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You can now watch your favorite Twitch streams on your Android TV device. The company announced that with its new app, you can not only view live streams, but also recorded ones featuring top games, players, and events. ...

ANALYSIS: For more than a decade, people who follow Washington politics have wondered when the tech industry was going to start taking politics seriously. This week, the tech industry made two big moves that show that te...

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A few years ago I switched from financial magazine writing to thought leadership and content marketing. But the audience, especially for thought leadership, has remained the same: business executives. Since Forbes, the m...

EXCLUSIVE: Update: This story previously discussed the Samsung J3, but that phone was announced last week. The remaining details about a new phone from LG, are below. Details on a new smartphone shipping next year has co...

On-demand car service Lyft may be trying to unseat Uber as the top dog in the marketplace, but it’s doing it in a completely different way. The company has built itself up around a more engaging experience and is also ...

Like it or not, in Europe today there are over three million refugees. According to news reports, about half of them, 1.5 million people, will be seeking asylum in Germany. Without doubt more are on the way. Even today t...

San Francisco, California-based alternative cab service Uber is raising $2.1 billion at a post-money valuation of $62.5 billion, according to a report today. Uber has already submitted paperwork to the state of Delaware,...

Reversing a six-year dip, Main Street entrepreneurship rose in 2015 -- with a boost from very small companies, according to a new Kauffman report.

Smartphones and tablets may be dominated by big tech companies, but wearables are still led by the little guy. In Q3 2015, Fitbit narrowly stole first place again, putting it ahead of Apple and Xiaomi. At the same time, ...

For nearly the past four months, Facebook has had a live-streaming service that’s sought to rival what Periscope, Ustream, or YouTube offer. But the service has been limited to celebrities and those with verified profi...

With Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Giving Tuesday behind us, we are able to take a step back and review some of the biggest trends we saw taking shape as the start of the holiday season officially began. T...

Leaders from the Group of 20 largest economies (G20) met in Turkey last month to put their final stamp of approval on a major overhaul of the international rules governing corporate taxes. The vote was the icing on a cak...

Concert subscription service Jukely has announced that it’s going all-in with its monthly memberships, as it rolls out a major refresh of its iOS app and website. For the uninitiated, Jukely is like a Netflix for live ...

Education-based marketing is the sharing of knowledge with the purpose of building trust. It is a strategy that establishes credibility and trust with your customers by using educational messages. Today’s consumer live...

Just days after offering the OnePlus 2 on open sale as part of a Black Friday special, boutique smartphone maker OnePlus has announced that the phone will be sold indefinitely without the invitation requirement, starting...

I became interested in Bitcoin during the fall of 2013, while leading the inside sales team for Oracle's open source support in Kansas and Iowa. Our territory isn't the first states that come to mind when one thinks of t...

When it comes to discovering new music, live streaming has become an interesting way of getting to know new artists. But as this trend proliferates throughout the industry, how can consumers organize the live-stream expe...

Google is today announcing a new Android app that lets people make panoramas with smartphone cameras. These panoramas can then be viewed in 3D and 360 degrees with the Google Cardboard virtual reality headset, using the ...

Apple today open sourced its Swift programming language. Swift is available under the Apache license at GitHub. Apple first unveiled Swift for writing Mac and iOS apps at its WWDC 2014 developer conference. The language ...

Amazon’s new Underground app is coming to a host of new countries, including Italy, Spain, Ireland, Austria, Switzerland, and Belgium. In total the app will roll out to 16 new regions. First launched in August of this ...

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