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Digital adoption in schools has been slow because of the overhead involved. That changes today.

Companies gather ever more information about us, and better technology means they can crunch it faster. That should actually make for better service--and more interesting content. With all the scaremongering going on these days about how much advertisers and websites know about us , you'd think certain online sites would be able to do a much better job in matching their ads to our interests

Your tech company is probably under-serving customers over 50, says Weebly co-founder David Rusenko. (He's made a bundle designing products with this market in mind.) Call them Gen Y , the Millennials, Generation Catalano , or now even Generation C , but whatever name you use for the young and plugged, this group certainly gets a lot of press.

Expect zero sleep, testy employees, and tech glitches you never could have anticipated. Here's how GetHired.com made it through. When I first met Suki Shah, who was wearing a red sweater to make himself stand out in a crowd, there was little outward indication of the treadmill he had been on over the last week

Thiel Fellow Dale Stephens explains how "Does it scale?" applies to education. In Silicon Valley, one often hears the question, "Does it scale?" What a technologist means by this is: How can a specific technological innovation be applied in a broad manner to affect a wide range of people? If Google only searched two websites it wouldn't be terribly useful

If Y Combinator is the next PayPal Mafia, then Paul Graham is Silicon Valley's godfather. Graham is the cofounder of Y Combinator, the investment firm that plugs seed money ($18,000 on average) into early stage startups in exchange for mentorship and access to its ever-growing network of alumni.

Bessemer Venture Partners picked up a piece of everyone's favorite pinboard site back when it was barely making a blip on the Silicon Valley radar. Jeremy Levine tells us why he decided it was a good bet

Welcome to the "Silicon Roundabout," which is luring young companies with government funding, Google-sponsored office space, and a new start-up competition. The start-up scene in London may not be as well known as the hotbeds of entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley or New York City, but it is striving to offer entrepreneurs looking to launch companies a buzzing business environment.

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I've been collecting data about startups and compensation since 2001. Here's what entrepreneurs think they know about startup pay -- and what actually happens

Managing the care of an aging parent or child with a chronic illness is getting increasingly complicated. CareZone makes it simple.

The average legal bill even before VC financing can run more than $20,000. Why pay that when DIY options abound

Tech companies can't find enough engineers. So why not train them yourself

Silicon Valley investors betting on it, and scientists working to make it happen

Your corporate attorney represents your company, not you. If you get in a spat with your partner, your board, or an investor, and the difference will become painfully clear.