<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Dan Kaplan is a freelance Content Strategist and armchair futurist. He has worked in marketing for Asana, Twilio and Salesforce.</em> In the wake of Apple's <a href="htt

Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook employees celebrated the San Francisco LGBT pride parade from a decorated trolley today, as tech companies across the country very visibly supported equal rights. Accordin

Oh, my. I think someone has actually done it. Someone has built a system that promises to help me find fun things to do near me that.. actually makes me want to do fun things near me. Like many

At the 500 Startups PreMoney Conference last week, Y Combinator's Paul Graham gave a presentation in which he suggested a new way for Series A investments to get done. Graham provided a few suggestion

For all the attention this week about the cloud, it's evident that it is pretty much a distraction when considering what is really happening. Developers are lifting the cloud, not the other way aro

In some ways the Qwerty-packing Q5, with its throwback BlackBerry looks, is a far more important device for BlackBerry than its current flagship, the all-touch Z10. The mid-tier Q5 should be priced to

Like the audiophile who spends serious money on her music, the ludophile spends aplenty on games and consoles. Both want perfection. The question for the games industry, however, is whether perfection

Facebook is not working on an RSS product, we hear, but it still has a huge and truly social opportunity in news discovery. Facebook could turn what links we share with friends into an automatic Digg

Barack Obama was never going to be a champion of civil liberties; he leads a very old and quickly growing strain of the Democratic party that prioritizes the collective good over individual rights. Th

In the aftermath of the dot-com crash, a new era for the web began to take hold - a turning point whose seismic shift was hyped under the moniker "Web 2.0." The concept referred to the web becoming a

There is an interesting shift occurring in consumer websites and apps where users perform micro-work that reshapes experiences. Classic examples of this are how Pinterest users are grabbing images fro

The NSA/Prism controversy rumbles on. Today the European Parliament President Martin Schulz <a target="_blank" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/30/us-clarification-us-spying-nsa">said</a

Observe, ladies and gentlemen, the lyrics of true seduction. Dejamor, a Dreamit-backed startup that creates subscription romance-filled boxes to help couples spice up sexy time, has now launched a

Look, we've all heard the rumors that Google is toiling away on a smartwatch, and the company has said the Nexus Q isn't completely dead, so part of that recent report from the<a target="_blank" href=

Two veteran investors who have been integral in the development of a new generation of Israeli startups are on a mission to reverse a trend in a country that has traditionally favored later-stage and

<b>Editor's note: </b><em>Ankur Jain is a venture investor at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nexusvp.com/">Nexus Venture Partners</a>. Nexus invests in early and early growth stage companies acr

As Twitter nears its IPO, CEO Dick Costolo seemingly refuses to focus on the money. "We think of revenue like oxygen. Essential to life but not the first thing you think about in the morning," he told

Whatever happened to the slow and lazy summer news weeks of yore? This past week certainly wasn't one of them, as evidenced by all the fun stuff we had to talk about during this episode of <a href="ht

Google Reader is dying come Monday, and the whole Internet is sad. I'm not sad. I won't miss it at all. I used to use Google Reader a lot, as in every day, and it was once a key component of my ars