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Samsung has been making the rounds with its virtual reality rollercoaster experience. I decided not to give it a try, but I wonder if this will make you feel sick? The South Korean electronics giant showed off the VR rol...

The entrepreneur and reality TV star's advice on how to raise money as a woman or minority founder caused controversy this week, but Sanna Gaspard (an African American female tech founder) was not offended.

Angry Birds maker Rovio has partnered with Zappar to release a billion BirdCodes that can be used to redeem digital items in the Angry Birds Action! mobile game. The codes are part of an augmented-reality campaign that R...

Consumers have purchased more than 40 million PlayStation 4 consoles, and that has helped Sony return to an annual profit for the first time in three years. The Japanese corporation made an operating income of $1.36 bill...

Microsoft has announced a big change for how the Cortana search box in Windows 10 will work going forward: all searches will be powered by Bing and all links will open with the Edge browser. This is a server-side change ...

LinkedIn has reported its Q1 2016 earnings with $861 million in revenue and an earnings per share of $0.74. Its user numbers also grew 19 percent to 433 million, something the company called its “strongest net-add quar...

Email etiquette, networking and appropriate attire prove to be the greatest challenges for millennials in the workplace.

It’s that time of year again when investors wonder: “How’s Amazon doing?” and then Amazon tells them. Today the amorphous company revealed that its revenues rose 28 percent this quarter (Q1 2016) to $29.1 billion...

Amazon today released its earnings statement for the first quarter of the year, and things are looking up, as usual, for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud division. AWS fetched $2.56 billion in revenue for the q...

VB WEBINAR: Celtra, the data-driven ad platform for two-thirds of the Fortune 500, processes over 2 billion analytics events daily. Join Celtra Director of Engineering and Analytics Grega Kešpre as he shares hard-won in...

Spring is underway, and for millions, that means in-depth "spring cleaning" in the home. Your SEO strategy needs the same treatment.

The content game has changed so thoroughly in the past few years that I find most marketers to be amateurs at it. Instead I focus on hiring comedians, journalists, filmmakers, influencers and writers, favoring culture ov...

Ryan Holmes, founder of SpaceVR, said that his startup has raised $1.25 million to send a virtual reality camera into space as a satellite, orbiting the Earth and taking 3D imagery of the planet and outer space. Holmes s...

Microsoft today announced many updates to its OneNote note-taking app. Probably the most interesting new feature is support for videos in notes on OneNote for Windows 10, Mac, and iOS. This addition arrived in the deskto...

Samsung is all-in on virtual reality, as if it were the next smartphone. The latest estimates from global market research firm TrendForce show the virtual reality market growing from under $7 billion today to $70 billion...

The Division might have to fight an outbreak in New York City, but it doesn’t have a recruiting problem. Research group SuperData released info on digital game sales in March, and Ubisoft’s online shooter took first ...

Cheetah Mobile has ambitious plans to go way beyond making mobile utility apps. The relatively unknown Chinese tech company has been quietly building up a massive user base of 635 million monthly active users from over...

It took me 55 days, but I finally have the Prince. One of the most powerful characters in Supercell’s Clash Royale is very hard to earn without paying real money in the free-to-play mobile game. But after getting lucky...

IBM has made a big leap forward in the ability of its Watson artificial intelligence computer to recognize conversational speech. Last year, IBM was able to hold conversations in which the AI recognized English conversat...

The third time may be the charm for Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. Jelly, the Q&A startup the Twitter cofounder created alongside Ben Finkel, has just opened up to the public, launching more than four months after the comp...

Could Villa Shanti be a model for more boutique hotels in India?

Physicians and engineers are in general a lot smarter than accountants.  That's why some of them get into tax trouble .  Those are the ones who add ruffles and flourishes rather than doing things like everybody else do...