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Four years ago, the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow in Los Angeles gave us the year of the bow, and now it’s time for another seismic shift. 2016 is the year of the grappling hook. As companies like Microsoft, ...

ABC's hit business reality show Shark Tank features a panel of self-made multi-millionaire and billionaire venture capitalists, who are all highly-regarded experts in their industry. The Sharks have all written best-sell...

Leaving the European Union would be a "complete disaster for our country", according to Ed Vaizey, HM Minister of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries. Speaking at an event yesterday at tech members ...

REITs have always been popular investments for dividend hunters. That’s especially the case in a low interest rate environment, which makes these yields more appealing to alternatives like money market funds and CDs.

Recently a friend told me about Facebook Live and shook his head: Writing content is going to die, he said. We’ll all be communicating via video. I don’t know about all that. But I do know that livestream and live vi...

Horizon: Zero Dawn is one of Sony’s biggest exclusives coming for the PlayStation 4 in 2017. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), we received a briefing on the single-player story behind the title. John Gonzalez,...

GUEST: On my way to work in Bangalore last week (I’m an intern at a chatbot company), I was listening to Radio One, an Indian radio station, when I heard an ad for a competition. At first I didn't think much of it. Pho...

Customer service is not a department. It's a philosophy to be embraced by every member of an organization, from the CEO to the most recently hired employee.

We’ve been debating who won the attention war for the week of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big trade show in Los Angeles this week. But ListenFirst figured out that Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Brea...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 9 technology M&A transactions and 68 funding deals (totalling €296 million, about $334 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for...

(Reuters) – The Indian arm of South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc has begun selling a TV with a feature that it says repels mosquitoes, which can spread diseases such as malaria, Zika and dengue. The TV’s “Mosquito ...

Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence (AI) technology has proven to be very smart. DeepMind’s AlphaGo system got worldwide attention for beating top-ranked Go player Lee Sedol earlier this year. Previously it has...

Google said the Google Play Store was coming to Chrome OS, and now it’s finally here — in the developer channel of Chrome OS 53. (Eventually it will come to the beta and stable channels.) I’ve been playing with it ...

GUEST: The bot era is here, and the world has already begun to see its transformative potential. But like any technology, there will be bad bots as predictably as good ones. With every advancement, there are people looki...

GUEST: Last week, Apple put the rumors to bed and confirmed that it will introduce paid search ads to the App Store, meaning app makers can pay to have ads for their apps appear at the top of search results. This could b...

"They were ordinary people, who did extraordinary things." -Viola Davis

Sony chose the right demo to open its press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles this week. As soon as Kratos stepped into the light, fans screamed with delight that ano...

GUEST: Despite the tremendous technological innovation we’ve witnessed over the past two decades (smartphones, cloud computing, social networks), search interfaces and their underlying mechanics have remained fairly st...

VB LIVE: Game companies who understand the complexity of UA and monetization consider them alongside the first line of code. From the earliest stages of testing, conversion and revenue data shape how the app will work an...

“How much would you pay to have dinner with a lost loved one?” This was a question my friend and mentor, Bob Wood recently discussed during one of our epic bike rides. We both concluded that we would sacrifice an abs...