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Activision Blizzard reported earnings that blew past the expectations of Wall Street analysts during its slow summer quarter. The earnings for the fiscal second quarter ended June 30 are closely followed, as Activision B...

If you’re a celebrity and have more than 100 million social media followers, Glu Mobile wants you. In its latest deal, Glu announced today that it has formed a mobile gaming partnership with hip-hop star Nicki Minaj. I...

Rather than join the ranks of tech companies offering to freeze women’s eggs in efforts to stave off pregnancy, Netflix just launched extended maternity and paternity leave for its workers. The policy will apply to the...

The White House published the entire text of its landmark deal with Iran on Medium today. This isn’t the first time the White House has published key documents via Medium. The publisher-platform hybrid has also hosted ...

Google’s project to put 3D mapping tech inside your smartphone is launching abroad. Today the company announced plans to sell its $512 Project Tango tablet development kits in 12 additional countries this month, starti...

GUEST: Personalization for mobile apps is just finding its legs as a marketing technology category, but early indicators are that demand for solutions will grow fast, and there’s a lot of money to be made for those who...

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Hospitality management data startup Duetto closes $30M round Data analytics for hotels and casinos D...

Facebook has been granted an updated patent from the U.S. Patent office on a technology that can help lenders discriminate against certain borrowers based on the borrower’s social network connections. The patent descri...

Google today announced an expansion of its presentation of critics’ reviews in cards in search results. The technology company recently added snippets of reviews into search result cards for movies, and later this year...

Google’s DoubleClick ad platform and the Internet analytics firm comScore are today launching a new service that they hope will allow digital ad campaigns to be managed alongside others, such as ones for TV. At the sam...

Disclosure: The organizers of ChinaJoy paid my way to Shanghai. Our coverage remains objective. SHANGHAI — Robert Xiao, chief executive of Perfect World, made bets last year on the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One and ...

Marketers are looking well beyond their traditional advertising agency base for expertise to drive marketing performance and handle exploding technology, data, digital migration, channel fragmentation, and a more diverse...

Dress Circle Publishing is the only publisher that caters to the Broadway community, and has found massive success in its niche.

A while back, Zappos created big buzz in the business world by announcing it was getting rid of two things held sacred in corporate America:  job titles and org charts. But like most great stories, there’s more here t...

BitTorrent has updated its file synchronization service for mobile devices with a focus on productivity. You can download the new version today for Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and Kindle from getsync.com. BitTorrent rel...

We live in an age of miracles and wonder. Technology has impacted nearly every aspect of our lives, from how we educate our youth to how we move from place to place. The future is one of hope and excitement, as we wait w...

Desktop searches (and desktop traffic) still represent nearly half the overall search market, but considering the fact that mobile devices only accounted for a tiny percentage of interactions just five years ago, is this...

(By Lehar Maan, Reuters) – Sprint reported a much smaller-than-expected first-quarter loss, along with record-low customer defections, and the company said it would continue to focus on the cost cuts that helped to dri...

Microsoft today renamed the web version of Outlook in Office 365: Outlook Web App (OWA) will now be known as “Outlook on the web.” This useless app renaming exercise, which is sadly a typical occurrence for Microsoft...

Framed Data, a startup with an application that helps software company salespeople retain existing customers and increase sales, is launching today after more than a year in beta. The startup has built up more than 1,000...

EXCLUSIVE: Those cut-out video images of a person walking across a web page will become more common, if a new do-it-yourself “floating video” platform catches on. The Tel Aviv-based startup VideoStir says the platfor...

(Reuters) – Apple, the world’s most profitable mobile phone maker, has denied a media report that it is working on a plan to market communications services directly to consumers and bypass telecom operators. Business...