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GUEST: If you work in product development you hear a lot about user interface (UI) and user experience (UX). When people don't really know what they are talking about, they use these terms interchangeably, along with buz...

New games keep coming out for virtual reality — and sometimes those releases are actually quite old. Hitman Go: VR Edition is one of the latest debut for Oculus Rift and Gear VR headsets, and you can download it now fr...

Robert F. Alexander was sentenced by the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in 2006 to a 96-month sentence for running what is known as a high-yield interest program, a form of Ponzi scheme whereby Alexander...

OPINION: Rumors that Google would merge Android and Chrome OS, or even just outright kill Chrome OS, have been coming and going for years. At its I/O 2016 developer conference, the company finally unveiled its grand plan...

GUEST: Amid all the conversation about shifts in television viewing and how that's affecting TV advertising, there's been a lot of talk about networks trying to woo back viewers with fewer (and perhaps more compelling) a...

Many articles and commentators recently have expressed concern about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to disrupt human life. Some have even gone apocalyptic in their visions of AI run amok. Certainly there...

The belief that content should be created, distributed, and used only by your marketing team is wrong and limiting to your long-term growth. A trending strategy brands need to take advantage of now is the use of content ...

FEATURE: The daily fantasy sports (DFS) industry has taken one hell of a beating these past seven months, with states from New York and Illinois to Nevada concluding that “betting” on virtual sports teams compiled fr...

GUEST: Recently, I participated in an all-female startup and small-business training seminar, Women Entrepreneurs Boot Camp (WEB), as the sole male speaker among 15 fellow presenters. When I was originally invited by Lyn...

'We've never lost anyone we didn't want to lose," says Courtney Nichols Gould, cofounder and co-CEO of SmartyPants Vitamins.  Considering her premium gummy vitamin company has been in existence for just over 5 years,...

GUEST: Chatbots represent a way for brands, businesses and publishers to interact with users without requiring them to download an app, become familiar with a new UI, or configure and update regularly. A number of compan...

GUEST: Computer games are a rising business branch, and in the scope of established law, a rather new one. Lawmakers haven’t given much thought about a highly agile industry with a significant worldwide reach and news ...

People often worry about what Facebook knows about them, so I downloaded my personal Facebook archive to see for myself. There were some surprises -- I now know all the people I’ve unfriended since 2006 -- but overall ...

A few days ago Google came out with a new app called Spaces. It sounded sort of interesting. “With Spaces, it's simple to find and share articles, videos and images without leaving the app, since Google Search, YouTube...

The Google Cardboard headset has been interesting. Because it’s so simple and inexpensive, a whole lot of people have tried out virtual reality (VR) with it. But it doesn’t give you much control, so experiences are n...

Editor’s note: We previously ran a transcript of Rami Ismail’s talk at GamesBeat Summit 2016. Now here’s the video. Vlambeer has only two people, but the Dutch indie game maker has managed to draw outsized attentio...

From the outside, Thailand looks like a messy, dangerous place under a military cabal. But at least one developer in that country didn’t leave after a coup d’état in 2014 ousted a democratically elected government t...

"Great vision without great people is irrelevant." -Jim Collins

For years, marketing leaders have complained about the irrelevance of academic research. And academics have complained that practitioners have ignored important insight generated from academic research. In reality, both ...

GUEST: There are lots of ways to launch a new tech brand. But behind every brand launch is a brand name launch. And behind every brand name is a tricky tale of trademark timing, especially for a sector as dynamic as tech...