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It's going to take more than a Volvo to save the Apple Watch. Yes, you can use the Watch to start your XC90 and adjust the climate settings. With a swipe, no less. Unfortunately, as IDC reported this week, sales have sli...

GUEST: The chatbot marketplace is growing fast. As Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, said at Microsoft’s World Partner Conference earlier this month, “Pretty much everyone today who’s building applications … w...

More Americans Are Paying Off Their Credit Cards Every Month

GUEST: The unveiling of the Facebook chatbot platform has created a veritable maelstrom of activity in Silicon Valley. Every day, a new article either bemoaning the digitization of communication or celebrating the simpli...

EXCLUSIVE: Mobile social game RockYou is laying off 65 people, or 18 percent of its staff, over the next three months, GamesBeat confirmed today. The San Mateo, California-based company has been steadily expanding and co...

Baidu, the Chinese search giant, has quietly launched TalkType, a virtual keyboard for Android devices that lets you use your voice as your main input method. All you have to do is hit the microphone icon in the middle o...

Google today announced Google Play store improvements focused on the size of updates. A new delta algorithm, bsdiff, has been rolled out to further reduce patches for apps and games. Mobile users are sensitive to the amo...

Microsoft today announced the availability of the App Analysis tool for Windows Bridge for iOS. It’s a free web service that automatically analyzes source code to determine what will work with the Windows Bridge, an op...

Pokémon Go’s success is unlike anything that Apple’s App Store has ever seen before. Pokémon Go had more downloads in its first week on the iOS App Store than any other app ever, according to Apple. It already beat...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! Pokémon Go continues to take over the world, and the servers still struggle to keep the popular game running. Overwatch also released its first new hero, and we’re learning...

While we can applaud brands for trying new ways to engage digital and mobile customer they are still using the same broadcasting approach with everything they do.

Pokémon Go has Nintendo looking vibrant again, but the company doesn’t want you to get big ideas about what Pikachu is doing to its bank account. In a note to shareholders, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima explain...

By Sam Abuelsamid

Let's face it: Working out regularly is hard enough, but it can feel nearly impossible on a busy schedule. If your day-to-day is constantly changing, you travel with frequency or you just have really long days, mustering...

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — New Google-powered software will help the world tackle problems related to climate change, deforestation and food production, a United Nations agency said on Friday, as it presented ...

Measurement and analysis might seem like an afterthought, but it's hugely important for a successful campaign. So how do we measure the ROI of an SEO campaign?

Comparably has launched a new product aimed at company leaders giving them a market-wide idea about where compensation is going amongst their employees. With this latest offering, chief executives, management, and those ...

The 2016 Republican National Convention has displayed a "big tent" of diversity, but probably not in the way that party leaders hoped to show off at their big confab. Cartoon by Ed Hall.

Echoing an update from a year and a half ago, Microsoft today announced several new OneDrive features, all related to photos. The service is getting automatic albums, tighter integration with the Windows 10 Photos app, a...

Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter leads the new Airbnb Mayoral Advisory Board.

Every year, I enjoy going to the Casual Connect USA conference in San Francisco. It’s a place to listen to talks, roam the hallways, gossip at the parties, and chatter with old friends. The stories were familiar. Gamin...

Local Roots CEO, Eric Ellestad, is rethinking the future of food, one shipping container at a time.