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General Motors (GM), the century-old car company behind major automotive brands Chevrolet, Buick, Cadillac, and Vauxhall, announced today that it’s investing $500 million in ride-sharing company Lyft. Founded out of Sa...

Robinhood is a commission-free stock trading app available to anyone with a smartphone. Launched a year ago, the app looks like it should be used to hail a ride, but more than $2 billion in trades have been executed on t...

IRS has more power this year, over whether you can travel and over assigning your IRS debt to collection agencies.

Video consumption is fragmenting. But for advertisers it?s been tough to deliver consistent brand messages across all those screens. McCray, a self-professed lifelong hacker, sought to help advertisers do just that when ...

Even with the rise of cloud storage, the USB flash drive is still vital for cases where the Internet won’t cut it, especially as CDs and DVDs die off. Not only are USB drives typically higher in capacity than disc medi...

Yahoo has shut down its video service called Yahoo Screen, putting an end to the effort to compete against YouTube and capture the video market. Instead of having a centralized hub for shows like Community, Saturday Nigh...

Ember Technologies, the company behind the temperature-controlled mug, is raising a $4 million series B funding round. It has already secured nearly $750,000 in commitments from investors and told VentureBeat that it has...

From the tangible value of data assets to stealth pricing, loyalty programs can offer retailers many advantages that are little understood. With 2016 now upon us, I share nine expert-provided aspects of loyalty marketing...

What leadership lessons can we learn from skydivers? This question was originally answered on Quora by Elijah Medge.

EXCLUSIVE: Samsung is endowing its first two 2016 flagships with a pair of features that were conspicuously missing from 2015’s Galaxy S6 and S6 edge, according to a person briefed on the company’s plans. Both the Ga...

Encrypted messaging app Telegram today announced the release of inline bots, a new approach to using bots inside the app. With this latest update for iOS, Android, and desktop versions of Telegram, users can make bots do...

8i announced today it has launched a web player, the 8i Portal, for its volumetric 3D video of people in virtual reality. Using 8i’s technology and VR goggles, you’ll be able to walk around a person inside a virtual ...

For a CEO or entrepreneur, board meetings are a fact of life. Productive board meetings can contribute greatly to the success of your company, while ineffective board meetings can be a huge waste of time.

by Ed Zimmerman with Jordan Salcito*

Last year may have belonged to Star Wars, but this year could very well be Star Trek’s. Not only does 2016 mark the 50th anniversary of Gene Roddenberry’s cult sci-fi creation, with a new movie in the works, but news...

Intel has acquired Ascending Technologies, a maker of smart Firefly drones that can see and sense the environment around them. Brian Krzanich, chief executive of Intel, demonstrated the drones last year at the company’...

EXCLUSIVE: IDrive just keeps making use of all that storage capacity that the drive makers are creating. The new IDrive One offers one terabyte of storage for $100 or two terabytes for $150. The storage device, announced...

Management is hard. But many times we make it more difficult than it has to be. Here are five simple steps you must take for a successful New Year.

It’s time to prepare your wallets for the virtual reality future. Oculus revealed today that preorders for its VR headset, the Oculus Rift, will start at 8 a.m. Pacific this Wednesday, January 6. The Rift is one of the...

Imagine how lousy you'd feel if the restaurant you owned suffered a late night break-in. Glass shattered, your place in shambles, and valuables missing. You'd probably feel violated, frustrated, angry, and completely b...

Self-driving cars won’t always need to have those propeller beanies on top to sense the environment around them. NXP Semiconductors has unveiled a radar sensor chip today that is the size of a postage stamp. This kind ...

Bluetooth is the foundation that allows smart gadgets to talk to each other, and the wireless technology is leveling up today. NXP Semiconductors is unveiling a new Bluetooth Low Energy chip that will deliver double the ...