More and more municipal governments are granting access to civic data, such as bicycle accidents, crime, health inspections of restaurants, and potholes. Many believe that all publicly available data should be made accessible, so that a growing...

The Holy Grail of online commerce is to get better conversion rates, and it looks like better data may be the key (as Tim O'Reilly has been preaching for years). Next Jump is a company that has been quietly gathering data and helping major online...

Lala, unlike Apple’s iTunes, lets users play the music they own from the Web — or in tech industry parlance, from the cloud. If Apple introduces its own cloud-based streaming music service, it would let people skip having to download music they buy...

With a lot of prodding from the Federal Trade Commission, the Internet advertising industry has committed to telling Web site users about how they collect and use data to customize the ads they display. And it has agreed to find a more prominent...

In the end, if you seek a clue to Fernando Flores’s ambition — and to his potential impact on the world of business — you could look at his second book, Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity...