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With some still reeling from the news that Oculus Rift — the virtual reality (VR) headset from Facebook-owned Oculus — will cost a whopping $600, HTC is reminding us all that it, too, is about to launch a VR headset....

The European Commission has decided that 35 multinational corporations will be required to repay $765 million after ruling that a tax break offered by Belgium was illegal. In issuing the decision, the EC did not list the...

Here’s our set of favorite photos from the 2016 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week. We browsed the show floors across multiple convention centers, with tech products from more than 3,800 ...

EXCLUSIVE: AtScale, a startup with software for improving the performance of business intelligence (BI) tools when they’re taking in data from the Hadoop open-source big data software, is announcing today a new technol...

Uber may be dominant in the United States, but it needs cash to fight abroad.

Google is planning on reintroducing its Play Services to China sometime this year, according to Chen Xudong, head of Lenovo’s smartphone division. His comments, reported by Sina Tech (via 9to5Mac), echo a report from R...

Apple released its latest iOS developer-only preview today, introducing a feature called Night Shift that “automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum.” Apple says its goal is to...

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Healthline Media gets $95M from Summit Partners, breaks away from Healthline Newtworks Healthline Media,...

Scientific Games, a a highly-indebted gaming giant controlled by billionaire Ronald O. Perelman, stands to benefit from Wednesday's record-shattering draw, even if no one emerges with a winning ticket.

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Hoping to fend off a post-holiday slump, Uber is cutting prices in 100 cities around the country and in Canada.

ANALYSIS: It’s too early to know if BlackBerry’s Priv Android smartphone will save the company’s hardware division, but the few crumbs of evidence we’ve seen so far are encouraging. And the first victim of this p...

Locus Robotics believes their robot, the LocusBot, is a serious competitor to Amazon's Kiva robot. LocusBot is smaller and cheaper than Kiva and uses more up-to-date technology. Amazon bought Kiva in 2012.

This is the first article in a two part series on the different types of Blockchain startups.  Part one discusses public blockchains.  Part two will discuss private blockchains.

After another glamorous, glitzy and automotive-heavy Consumer Electronics Show, it's clearly the show is setting out to be the best one on automated driving. CES featured showcases on the automated driving hand-off scen...

In a major structural change at Indian e-commerce behemoth Flipkart, cofounder Binny Bansal has become the new CEO of the company. The company’s previous CEO and other cofounder, Sachin Bansal, stepped down to assume t...

Ford plans to launch 13 electric vehicles by 2020 (a $4 billion investment) and is creating its own fleet of research vehicles that will be able to drive themselves. The modern car company sees itself as not just a part ...

CES was a big event for Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The Facebook-owned company said it would begin shipping products on March 28 to original Kickstarter backers with a price set at $5...

YesMail, an email service provider, is releasing a new report today about retailers’ current email marketing efforts and 2016 priorities. In particular, the report finds that email marketers in retail are not doing a g...

Caron Proschan loves healthy living.  She also loves gum.  After finishing an energizing workout at the gym one day, she reached for her pack of gum and realized a huge disconnect.  With plenty of healthy, all-natural...

Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo don’t really show up at CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, last week. But CleverPet has stepped into the breach with a video game console — for dogs. Yep. The CleverPet Hub is de...

From my direct observations and interviews there are six keys to getting and staying motivated--three have to do with our minds, and three relate to our bodies. I use a simple mnemonic, S3-E3, to make these keys easier t...