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GUEST: When it comes to dealing with patent trolls, we're seeing a big difference between how the tech giants (Apple, Google, etc.) handle the problem and how unicorns do. And it's the unicorns that are playing a worse h...

A ride from the airport changed Amr Awadallah’s life. Amr earned a B.A. and M.A. in electrical engineering from Cairo University in Egypt. He applied for Ph.D. programs abroad and was accepted to Stanford. He intended ...

As rumors swirl of a potential PlayStation 4.5 and an Xbox 1.5, we can all but rule out the latter. Phil Spencer, the head of Microsoft’s Xbox division, isn’t interested in offering an upgraded Xbox One. He wants a s...

The majority of people who preordered the Rift virtual reality headset are still waiting for it, and now Oculus VR is finally updating those people about the status of its shipping operation. You will no longer have to p...

SAKAI, Japan (Reuters, Makiko Yamazaki) – Foxconn and Sharp Corp on Saturday formally signed a long-awaited deal that would see the Taiwan firm take control of the Japanese display maker, as executives sought to dispel...

GUEST: As mobile entrepreneurs, we'd like to think our products make the world a better place. We generally believe that smartphones and mobile apps empower and connect us. Rarely though do we point the magnifying glass ...

GUEST: Artificial intelligence* is developing much faster than we thought. Just last month, Google's DeepMind AI beat Lee Sedol, a legendary Go player, at his own game in a defining moment for the industry. What enabled ...

GUEST: What do Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram and a gazillion other digital platforms have in common? They all treat usernames like a baby treats a diaper instead of the precious and lucrative resource they are. ...

My former boss, Jerry Ceppos, once said he worried that the San Jose Mercury News was covering the tech industry without enough scope or context, as if we would have covered the Italian Renaissance by measuring how many ...

GUEST: Microsoft’s intelligent chatbot Tay behaved badly last week (and this week too), but that shouldn’t have shocked any of us. Clearly, we’re expecting too much of AI too soon. Flaws are what make us who we are...

After sending hundreds of thousands of refugees to the EU, Ankara is getting paid to take them back. Brussels is the official capital of Belgium and the unofficial capital of EU. Ankara is the official capital of Turkey,...

ANALYSIS: While 2016 is shaping up to be the year virtual reality and the Internet of Things went mainstream, it could also go down in history as the year email’s much-touted demise cranked into overdrive. At least, if...

President Obama promised us he would solve the college debt crisis and now every candidate campaigning for the 2016 election spouts "college debt," yet no one has mentioned the highly capable Corporate 529. Perhaps too o...

By Martin Tornes, Niels Peder Nielsen, Joe Fielding and Peter Stumbles

The concept of the microbrewery or craft brewing, another term that describes the commercialization of the small, local brewery, has become so popular that major brewers like Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors have moved int...

The media seems to be the ones who fell in love with Robert Herjavec -- the nice shark on Shark Tank -- when he proposed to Kym Johnson of Dancing With the Stars. Nine of the top 10 stories covering the cybersecurity mog...

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Talks between Orange and Bouygues on a deal to create a dominant French telecoms operator collapsed on Friday, ending an attempt to ease a price war that has ravaged operators' margins.

Facebook has withdrawn its bid to stream NFL games, according to Bloomberg. Facebook’s vice president of partnerships, Dan Rose, had previously confirmed to Variety that Facebook was in talks with the NFL about streami...

Some social media users raised concerns on Friday over networking forum Reddit's removal from its site of a section that told users it had never received a certain type of surveillance request from the U.S. government.

Snapchat has released an update that gives you more characters for captions on your snaps. The company said that it has “more than doubled” the amount of characters you could have from the 33 you were limited to befo...

Not surprisingly, there is no more important issue to me than the economy. Not only are there obvious benefits to growth in terms of material comforts, but it is also conducive to the creation of a society in which peopl...