Sephora Gives Its Shopping Experience a Makeover

Sephora is getting a little more digital. Today the beauty chain rolled out an completely updated website with Pinterest and Instagram integrat…

Researchers suggest haptics and audio for discreet password input

You can use as complex as a password as you like, but that won’t do you much good if someone’s able to watch or record you entering it. Researchers Andrea Bianchi, Ian Oakley and Dong-Soo Kwon have some ideas for overcoming that little problem though, and recently put together a video demonstrating a

Sephora Doubles Down On Tech: In-Store iPads, Revamped Website, Pinterest Tie-In

Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, is still best known for its brick-and-mortar shops that let customers test out high-end makeup, skincare and fragrance products with less pressure than typically comes with department store beauty counters. But that doesn’t mean the company, which has its US headquarters

Levo League Offers Career-Building Resources to Gen Y Women

The facts are clear and indisputable — women make 77.5 cents for every dollar a man makes, and four in ten companies have no women in seni…

Strategy For Startups: The Innovator’s Dilemma

Strategy. Unfortunately, it suffers from a bad reputation among startups. It is associated with consultants who are paid millions of dollars only to come back with a two-by-two matrix of animals. Not that there is anything wrong with it. Some of my best friends are consultants.

However, strategy is

Philips’ new ErgoSensor desktop display demands that you sit up straight

Remember those halcyon days when your mother would chide you to sit up straight should you ever start to slouch? Good news, desk jockeys, because Philips’ ErgoSensor desktop monitor is here to stop your stooping now that mom’s no longer around — and it doesn’t require you to wear some silly plastic

5 Social Entrepreneurship Startups You Should Know Right Now

In our new series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact.…

Hooking Users In 3 Steps

The truly great consumer technology companies of the past 25 years have all had one thing in common: They created habits. This is what separates world-changing businesses from the rest. Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter are used daily by a high proportion of their users and their

How would you change ASUS’ Transformer Prime?

"All hail the new king," was how we capped off our review of the Transformer Prime, which simply blew us away. Gaming performance was astonishing and it only improved when Ice Cream Sandwich appeared in the middle of this year’s CES. In fact, the only issues we could find involved a less-than-ideal speaker

[Excerpt] Fundraising: From $1,000 To $1,000,000

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Onswipe CEO Jason L. Baptiste’s new book The Ultralight Startup: Launching a Business Without Clout or Capital.

If you pay attention to the headlines about startups getting millions of dollars of funding from investors, venture capitalists, or partnerships,