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Google X is spinning out its life sciences group and making it a standalone company within new Google’s new parent company, Alphabet, Google cofounder Sergey Brin wrote in a Google+ post today. Andy Conrad, who has bee...

Mozilla today announced major changes coming to how Firefox add-ons are built. While this is mainly aimed at add-on developers, the end results will trickle down to Firefox users over the next few months and years. Back ...

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. Fyber raises $169M in convertible bond to expand mobile advertising business Fyber has raised as much as...

It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result. Well, if that’s true, then many marketers can officially be deemed insane.

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EXCLUSIVE: You have to watch what you say at a party. A conversation at shindig at the recent Casual Connect game conference has led Machine Zone, the maker of the top-grossing Game of War: Fire Age mobile game, to file ...

Dropbox has released the source code for its Hackpad collaborative note-taking application under an open-source license. Dropbox acquired Hackpad in April 2014. About a year later the team behind Hackpad informed users t...

More and more, the term “crowdfunding” is being used for a dizzying variety of business funding options. The term seems to be used for everything from Kickstarter community projects to real estate projects to adverti...

The baths in subarctic temperatures are a hot emerging trend among celebrities, athletes and even businessmen.

If you are skipping mobile in your digital ad campaigns, it?s going to cost you. Big time. Here is why.

Deciding which digital ad led to a sale is one thing. Deciding which attendance at a real-world conference helped the sale is quite another. Today, B2B attribution vendor Bizible is putting them together by updating its ...

EXCLUSIVE: Fyber has raised as much as 150 million euros, or $169 million, in a convertible bond to continue the company’s expansion into the global mobile advertising technology market. Last October, Berlin-based Fybe...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Blizzard developers give players tips for Heroes of the Storm, Pokken Tournament, is coming to Wii U, and we preview Super Mario Maker. Have a great weekend! Pieces...

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with StubHub. According to Parag Vaish, Head of Mobile for StubHub, the future of mobile doesn’t include the mobile web. He believes the time is not far off whe...

Andrew Wilson’s reign as the chief executive of Electronic Arts has certainly been good for investors. At EA’s annual meeting last week, shareholders didn’t ask any questions. In years past, the meeting had the ine...

A decision in a case involving contract workers at a Browning-Ferris plant may dramatically expand the definition of `employer.'

How does a winery succeed on Amazon Wine? Here are some tips for navigating the "flywheel."

People never hesitate to say that security and privacy are very, very important to them. But too often, their actions say otherwise. Whether it’s never changing passwords, or making them strong enough in the first plac...

Drunk Mode What is Drunk Mode? Features (Presently Available) 1) Find My Drunk - Use GPS to track drunk friends, keeping you and them safe 2) Stop Drunk Dialing - Block selected contacts to hide them Sent from my iPhone ...

SPONSORED: This post is produced in association with Autopilot. For many customers, it's a mobile-first world. But that doesn’t mean they’re exclusively mobile, or use just one mobile device. How can marketing automa...

There are mobile apps for taking notes, for keeping fit, for toilet-users to communicate … apps for just about everything. But some apps add such great functionality to a smartphone that sometimes I wonder whether they...

The most successful cellphone maker in China, Xiaomi, has announced its long-anticipated arrival in Africa next month.The continent has been the fastest growing mobile region for the past five years, and saw Q1 smartphon...