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Pixazza, a startup backed by Google Ventures, is known for "in-image advertising," a method of overlaying photographs with relevant ads--when a user mouses over a picture of, say, a bicycle, for example, he or she might see an offer to purchase a bike from an onlne retailer such as Amazon or Sears; if a purchase is made, Pixazza takes a cut of the sale.

After two decades of working with the tech giant, Darryl Peck opened a small Apple retail store called PeachMac.

Your iPhone can make calls (sort of) and check your email, sure, but new apps are being developed that will allow you to monitor your own health with just your phone. The iPhone is good for more than just playing Angry Birds and making on-the-fly Twitter updates

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.

The web is more dangerous than ever. LulzSec, Anonymous, Julian Assange, News Corp. employees--they all make our grandparents wonder if their computers are indeed infected , and require iron-clad protection from McAfee or Symanetc, lest their Windows 98-running Gateway desktops explode.

Apple appears to be gearing up for a fresh assault on a market it's never done hugely well in: Enterprise.

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Apple 's killing the optical disk format, bit by bit--just as we suspected . When the computer maker

Adding a live chat service to your e-commerce site can simplify communication with your customers. Here's how to integrate this alternative to e-mail and customer service hotlines into your site.

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. Space Shuttle Atlantis Coming Home For Ever . At 4:18 this morning EDT , the Space Shuttle Atlantis fired its maneuvering rockets to take it away from the International Space Station and begin its journey home to Earth for one final time, closing the Shuttle era

Google+ may hit 10 million users today, and Steve Ballmer admits Windows Phone failings. This and more surprising/important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.

"Hey, I'm a Mac, I'm off to college!", new investment puts Twitter at $8 billion.

When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt said recently that a "gang of four" rules today's tech industry, he notably left out Microsoft, arguing that Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook control the landscape. Here's why he's wrong. The parallels between Microsoft and Facebook have always been strong.

Apple's upcoming iPhone 5 will be "thinner and lighter" than the iPhone 4 and also sport an 8-mega pixel camera, according sources who spoke to official Apple leakbucket

The U.S. cellphone market has just turned a very significant corner, ccording to Nielsen: The majority of new phones being sold are, for the first time, smartphones