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I’m delighted to announce our venture investor panel for GamesBeat 2016. Our seasoned panel will evaluate whether the game investment market is tepid, hot, or just right. You can register for the event here. Check out ...

Ardmore and Scorpio have been two of the biggest underperformers this year but look set for EPS growth in 2017.

After a long, mostly successful career as a real-estate mogul and TV personality, Donald Trump conquered the Republican presidential primary process and now stands as the party's nominee. It's perhaps no surprise he garn...

Recently I was speaking at an Education Conference in Malaysia. After my keynote, I joined in on a panel conversation. The moderator asked everyone, “Why do we think people go to school?” When it was my turn to hold ...

The carmaker said it would subtract about $2.4 billion from profit in the second quarter of 2016, an admission that money already set aside would not be enough.

Even the most addicted "Pokémon GO" players crave tips and tricks to help them cheat and level up. And no, we don't mean the creative kind of cheating, like strapping your phone to your dog or a drone until the eggs you...

Evidence that Spotify is gunning for an IPO is growing, with a new report pegging the second half of 2017 as the target date. A story from Bloomberg today cites “five people familiar with the plan” who confirmed the ...

Google today is announcing the launch of a new Oregon region for its Google Cloud Platform cloud infrastructure, along with a new Cloud Natural Language application programming interface (API) that will let developers in...

Blizzard is getting ready to send Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft players on a magical, new quest. Earlier leaks suggested that Karazhan could be the next adventure for Blizzard’s market-leading digital card game. Now ...

Canadian gas company Enbridge Inc. says it has reached a US$62 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice for two pipeline spills in 2010. …

Macy’s shoppers across the United States will soon have a chance to shop with IBM’s Watson. Today, the two companies announced a pilot program for an in-store shopping assistant powered by Watson. The Macy’s On Cal...

Issues include difficult comps, an evolving competitive landscape, and some tepid market commentary.

EXCLUSIVE: Rahul Sandil, a former Xbox manager who led community relations for the canceled Project Spark, has taken a job as the vice president of global marketing for the HTC Vive content store. Based on his new Linked...

A transaction tax is one of those ideas that keeps popping up.  Earlier this month, Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced a bill - Finishing Irresponsible Reckless Speculatnetive Trading - that would apply a ta...

Entrepreneurs Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu recently had a "Slack moment" when they realized a tool they had built for their ecommerce company was more valuable than their original product. That formed the basis of their new ...

Microsoft today is announcing the launch of Microsoft Bookings, a new web-based Office 365 application that businesses can use to handle appointments that their customers make. The app will become available initially in ...

Studios have used Unity technologies’ game-making tools to build more than 238,000 mobile apps. Those games are on 1.7 billion devices, and that provides Unity with a lot of data about the mobile market. And it’s sha...

Skyscanner, one of the internet’s oldest and largest travel search engines, has announced that it’s pulling together its various search smarts under one roof, meaning that you’ll now be able to dig out the best pri...

The rise in usage of Facebook Messenger continues unabated, and today the app marks a major milestone: 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook hasn’t been shy about touting the benefits of its messaging service, espec...

Imperson has announced today its new bot creation and delivery platform, which allows anyone to create a chatbot and launch it on every messaging platform. Think of it as “WordPress for bots,” if you will. The compan...

SPONSORED: The next wave of the analytics revolution will require more than just platform technology. The real challenge requires completing the stack and helping business users replicate what they did in Excel sheets. W...

EXCLUSIVE: I love Pokémon Go. You love Pokémon Go. But apparently, in your efforts to “catch ’em all,” you do find yourself playing in some interesting places. We scoured a new survey conducted by Pollfish, which...