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Lawyers have suddenly lost their appetite for challenging mergers in the wake of a Delaware court ruling making it harder to earn a fee.

Mobile market research firm App Annie is launching its Marketing Intelligence tool today to drive better results for user acquisition ads, which accounted for $87 billion in annual ad spending last year. San Francisco-ba...

(Reuters) — The chief executive of embattled blood testing company Theranos Inc on Monday said the privately held firm is working diligently to rectify all of its outstanding issues involving its product and laboratory...

In addition to releasing the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft today released the corresponding software development kit (SDK) for this new version of Windows, which will allow developers to build applications tha...

GUEST: Let’s face it, mobile apps have become an overflowing bin of disparate digital objects. A million apps that do mostly the same thing, some better and some worse. Some are one-off campaign apps, and others are st...

The financial trains continue to run ahead of schedule at Electronic Arts. The Battlefield publisher revealed the results of its fiscal Q1 2017 today, and it generated $682 million in revenues. That bests the $650.7 mill...

When Michael Pachter peeked into his crystal ball, he saw that the future of the industry lies in cross-platform multiplayer. And for console players who pay for multiplayer services ($60 a year on Xbox One, and $50 a ye...

If futurist, inventor, and Google executive Ray Kurzweil is right about the future, the rich could become thousands of times smarter than the poor at some point in the 2030s. And, oddly, also if he’s wrong. Ray Kurzwei...

Overwatch might be poised to be the next big esport, but its newest update actually celebrates a real sporting event. Blizzard’s hit team-based shooteris celebrating the Summer Olympics in Rio (which opens Friday) with...

iBeat, the startup behind a “life-saving, heart-monitoring smartwatch,” announced today that it scored a $1.5 million seed investment. Led by Maveron and Subtraction Capital, iBeat’s latest round aims to hire new t...

GUEST: Organizations create style guides to capture the rationale of their design decisions and help other teams build great experiences. You might have read gov.UK’s service manual or the U.S. Digital Services Playboo...

Quora has expanded into its first language outside of English in the hope of increasing the number of users. The question and answer service has launched a Spanish version on both its web and mobile apps. It’s availabl...

Microsoft today announced the launch of the HoloLens Commercial Suite, a group of tools that should help businesses start using the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset. The HoloLens Commercial Suite includes mob...

Now that we're more than halfway through 2016, let's take a look at what content marketing trends we're seeing.

Our ninth annual GamesBeat conference is well underway, and you can find every session right here. We’ve listed every talk from day one — featuring Oculus, Google Daydream, PlayStation VR and more — below and also ...

(Reuters) — Iranian hackers have compromised more than a dozen accounts on the Telegram instant messaging service and identified the phone numbers of 15 million Iranian users, the largest known breach of the encrypted ...

Mozilla today launched Firefox 48 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The browser has gained multi-processor support (finally), enhanced protection against harmful downloads, and media improvements on Android. Support ...

Google today is announcing a developer preview of an expansion of its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technology for delivering fast-loading articles on mobile devices within Google Search. Now if you visit g.co/ampdemo o...

Apple today rolled out the third public beta for iOS 10, the next version of its operating system for iPhone, iPad, and the iPod. Today’s release comes two weeks after the second public beta. Apple first unveiled iOS 1...

Amazon has something special in store for developers who support its Alexa voice-command platform. Starting today, the company will provide tools to enable developers to create voice-based games on Alexa. Now a wide vari...

I started my conversation with Rohan Dhir, the founder of Archibald Optics a couple years ago. His company has undergone a fascinating journey in the interim, and not just simply a name change to Archibald London.

A startup called Attic Labs is announcing today that it has raised $8.1 million and is unveiling an open source database called Noms. Noms lets people fork and sync data in the same way that the Git open source software ...