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(Reuters) – Tencent Holdings and Samsung Electronics are racing to be crowned Asia’s most valuable company as expectations for robust earnings growth push their share prices to record highs. Their surge – both have...

Wargaming has shut its WG Cells mobile gaming studio in Bellevue, Washington, cutting about 64 jobs, according to a report in Geekwire. Cyprus-based Wargaming told Geekwire that it was shutting the WG Cells studio, forme...

Three stories this month illustrate the brokenness of IRS collections.  There are two decisions and an anecdotal story from Procedurally Taxing.  Many tax practitioners, blessed with compliant solvent clients, are only...

The growing Uber economy has incited fierce public debate about on-demand work and what it means for our future. A new survey by Deloitte offers some insight into why.

With tech jobs concentrated in the Bay Area and New York, it could be challenging for companies outside of America's coastal cities to find top-notch developers. That's where Gigster fills the void. The marketplace gives...

Like a rocket that touches the clouds before it floats down to Earth, chatbots started with a bang. Gartner has chronicled this dramatic hype cycle many times, and it is starting to look like Moore’s Law in terms of ho...

Business trips might seem necessary -- or even fun. But they can really damage your health if you're not careful.

More video game-making talent is moving into full-time positions in the VR development. Gears of War producer Tanya Watson and Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland have formed the studio Squanchtendo to produce virtu...

Angel investing is risky. This is a mantra my readers have heard me repeat time and again. I’m game for doing everything possible to mitigate risks and increase success. It’s also why, although I don’t have a PhD i...

Whether you're a content marketer working on headlines, or a presidential candidate campaigning for more votes, your use of punctuation could significantly affect how you're perceived.

Twitter is developing a dedicated page on its service where you’ll be able to catch streamed coverage of live events. With its expected launch, it’ll be easier to watch videos from the NFL, PGA, NHL, NBA, MLS, and ot...

A person with plenty of experience in a very different kind of competition is getting into the world of esports. Ken Hershman, formerly the president at HBO Sports, is now the executive chairman and commissioner of the W...

Back in February of this year, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business released their latest CMO survey. One of the results revealed that CMOs - in the US anyway, were planning to increase their budgets by nearly 7% o...

Apple is looking to challenge two of its most successful App Store developers with a homegrown video editing application for iOS, according to a Bloomberg report. Both Facebook, with its Instagram property, and Snapchat ...

Being financially transparent can be daunting. But if it makes the difference between securing valuable capital or not, you should.

The esports counter-terrorists are heading back to TBS. Valve’s Counter-Strike: Global Offensive military shooter is getting a second season as part of Eleague’s televised competitions, and it kicks off with prelimin...

EXCLUSIVE: Enterprise software company SAP is acquiring Altiscale, a startup that offers a cloud-based version of the Hadoop open-source software for storing, processing, and analyzing lots of different kinds of data, Ve...

Apple today released iOS version 9.3.5, which contains patches for security vulnerabilities that exist in earlier versions of Apple’s mobile operating system. Today’s update follow the release of iOS 9.3.4 earlier th...

When we think about ways to improve and refine and improve our content marketing strategy, we probably don’t think about the field of neuroscience. But this academic discipline offers many insights into how to market a...

Grabr, a startup that allows users to request travelers to bring them rare finds from all over the world, announced today that it scored a $3.5 million seed investment. The startup’s marketplace allows shoppers and tra...

We’re going to a section of a magical tower that holds a bunch of animals, dragons, and other strange creatures. What could go wrong? The Menagerie wing is now open in One Night in Karazhan, the latest adventure for He...

The party continues. Hearthstone’s latest adventure continues today as the third episode of One Night in Karazhan is now live. You can purchase the wing on its own for $7 or you can purchase the whole season for $20, w...