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Students in Matamoros, Mexico weren’t getting much out of school — until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.

A growing movement where nonprofit organizations are using computers, mobile devices, the internet, and even digital currencies to help improve the plight of the country’s poor and homeless, nudging them towards new jobs, new homes, regular healthcare, and other things …

Microsoft is developing a proprietary tracking system that could follow you from apps to the web and from your PC to your tablet to your videogame console. Just imagine what the NSA could do with it.

Ruchi Sanghvi — the first female engineer at Facebook and more recently the vice president of operations at Dropbox — is leaving the successful file-sharing startup, just months after helping to transform the company’s web service into a platform that …

A deal between Twitter and Comcast will add links to certain tweets enabling certain users to view certain shows from Comcast’s NBCUniversal.

Hewlett Packard is encouraging at-home employees to return to the office. It’s just the latest move in a long struggle to come up with a mature and effective approach to telecommuting.

We’re damned if we do, damned if we don’t: Every minute we spend on work about work is a minute we’re not doing work. The concept that what works on Facebook will work for businesses is appealing, but it’s an …

The $129 Nest Protect, launching this fall, is a handsome white square with rounded corners and an op-arty sunflower pattern. When smoke or carbon monoxide reaches a government-specified level of peril, the device performs like every other alarm. But what …

New York’s attorney general wants personal information on Airbnb users across the state.

Take a walk through Square’s new offices, which opened last week, and see how the growing company is trying to keep the intimacy of a startup while going on huge hiring spree.

Twitter had as much time to bulk up for its IPO as Facebook. So why are its revenues, earnings, and user base so much weaker?

Twitter has filed to go public, disclosing its revenue and profit for the first time. We’re updating live as we pore over the company’s SEC Form S-1.

Instagram will soon begin serving ads. That’s only what you’d expect from the company that Facebook paid $1 billion for in the spring of last year, just weeks before going public.

Fresh off an apparent victory in which a New Yorker fined for renting a room out through Airbnb had his penalty overturned, the sharing economy’s marquee company says its “hosts” should collect room taxes just like hotels.

The company behind IBM’s storage cloud is indeed on the way out. Last month, Nirvanix — the San Diego, California company that powered IBM’s SmartCloud Storage service — told customers and partners that it was shutting down on September 30, …

The real problem with ebooks is that they’re more “e” than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone — from an individual to a library — can and can’t do with them compared to physical books, …

Peer-to-peer car-sharing company RelayRides says it’s abandoning hourly rentals in favor of a model much closer to the traditional rental car industry.

Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books. The 29-year-old entrepreneur and his six-year-old San Francisco startup just unveiled an online subscription service that gives you unlimited …

Fresh off of launching its same-day delivery shopping service to the San Francisco public, Google is now offering to accept those packages for you, too.

The co-creator of Twitter and Blogger has decided that “the internet is simply a giant machine designed to give people what they want.” Here’s what this grand unified theory means and where it came from.