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Uber has lost another legal round in the dispute over whether its drivers are independent contractors or employees, an issue that threatens the core of the ride-hailing company’s business model. The California Employme...

The next browser battle is upon us. Google Chrome recently passed 1 billion users, Mozilla revealed big changes are coming to Firefox, and Windows 10 is out, which means it’s time to test Microsoft Edge. In July, we be...

Making lists in the Wunderlist app just got more fun. 🙌 Today Microsoft-owned Wunderlist announced that you can now use an emoji as the symbol for each of your to-do lists in the app. The change is live on iPhone, iPa...

Jonathan Goldsmith might as well actually be the character he portrays for Dos Equis.

Everything is up for grabs.

News aggregation service Digg has unveiled a set of community guidelines it hopes will encourage “very open debates, very free discussions, and very searching dialogue” while also setting sound boundaries on what wil...

FEATURE: Daily fantasy sports have been growing exponentially in the last five years, largely thanks to two sites: FanDuel and DraftKings. In a Fortune report earlier this year, FanDuel had a valuation of $1.5 billion, a...

Years ago, it was probably easier for a developer to create a game: you just had to worry about building for game consoles -- yes, you did have to deal with how it would play on the Nintendo, Sony Playstation, Microsoft ...

A study by Brandwatch says that Twitter users used the #AppleEvent hashtag more than 217,000 times around Apple’s big product announcement event yesterday, and that the tweets came fastest when Microsoft took the stage...

You don’t need to carry cash or credit cards to make payments at GameStop — all you need is your Android or Apple smartphone. The world’s largest gaming-specific retailer revealed today that it will support Google�...

Microsoft today announced a few updates from its Azure public cloud’s Media Services division. Most importantly, the Live Encoding service for encoding live streaming video feeds will become generally available to cust...

You might not want to shoot your kid’s soccer game in 4K with your new iPhone 6s. Or even just the first half. Apple’s own estimate shows that if you buy the lower-end 16GB model of the iPhone 6s ($199 with a 2-year ...

PRESS RELEASE: Kony, Inc., the leading enterprise mobility company, today announced it has been named a "Leader" and received the highest score in the current offering category in Mobile Infrastructure Services by indepe...

In an ongoing fight over employee classification, Uber just lost another legal round via a ruling in California.

GameVice announces a controller solution for iPhone 6s Plus and iPad Air

Google today announced its Google Fiber service is coming to three new U.S. cities: Irvine, CA, Louisville, KY, and San Diego, CA. The company is looking to build a joint planning process with city leaders. More specific...

The whole thing is over now. Ellen Pao said in an op-ed in Re/code today that she is dropping her appeal against her former employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and moving on. She says she...

Your Xbox One is going to have a lot of new features soon. Microsoft detailed on Xbox Wire everything it’s adding to the console via a November system update. Notably, the Xbox One will support backward compatibility w...

Jim Stengel has learned a lot about startups over the last seven years. Here are the three most important lessons he has learned and that he shared with The Brandery's current class.

The ability to attract the attention and support of a venture capital firm is a badge of honor for most entrepreneurs. The allure of an influx of capital and prestige that goes along with it can be quite  strong, and it...

Timing is everything. Apple unveiled the the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus yesterday. Today, the first details of the Samsung Galaxy S7 have leaked. The early leak comes courtesy of SamMobile, which refers to a Samsung sm...

Facebook is opening up Mentions and its live broadcasting app to more people starting today, but only if you have a verified profile. This is the latest expansion since the apps debuted earlier this year. Opening this up...