Carrot, the family of apps that helps people manage daily goals and tasks, launched Carrot Fit on iTunes, a judgmental and sarcastic talking app that helps user track weight loss with a combination of rewards and punishments.

In her guest post at VentureBeat, Mohr Davidow Ventures General Partner Katherine Barr believes that venture capitalists are going to be setting their sights in Canada this year

California, US-based tech firm Tango launched a crowdfunding project on Indiegogo for its new portable computer, which is just the size of a smartphone and the capacity of a full quad-core Windows PC.

Bootstrapping first and waiting before finally agreeing to financing from venture capital was beneficial for Qualtrics, an enterprise survey provider, according to its CEO Ryan Smith in an interview with Entrepreneur.

Bell's Canada unit, BCE Inc, said user names and passwords of 22,421 small business clients and five valid credit card numbers were shown illegally on the Internet this weekend after one of its suppliers was hacked, Bloomberg reported.

A new startup attempts to circumvent the legal intricacies of liquidating employee equity in startups by providing a secondary market for investors to auction rights to their employee equity.

Analysts told Bloomberg that the increases in chief executive officers of the top banks in the US usually means that the banks had performed above expectations.

Sony Corp said the NHK report that it was talking Chinese technology firm Lenovo Group about a joint venture for its Vaio business abroad was not accurate but did say that it was thinking of possibilities for the loss-making unit, Reuters reported.

Life science startups of India, like Sea6 Energy which turns seaweed to biofuel, are taking on a higher level of risk in their goal of turning their research into successful businesses, The Economic Times reported.

Innovation company 3M has supported Chilean firm Lixivia. The investment was made through 3M's New Ventures Business but terms of the deal were not disclosed.