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A total of 125 African tech startups attracted $185-million in funding in 2015, according to a new report, which shows there is significant funding in solar, fintech and ecommerce projects.

Argentina will be an interesting country for investors to watch in 2016. Like the rest of Latin America, Argentina faces a difficult external environment for commodity exports. Argentina posted a $3 billion trade deficit...

Kabam is laying 8 percent of its mobile game company workforce today as part of a strategic move to focus on a more narrow type of game that it knows well. It’s not clear exactly how many jobs are affected, as Kabam is...

Microsoft’s online gaming infrastructure is having a rough February. Xbox Live is down for some gamers today, according to complaints on social media. People are complaining that they cannot boot up their digital games...

The nonprofit Pew Research Center today released the results of a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. adults regarding the Apple-FBI encryption debate, and the results may be surprising to the technology industry, which has l...

The daily fantasy sports market rose dramatically in the past few years with the rise of DraftKings and FanDuel. But in 2015, regulators closed in, with some declaring the betting on sports outcomes amounted to illegal g...

The already grim mood of North Sea oil and gas operators got a shade darker with independent exploration firm First Oil Expro calling in administrators on 22 February, unable to cope with a 36% decline in Brent oil price...

Halo’s greatest players are fighting for more than just bragging rights. Microsoft announced today that 16 teams from across the globe have earned a spot in the Halo World Championship, which features players competing...

Today’s mobile landscape is dominated by a handful of companies –Samsung, Apple, and Huawei — making it exceedingly difficult for a new company to generate the capital and the buzz necessary to compete. That’s wh...

Vimeo has teamed with Wipster to incorporate its video review and approval tools into the media platform's creator toolset. With this partnership, Vimeo users will be able to privately share and review videos through the...

Microsoft has announced that it will be shutting down Skype Qik on March 24, meaning that you’ll no longer be able to send or receive messages in the video chat application. However, the company said that you should wo...

As many entrepreneurs understand, taxes on gain from investment in a private company are mainly treated as Long Term Capital Gain if shares are held for more than a year. This tends to be the case in most startups as the...

Is online marketing really necessary for today?s traditional small businesses, or is it possible to survive without an online strategy?

When Marvel creator Stan Lee and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak put on an event together, it’s bound to have a lot of star power. That’s what the organizers of Silicon Valley Comic Con 2016 are promising for their deb...

BARCELONA, Spain — Mark Zuckerberg made his second annual appearance at the mobile industry’s big event as a keynote speaker, where he discussed everything from his 3-month-old baby to his love of virtual reality. Zu...

By Ross Baird and Dane Stangler

Google today announced that its Cloud Dataproc service — a fully managed tool based on the Hadoop and Spark open source big data software — is now generally available. The service — which supports the MapReduce eng...

Twitch shouldn’t be, well, twitching just yet, but another site wants a piece of that streaming pie. DingIt, a global streaming site specializing in esports, noted today that it has an average of 20 million monthly vie...

Google today announced Google Fiber is coming to Huntsville, making it the first city in Alabama to get the $70-per-month service. Mayor Tommy Battle shared the news this morning that Google will be playing a part in hel...

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Just moments after Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton was sacked in the second half of Super Bowl 50, a short video clip of famed quarterback Dan Marino rushed and blitzed across social media: “You’re blowin’ it bro,"...

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