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Barely two years after she arrived , Vivian Schiller has resigned from her post as CEO of NPR. David Folkenflik, NPR's own media reporter, has gone on record

The mobile for health industry in Africa continues to expand. "We can teach larger organizations a lot," the group's founder tells us.

Foursquare's rolling out details of yet another of its new features, a revamp of its merchant platform dubbed "Specials," continuing its recent trend of expanding its core checkin game. Foursquare's Merchant Platform launched in 2010 to "give businesses an easy way to reward their customers and find new ones," but Foursquare has now revamped the system to "give merchants a way to learn more about their best customers and start offering Specials to help them get new people into their location." So says Foursquare's blog posting revealing the revamp.

How were the top companies of the 1980s so successful?

The iPad 2 is here. It will certainly dominate tablet sales this year, but it is not the future of the tablet. The demand for Tablets is forecast to grow exponentially this year and the iPad 2 and its numerous competitors working in copycat mode are all hoping to cash in on this demand

Photo-based life-blogging phenomenon DailyBooth just revealed that it's raised around $6 million in venture capital to grow the young company dramatically.

Have you ever created a Genius playlist on iTunes or set up a station on Pandora? Just plug in one song, and you instantly hear music that matches your tastes.

Anyone who witnessed the wrath of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano last year knows that the country possesses ample geothermal resources. Iceland has so much geothermal energy, in fact, that it might build the world's longest undersea electric cable just to share energy with the rest of Europe.

Al Jazeera isn't just news. Their next project? An English-language childrens' edutainment network on American TV by 2012

With social media and a unique civic iPhone app, Ecko is making a national issue feel locally relevant. In the United States, every class of citizen, from prisoners to soldiers, is legally protected from corporal punishment--except for children.

Apple has some hot products on sale, and its designs push many an envelope. But are its decisions skewing the PC industry somewhat

We wondered if this would be true: An investigation into Verizon's iPhone data performance reveals a sad reality.

When is a coupon too big? Meet the jumbo Groupon. By now you're familiar with Groupon deals.

Sitting at the end of the long wooden bar, I watch with curiosity as Richie begins his pour. He starts the stopwatch on his cell phone and proceeds to pour steaming hot water over the coffee grounds in a precise choreographed motion

He claims so.