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You might think a little B-school blather will impress investors and customers.

Several start-ups are cashing in on the trend of mothers handing their tablets to kids by making it safer and easier. Parents are increasingly handing Web-connected tablets to their kids. Flowing with that trend, several companies are working to create online havens for children and to make money while doing so

In its press release today American Express revealed explicitly that its new $100 million Digital Commerce Investment Initiative was destined to fund "early stage startups to facilitate the company's digital transformation." If that sounds like a firm that's aware it's got to rapidly pivot, that's because that's exactly what's going on.

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A new White House initiative hopes to alleviate the pressure student debt places on recent grads.

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Giftiki , launching today, says it is a "gifting engine and social commerce platform that will alter the act of gift giving as we know it." The site was brought into existence because nowadays "with so many friends to appreciate--both online and off--it’s tough to give substantially to each and every one." The site has partnered with American Express, utilizing its new digital payments platform Serve as a "future redemption option" and while that's being set up, recipients can cash in their gifted dollars, converted into "Giftiki dollars" at Amazon.com and a number of brick-and-mortar retailers like Macy's and Starbucks, or choose to get the cash as a freely convertible AmEx gift card.

Organizing a group-bought gift for someone special can be a gigantic hassle. Enter Shareagift--which leverages social networking, online payments, and gift-suggestion algorithms--to sweeten the whole deal. "It's your friend's birthday and you know she really wants an iPad, but you only have enough for the classic annual scented candle," teases the press release for Shareagift , a new London startup that brings online payments and social networking to collborative gift-buying

Businesses in the sharing economy have drawn public scrutiny, if not ire, of late.

Find out what happens when a journalist crowdsources a piece about a crowdsource company to the people who work there. From DARPA soliciting the masses to design aspects of next generation combat vehicles , to

With the "unanimous" approval of both boards, Google has agreed to hand over $40 per share to acquire Motorola Mobility--the spun-off phone-making wing of the original Motorola, separate from its government and enterprise business.

In January, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg tapped Rachel Sterne to be the city's first chief digital officer--and ever since then, the 27-year-old (28 on Monday) has been on a tear, dragging New York into the 21st century.

Because you can put gas in flex-fuel vehicles, and because you can't find ethanol anywhere, just putting clean cars on the roads hasn't meant cleaner emissions. Governments and corporations--big entities that have to move a lot of stuff and people around--buy a lot of cars and use a lot of gas. In 2009, these U.S.