Anytime you sign up for a new product or service online, you need to ask yourself these three questions, says Google's Brian…

It's been about a year since Google launched its Android App Inventor, its DIY tool for building Android apps. The object of one of the…

"Everybody loses" with the enforcement of Apple's new in-app payment rules, argues The Atlantic Wire's Rebecca Greenfield in a post…

Although we often invoke "Hollywood" when we talk about the movie industry, many of the world's greatest films and much of the world's…

The Humble Bundle is set to launch its latest package deal today, continuing its successful "pay-what-you-want" business model with the…

We've covered Sprouter several times here at ReadWriteStart, recommending the Toronto-based startup as a great resource for entrepreneurs…

New rules governing how iOS apps handle in-app purchases went into effect on June 30, and the date passed without much fanfare and seemingly…

Online dating services promise you help finding your "perfect match." Complete your profile, answer a series of questions, choose a few…

I've had a chance to test-drive a Chromebook already, but having received my very own this week (See disclosure at the end of this post…

Since the release of Google's new social network, there's been a lot of speculation about when and if Google Plus would get a gaming…

Wolfram, the company behind the Mathematica computational software and the Wolfram Alpha "computational knowledge" search engine, has…

An archive containing over 18,000 scientific papers, downloaded from the academic journal database JSTOR, has been uploaded to The Pirate…

The explosion in the number of health-related apps has opened many interesting possibilities for rethinking both mobile and personal…

If there's one thing that keeps me coming back to Facebook, it's the photos. Admittedly, I've largely abandoned Facebook as my social…

JK Rowling's announcement last month that she would finally be releasing digital versions of the Harry Potter novels was met with great…

When U.S. District Judge Denny Chin threw out the proposed Google Books Settlement earlier this year, he sent authors, publishers and Google…

It's quarterly earnings season, and following Google's solid report last week, all eyes were on Cupertino today as it was Apple's turn to…

For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing…

One of the longstanding laments about our move to digital literature is how difficult and cumbersome this makes marginalia, those notes…

Young women face the highest rate of dating violence and sexual assault, with nearly 19% - one in five - women reporting they have…

Amazon unveiled a Kindle Textbook Rental, giving students the ability to rent instead of buy digital textbooks. Amazon says that, "tens…

The venture capital database CB Insights has just released its report of investment from the second quarter of 2011, and based on the…

Over 400 college students from around the world gathered this week in New York City for the 2011 Finals of the Imagine Cup. Microsoft's…

In January, Google announced what it called the world's first global science fair, a competition for students age 13 to 18 that brought…