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Apple announced today that its 9th annual iTunes Music Festival will don a new name to promote Apple Music. Now called the “Apple Music Festival,” Apple’s ten-day U.K. event will feature Pharrell Williams, One Dire...

Apple has responded to media reports from earlier today that almost half of people who tried Apple Music have now abandoned the service. Apple says the finding, from MusicWatch, is erroneous, and that 79 percent of Apple...

This article is by David Pridham and Brad Sheafe, the chief executive officer and chief intellectual property officer, respectively, of the patent advisory and optimization firm Dominion Harbor Group.

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Intel raised the curtain on a number of new products — and dished out plenty of gimmicks, too (like these robot spiders) — during day one of its 2015 Developer Forum. Here’s a rundown of everything that went down s...

Stories are the oldest form of human engagement, so marketers love them. As the morning's speakers told the audience at VentureBeat's GrowthBeat conference today in San Francisco, you can put the story into the pitch, yo...

Social media marketing isn?t just for businesses that operate exclusively online; it can also be valuable for stores with a physical presence. Here are seven social media strategies you can use to get your social media a...

Intel teamed up last year with watch maker Fossil Group to create wearable electronic devices such as smartwatches. Now the products are coming to the market soon. Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich and Fossil Group ex...

Intel has gone Hollywood. The world’s biggest chip maker teamed up with United Artists today to create a contest for the inventor who can make the best wearable computing device. Mark Burnett, chief executive of United...

Microsoft today announced support for backups of files and folders on PCs running Windows 10 through the Azure Backup cloud service. It’s a natural extension of Azure Backup following the launch of Windows 10 last mont...

If the Clever-Foolish 2x2 is Silicon Valley?s strategic playbook, here is how Mark Zuckerberg has employed it in the past, and will employ it long into the future.

Your computer will recognize you in the future through your bracelet. Intel is keeping pace with the growing development of wearables for the workplace. At the Intel Developer Forum today, the company announced work on a...

Dancing robot spiders may be coming your way. Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich closed his keynote speech with a demo of gesture-controlled robots dancing on stage at the Intel Developer Forum. We’re not sure what u...

The 6th annual Small Business Survey conducted by Wakefield Research for Brother International revealed that  the majority of small business owners are ready to invest in their businesses - as well as let go of bad h...

Microsoft today launched a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the first build the company has released to testers since the operating system launched on July 29. The build includes new feedback features specifically for Win...

Now you can get your next bike with built-in electronics that monitor how well you do biking tricks. Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich showed a demo of a BMX bike with sensors attached to it that monitor the motion an...

At its Intel Developers Conference in San Francisco today, Intel showed its work to make vending machines smarter, and, as it turns out, more sanitary. Intel announced an initiative in May with the vending tech company N...

Japan’s mobile gaming market is huge, but just a few games take home a bulk of that spending. And one is making an extraordinary amount of cash on a daily basis. Developer Mixi, which produces the Japanese megahit Mons...

Misfit and Speedo have teamed up on the launch of a Speedo-branded activity, swim, and sleep tracker called the Speedo Shine. Misfit said the proprietary lap-counting algorithms embedded in the device’s firmware track ...

Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich announced an initiative today to make the Internet of Things more secure, starting at the chip level. Intel has created an industry standard dubbed the Enhanced Privacy Identification...

When news broke about the inner workings of Amazon in Sunday’s New York Times article, I was positively riveted. Reading about how heavily the company is said to rely on data to evaluate employees got me thinking about...

Parents are dropping a serious amount of cash to keep their kids’ tablets and smartphones filled with games. Spending on games for children makes up 7.8 percent of the worldwide mobile gaming market, according to indus...