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How Maslow’s hierarchy can help you build a great mobile checkout process
Guest Post Mobile shopping cart abandonment rates are around 97 percent. Does that stat hurt you where it counts? Here's how you can meet your users' needs, using one of the most famous motivation theories of all time.
Meet the winners in our Grand Rounds innovation showdown: Beyond Lucid and Liviam
Beyond Lucid and Liviam took prizes in HealthBeat's innovation competition, which aims to identify the most promising new startups in the health care technology space.
Mom knows best: Why health technology need a woman’s touch
Women make approximately 80 percent of healthcare decisions for their families. Women entrepreneurs can (and should) play a central role in developing products that address their unique and widespread problems.
Star Trek’s replicator comes to life thanks to NASA funding
NASA has thrown a $125,000 grant at a research project to bring 3D-printed pizza into our reality.
Three young entrepreneurs to watch
How young is young? Is there an age for entrepreneurship? We met three extremely smart entrepreneurs – aged 13, 16, and 22 – who’ve been up to some cool stuff.
Buying technology from startups: what marketing execs look for before they take the plunge
Sponsored Post We spoke to Aubrey Sabala, VP of marketing for "smart data" company Sailthru, to find out how she's experiencing the shift from CIO to CMO-driven sales.
How the web & apps are changing your brain
If you've ever spent more than 30 seconds thinking about it, you probably already assume that Google sort of acts as an external hard drive for your own gray matter. But does that mean we're getting dumber? Or just that we're thinking smarter, not harder?
For startups, health care reform is a huge opportunity, HHS tech guy says
The Affordable Care Act, aka health care reform, aka Obamacare, is spurring a massive creation of new business opportunities, according to the HHS chief technical officer, Bryan Sivak.
Avoiding sucking: How to make an app people actually want to use
Guest Post Ultimately, the world is witnessing a fundamental phase shift in the way applications are built and designed. Keeping these new basics in mind will let you create and deploy robust apps that people actually want to use -- and can use, crash-free.
Twitter granted pull-to-refresh patent that everyone already uses (and sort of gives it away)
The developer of pull-to-refresh was so concerned about how Twitter would use his patent that he asked Twitter to agree with him -- as part of the terms of the sale of his company -- that it would never use the patent offensively.
Qualcomm Life is building the future of health care
Qualcomm Life is committed to on-demand healthcare (like what we expect from our technology) and plans to pilot ideas for the future of health systems on their employees.
Pandora starts playing music from unreleased albums
The new station marks an important step in Pandora's attempt to become just as vital to the music industry as the traditional radio stations were decades earlier.
Xbox One & Azure cloud computing: A match made in heaven
One aspect of the new Xbox One really gets me fired up: Game developers should now be able to use Microsoft Azure's cloud computing platform to make games more powerful than ever.
Stanford & Kaiser reveal the next big opportunities in health tech
What do the most innovative doctors and nurses really think about the new wave of medical technology?
Everything you need to know about the Xbox One (so far)
The Xbox One is real and we've gathered up everything we know about it.
Founders: Bid for pitch slots with Tim Draper, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and more VCs
How much would you donate to charity to have a private pitch meeting with your favorite venture capitalist?
Xbox One: Microsoft’s supergeeks reveal what’s inside the hardware
We dive into what's inside and what that will enable in terms of future entertainment.
Nurses will never adopt your tech if the usability sucks
Nurses and doctors are consumers too. They experience consumer technology in their personal lives and are starting to demand it within the hospital walls.
NFL will bring exclusive original TV content to Xbox One
With Microsoft's introduction of the new entertainment watching experience through its new Xbox One console, one of the biggest winners will obviously be for those that love live sports.
Change.org scores $15M from Omidyar Network to grow the world’s largest petition service (updated)
Popular social petition service Change.org has raised $15 million in new funding -- cash that will help it further build up the "world's largest petition platform."
