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Mike Donais knows a thing or two about card games. After all, he worked on the granddaddy of them all — Magic: The Gathering. He’s also done a turn on Dungeons & Dragons and board games. This makes him a natural for ...

(Reuters) – Apple found itself on the receiving end of a small, short-lived anti-U.S. protest this week in China, the tech firm’s biggest overseas market and a country where foreign firms have suffered damaging boyco...

GUEST: Imagine if everything around you was connected and A.I.-enabled. Ordering at your favorite restaurants would be as simple as sending them a text. Your dry cleaner would know exactly when to pick up your laundry wi...

One of the many things that have become synonymous with Silicon Valley are hackathons, events where developers get together to get creative. But while those are more free-for-all contests, the real benefits to companies ...

VB LIVE: The bot buzz keep growing as more companies jump on chat platforms with AI-driven software generating and maintaining conversations with users. When brand giants, such as Pizza Hut, Sephora, and Whole Foods are ...

GUEST: Imagine a VR simulation in which you can speak in front of an audience of thousands of people shuffling in their seats. All of those faces in front of you may not be real, but the 360-film footage and audio will t...

GUEST: I once asked Howard Hartenbaum, General Partner at August Capital and StartX Advisor, what the valuation of our company should be for our next round of funding. His answer: “It’s entirely up to your salesmansh...

Remember a company named Haptik. The team, based in India, has created a messaging app used by millions of people. It relies on A.I. to help human agents provide personal assistance, a bit like Mezi or Lola. Interestingl...

GUEST: Amidst the fervor created by the Pokémon Go app, Signia Venture Partners cofounder Sunny Dhillon shared an important perspective with his July 14 story, "Stop referring to Pokémon Go as augmented reality." Yes t...

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Yahoo’s future may be decided on Monday following reports that the company will be acquired by Verizon Communications in a $4.8 billion deal. Reported by Bloomberg citing a source with direct knowledge, the agreement i...

Is Denmark the best place to start and run a business?  A new book argues yes: “When the World Bank ranks countries on ease of doing business, based on criteria such as starting a company, dealing with construction pe...

From "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too" in 1840 to "Change We Can Believe In" in 2008, the use of branding in presidential campaigns is almost as old as the United States itself. In fact, from a marketing perspective, president...

ReCore is one of Microsoft’s biggest exclusives for the rest of year. It comes out on September 13 for Xbox One and PC. Exclusives can help a console stand out for the competition, which is especially important for the...

(Reuters) – An aircraft powered by solar energy left Egypt on Sunday on the last leg of the first ever fuel-free flight around the globe. Solar Impulse 2, a spindly single-seat plane, took off from Cairo in darkness en...

Do you need to be hugely talented to succeed? It helps, but it isn't an absolute requirement. Nor is it a guarantee. The same applies to hard work. So what is the missing ingredient? It isn't luck.

As the Pokemon Go frenzy continues, children in civil war torn Syria are asking the world to consider their plight when hunting for Pikachu, Zubats and Charmanders. As reported by The Guardian and U.S. Uncut, refugee adv...

If you’re a Windows 7 or Windows 8 user reading this article before July 30, 2016, you have less than one week to get Windows 10 for free. At 11:59 p.m. UTC-10 on July 29 (2:59 a.m. Pacific and 5:59 a.m. Eastern on Jul...

GUEST: B.J. Fogg is a behavioral scientist who has written extensively about how computer products influence people. He coined the term “Captology,” which is an acronym for computers as persuasive technologies. When ...