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Virtual reality and porn have proven once again that technology and sex go hand-in-hand. And GameLink says there is now so much VR porn content out there that users need its service as an aggregation site. GameLink.com i...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average American household spends roughly $1,700 on clothes each year. While global powerhouses like H&M, Zara and Forever 21 have mastered the fast fashion space, opening...

Growing frustrations in the workplace are challenging employees to rethink their careers outside the corporate world. Since it is the employee that touches the business and has a strong pulse on the changing needs of the...

(Reuters) – General Motors and ride-hailing company Lyft said on Monday they would expand their short-term rental program to California and Colorado, building on an effort that GM President Dan Ammann said has “drama...

As a startup advisor and investor, I’ve met many aspiring entrepreneurs, and I often get asked the question, “I have a great idea for a startup – do you agree that it real potential?” They don’t know that most ...

Having gauged the market, reached a decision to sell your company, become familiar with valuation methods, earnings metrics and alternative processes for selling, and having envisioned an ideal buyer, you should then dra...

It can be hard to meet people professionally, but Weave sought to make a go at it by offering a concierge service that would pair you with someone of interest on a weekly basis. Unfortunately things didn’t pan out so w...

Virtual marketing assistant Kit CRM announced today the launch of its chatbot on Facebook Messenger, making it the third platform it’s available on. The move comes three months since it became one of the first companie...

Shopping at Whole Foods Market is about to become much more entertaining. In addition to browsing for unusual vegetables or gazing at the wide assortment of organic tortilla chips, customers will now be able to tap into ...

EXCLUSIVE: Chatbots are coming to the last frontier of the travel industry. Booking.com plans to bring artificial intelligence and conversational interfaces to a realm of hospitality that was thought to be the sole domai...

Juno Therapeutics has been given the green light to re-start a cancer clinical trial less than a week after regulators put it on hold because of three patient deaths.

Google has acquired the team behind Kifi, an app for saving, sharing, and chatting about content from many websites. The app will be going away in the coming weeks. The employees are joining the Google Spaces team, Kifi ...

The South China Sea doesn't belong to China.

Chatfuel is expanding its Facebook Messenger chatbot creation platform by allowing users to link to external sources through plugins. This step makes Chatfuel’s toolkit more valuable to those who may not have the progr...

Thousands of chatbots exist in the world today across numerous platforms, but do we really know how well these programs are performing? It’s one thing for developers to launch bots onto messaging apps, but in order to ...

GUEST: In case you haven't been on earth over the last week, you might have missed the recent Pokémon Go launch. With little buildup, this new mobile augmented reality game has taken neighborhoods and the Internet by st...

A bot that automates communication with the customers of one of Japan’s largest delivery companies was debuted by PandoraBots at MobileBeat today. Created by VentureBeat, MobileBeat is a two-day gathering of artificial...

Domino’s has some new competition when it comes to artificial intelligence and pizza cravings. Pizza Hut — the largest pizza chain in the world, based on orders and deliveries — today announced a new chatbot that w...

When you’re using a customer relationship management (CRM) product, it’s not exactly the most lively experience, is it? It’s just a bunch of data and fields that you have to fill out in a manner that doesn’t real...

How is it that Pokémon Go, a seemingly niche mobile game, has skyrocketed to such astounding popularity after only a few days? Here are 7 reasons why.

Mezi unveiled a new version of its travel bot today that lets you automatically check in to flights, cancel and reschedule flights, make sure you get a vegetarian meal on the plane, or buy off-menu items like cruises and...

EXCLUSIVE: SnapTravel announced today the launch of its half-bot, half-human hotel booking service and that it had raised $1.1 million in seed funding. The company demonstrated its new service for the first time at Mobil...