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Last week, I saw industry legend, Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's cofounder Nolan Bushnell, talk at the 2016 NXNE Future Land Interactive Conference in Toronto. Bushnell was at the event thanks to AMD (whom he credited with ...

Judging from the 19 entrepreneurs who pitched at the Silicon Dragon contest in NYC June 23, the world is in for some major shakeups in how traditional business is done. It's an impressive group of next-gen pros who are p...

Through its subsidiary Online.net, the French telecommunications company Iliad has quietly launched a new “cold storage” cloud service that developers can use to store files that they don’t need to access extremely...

EXCLUSIVE: TapReason is coming out of stealth today with a unique twist on monetization. The company uses artificial intelligence to determine the “magic moment” to recommend an app or game to friends and colleagues....

GUEST: Looking back on my first ever software development interview, I wish I had known that I was about to experience everything from discomfort with my professional style to frustration surrounding the inaccessible int...

GUEST: Few technologies -- possibly the car and the computer -- have matched the app's wildfire spread. Since the smartphone boom, the app has entered our lexicons, overtaken our home screens, and laid claim to whole day...

GUEST: We're at the cusp of a sharp rise in devices that have no screen but do have conversational voice controls, such as the Amazon Echo. Smart home and Internet-of-things (IoT) objects that respond to users' voices wi...

Companies survive — and thrive — as they compete with Steam, the largest online store for downloadable PC video games in the world. Green Man Gaming is one of them. This shows that while one company dominates the mar...

This week's milestones in the history of technology.

To new entrepreneurs who love the idea of running a business, but don’t have an original idea or the desire to create a startup from scratch, franchises are an appealing alternative. In theory, opening a franchise is a...

Attending marketing conferences can teach you a lot about where the industry is headed, and how you can keep up with it. Whether you're looking to expand your skills through workshops, or learn from industry leaders, her...

Kip is a chatbot that simplifies group purchases — it can poll your co-workers about who needs more office supplies, or whether to order dark-roast or light-roast coffee for the kitchen. But Kip has another simplificat...

GUEST: While Silicon Valley and New York City might sound like the perfect places to base your startup, exorbitant rental and living costs are putting off many first time entrepreneurs. Now a handful of new tech hubs hav...

A startup from Saudi Arabia has a prototype for a bra that could detect breast cancer. It's a sign of the innovation that could be unleashed in emerging markets.

What happens when another business in your industry enters the field, and starts earning a reputation as a bigger thought leader than you are?

For these Jeb Bush supporters, Donald Trump is a difficult pill to swallow.

In 2014, Uber’s office in Lyon, France, unveiled what’s now the ride-hailing company’s most infamous ad campaign: pairing “hot chick” women drivers with passengers for a 20 minute trip. The promo video, with cl...

EXCLUSIVE: Baidu, the equivalent of Google in China, will roll out an update to its group-buying e-commerce app Nuomi later this year that will significantly change the way people review food. In addition to accepting an...

TOKYO (By Yoshiyasu Shida and Thomas Wilson, Reuters) – In delaying its IPO by two years, Japanese messaging app company Line bought time to correct weak financial reporting controls, work on its business plan, bolster...

GUEST: Last week I bumped into Robert Hoffer, the famed creator of SmarterChild, the automated chatbot that used to sit at the very top of everyone's AIM Buddy List. For many people, it was the first experience conversin...

Google appears to be looking into the idea of a “Chromebook Pro.” Through its Google Opinion Rewards app for Android, which gives people Google Play Store credits in exchange for anonymous responses to surveys, Googl...