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PhishMe, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies thwart phishing attacks among other targeted malware, has closed a $42.5 million series C round led by existing investor Paladin Capital Group, with participation fro...

Analog Devices has agreed to acquire Linear Technology Corp. for about $14.8 billion, potentially causing more disruption and consolidation in the $335 billion chip industry. It’s also a rare victory for Boston over Si...

GUEST: Apple reported lackluster earnings on Tuesday as the company's iPhone sales continued to slide. The numbers make it clear that the future of the consumer products behemoth is no longer in its consumer products. Th...

Nine years after the iPhone’s debut, Apple announced today that it has now sold 1 billion iPhones. It’s a noteworthy milestone for a company recently knocked around by investors over the smartphone’s declining sale...

In its second quarter 2016 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed it now has 1.71 billion monthly active users (up 15 percent year over year) and 1.57 billion mobile users (up 20 percent year over year). The comp...

Facebook announced today the results of its Q2 2016 earnings, revealing that it generated $6.44 billion in revenue and an earnings per share (EPS) of $0.97. Wall Street analysts expected the company to bring in $6.01 bil...

Traditional websites may not die anytime soon, but there are some serious signs that indicate the slow decay of traditional websites has already begun.

GUEST: Chatbots are hot right now in the startup community. It seems like a new bot releases every day. I’m not always sure that chat interfaces are ideal solutions — I find scanning the news on Flipboard much quicke...

Pokémon Go is a phenomenally popular mobile game about going outside and catching digital monsters in the real world, but some glitches and bugs have made it needlessly difficult. Thankfully, plenty of other people are ...

Yahoo — which was just acquired by Verizon for $4.83 billion — today announced that its revamped Messenger messaging app is now available on Mac and Windows. The releases come more than six months after the redesigne...

As the 3DS’s popularity fizzles out in Japan, developer Level-5 is migrating one of its most popular franchises to smarthphones. Yo-Kai Watch, the original spirit-catching role-playing game for the 3DS, is headed to iO...

I'm getting ready for one of my favorite events of the year: the annual BlogHer Conference. Not only do I love BlogHer and the amazing women behind it, the event is one of the biggest annual moments for my business. I b...

According to the American Trucking Association, nearly 70 percent of all freight tonnage moved around the U.S. is transported by trucks. There’s more than $603 billion in revenue coming from trucking — making it a pr...

Google has acquired LaunchKit, adding the maker of a toolkit for mobile app development to its Developer Product Group. As a result, all of LaunchKit’s services will remain online for the next 12 months before being di...

League of Legends launched in 2009, but the multiplayer online battle arena game has never been more popular. SuperData Research estimates that it pulled in more than $1.6 billion in revenue last year. But that shouldn�...

It’s that special time of the month for fans of Sony’s consoles: the day when they learn what their faithful PlayStation Plus subscription will earn them. Sony has revealed which games subscribers to PlayStation Plus...

Cloud file syncing and sharing software company Dropbox today is announcing new features geared toward admins at companies that use Dropbox. For one thing, companies can now elect to use team folders, rather than shared ...

Media-sharing service CloudApp announced today that it closed a $2 million seed investment. The desktop tool lets users save screenies and GIFs to a sharable link. Once in the app, CloudApp's machine learning technology ...

Founders need to quickly win the excitement and attention of a VC. It is critical to spend your first meeting getting the VC to believe in your vision and opportunity - the details can come later.

Google today added a new feature to Google Play called Family Library. In short, Family Library lets up to 6 people share Google Play purchases across their devices — all you have to do is sign up and add family member...

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