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Monster Worldwide last week announced that it was rolling out a beta of a social recruitment ad platform, starting this Thursday ...

Pegasystems has unveiled a major upgrade to its customer service application, offering new functionality both at its customer-facing end and internally for reps who use it. ...

Google is in the early stages of developing a nanoparticle-covered pill to detect cancer and other serious health problems such as heart disease, according to Andrew Conrad, head of the life sciences team at Google X, who revealed the project last week at The Wall Street Journal's WSJDLive conference ...

Apple's debut of Apple Pay has been more than a little bumpy, and the company may be in for some additional negative press about its competitive position before the dust settles. ...

Facebook has been meeting with publishers to discuss better ways of collaborating, according to an article published this week in The New York Times ...

Tactile, developer of the free mobile enterprise app Tact for Salesforce CRM, has debuted Tact Premium, a paid version with ramped-up functionality. ...

Amazon on Thursday posted a net loss of US$437 million for the third quarter, or 95 cents per diluted share. For the same period in 2013, it posted a net loss of $41 million, or 9 cents per diluted share. ...

Shortly after Apple Pay's Monday launch, some eager early users were unsettled to see duplicate charges on their accounts. ...

Aviso, a two-and-a-half-year old startup, has launched its first product, Aviso Insights. It is a sales forecasting analytics tool that uses machine learning and portfolio management frameworks to help sales managers answer a fundamental question: What deals can I expect to close this quarter? ...

Whisper, an app that purports to send messages anonymously, has been tracking the location of its users, including those who have turned off their geolocation feature, The Guardian reported last week. ...

Facebook and Apple, companies already known for their generous employee benefits, are raising the bar even more by paying for egg-freezing services for their female employees. Facebook began covering up to US$20,000 in these expenses at the start of the year, and Apple will beginning covering them at the start of next, NBC News reported this week.

AppMesh, a 2-year old provider of a mobile CRM application, recently came out of the gate with the second iteration of its flagship product, SalesMesh. Version 2.0 is a major leap in functionality for the app that builds on the cofounders' vision of developing a personal sales system for the sales rep. ...

Shine Technologies, an Israeli startup with an office in Sunnyvale, California, may well upend the Net neutrality issue with the launch of AdSight, an ad technology product in development. ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled Salesforce1 Lightning, a new Platform as a Service for developers to build mobile apps. ...

Private videos and pictures shared between tens of thousands of Snapchat users -- possibly as many as 200,000 -- were posted online by hackers over the weekend in an episode dubbed the "Snappening." Much of the content is sexual, including many nude photos -- some possibly of minors ...

Verizon Wireless may be bitterly regretting the challenge Verizon made to the Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality rules a few years ago. There's little doubt competing wireless providers are ...

Facebook on Tuesday further opened its Audience Network to third-party developers and publishers. It debuted the platform in April, positioning it as a mobile monetization tool that would leverage Facebook's 1.5 million advertisers and the millions of users who sign into apps using their Facebook credentials ...

Salesforce.com on Tuesday unveiled two new products: Sales Cloud1 and Service Cloud1. The company has a long history of product offerings in these areas, but these new iterations have been designed to address the radical changes in the sales and service space -- namely, the emergence of social and mobile. They also are primed for action when the Internet of Things goes mainstream...

Jeff Bezos is planning to bring together two separate but equally important projects under his control: the Amazon Kindle Fire and The Washington Post. The Amazon CEO bought the paper slightly more than a year ago as a personal investment. ...

Facebook on Thursday announced it had developed a framework for conducting research on its 1.3 billion or so users ...