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To get our regular email updates, simply click here.There has always been an income-inequality problem in the world of software development. Now a new study from Sensor Tower illuminates just how big that divide has become. Like most gold rushes, the app-development frenzy started with a good slogan. Steve Jobs knew the first...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Cloud computing is vital to the growth of Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT). In May, the two companies announced they’re teaming up to build a 4,100 mile, transatlantic underwater cable between Europe and U.S. eastern seaboard. You probably think of cloud computing as space-age, cutting...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Sean Parker, a former Facebook president and Napster co-founder, made headlines in April by announcing he would donate $250 million to immune therapy cancer research. Say what you will about the tech billionaire, but he has shown an impeccable talent for attaching himself to winning...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here.Monsanto (MON) officially got a marriage proposal two weeks ago. How sweet. The suitor was a well connected German with deep pockets and impressive pedigree. Monsanto’s assessment was harsh: Incomplete and inadequate, its execs said. It’s not like others haven’t had their eye on...

To get our regular email updates, simply click here."Superbugs," or antibiotic-resistant bacteria, are on track to kill one person every three seconds and set medicine back to the Dark Ages by 2050, according to a new report. In many ways we have been spoiled. Since the accidental invention of penicillin in 1928 we humans...

Bankers are under attack around the world. The assault is not being led by masked men with pistols but rather by anonymous cyber-thieves armed with malicious code. Their vulnerability stems from a historic shift. Before 1973, the world’s banks had a communication problem. Transferring money involved countless phone calls, telex machine...

Tesla (TSLA) has a problem. People really like its products and it can sell every electric car it makes. It can also sell every car it promises to make too. It just can’t make as many as it has promised. So it hired a graybeard, an industry veteran to help it actually build cars. Creating the type of feverish demand that leads to lineups...

Bank of America (BAC) held the first half of its A Transforming World: Robotics and AI Conference in London late last month, and the discussion was as scary as it sounds. In stark terms, respected analysts and economists talked about the devastating implications for jobs stemming from these new technologies. When most people think about...