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Jimmy is an open-source robot that is inspired by the Maker movement.

After our panel last week at the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP) conference in San Francisco, a colleague tweeted a photoshopped image of me and Antony Bugg-Levine, CEO of Nonprofit Finance Fund, as Batman and Robin, resp...

Netflix today announced an update to its website, introducing a “new instant search tool” which quickly serves up search results as users type in a query. The tool mirrors Google’s own instant search tool, but actu...

Fraud is a problem in the nascent mobile video ad space. AnyClip Media says their new technology deals with the problem.

Now Google is moving in mobile-device management in the area in a way that acknowledges the popularity of devices from its major mobile competitor.

Yesterday, Apple announced that iOS 8, the latest version of its mobile operating system, will finally arrive on September 17 — and HipChat is ready for it. The enterprise communications tool is revamping its iOS app a...

The upstart mobile carrier that refuses to be bought, T-Mobile, brought its faux-rock corporate show to one of its stores to announce that it will transition all its phones to be able to seamlessly hand off calls from it...

Intel today announced that it has acquired 1,400 telecommunications patents and patent applications registered by Powerwave Technologies. The patent portfolio was purchased by Intel through the Gores Group private equity...

Intel's Kirk Skaugen says the PC has more innovation than ever.

Microsoft wants to stand out in the cloud. This new live-streaming service should help matters.

Amid Apple acquisition rumors, Path chief executive Dave Morin revealed today that the struggling social network now has 5 million daily active users globally. That 5 million figure looks small when compared to Path’s ...

Today Twitter unveiled Flight, a conferenced created specifically for mobile app developers. The Flight conference kicks off in San Francisco on October 22nd and will be an annual event, according to Twitter’s new deve...

Google X, the research division of tech giant Google, has just announced that it has acquired Lift Labs, a company working on devices for people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and essenti...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Today Forbes launched an eBook on the trials and triumphs of women in their 30s. In it you’ll find candid, illuminating interviews with female CEOs, entrepreneurs, inventors and more sharing the p...

The new features now allow users to employ Google Voice's SMS text messages or voicemail in Hangouts, as well as make free voice calls.

365 Data Centers, a company that operates 17 U.S. colocation facilities where companies to store the hardware that runs their applications, has taken on $16 million in fresh funding. The money should help 365 keep runnin...

Who hasn’t had to stay home waiting for a cable guy to show up during a three-hour window … which is inevitably missed? FieldAware, a cloud management solution for field service organizations, is more than aware of y...

Game makers are in favor of bigger screens and more powerful devices. Apple stays on its path of attracting core players.

Search engine optimization (SEO) has been around for as long as search engines have been popular, but the constantly evolving complexity of search algorithms have digital marketers wondering what’s next for their ranki...

At midnight last night, some of the Internet’s most popular sites rallied together to observe “Internet Slowdown Day,” a global demonstration against the FCC’s consideration of a two-tiered Internet. Until midnig...

Our latest speakers are from companies that run the gamut from cloud gaming to mobile game Kim Kardashian: Hollywood.

The e-commerce company has stocked up on gaming talent and technology, and it is potentially the gaming publisher of the future.