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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.

With thousands of ad firms wanting your business, how can you choose? Experts explain how to set your goals, put it in an RFP, and snag the best creative team. Long gone are the days of a handful of Madison Avenue firms controlling the advertising world.

The five semi-finalists of the Data Design Diabetes Challenge have made apps to help manage and curtail the United States's growing epidemic. A staggering one in four Americans suffer from diabetes, making it one of the biggest health epidemics in the U.S

The ad analytics company is about to release a new service that will tell advertisers who’s seeing their ads--anywhere on the Internet.

When is a city like a startup? Last weekend, the City of New York hosted a hackathon to re-envision its website, NYC.gov. Here's what geeks from Manhattan, NY, to Manhattan, Kansas, had to say about how a gov site should serve its citizens

Only days after reporting $363.9 million in quarterly revenue and $79 million in operating income, up 34% and 99% year-over-year, respectively, DVD kiosk company Redbox has released some more impressive figures. With more than 27,000 kiosks spread across the country, the Coinstar-owned service is now seeing an average of 55 million monthly rentals and up to 40 rentals per second. That's a lot of movies circulating for a service that requires a trip to the local grocery store.

As the elderly become more tech-savvy, there are new apps and devices to help them lead better lives. A new device from Intel and GE is designed to connect seniors to each other--and to their caregivers. Social isolation in senior citizens is all too common

Dermot McCormack's led a digital turnaround that's put MTV on the top of the online heap as the web's most visited music destination.

"She doesn’t need customization," WePay co-founder Rich Aberman says of a Nebraska theater major. "She just wants to get up and running quickly." Let’s say you’re a 20 year-old college student, and you want a simple way to sell the crafts you make as a hobby to help fund a summer trip. Where do you go?

A Chicago agency is finding that the best way to tackle a conundrum, no matter how big, is to put the best and brightest together to think it through.

Creating a social network is so last week. Today, American Express is unveiling a social media platform

Have you heard about the highly endangered tree octopus of the forests of the Pacific Northwest?

Businesses that go through incubators historically have close to a 90 percent survival rate. And today, every major city has incubators focused on getting tech-savvy start-ups off the ground. We've pinpointed some of the most productive, innovative, and nurturing start-up incubators in the country"be sure to keep an eye on their next classes of graduates.

TapIn's iPad app reorients news, classifieds, and events around precise locations, making every user feel like a local expert. The local news industry is in disarray. Local ad revenue has plummeted