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GUEST: It's hard to make a right turn down San Francisco's crowded streets these days without running into a story about bots, conversational commerce, or conversational commerce bots. Bots have reached kale levels of hy...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 18 technology M&A transactions and 56 funding deals (totaling €282 million, about $316 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for ...

Hundreds of people today lined up around the block of Apple’s new retail store in the tourist-heavy Union Square neighborhood in San Francisco in order to see it for themselves on opening day. When the tall glass slidi...

GUEST: Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies may get a lot of love from venture capitalists and the tech community, but most people still don't know what they are. All they have to go on is what th...

GUEST: As with any major announcement from Google, Daydream’s May 18 reveal came with its fair share of hyperbole and hubris. "Hundreds of millions of users" will have Daydream-enabled phones in a couple of years, clai...

E-cards, Evites, and emails bombard us every day in a digital world making handwritten messages all the rarer and all the more special. If Tomer Alpert has his way, handwritten cards will be the wave of the future. The C...

Investors chasing after hot stocks like Tesla and Facebook have probably missed a dull stock that has outperformed the S&P500 in good and bad times for several decades. The company is Clorox Company, which has outperform...

GUEST: In a March 2016 article, Marketing Land columnist Josh Todd nailed it when he wrote that "we're in the midst of a mobile engagement crisis." To back up this claim, Todd cites eye-opening stats like: 50 percent of ...

There’s a scene in the movie based on the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist where the young orphan protagonist approaches the authority figure, Mr. Bumble, and with a bowl in his trembling, outstretched hands, famou...

GUEST: If you live and breathe technology, you're probably hearing a lot about chatbots lately. It seems they are everywhere, and every startup and big company is working on its own bot. Top messaging platforms are openi...

Sometime around 500 BC the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus said, "Everything changes and nothing stands still." Today, many paraphrase his sage wisdom as, "The only constant in life is change."

The more you raise on Kickstarter, the more likely a bank will loan you money.

When you’re getting into the blooming virtual reality market, you need strong partners. Few could be better than Epic Games, the developer behind the powerful game-making tool Unreal Engine 4 and decades of blockbuster...

Holland has a centuries-old legacy of international trade, excellence in logistics, open-mindedness and free-thinking. Now it's assuming a leadership role in innovation, becoming a top location in Europe for tech startup...

(Reuters) – With the world growing more concerned about attacks by militant groups on civilians, Microsoft on Friday outlined new policies to crack down what it called “terrorist content” on some of its consumer se...

While ONE Championship remains a relative unknown to most fight fans in the U.S., it has quickly become not just the premier MMA promotion in Asia, but the largest sports media property in the continent’s history.

(Reuters) – A San Francisco-based company has won a U.S. government-sponsored competition with an alcohol monitoring devices that can be worn on the wrist, the latest milestone in the development of wearable technologi...

ANALYSIS: Despite the media hoopla surrounding a recent public demonstration of Viv — a work-in-progress, artificial intelligence personal assistant from the creator of Siri, this potential “intelligent interface for...

Valenice Balace of Manila calls herself an introvert but has an uncanny way of getting venture capital by just being around. The 27-year-old business degree holder started an online dating service with a women’s rights...

While consumers debate spending hundreds of dollars to bring PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, or HTC Vive virtual reality devices into their homes, Starbreeze is inking a different kind of deal for its competing headset. The...

Our next speaker for our GamesBeat 2016 event is David Haddad, president of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Haddad spoke last year at our inaugural GamesBeat Summit event, and we’re happy to have him back. Hadd...

VB LIVE: ASO isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it practice. In part 3 of this 9-part masterclass, we’ll dispel common myths that keep you from establishing the kind of baked-in routine necessary to keep your apps rising up t...