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ANALYSIS: Following a European Commission ruling that Ireland must recover $14.5 billion in taxes from Apple, the country’s government finds itself confronting a politically agonizing decision about whether to appeal. ...

Activision is kicking off its Call of Duty XP fan event in Los Angeles with a keynote speech at 10 am Pacific time. You can watch it here. Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, promises a bunch of reveals for Cal...

Microsoft today announced that the upcoming September release of the Windows 10 IoT Core preview build for Windows Insiders will include support for the Intel Joule chip module. Intel introduced Joule last month. Based o...

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Berlin-based Wooga, the maker of casual games such as Pearl’s Peril, has laid off 40 people out of its 300 employees. Jens Begemann, CEO of Wooga, confirmed in an email that the company made the cutbacks. Going forward...

VB LIVE: Customers don't care when they start browsing in one place and end up purchasing in another — but you need to. Join our free VB Live event to learn more about out how Staples keeps users connected and satisfie...

PREVIEW: The challenge with the billion-dollar-per-year Call of Duty franchise is to offer gamers something new without alienating those who want something familiar. It’s that contrast between the passion for something...

Google’s ambitious plan to bring modular smartphones to market, Project Ara, has been suspended. While there’s still a chance that Google will breathe new life into Ara by licensing it to third-parties, the company �...

Uber seems to be in the news daily. Today, we hear they are being investigated by Chinese antitrust authorities about their proposed combination with Chinese company DiDi in that nation’s ridesharing market. Other repo...

GUEST: When it comes to enterprise customer care, machine learning enables virtual assistant solutions to automate tasks that used to require a live agent: password resets, address and complex information collection, eve...

PREVIEW: When you get shot in the Frontier multiplayer map in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, your dead body starts floating in space. That’s because the gravity boots stop working when you give up the ghost. I got to ...

Project Ara, Google’s lofty vision of a modular smartphone with a vibrant third-party hardware ecosystem, is no more. A Google spokesperson confirmed today that the company has suspended its plan to bring the modular s...

Some Call of Duty fans have their doubts about Infinite Warfare and the game’s hard sci-fi setting, but developer Infinity Ward knows how to win you over. The next Call of Duty game will give anyone who preorders a cha...

The Call of Duty: Jackal Assault virtual reality experience is on display at the Call of Duty XP event in Los Angeles. And Eric Hirshberg, CEO of Activision Publishing, just announced that Jackal Assault will run on the ...

Activision isn’t going to skimp on its update of one of the most influential games of all time. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Remastered is getting all 16 maps from the original game. At the Call of Duty XP event in L...

FEATURE: Call of Duty's Super Bowl is finally here. After almost a year of exciting battles in online qualifiers and major tournaments, 32 professional teams from around the world are in The Forum arena in Inglewood, Cal...

EXCLUSIVE: Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) is close to releasing new instances — physical slices of virtual machines — backed by Nvidia’s graphics processing units (GPUs), VentureBeat has learn...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we’ve been doing a daily journal of our experiences with World of Warcraft’s new expansion, Legion. Also, Nintendo announced Super Mario Maker and Pikmin for th...

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Google has announced today the addition of automatically generated data insights within the iOS and Android Google Analytics apps. In a blog post on the Google Analytics Solutions website, the search giant details how th...

Samsung revealed earlier today that it was recalling more than two million Galaxy Note 7 devices — due to concerns over faulty batteries — and offering buyers a replacement device instead. Now, U.S. telecom giant T-M...

As a coach and consultant, I speak a lot about entrepreneurship. People often ask me when I decided to become an entrepreneur. And the truth is, I didn’t.