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Are you tired of Facebook’s trending section in your News Feed? Celebrity news getting annoying? Would you rather have legitimate news? Introducing Fluffblocker. Before we go any further, keep in mind that for this to ...

(By Dustin Volz, Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency will end its daily vacuuming of millions of Americans’ phone records by Sunday and replace the practice with more tightly targeted surveillance methods, t...

Newegg, a popular online shop for technology products, and the website for department store Neiman Marcus have both suffered outages today — Black Friday, of all days. On Black Friday last year, Best Buy’s website we...

FEATURE: It's officially that time of year, when you start pulling out your own hair (or someone else's, if it's handy) and braving mobs of likewise desperate shoppers looking for the absolute perfect gift for that speci...

OPINION: Black Friday is a dud of a holiday. The origin of the day as we know it, according to careful Wikipedia research, dates back to the early 2000s, when the day after U.S. Thanksgiving mutated from a decent shoppin...

Welcome to a post-Thanksgiving GamesBeat weekly roundup! It’s time to snap out of your turkey coma with a week’s worth of gaming news and features, including some tips for virtual reality first-timers and some fun mo...

OPINION: People who are really into smartphones — like many of the folks reading this, I suspect — were waiting for them nearly their entire lives. There’s a distinct type of person, the gadget addict, who simply c...

"Economic advantages may be created by any person who surrounds himself with the advice, counsel, and personal cooperation of a group ... This form of cooperative alliance has been the basis of nearly every great fortune...

Slack, the team communication app, went down earlier this week, sending people to Twitter to commiserate. So what if the startup is valued at $2.8 billion? It’s still a web service, and web services have outages someti...

Millions of dollars worth of Lamborghinis gathered at the 2015 Lamborghini Blancpain Super Trofeo World Final at Sebring International Raceway. More than 65 Lamborghinis raced for the title wins, while another 30+ Lambor...

Created by American Express and celebrating its sixth year, Small Business Saturday sales could exceed $14 billion this year.

Update at 8:30 a.m. Pacific time: Sony has removed all the status warnings from its website. It’s a long weekend in the United States, but gamers may have trouble spending that free time playing games on a Sony console...

MONTREAL — It’s a wonderful and merciless exercise to force speakers to talk about something important in just five minutes. I saw that recently at the Montreal International Game Summit during the final session, dub...

The UK government may be just a little strapped for cash at the moment, but Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne has nonetheless managed to find an extra £1.9bn to bolster investment in cyber security. And at lea...

The PR world has changed rapidly over the last few years and HARO has led the way. The days of relying on PR agencies to secure your company media are gone. Thanks to social media and companies like HARO it is easier the...

November has been an interesting month in Mexico. In addition to reports about ongoing violence in the states of Guerrero and Michoacan, Mexico saw its GDP growth forecast reduced. Nevertheless, many analysts continue to...

With coworking giant We Work at a reported $10 billion valuation and many competitors crowding into the market, it might seem that there’s never been a better time for free agents to find a cool, shared office space. ...

Social media marketing for health care provides unprecedented opportunities for educating patients, increasing outreach, and recruiting a new generation of health care professionals. These five standout campaigns will sh...

Delegation is not a binary thing. There are more options than being a dictator or an anarchist. If you want to get things done, learn how to delegate yourself.

A survey conducted by GfK has revealed that money, self-pressure and lack of sleep are the three major causes of stress in people's daily lives across the globe. Overall, nearly three in ten people said that the amount o...

OnePlus unveiled its latest smartphone at an event last month, and after some hands-on time with the device, we called the OnePlus X a premium-looking phone that comes close to “flagship.” But at the same London even...

Although keeping day jobs helps bootstrap a startup, somebody needs to wake up everyday thinking about the business.