shipped-q4-2012">just published</a> its final mobile phone shipment estimates, which show that

Amazon wants to sell your used ebooks. It recently won a patent to allow people to hock off their read ebooks on its marketplace. Of course, ebooks don’t suffer from wear and tear, but think of the

StartX, which is a startup accelerator for Stanford students, has raised another round of funding, adding $400,000 to its coffers since last December. That money comes from new investors that include

Well, that's embarrassing. Earlier this afternoon, as covered by <a target="_blank" href="http://allthingsd.com/20130207/in-one-fell-swoop-apparent-facebook-glitch-deep-sixes-the-web/?mod=atdtweet"

Countries around the world <a target="_blank" href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-07-14/national/35237599_1_industry-clusters-knowledge-economy-geographic-concentrations">have never quite be

Here's an unpopular opinion, especially <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2008/03/02/when-will-we-have-our-first-valleywag-suicide/">on TechCrunch</a>: The Valley needs a <a target="_blank" href="http:/

A Canaccord Genuity study found that Apple took 72% of all handset profits worldwide while Samsung took 29%. While that is obviously a bit disconcerting, the thinking is that these are rounded-up numb

Last year, the buzz around the potential of online courses (particularly MOOC platforms) reached new heights, and this year is already shaping up to be the one in which online course platforms and the

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.jackthreads.com/">JackThreads</a>, the Thrillist-owned men's shopping community, is seeing some insane mobile growth and conversion rates. But it has also found so

For years, Peter Platzer was pretty close to a stereotypical <a target="_blank" href="http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050203/math-finance.shtml">rocket scientist on Wall Street</a> — he was trained as

We're hearing from multiple sources that there was a small round of layoffs today at enterprise collaboration company Yammer. The number of people let go is around 20 staffers, according to our source

Goldbely is trying to connect its customers -- which it refers to as "Food Explorers" -- with interesting food such as Chicago deep-dish pizza, Philadelphia cheesesteaks, Texas barbecue, New York bage

A new video showcasing the future of weapons was released on YouTube today: a enterprising 24-year-old gun enthusiast manufactured his own high-capacity 30-round gun magazine using a 3D printer. Hopin

The business-focused networking site of record, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/">LinkedIn</a>, rode a wave of growth through 2012, turning itself into a Wall Street darling in the pr

Apple said this afternoon it is evaluating the possibility of issuing preferred stock as part of its ongoing effort to return $45 billion to its shareholders which was initiated in March of last year.

BlackBerry may have been much of the past few months criss-crossing the globe in an effort to drum up developer support for BlackBerry 10, but it turns out that there’s at least one market where the