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Samsung has introduced a new way for people to pay for content right through their television. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and other mobile billing options. At first, us...

EXCLUSIVE: Mode Media launched a video two months ago called “100 Years of Fashion in 2 Minutes” that has surpassed 50 million views, which the company says makes it the most-watched fashion video ever created. The c...

GE, a company that sells consumer appliances as well as jet engines and other complex industrial equipment, today announced Predix Cloud, a version of its Predix machine data analytics software that will be accessible to...

GUEST: Fintech is hotter than ever with investment tripling to $12.21 billion in the past year, according to Accenture's 2015 report. Recent Jobs Act legislation is fueling this trend, with deregulation of crowdfunding l...

Elio Motors used the recently issued Regulation A+ rules to test the waters and discovered $27 million waiting in those waters.

Batman: Arkham Knight and Mortal Kombat have delivered big returns for Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The video game company’s parent, Time Warner, reported that second-quarter revenues were $727 million, up 1...

WomenGrow wants to guide women entrepreneurs to the top of the cannabis industry.

Reddit CEO Steve Human announced an update to the company’s content policy. In the announcement, Huffman detailed a new “quarantining” method of community management that he’d alluded to over the past week: One n...

The Crocodoc Personal tool for sharing and annotating documents and the WebNotes tool for annotating websites will cease to be available on November 1, Crocodoc announced today. The news comes two years after Box acquire...

Leanplum just closed almost $12 million in new funding today. Kahuna just finished hiring an all-star cast of new executive talent, including veterans of Salesforce, Cisco, and Zendesk. And another mobile marketing autom...

The health wearables company Fitbit today announced its first quarterly earnings since it went public in June, and the results are surprisingly good. The company reported earnings of 21 cents per share for the second qua...

A new service could help your mobile game hold on to players — and make more money. Swrve unveiled its predictive marketing for games today. The mobile game marketing firm said an initial study showed it increased play...

An innovative financing tool called a development impact bond has been launched as a prototype for development finance. The case study: girls' education in India.

PRESS RELEASE: You might now be able to experience the wonders of virtual reality while being high in the middle of a desert. Burning Man, an annual week-long festival in Black Rock Desert, Nevada, gets its first-ever VR...

It looks like Facebook won’t be buying Meerkat after all. The company has launched Facebook Live, a live-streaming feature reminiscent of Meerkat and Periscope. Currently, the feature is available only to VIPs, which F...

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. Hybrid storage maker Tintri raises $125M Tintri, a company that sells storage boxes packing both fast so...

REVIEW: Check out our Reviews Vault for past game reviews. Submerged is a poignant and melancholic experience that is a joy to partake in. Out now for PlayStation 4 and PC and August 7 for Xbox One, indie studio Uppercut...

Atlanta and Chicago have the best wireless service performance in the United States, says a new report from RootMetrics, while Denver and Los Angeles have among the worst. The study ranked the nation’s largest 125 citi...

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Google today updated Google Slides for Android with support for streaming via Google Hangouts; you can download the new app now directly from Google Play. The company also updated Google Keep for Android with an option t...

If you’re an administrator of one of the 40 million Pages on Facebook, today’s announcement will concern you. Until now, when a user reached out to a business via Facebook, the only way that the administrator could r...

Mere hours after Samsung shared plans to issue over-the-air (OTA) security updates “about once per month” for its Android devices, Google has announced pretty much the same strategy. Starting this week, Nexus devices...