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Purnima Kochikar, Google’s director of apps and games business development for the Play store, took the stage at VentureBeat’s 2016 MobileBeat event to talk about the importance of context in the emerging world of bo...

If you’ve been following politics lately, you know what a hot topic the minimum wage rate is. Presently, the federal minimum wage sits at $7.25 per hour. However, many states have raised their minimum wages above the m...

LinkedIn, which Microsoft has decided to acquire for more than $26 billion, today announced the formation of Open19, a project in which LinkedIn will work with partners to develop a new standard for data center infrastru...

The WhatsApp messaging app resumed in Brazil after the Supreme Court overturned a suspension of the service that lasted less than a day and affected more than 100 million users. “The Supreme Court has reversed the orde...

GUEST: Last month, in collaboration with the folks behind the fantastic Burner app, my company Voxable launched our latest chatbot project, Ghostbot for Burner. Ghostbot runs on top of Burner’s “open” phone numbers...

Conventional wisdom says that automation, artificial intelligence, and chatbots may do away with many human-to-human interactions and reduce opportunities for emotional connection to mere transactions. However, there’s...

Fewer new ventures, women taking the lead in social enterprise, and the importance of bank loans--insights from the newly released 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor.

When Erica Blair left Chiang Mai in 2011, she knew it wasn’t goodbye forever. Blair had spent a year teaching English in the northern Thai city and planned to return once she built a sustainable business.  

Microsoft’s gaming division is in a slump, and it’s hoping to claw its way out with new hardware coming in August. Xbox and gaming revenue for Microsoft decreased $152 million during its fiscal fourth quarter. That�...

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Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, including revenue of $22.6 billion and earnings per share of $0.69. In Q4 2015, Microsoft saw $22.2 billion in revenue and a loss of $0.40 per shar...

ANALYSIS: In two weeks, Samsung will unveil one of the most anticipated smartphones of the year: the next class-defining Galaxy Note phablet. This year’s model, the Note7, has seen even more interest than usual, due to...

Despite Donald Trump's recent trouble with his ghostwriter, hiring a ghostwriter to write your book is a smart marketing move for entrepreneurs.

Overwatch just got a dose of new energy shot into its head from 120 yards away. A new patch just released for Blizzard’s newest game, and with it comes Ana, the online shooter’s first new hero since it launched in Ma...

Twitter is making it easier for people to receive verified accounts with the creation of an online application process. The move is likely intended to clarify how Twitter will grant people the fabled blue checkmark on th...

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Microsoft has turned on a new set of Windows Tips that warn Windows 10 users that Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is draining their laptop’s battery. The solution, according to the notification, is to use Microsoft Ed...

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EXCLUSIVE: Back in April when Microsoft and Facebook became the biggest tech giants to open their chat app platforms to developers and businesses, CNN was one of the first news organization to launch a chatbot on Faceboo...

ANALYSIS: It’s fair to say that Slack hasn’t had all that much trouble coming up with cash, with over $540 million raised in the past few years, including a $200 million round at a $3.8 billion post-money valuation i...

Neil Young is one of the big thinkers in mobile games, and he came up with a big thought in a talk at today’s Casual Connect USA event: the $10 billion mobile game is inevitable. He said this in spite of the fact that ...

Ubisoft had a strong first fiscal quarter, and digital sales are an enormous piece of its ongoing strategy. The publisher, which is responsible for games like online special-ops shooter The Division, generated a record 7...