How cognitive science and user empathy powered Google’s design breakthrough

Google has gone from a company that approached design through cold, hard algorithms to one that's employing gorgeous, user-centric interfaces.

Skyword takes off with $6.7M for content marketing

Skyword has announced closing $6.7 million in growth financing for its content marketing solutions. This Boston-based startup provides agencies, brands, media, and retail customers with a platform to publish content and tools to distribute it effectively.

These ads helped Google win ‘Advertiser of the Year’ status

In 2012, Google made more than $50 billion, almost entirely via plain, boring little text ads. So it's more than a tad ironic that Google has won the Clio advertiser of the year award for 2013 for creativity and excellence in ... old-fashioned video ads.

Abbey Post challenges fashion’s ‘thin’ obsession using social e-commerce (exclusive)

Abbey Post is a fashion marketplace that brings social e-commerce to the plus-size community. The company just released a totally rebuilt version of the site, which now features an internal social network and expanded inventory

Stitcher radio comes to your dashboard with new ‘Car Mode’ feature

Stitcher Radio is rolling out a new feature on its iOS app today that makes it much easier to use the streaming service while driving in a vehicle -- which is exactly where radio belongs.

A year after IPO, Facebook still down 30% (but the future is bright)

A year ago today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg "rang the bell" to open trading in one of the most hotly-anticipated initial public offerings in history as Facebook hit the stock market. And promptly went splat.

Marketing automation firm Marketo shares jump 55% in energetic IPO

Marketing automation business Marketo made its debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange today, and early trading looks strong, with shares up 55 percent over initial pricing.

Pentagon gives green light: Now those hundreds of thousands of iPhones, iPads, and iPods can actually be used

The problem with clearing smartphones for use in top secret environments is that they are, essentially, full of radios: Bluetooth, WiFi, cellular.

The DeanBeat: Maxthon offers an alternative browser that won’t crash while running multiple games

Maxthon features smart memory management that means you can log into five accounts at once.

Smell-o-vision at last! Domino’s releasing DVDs that smell like pizza

Pizza and a movie go together like love and marriage, a horse and carriage, right? So Domino's Brazil has hit on a genius marketing campaign: DVDs that smell like pizza.

‘Big data’ biz Tableau shares explode 60% in strong IPO debut

Enterprise tech IPOs have seen some big movement over the past few years. Now we can add big data and data visualization company Tableau Software to the list.

Yahoo said to be mulling investment in, or acquisition of, Tumblr

If you can't be cool, why not buy someone who is? That's what Yahoo is looking to do with a potential investment in hot blogging service Tumblr, according to Adweek and All Things D.

Funding Daily: Into the darkness

What do Star Trek and startups have in common? Enterprise and Data play a role in both and nerds everywhere get excited about any news surrounding these topics. Here is today's round up of funding news. Nerds.

‘Excel killer’ Tableau Software ups its IPO price to $31

Data visualization company Tableau Software has raised the price range of its initial public offering to $31 per share.

¡Más dinero! BPM solutions provider BonitaSoft raises $13M

BonitaSoft, the business process management (BPM) solutions provider, announced today it has raised $13 million it its third round of funding thus far.

EdgeSpring launches with $11M in Series A funding to help simplify analytics

EdgeSpring, making data analytics easy for the average user, launches with $11 million in Series A funding.

Yahoo newsfeed’s latest ingredient: Embedded tweets

For the second time in the last month, Yahoo is making some changes to its newsfeed that will presumably attempt to boost interest and improve the overall experience of reading the news.