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It's going to be a wild ride on Friday when Groupon launches into the public markets. Here are three things to keep in mind as you watch the price race up and down.

In the wake of Airbnb's home-vandal scandal, start-ups in the collaborative consumption space are rebuilding peer-to-peer buying's reputation. Here's how. Airbnb found itself in a public relations nightmare this summer that threatened to undermine its whole ethos of amiable and unique person-to-person connections

A new report warns that the exploding usage of radio waves by broadband-devouring smartphones and video threatens to deplete a finite wireless spectrum . “If you look at traffic patterns over the past five years, we went from things like illegal music downloads, to legal music downloads, to video,” said technology adviser and report author Michael Kleeman at University of California San Diego

By embracing a "digital first" approach, The Guardian has seen readership on its website shoot up by over 40% year over the past two years. Its latest feature, the Twitter-scaling search bot @GuardianTagBot, should only help. “It has fun and charm, but it's also fantastically useful and structurally sound,” Janine Gibson, who leads the papers' digital operations in the U.S., tells us

Entrepreneur Ryan Goodman explains how he uses Roambi to turn spreadsheet data into interactive files that he can access on his iPhone. My company makes location intelligence software for businesses, so I'm very much a technology guy

Republican hopeful and cancer survivor Cain says Internet video intended only to "let people be people"

Sirte, Libya, was destroyed by three separate militaries. Nearly the entire population fled. Now a small group of NGOs are swooping in to quickly rebuild ..

Sirte, Libya, was destroyed by three separate militaries. Nearly the entire population fled. Now a small group of NGOs are swooping in to quickly rebuild ..

Sirte, Libya, was destroyed by three separate militaries. Nearly the entire population fled. Now a small group of NGOs are swooping in to quickly rebuild ...

Electrical engineers in Bochum, Germany, have succeeded in developing a new concept for ultrafast semiconductor lasers.

Imagine K12 is a new Palo Alto incubator birthing only education startups.

In her new film, Connected, Webby Awards founder and Internet philosopher Tiffany Shlain sees digital connection as the next step in harnessing our collective brainpower--as long as we don’t lose our ability to relate to each other. Is technological connectivity mankind's next evolutionary step

These are the spirits of innovation past: 11 products and services that Google axed. Not everything Google touches turns to gold

Biometrics are the next big thing in government and homeland security. But the recent theft of the personal information of 9 million Israelis living and dead--including the birth parents of adoptees and sensitive health information--could have big ramifications for foreign governments.

Dreaming up travel on Trippy makes it all a reality, says J.R. Johnson, the startup's founder