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(Reuters) — A federal judge on Friday granted a request by Uber Technologies Inc and its chief executive officer to put a passenger’s price-fixing lawsuit against them on hold, while they appeal his refusal to let th...

Sony’s online gaming service isn’t working for a lot of people. All PlayStation Network services are experiencing outages, according to Sony’s status site. Gamers have taken to social media to complain about the in...

GUEST: Chatbots have become trendy. They are everywhere at the moment, from banks offering their customers a conversational bot to interact with for basic tasks, to the old and funny Cleverbot. The question that remains,...

Apple has released the seventh public beta of its forthcoming mobile operating system, iOS 10. The update arrives just one week after the release of the company’s sixth public beta, and less than two weeks after the fi...

The CEO of Xactly provides advice on taking your company to the next level - even if you do not have plans to go public.

Second and third generation owners often get stuck doing things the way their parents or grandparents did. Forbes contributor Louis Mosca explains.

IBM will hold its first-ever conference for developers who are making bots and virtual assistants with IBM Watson. Part of the Watson Developer Conference will be two bot competitions. One competition is for a bot to get...

Facebook’s trending topics is getting an update that involves eliminating the human element when it comes to describing why something merits promotion. The company is now relying on its algorithm and programming to dis...

In the past several years, Southeast Asia has become a hub for wanderers, backpackers and digital nomads looking to build lifestyle businesses that allow them to maximizing their incomes while minimizing the amount of ti...

Nintendo is taking more control of the retail side of the supply chain in Japan. The Mario publisher revealed that it is acquiring the distribution company Jesnet, which was already responsible for getting Nintendo produ...

Now all of your Facebook friends can share in your Overwatch frustrations as Ana wastes another ultimate on Lucio. Blizzard Streaming is now live in the Americas, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. It allows peo...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we went to the Pokémon World Championships, we reviewed Deux Ex: Mankind Divided, and we look at some impressively powerful gaming laptops. Enjoy, and have a great...

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Cloud services giant Rackspace has been acquired by “affiliates of certain funds” under global investment manager Apollo Global Management in a deal worth $4.3 billion. Founded in 1998, San Antonio-based Rackspace pr...

Strong women run in Kalsoom Lakhani’s family, and she considers her maternal grandmother her hero.

We learned a lot about gaming at our GamesBeat 2016 event a few weeks ago. And we’re still gleaning some of the lessons from those sessions. We’ve written a lot about the news that emerged from those talks, but we al...

Play to your strengths when managing a distributed workforce.

Agora.io founder and CEO Tony Zhao claims that his technology is the best available. It is a global virtual network of more than 80 data centers to cut down latency to just 0.2 seconds no matter where callers are.

Yahoo isn’t only covering esports, it’s also starting some of its own events. ESL, a major esports organizer, is teaming up with Yahoo Esports to broadcast and create new competitive gaming tournaments. As part of th...

Gaming in Mexico could be getting a lot cheaper. GameFly announced today that it is partnering with Mexican internet service Totalplay Telecommunications to bring GameFly Streaming to the country. GameFly Streaming enabl...

For more than five years, Vuforia has been selling augmented reality. More than 30,000 apps have used the Vuforia platform for AR, which is owned by enterprise technology company PTC. Another 37,000 apps are in developme...

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