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Attivio, a Newton, Massachusetts-based startup that promises to “accelerate data discovery,” announced today that it closed a $31 million financing round. The investment, the startup said, will help the company to me...

Virtual reality is not going to have quite as big of a 2016 as one research firm was originally predicting. SuperData is trimming its prediction for virtual reality sales in 2016 by 30 percent. In January, the analysts a...

In late 2013, when Rev. Frank J. Caggiano became the Fifth Bishop of Bridgeport, CT, he took over a diocese with 82 parishes, 38 schools and 410,000 Catholics, who make up 45% of the population. He also inherited almost ...

Oculus today announced a slew of new features for the Samsung Gear VR. The Facebook-owned company is unsurprisingly focusing on social, and in this case that means video and games. In November, Samsung released the Gear ...

Nexon Korea has established itself on the PC as a strong publisher of free-to-play games, now it’s trying to take that strategy to mobile. Sangman Lee, Nexon Korea’s global mobile business director, is guiding a comp...

Over the past decade women worldwide have made substantial progress in health and education, as well as in political and economic arenas.  But what about women business owners?

Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Box today reported strong financial figures for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2016, which ended on January 31. Box reported a $0.26 non-GAAP net loss on $85 million in ...

Jaimie Fuller, CEO of SKINS, has led the company in a campaign to reform international sport to increase integrity and equality.

Square ($SQ) has released its earnings results for the first quarter as a public company, bringing in $374 million in total net revenue, up 49 percent annually, and a gross payment volume of $10.2 billion, an increase of...

It was late 2012 and I had just moved to Texas from South Carolina. At this stage of my life, I was intoxicated with the idea of crushing it with my first tech startup, No Chains. I was fresh out of a tech accelerator an...

Happy birthday, Super Mario RPG! The Super Nintendo classic (which had the subtitle Legend of the Seven Stars in the U.S.) came out in Japan on March 9, 1996, which makes it 20 years old today. Made with Square (now know...

In his recent book, “The Industries of the Future”, Alec Ross talks about data being the raw material of the information age in much the same way iron was the raw material of the industrial age. As a result, he says,...

EXCLUSIVE: It may be very arcane to most of us, but graphics startup Otoy has come up with a breakthrough that should help game developers create much more beautiful games that can run across different hardware platforms...

Google today announced that it’s joining the Open Compute Project (OCP), an organization through which Facebook and other companies have shared designs for their data center infrastructure in order to accelerate cross-...

Twitter wants to make it easier for you to explore links featured in tweets displayed in any of its Moments. The company has added capabilities to allow you to instantly load up articles, blog posts, videos, etc. that a ...

Gordon Ramsay will be damned if his chef’s game isn’t the best mobile celebrity title on the market. He’s been working on it for the better part of two years with Glu Mobile, the company that made Kim Kardashian: H...

Twitter is shifting toward mobile services, and now it’s teaming up with one of the most popular game-development engines to expedite that transition. The social-networking company announced today that it is integratin...

Google today launched the first Android N developer preview, available for download now at developer.android.com/preview. Later today, the company will also debut the Android Beta Program, which lets you get early Androi...

Xbox Live has had a lot of problems in the first few months of 2016, and fans are starting to get fed up. This finally prompted one of Microsoft’s most consumer-facing personalities to address those concerns. Earlier t...

It seems everything is being funneled into virtual reality, and music festivals are no exception. The Coachella music festival has announced that it will ship a cardboard virtual reality viewer and a VR app for mobile de...

When LiveList launched in December, it offered a listing of available livestreaming music performances, but with only a bit of curation. Today the company unveiled Channels, a playlist aimed at providing an "even more im...

ANALYSIS: Facebook has acquired Masquerade, a selfie app that lets you do face-swaps and record silly video animations of yourself and share them across social media. Available for Android and iOS, Masquerade is the late...