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Here are the superheroes of tech, both real and fictional, you told us on Facebook you most wanted to be.

Path lets you bring in updates and photos from Facebook, Instagram and Foursquare. Now, it’s letting you search all those social memories too.

New York-based startup iCouch offers therapy with a licensed psychotherapist via computers and mobile devices.

A big mouth, and deep pockets just joined the battle to change what many see is a broken patent system.

Video advertisements are reportedly coming to Facebook.

A group of tech heavyweights, including Apple, Google and Facebook, have joined forces to purchase approximately 1,100 digital imaging and processing patents from Eastman Kodak for $525 million.

If you were a consumer internet company, lousy would be one word to describe the IPO market in 2012. Just ask Facebook. Then again, if you were an enterprise technology outfit or a financial services firm going public this year, …

Google’s YouTube Capture app is the latest sign it’s trying to cozy up to iOS users even as Apple tries to ice it out.

If you are an Apple disciple now is a time of internal conflict. Retailers like Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Radio Shack and Target just cut the price of a brand new iPhone 5 by $50 or more. Meanwhile, Wall Street analysts …

While massive retailers like Best Buy, JCPenney and Walmart grapple with how to build bridges to the online shopping world, all the hottest ecommerce companies, including Warby Parker, Bonobos and Betabrand, are getting into the bricks-and-mortar business. Now you can …

Comparing the cash pouring into Apple’s App Store versus its app marketplace competitor Google Play isn’t much of a contest. Even though there are more Androids in the wild, iOS is still winning.

A federal probe into Google’s search results could soon end with a settlement that largely keeps the U.S. government out of its business. But one of the search giant’s most vocal critics says that however toothless the potential deal, Google …

The National Rifle Association appears to have gone into social media lockdown mode.

Amazon is building some serious advertising technology.

A lot of magical thinking sometimes goes through marketers’ heads as they try to snatch their pieces of merchandising gold from one of the most valuable franchises in history.

A self-funded, small-time entrepreneur thinks startups are aiming to high. So he set up a half-serious fund to help them aim lower.

Best Buy announced Friday that it is giving the billionaire the month of February to present his financing plan. That likely means he hasn’t been able to come up with the cash to do the deal.

Shares of solar panel installer, sales and leasing company SolarCity (SCTY) had a stellar Nasdaq debut Thursday, climbing from $8 to end the day at $11.79, a 47 percent gain.

Google Maps and Google’s Gmail help make Apple’s smartphone the best in the world. Why is the company helping its rival? Ads and confidence.

The fighting has escalated again today in the great taxi-app wars of 2012. But no matter who wins, you the humble passenger will come out on top in 2013.