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Lucas Jackson/Reuters Pictures Snapchat has raised $175 million from Fidelity Investments at a $16 billion valuation, according to The Wall Street Journal. Snapchat’s last round of funding in May 2015 reportedly valued...

Google today announced a significant enhancement to the developer tools for its Google Cast software, which lets people stream media from their PCs and mobile devices to TVs and speakers. The Google Cast software develop...

(Reuters) – Amazon has quietly dropped support for disk encryption on its Fire tablets, saying the feature that secures devices by scrambling data was little used by customers. Privacy advocates and some users criticiz...

That battery-powered alarm clock or flashlight in your house could very well contain a piece of an old hybrid car.

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with a big focus on Cortana. The company also shared that all firmware updates for Lumia devices will now be automatically published for Windows Insiders. Windows...

Live esports isn’t going anywhere. Twitch, the leading site for livestreaming gameplay video, announced today that it has extended its partnership with the ESL esports organization. Fans of Dota 2, Counter-Strike: Glob...

What roles can young people play to effectively address some of the current global development issues affecting the state of the world?

Google Launches Hands Free, Voice-Activated Mobile Payments System

EXCLUSIVE: You could call it an exodus now. Electronic Arts said in January that it would drop its booth on the show floor of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the game industry’s biggest trade show in the U.S. T...

It is unfair to think that just Saudi Arabia is behind the decline in the American fracking industry

Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that a dramatic shake-up of the sport’s qualifying format will be introduced at the first race of the season in two weeks time.

Tim Sweeney is of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games, and he stirred up a big debate about the future of Windows. In an op-ed piece in the Guardian and in...

The software engineers behind Facebook-owned photo-sharing app Instagram are constantly looking to improve the app’s performance. Performance improvements might sound like an exercise in perfection for perfection’s s...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we continue our celebration of Pokémon’s 20th anniversary, Nintendo announces some new games, and we get an early look at Quantum Break. Enjoy, and have a great ...

Google has confirmed previous reports that it is to comply with European regulators requesting that the Internet giant extend the scope of the so-called “right-to-be-forgotten” legislation beyond that of European sea...

It’s dangerous to go to that new antique store in that part of town you never go to alone! Take this. Link, the hero from publisher Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda series, is the latest video game Easter egg buried in...

Airbnb announced today that it has hired David King as its head of diversity and belonging. The former director of the Peace Corps’ office of civil rights and diversity joined the company last month, and his appointmen...

Bart Baker recently put a gigantic billboard in Times Square, doing the impossible: declaring his run for President of the United States, while wearing only American flag boxer-briefs.

The onward march of digital technology hasn't been altogether kind to those seeking to eke out a living within the music industry. Admittedly, relatively easy access to the big online streaming and download platforms has...

GENEVA (By Edward Taylor and Ilona Wissenbach, Reuters) — After a century building what it calls the “ultimate driving machine,” BMW is preparing for a world in which its customers will be mere passengers, and the ...

ANALYSIS: For every yin, there’s a yang; for every positive, a negative; for every login, a logout. Actually, I made that last mantra up — but it’s still true, right? Sadly not. I recently ventured home to visit my...

Customer care is an essential part of any company. You already know that. But what you may have never considered is that customer care could double as you biggest marketing campaign. A company known for bad customer serv...