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People want to be told stories that they can connect to. The product is secondary to the storytelling.

BlackBerry has announced the latest move in its efforts to remain relevant: making all the privacy and control features within its BBM messaging app completely free to use. The company first launched its Retract and Time...

(Reuters) – Digital privacy advocates and users of Reddit expressed their alarm on Friday over a change in the forum’s transparency report that suggested it may have been asked to give customer data to FBI investigat...

Startup Lettuce Box's technology helps food stay fresh and safe while shipped.

Salesforce has acquired MetaMind, a deep learning startup backed by Salesforce cofounder and chief executive Marc Benioff. The startup’s services will stop working on May 4. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “Sa...

Maybe this will make the wait for Kingdom Hearts III a little more tolerable. Kingdom Hearts Unchained χ, a mobile game based on the popular series that combines Disney worlds and characters with role-playing mechanics ...

Deal with problems as close to the time as they appear as possible.

Last week, a gaming classic received an impressive new expansion, but its progressive take on certain characters is making some fans angry. Last week, developer Beamdog released the Siege of Dragonspear expansion for Bal...

The client said NO!

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Yes, I know my title ends in a preposition. Sue me, grammar police of the world. There’s a reason that content dominates the world of marketing: It allows businesses to leverage their knowledge and stand out from their...

A few weeks ago, WeWork, the workspace real estate company headquartered in New York City, gathered another $430 million in funding for its proposed expansion in China.

Running into a room full of strangers is not something I would advise in the real world, but that’s what video games are for. Minebored is a new community-created tool that enables Minecraft players on PC to randomly j...

Smartwatch maker Pebble released a new OS update today, introducing support for tracking long naps — arguably the best kind of naps one can take. The release, version 3.11, also expands the smartwatch’s ability to se...

Nest, owned by parent company Alphabet, is shutting down the Revolv hub and app on May 15, 2016. This isn’t just an end-of-support story: The hardware will simply cease to function next month. “Revolv was a great fir...

In a fairly short time, YouTube has become a destination for gaming videos on the Web. Hundreds of millions of gamers watch 144 billion minutes of game videos every month on the Google video website. And gaming has becom...

We asked some cannabis industry insiders about the best tech in in their business today.

Curiously named Australian wine site Vinomofo announced today that it’s raised its first major round of funding, $19 million (AUD $25 million), from fellow Aussie Blue Sky Venture Capital. Vinomofo says it raised the f...

The CFO of a Global 100 financial services company hires only the best and brightest MBAs from the top-ranked business schools. After all, they will function as the company’s intelligence center. They use state-of-the...

Storytelling has become a top of mind issue in recent times, as technology has democratized the power to share our stories with the world.

Digital advertising (which increasingly just means ?advertising?) is living in a strange limbo.

According to Deep Focus' Ian Schafer, we're moving to a world of fewer, better ads. To make that vision a reality, the advertising industry needs to think differently about how it measures the impact of ads.