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There's an emerging case that long-form, high quality content might be the best way to build a millennial audience.

The Internet and gambling know no borders. So it’s not surprising that online gambling is emerging in Africa. It’s hard to measure how much is happening with Internet gambling, but it has grown large enough to have i...

To understand how Drip.fm works, and why it will be closing in ten days, we can draw an analogy between music and food.

What is the 80/20 Rule and could it actually make 80 percent of your work disappear?

ANALYSIS: Amazon is continuing its big push into the brick-and-mortar realm today with the news that it’s opening a new staffed pickup location at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the first Amazon pickup location i...

It’s weird that game companies keep celebrating new launches by setting their online servers on fire. You’d think they would eventually learn. Ubisoft debuted Tom Clancy’s The Division tonight (or early this mornin...

Guest post by Hala Fadel

According to YouTube, there are over 300 hours of video content uploaded to the platform every minute. That incredible amount of content is growing exponentially, up from 100 hours a minute in 2014.

Paging Sid Phillips. Sid Phillips, white courtesy phone. You remember Sid, right? Of course you do. He is the perhaps the first animated member of the maker movement. In case you forgot, Sid is the young boy who enjoyed ...

People start new businesses for different reasons. Aspiring entrepreneurs try to find fantastic ideas that will disrupt the industry, take over the world, conquer Facebook, or simply offer a challenging and fulfilling wa...

There is a new Android king in town, and its name is Lollipop. Google released its monthly update to the Platform Versions page for Android today, and the gold and silver positions have swapped. Android Lollipop has mana...

League of Legends is getting a few siblings. Developer Riot Games announced today that it has acquired developer Radiant Entertainment. The League of Legends company now owns the studio responsible for the castle-buildin...

Austin 3:16 says I just matched three gems! Mobile game publisher company Scopely announced today that it will publish WWE Champions, a match-3 puzzle game based on the wrestling company and featuring its famous stars li...

Flickr has made a change to its $5.99 monthly Pro membership plan that will affect those using the photo-sharing social network for free. Starting today, its desktop Auto-Uploadr tool will be exclusive to paying customer...

Google today updated its cloud-based document and spreadsheet apps, Google Docs and Google Sheets, on iOS, and there’s a notable addition for these updates — they’ve now officially been given iPad Pro support. Spec...

Spotinst, an infrastructure as a service platform for enterprises of all sizes, closed a $2 million series A round led by PICO Venture Partners, the startup announced today. The Tel Aviv-based Spotinst says it offers a c...

Today Indiegogo announced a pledge to “offer extra support for women-run crowdfunding campaigns” for one year. The initiative starts now, on International Women’s Day. Materially, Indiegogo is partnering with a num...

Getting people to install your free-to-play game is expensive, but another new tool is hitting the market to help drive down those costs. Comprendi, a tech firm that specializes in social media marketing, is launching an...

Small businesses report stronger performance, though tough lending conditions persist, according to new Fed data.

Mozilla today launched Firefox 45 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The browser has gained a new Firefox Hello feature called tab sharing but has lost another one: Tab Groups. Firefox 45 for the desktop is available ...

Financing startup Wunder announced today that it snagged a $3.6 million investment to help fund solar-energy technology projects. Wunder, which graduated in 2014 from Techstars‘ accelerator, says it offers “two solar...

ANALYSIS: Six years after launch, Skype has quietly announced it will cease support for its TV app. Panasonic was among the first companies to introduce a version of Skype to its smart TV lineup back in 2010, and a myria...