Today's small businesses face a double-edged sword when it comes to marketing their products. The very labels that make these products attractive to consumers -- "natural," "organic" and/or "sustainably-sourced" ­-- are also fraught with controversy.

Not to say the projects aren't innovative anymore. They still are. But I no longer think that Kickstarter is a true 'crowdfunding' platform.

At a high level we care deeply about two types of metrics: what people do and what people say. We believe both are important in understanding how well we're connecting people to the stories that matter to them.

This week's HotTopic is an A4 piece of paper. It all started with a Chinese actress who posted a picture of her holding a piece of paper in the vertical position, hiding her waist. Thereby showing how thin her waist is.

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We need a Manhattan Project for the brain, a place where entrepreneurs, startups, established companies, and talented people from all over the world come together to solve some of the brain's most vexing problems - which are also some of the world's most pressing problems.

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Tab for a Cause is a free browser extension that takes advantage of advertising revenue to raise money for charity. Typically, the way that online advertising works is that advertisers pay publishers to deliver impressions on an ad.

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Last week, Apple released the 9.7-inch iPad Pro and I have been using it for the past four days. Because it's smaller, easier to carry, and still holds great power, I have come to appreciate it as a great tablet.

As CEO of the most downloaded digital makeover app in the world, Alice Chang is on a mission to transform the way that we approach beauty. Simplifying beauty for the everyday woman by allowing her to get excited about beauty while getting introduced to the magic of technology.