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Alibaba can probably afford to execute up to $38 billion in deals (acquisitions and investments) next year, according to data from an analyst at BNP Paribas SA cited by Bloomberg late Thursday. That’s huge — this yea...

As recent research shows, the corporate accelerator landscape is growing and shifting cross-border. Western companies are increasingly launching Asia-based accelerator programs.

Several technology luminaries are announcing today that they have committed $1 billion to fund a new nonprofit artificial intelligence research company called OpenAI. Y Combinator president Sam Altman, former Stripe chie...

The Tax Court's decision in the case of Victor and Daniela Kantchev did not really break any new ground in the hobby loss analysis of his photography business.  If anything the Court took some ground that taxpayers had...

In recent U.S. Court of Federal Claims case, the government moved to dismiss the taxpayers’ tax refund suit as untimely. But, as the Claims Court noted, “the cause of the delay lies squarely on the doorstep of the I...

If you’re sulking about the impending shutdown of music streaming service Rdio, this might cheer you up. There’s a new free tool that will automatically transfer your playlists, your collections, and the artists you ...

VB WEBINAR: Predictive analytics? Find out what works — and what doesn’t — in marketing analytics from our expert panel. VB analyst Jon Cifuentes is joined by Foursquare’s CRO Stephen Rosenblatt and Astea’s VP ...

By Angela Moon and Eleanor Whalley The website for Trump Towers, Donald Trump’s glitzy signature skyscraper in Manhattan, went offline for about an hour on Friday after activist hacking group Anonymous denounced the re...

Wal-Mart Adds to Mobile Wallet Frenzy with 'Walmart Pay'

Here are my 2015 predictions and what happened. My prior 14-year record is 73% accuracy.

Updated at 11:25 Pacific time: They are already all gone. Hope you were able to get one. Google is continuing its marketing partnership with Lucasfilm, and this time it is giving people a free way to view basic virtual r...

You want to build a solid presence on Instagram in order to engage and connect with your target market. This article will walk you through my top 10 tips to do just that.

No, no, no. This is not the post you’re expecting. It’s not the post where your wonderful protagonist lost one of the ubiquitous accoutrements of modern technological society, briefly struggled with the loss, bravely...

For North American middle market M&A, 2015 has seen a return to "normal." Activity in some industries is as expected. But, tech remains particularly strong. The energy sector presents an interesting surprise. And, is Asi...

Vietnam?s beachfront Ho Tram beefs up resort offerings, confirms condo development.

Microsoft today issued an apology for its OneDrive trainwreck. The company is backpedaling slightly on the downgrades announced in November, but not the removal of unlimited storage. In other words, the situation is stil...

PRESS RELEASE: Force Protection Video Equipment (OTC Markets: FPVD) announced today its plan to sell a new state of the art law enforcement camera along with management software and total security onsite storage. Shipmen...

Women Skiers: Celebrate the goddess of winter with a few fun days in Colorado?s snow.

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we looked at the best side-quests in Fallout, a dead Star Wars game might get a new life, and Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness turned 20 years old. Happy reading, and...

GUEST: It was not an auspicious beginning to the holiday season. On Black Friday, we learned that a hacker had broken into the servers of Chinese toymaker VTech and lifted the personal information of nearly five million ...

My four year old son really wants to ride a two-wheeler bike, and he thinks it should be easy.  After all, he read a Curious George book in which the Man with the Yellow Hat (George’s human caretaker) pushes George, a...

A lot can change in 10 years. In fact, more has changed in the past 10 years than you probably realize. Back in 2005, the (then) newest Star Wars movie, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, premiered at Cannes Film Festival...