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We’re delighted to announce another trio of speakers for GamesBeat 2016 to address how augmented reality and virtual reality are moving beyond games. (Check out the new agenda here). Our panelists include Jules Urbach,...

VideoLAN today released VLC for Android 2.0, the first major upgrade to the popular video player in six months. The release brings a number of new features and enhancements, and is available to download immediately from ...

Any online publishers hoping ad blocking was a trend that might fade better think again. In a report from eMarketer released today, the marketing research firm projected that the number of Americans using ad blockers wil...

With the home builder delivering very solid second-quarter results, two analysts see 35% upside for shares.

If you thought LA was just about entertainment and beaches, think again. It's the largest manufacturing center in the country, and a new study unveiled today uncovers surprising opportunities to strengthen the economy th...

Lessons from a startup founder who raised more than $1.5 million through crowd funding.

Despite all controversy, Peter Thiel will remain on the Facebook board. The man who supposedly sent Gawker Media into bankruptcy is now considered by some as an opponent of free speech.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung China has been transformed by a credit-fueled investment boom unlike anything the world has ever seen. A credit-based economy, built around what has effectively been the dollar standard, made it all p...

Reuters/David Gray “Capitalism was driven by investment, savings, capital accumulation, reinvestment and capital accumulation… But history got in the way…” In yesterday’s reckoning, economist and author Richard...

When the price of oil collapsed back in 2014, Russia was one of the major casualties and investors feared that the country might be heading toward economic collapse as incomes fell, the rouble collapsed, GDP contracted, ...

The Communist Party’s top anti-graft body has called for better gathering of information between agencies responsible for corruption investigations to stop fugitive officials fleeing the country. An article posted on t...

The 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles last week marked Sony’s biggest virtual reality push yet, and one of the company’s competitors likes what he sees. Palmer Luckey, who invented the Ocul...

Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies’ on-premises data center...

PRESS RELEASE: AdAction is eager to introduce its first-in-class data-driven platform, Action Insight (AI). The Action Insight platform programmatically optimizes media sources for real-time bid management, KPI visibilit...

Yahoo has launched an application to make it easier for people to plan their next trip. Called Yahoo Radar, it brings the company’s search, communication, and content areas together to help you research your destinatio...

Thirstie, an online and on-demand booze delivery service based out of New York, has announced that it’s expanding into mail delivery as it looks to build a more scalable business model. Founded in 2013, Thirstie teams ...

Today’s era of collaborative commerce, where companies such as Airbnb and Uber rule our lives as the ioT movement takes shape, is giving way to a more pervasive overall collaborative culture.

There's a reason people who make more than $100,000 might be the real target of today's popular anger

Chatbots. Everyone is talking about them, but what do they mean for the future of the human race, and will we forget how to talk to each other twenty years from now? Before we dig into how brands and marketers can remain...

Railroad and trucker stocks drop after profit warnings from Canadian Pacific and Werner Enterprises, which pushed the Dow Jones Transportation Average into negative territory despite the gains made by the broader stock m...

REVIEW: For an entire week, I’ve forced myself to live more actively — and not because I read a quote on Instagram that inspired me be healthy. Nope, it’s because I was testing Samsung’s new Gear Fit 2. I have a ...

You can now share your live videos on Tumblr. The company has added publishing and discovery support for the increasingly prolific video format on its blogging platform, which means that you can now post your videos from...