Left for dead in many quarters, FalconStor re-emerges with a new platform aimed at flash and hybrid storage vendors, MSPs, and a VAR channel which it acknowledges needs to be won over again.

Samsung has just announced the company's acquisition of LoopPay, a mobile payment startup company. This acquisition will open up doors for Samsung to compete with mobile payment systems like Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

T-Mobile's role as the insurgent "Uncarrier" has brought wireless consumers a number of perks: Free international roaming and an end to device subsidies, contracts and early termination fees, to name a few. Now, to keep that streak rolling, T-Mobile is trying something else: It's calling on consumers to advocate on its behalf in an obscure tech policy fight in Washington. […]

Rackspace is a well-known provider of managed cloud space, serving over 300,000 customers of varied sizes worldwide. (These customers–odds are pretty good–include you, my entrepreneurial reader. So you may know directly–and I'd love to hear from you below–whether this approach is really working for you, the customers Rackspace is supporting.)

In some parts of the world, half of the women lack basic reading and writing skills. The reasons vary, but in many cases, literacy isn't valued by fathers, husbands, even mothers. Photographer and TED Fellow Laura Boushnak traveled to countries including Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia to highlight brave women -- schoolgirls, political activists, 60-year-old moms -- who are fighting the statistics.