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GUEST: A quick Google search for top CEOs will yield a list of well-known names like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergei Brin and Larry Page. Not surprisingly, these CEOs have a lot in common - they've built successful c...

Jet.com reportedly will be acquired by Walmart in a deal said to be worth $3 billion, the culmination of talk that first made waves last week. Under the terms of the deal, Jet cofounder and chief executive Marc Lore will...

GUEST: Over the past year, bots seem to have gained immense popularity among big tech companies. Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and most recently, Apple have all released plans for a bot-filled future. But why? What is the...

Twilio ($TWLO) made its first earnings report public today, revealing that for the second quarter it generated $64.5 million in revenue and and a non-GAAP earnings per share loss of $0.08. Wall Street analysts had been e...

Google Drive might be working for you, but for a small percentage of users it’s not working. Google has reported ongoing issues with Drive today in its Apps Status Dashboard. The first notification came at 8:50 a.m. Pa...

Trump's plan includes a 33% top income tax rate for salary income, more than double his 15% top rate for business and self-employment earnings.

Nick Johnson is the first person to catch all of the available creatures in the wildly popular Pokémon Go mobile game. The New Yorker completed his global quest to “catch ’em all” in Sydney, Australia, on a journe...

Sony may hold an event in September to fully reveal the upgraded version of its PlayStation 4. PS4 Neo, the long-rumored and once-confirmed revamped console, will get something along the lines of a “technical showcase�...

GUEST: The internet and smartphone revolution has given us incredible powers, but it has undoubtedly made our lives more complex. As we navigate the endless landscape of interconnected dots — made up of apps and websit...

Berlin’s I-mmersive has unveiled its all-in-one 360-degree virtual reality video streaming solution. The company has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise money to launch a bundle of three products: the ...

Seems like working for Donald Trump's presidential campaign is a fool's errand ... akin to DC's new Suicide Squad movie. But despite the bad reviews, the movie is a huge success. Be vigilant this November. Cartoon by Kei...

A recent study found that 59 percent of all links shared on social networks aren't actually clicked on at all, implying that people are sharing articles without ever getting past the headlines.

Richard Marks has been working on PlayStation VR since 2010, but the senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment says that he can still be surprised by the immersiveness of virtual reality. Marks, who spok...

Don’t break Blizzard’s games, or risk the consequences. To kick off its Summer Games event, which celebrates the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio, Blizzard introduced a buggy soccer game called Lucio Ball. This mode pits ...

Reported.ly, the newsroom experiment that leverages social media to report on issues around the world, announced that it will be suspending operations. The publication placed the blame on First Look Media, its main emplo...

Ray Cao, a serial entrepreneur at age 29, says he made numerous mistakes before starting Toronto-based Exact Media in 2013. The company puts marketing flyers and product samples like Crest White Strips and L'Oreal cosmet...

These adorable fusion drinks are the work of Amanda Flood, who works in a Starbucks located inside a Target in Redlands, Calif.

Peter Moore was a former pro soccer athlete, and so he knows the mixed emotions people feel when they describe professional video game players as esports athletes. The chief competition officer at Electronic Arts prefers...

Montreal-based Smooch raised $7.6 million in its latest round of funding, the company announced today. The round was led by Real Ventures and iNovia Capital, with participation from TA Associates and Smooch’s founders....

Lyft is improving its ride-hailing app to conform to the way people want to use it, especially when dealing with group trips. The company is adding support for multiple stops so you no longer need to tell the driver ther...

Last week, when startup funding tracker CB Insights released its list of some of the first bot creation startups to receive funding from major venture capital firms, Awesome.ai was mentioned among the elite. 15 companies...

Bossa Studios has raised $1.35 million in funding from venture capital firm London Venture Partners. London-based Bossa is working on an ambitious massively multiplayer online game world dubbed Worlds Adrift. The title i...