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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent a letter to BitTorrent last week asking the company to help stop copyrighted infringement of its members’ content. Brad Buckles, RIAA’s executive vice preside...

Opera Software today announced that it has acquired Brazil-based Bemobi, the maker of Apps Club, a subscription-based marketplace for highly rated Android apps that people in emerging markets can easily access. Terms of ...

Always be testing. That’s certainly an important part of running a business, no matter whether it’s a digital company producing hardware or software or if you have a traditional brick-and-mortar store. While there ar...

How to get a little r-e-s-p-e-c-t from your co-workers.

What tools do associates at venture capital firms use for their daily activities? This question was originally answered on Quora by Crystal Huang.

OPINION: Last night’s GOP debate was a weird move for Facebook. Touted by Fox News as a cohost of the network’s primetime talkfest, Facebook was omnipresent on screen, but didn’t do much else. Based on this two-par...

In his first full quarter back at the helm of Zynga, Mark Pincus delivered a solid financial result. The social gaming company that he founded still has a long way to go before its long-awaited turnaround is complete. It...

Amazon Web Services isn't the only contender for cloud gaming services, which are making mobile games much better.

Investor Chris Sacca, known for sharing his opinions publicly, has stated his preference for who should be the next CEO of Twitter -- current interim CEO Jack Dorsey. Twitter needs product vision and @jack has that in sp...

Verizon today introduced a new set of mobile service plans, and nowhere in them does the company offer to subsidize new phones. Subscribers need to buy the phone outright or pay monthly installments. Consumers have alway...

IT management platform ZenHub has opened up its enterprise offering worldwide, making its project management tool more available to those with on-premises instances of GitHub. The first customers to take advantage of thi...

Disclosure: The organizers of ChinaJoy paid my way to Shanghai. Our coverage remains objective. SHANGHAI — Xaiofeng Zeng is one of the veteran analysts who studies the Chinese gaming market — and lives in Shanghai. H...

Clippy is arguably the most beloved and hated animated character that Microsoft has ever come up with. We can’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the little paperclip than a whole music video. That’s exactly wh...

(Reuters) — A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world’s first ‘car in a bag’. Twenty-six-year-old Kuniako Saito and his team at Co...

Disclosure: The organizers of ChinaJoy paid my way to Shanghai. Our coverage remains objective. One of the best things about my job is talking to smart people about games. That’s one of the things I’ll enjoy about ou...

Some might say angel investors and venture capitalists have had a rocky history. Not too long ago, it was common for VCs to look askance at angels—at best ignoring them, at worst disdaining them. Over the past decade, ...

Headquartered just a stone's throw from the Bank of England building in one of those newly-erected 'statement' office blocks that have latterly come to characterize the City of London, card payment company Worldpay is su...

Ami Kassar knows his way around small business loans: As chief executive of MultiFunding, based outside of Philadelphia, he advises business owners about financing. Though bank lending to small businesses has come back s...

Startups are really risky.  And, if you are looking to join one, know going in you have a 9 in 10 chance that company won’t be in business within a couple years from now, and you’ll have to be looking for a new job ...

FEATURE: Do you “LOL” to reveal your jovial side to the online masses? Or do you “HA HA” to extol your peers’ social smack-talk? Facebook has just published some interesting data on the myriad different types o...

According to a set of internal financial documents – covering 2013-2014 – obtained by Gawker, Uber is hemorrhaging cash, and has been operating at a loss for at least the last few quarters. This alone is hardly alarm...

Microsoft today is announcing updates to its NFL app for the Xbox One console that will give fans a better sense of what’s happening at games in real life. Meanwhile, on the sidelines, Microsoft said today that it’s ...