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Top traders, adventurous venture capitalists and iconoclastic fintech entrepreneurs lead the first-ever FORBES 30 Under 30 Asia finance list. Spanning the region, these investors and inventors are fueling game-changing c...

A big themes in this inaugural class of young entrepreneurs, scientists and healthcare innovators is an emphasis on advancing the health and well-being of people all over the world, now and in the future.

EXCLUSIVE: Keyboards are hot lately. Microsoft bought one earlier this month for a quarter of a billion dollars, and then released another just yesterday. Why? One reason: Keyboards are the one thing that tie all apps to...

Andreessen Horowitz is announcing today that it has hired Martìn Casado — cofounder and chief executive of hot software-defined networking (SDN) startup Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012 �...

On December 28, a disgruntled worker at Grand Rounds, a five-year-old San Francisco firm that helps companies connect employees with doctors, wrote the following on Glassdoor, a Yelp-like website where people post review...

It took a few decades, but Fire Emblem is no longer one of Nintendo’s third-stringers. Fire Emblem: Fates, the latest entry in Nintendo’s tactical fantasy role-playing game (read our review) has surpassed 300,000 cop...

The ANA has hired a forensics company which specializes in uncovering kickbacks, fraud or other forms of corruption to investigate the issue. Nothing perhaps more dramatically calls into light how far the relationships b...

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) group today unveiled a new industry-specific program called DeepMind Health. A new website for the division reveals that Google has been working with multiple health care ...

We know social media is  one of the most powerful ways for businesses to build their brands, and to influence people to purchase goods and services. At the same time, however, social media can be a double-edged sword: m...

I wish I could say that I graduated from an Ivy League school with an MBA and a pocket full of powerful connections. But I can’t. Like many of you, I was a student of the school of hard knocks. And I learned early on t...

Following years of rumors, Microsoft has acquired Xamarin, a company that aids cross-platform development of mobile applications. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “With today's acquisition announcement we will be...

TodayTix announced yesterday that it closed a $9 million series B round to expand its on-demand service so you can buy last-minute theater tickets today (you know I had to). Walden Venture Capital and TYLT Ventures co-le...

Microsoft today announced the release of a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs that are part of the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. In addition to this new Build 14271, Microsoft is also rolling out Windows 10...

Two decades ago, Nintendo unleashed the first Pokémon games in Japan. On Friday, Nintendo celebrates this milestone with fans. A Pokémon-themed Nintendo Direct livestreaming video event is coming 7 a.m. Pacific time (1...

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End’s newest story trailer is all about a dramatic choice that adventurer Nathan Drake faces in the what could be the final installment in the blockbuster series. This game is probably the best...

Google has announced that it’s looking to bring Fiber to San Francisco and will be using the city’s existing fiber network to help accomplish that. It said that by doing so, “we can bring service to residents more ...

ANALYSIS: Microsoft quietly unveiled a new mobile keyboard app yesterday, the latest in a long line of apps to emerge from the labs of Microsoft Garage, a hub for experimental tinkering. Available in the U.S. only for no...

Polish marketing startup SalesManago announced today that it closed a $6 million investment from Austria’s 3TS Capital Partners. The startup said that the round will allow it to further build its marketing automation t...

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“You get what you pay for” is an idiom true in many contexts. It’s not worth buying a cheap mattress, a cheap pair of running shoes, or (arguably) cheap beer because these things either won’t last, or will be so ...

Ashes of the Singularity is an upcoming real-time strategy game for the PC where tons of things can move around on the screen simultaneously. As such, it requires a lot of 3D graphics horsepower to run fluidly. That’s ...