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.

Here are the top 10 cities for women entrepreneurs

Intuit published an infographic today presenting the top cities for female entrepreneurs, as well as some interesting statistics about the state of women-owned businesses in the U.S.

Facebook creates new tech scholarship for moms

Hacker bootcamp school Hackbright will take 10 weeks to train the moms accepted into the program. During this time, old skills will get a refresh and new skills will be taught.

Battle of the mobile sexes: Women install 40% more apps, spend 87% more than men

Women install 40 percent more apps than men, buy 17 percent more paid apps, and pay an astonishing 87 percent more for those apps. In other words, if you want to make money selling apps, you better appeal to women.

Top female executive leaves Yahoo to become Go Daddy’s CTO (updated)

Elissa Murphy, Yahoo's VP of engineering for cloud services, is the second employee in two weeks to leave Yahoo to work for Blake Irving, Yahoo's former CPO who now heads up Go Daddy.

Adria Richards speaks on women, men, and tech … but not a certain fired developer

In the week or so since she tweeted a picture of a joking developer that eventually resulted in his firing, her company SendGrid getting DDOS'd, her firing, and a host of sometimes-scary attacks online, she hasn't tweeted or blogged or spoken in public.

Adria Richards: ‘I’m staying safe’

This morning Adria Richards broke my heart, and the hearts of all those who give a damn about women in technology.

GitHub gets down with the ladies in Passion Project series

The developer company is giving women in the tech community -- especially devs and product designers -- a chance to speak out about what drives them.

Happy International Women’s Day — here’s an ugly new sexual harassment lawsuit in Silicon Valley

Three women charge CMEA Capital with 35 counts of sexual harassment. It gets ugly.

Are ladies’ underpants the next billion-dollar startup?

Thinx has designed the ultimate hi-tech, high-quality line of womens underwear to improve 'that time of the month' for women around the world.

Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of LinkedIn? Almost

Current Facebook chief operating officer and former Google VP Cheryl Sandberg was almost LinkedIn's chief executive officer. Almost.

Astia forms elite angel network to build up female founders

A global non-profit that supports women entrepreneurs forms an elite angel investor network.

Tackling tech’s gender problem the right way: Teaching women to code

In San Francisco, two guys are putting women through a 10-week bootcamp in software development. The goal: to change the gender ratio of the tech industry.

Saudi Arabia now tracking women electronically, notifying husbands by text

UPDATED -- Saudi Arabia has implemented an electronic tracking system to monitor women and inform their husbands if they leave the country.

Startup Spotlight: Womens Veterans Connect bridges gap between military and civilian life

Women Veterans Connect is a multi-platform service bridging the gap between women veterans and their communities by providing interpersonal connections, along with educational and supplementary life skills services.

Google puts the focus on women tech stars with new web series

Next week, Google is presenting a web video series featuring brilliant, successful women in tech — specifically, women who develop and design technology and applications, and who advocate for more gender balance in our industries.

The series is part of …

Black Girls Hack creates #blackhack: a hackathon for black women programmers

What do you do when you can't find a cofounder? Or, when not enough people in your demographic are programmers, much less startup founders?

BeauCoo launches mobile fashion network for real women, with real bodies

It may be shocking to some men -- or at least advertising art directors -- but not all women have the stereotypical Barbie dimensions. Or the Twiggy lack thereof.