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In the video game industry it doesn’t take a lot to piss off your entire fan base. And Sony is about to re-learn this lesson with one trademark request. San Mateo based Sony Computer Entertainment of America is trying ...

Although systems are critical building blocks for a growing system, entrepreneurs need to be deliberate about what systems are really necessary and when they are really needed.

AirCloset is an outstanding startup in the Japanese fashion rental industry. Launched back in February of 2015, the company has been providing a subscription-based fashion item rental service for females under the same n...

GUEST: Emojis have been around since the late '90s, but their surge in popularity among users is fairly recent, and brands are taking notice. In fact, some companies have even developed their own emojis, often cleverly i...

GUEST: When Apple first revealed its plans or iOS 9, mobile professionals were disappointed to learn that, despite all predictions, they will be unable to personalize their product based on other apps installed on a user...

GUEST: When is a tweet no longer a tweet? Maybe when it's over 70 times longer than it was for 10 years? When rumors broke about Twitter's potential shift from its historic pithiness to long-form tweets of up to 10,000 c...

VB INSIGHT: Oracle’s acquisition of AddThis for a rumored $175M on Tuesday brings the data giant one step closer to becoming the Mordor of marketing clouds. Oracle has a persistent history of expanding its capabilities...

Kickass Torrents, which recently became the world’s most popular torrent site, is down today. The site is simply not loading, resulting in generic errors like “This webpage is not available” in Chrome and “The co...

GUEST: Over the holidays, I heard Donald Trump giving his stump speech in South Carolina on my car radio. It strikes me that, for all we hear about Trump’s outlandish statements in the press, there’s very little repo...

OneAdaptr‘s big insight from Lego is that you can snap together a surge protector in a way that works for you. Michael Ma, inventor of the Stack modular surge protector, which you can snap together much like Lego brick...

Are you sellable? What is your intellectual property? What can you learn in unexpected places? Here are six new books to help you think differently about your small business.

GUEST: 2016 is going to be an unusual year for the tech community. In fact, it will be so different from 2015 that we’ll look back like Alan, Phil, and Stu from "The Hangover" and wonder what the heck happened. What lo...

I’ve returned from the biggest battleground of tech, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. My Intel Basis Peak smartwatch told me that, over four days at CES, I walked 73,376 steps. or 18,344 per day. Those steps...

Wikipedia passed a notable milestone in 2015, as it notched up five million English-language articles. Looking back at the page view data across these articles reveals some interesting insights into the topics people wer...

In years past, I made fun of Internet-connected refrigerators. But at this year’s 2016 International CES, the connected refrigerators were in plentiful supply, and they were a valid part of the Internet of Things, or s...

REVIEW: If you think Huawei is still relatively unknown in the U.S., you’d probably be right. At least, it’s still not a household name among the general non-techie population. But you may be surprised to learn that ...

The Obama administration on Friday sent its top national security officials to meet tech industry leaders in Silicon Valley and announced a new task force to counter online propaganda as the United States tries to crack ...

There’s a new app that everyone’s talking about today and it's from the founder of Vine, Dom Hofmann. It’s a social network called Peach and it feels like a weird blend of Tumblr, Slack, and even Telegram. The serv...

It's getting hard to distinguish between virtual reality, augmented reality, and plain old simple reality. And the distinctions are not getting any easier with California-based Sigma Intégrale's new racing game product ...

While there are many conversations about the business challenges of a startup, few voice concerns about the psychological effects of entrepreneurship. What guides the entrepreneurial spirit amid stifling emotional hardsh...

PRESS RELEASE: Clearside Biomedical, Inc., a late-stage clinical biopharmaceutical company developing innovative first-in-class drug therapies to treat blinding diseases of the eye, today announced that it has filed a re...

Technology billionaire Sean Parker is putting his money where his mouth is when it comes to pot legalization. The former Facebook president donated $500,000 to back a proposed initiative to legalize recreational marijua...