Mobile Computing

SPRINGFIELD, Mo -- There is an app for just about everything. It isn't surprising that the demand for people to design those apps has spiked in recent years.

Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , the venture firm that backed Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) and Groupon Inc., is considering starting a new fund focused on startups selling cloud services to corporations.

SAN FRANCISCO - A new study suggests that there are promising career opportunities in apps — the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.

Facebook may be the last great company of the desktop age. It's beaten back Friendster, MySpace and a half-dozen other pretenders, and — at least so far — is successfully holding off both Twitter and Google+. Its desktop display advertisements mak

TWIN FALLS • During BJ Price’s biology class Tuesday at Twin Falls High School, students plugged away at a lab using computers in the back of the classroom.