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Oculus announced today that it has brought on board Fitbit’s Hans Hartmann as its new chief operating officer, replacing Laird Malamed who had assumed that post since the company’s founding. Malamed will be taking on...

(Reuters) – Thirteen U.S. industry groups representing technology companies Amazon, Uber, Apple, Facebook and others are pushing for the next U.S. president to support the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and...

Microsoft today announced that its Windows 10 operating system has now been installed on more than 300 million devices. That’s up from the “more than 270 million devices” milestone announced on March 30. “We're s...

GUEST: Dear Chief Marketing Officers: Mobile advertising in its current state is a complete boondoggle. Consumers hate it, the metrics are awful, and the ad agency community is doing a disservice to clients by promoting ...

Elon Musk, trying his damnedest to manage expectations, is now warning Tesla fans to hurry up and reserve a Model 3 before the delivery queue stretches to 2019. “Tesla is increasing the production ramp as fast as possi...

I guess it was this game’s destiny to become a hit. Heh. Yeah, sorry about that one. Activision Blizzard revealed its financial results for the first quarter of 2016 today, and it also noted that the online shooter Des...

A lot of players must have preordered Whispers of the Old Gods. Acitvision Blizzard released its financial results for Q1 2016 today, a period that ended on March 31. That’s well before the release of the latest expans...

Villi Iltchev, the person Box hired in mid-2014 to head up corporate development ahead of its initial public offering, has left the company. He’s joined the venture world — as a general partner at August Capital. Ilt...

Call of Duty: Black Ops III sales helped drive a strong first quarter for Activision Blizzard, with monthly active users up both quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year, setting an all-time record for the franchise, Acti...

Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts during its first fiscal quarter ended March 31. And its stock price has risen 3.8 percent in after-hours trading as a result....

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Square ($SQ) today reported its Q1 2016 earnings of $379 million in revenue, up 51 percent annually, and had gross payment volume (GPV) of $10.3 billion, up 45 percent for the same time last year. Net loss in the company...

Recent announcements from Facebook, Microsoft, Kik, Telegram and others have sparked a chatbot craze, a gold rush to create tools for businesses to chat directly to consumers. All these new chatbots in turn drove dozens ...

Evernote’s Android app has received an update that adds new features to make the productivity service more useful. The company has redesigned how it uses the device’s camera to now make photos and scans “smoother a...

Today, Alibaba Group announced their Q4 and fiscal year 2016 financial results ended March 31 2016. You could say the results show the Alibaba genie is creating more money magic.

The Food and Drug Administration issued long-anticipated rules this morning that extend federal regulatory authority to e-cigarettes, which heat nicotine-laced liquid into a vapor that has only traces of some of the 60-p...

Searching for the best price on goods can be a tedious exercise: Will the item be cheaper at Amazon or in a store? Do you have to keep worrying about whether there will be a price drop? These questions are what Earny set...

We’re getting a pair of new Pokémon games for the 3DS later this year, but DeNA is hoping you’ll give its take on that genre a try on your smartphone instead. The publisher is announcing today that its Monster Build...

EXCLUSIVE: T-Mobile USA is preparing its eleventh “Un-carrier” event for early next month, a person with knowledge of the company’s plans told VentureBeat. It will kick off a customer appreciation campaign that int...

Because of the LuxLeaks scandal, the world knows that Luxembourg granted secret tax rulings to about 340 multinational clients of global accounting firm PwC. The leaks caused Europe to revamp its entire tax ruling regime...

SubPac, a Los Angeles-based startup working on “immersive physical-sound technology,” announced today that it closed a $6 million investment to “revolutionize” the audio industry with its wearable sound vest. Bac...

eBay announced today that it has acquired ExpertMaker in a bid to bring more artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analysis into its online marketplace platform. Financial terms of the deal were not dis...