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Ford’s mass-market self-driving cars may be five years away, but the company has invited us to ride inside one of its prototype autonomous vehicles today. Today, as in, right now, at Ford’s headquarters in Dearborn, ...

GUEST: Communication is key, especially when it comes to effectively managing a company's workforce. Yet establishing communication throughout the workplace has become a challenge for HR teams. According to a recent surv...

Facebook Messenger bots can now accept payments from customers without making them leave the Messenger app, said Messenger VP David Marcus. The ability to make payments is one part of the Messenger platform update to ver...

Well, what’s a couple more months at this point? Sony announced on its blog that the upcoming PlayStation 4 game The Last Guardian is delayed to December 6. It was supposed to release on October 25. The Last Guardian i...

Networking isn't just about getting your next job or making a sale. People who make networking work for them follow these four rules of thumb.

You can now let a stocky Italian plumber do your talking for you on iOS. Nintendo has launched the official Super Mario Run Stickers for Apple’s iMessage service on the iOS App Store. You can download this pack and the...

GUEST: Fluenty is a chatbot that makes you sound like James Bond is writing your auto replies. The team began building its Smart Reply systems in 2014. By the summer of 2015, the app Fluenty was able to respond to SMS me...

Razer wants to use some of the cash in its bank account to get in early on the next big tech breakthrough. The gaming-equipment manufacturer revealed today that it is launching zVentures, a new wing of Razer that will in...

Rumors that Google is ditching its longtime Nexus branding in favor of Pixel for its pair of upcoming HTC-built smartphones got a shot in the arm today, thanks to a software leak by HTC insider Llabtoofer (via Droid-Life...

Absolut vodka launched a Facebook Messenger bot today, and users can find a free drink in their area by chatting with the bot, said Messenger VP David Marcus. Marcus explained how the bot works while onstage at TechCrunc...

Wouldn't you love to quit your day job and pursue a hobby of yours full time, while also making money from it? That's what Bill and Britt Doran did. Here's how.

The stereotypical Xbox Live experience is where you boot up a Mature-rated shooter like Call of Duty and end up matched against a team of racist, homophobic 12-year-old boys who don’t have parents. But Microsoft has de...

Datorama, a marketing startup that wants to “tame” your business data, announced today that it scored a $32 million investment led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The New York-based startup aims use the new capital t...

Facebook has revealed that it now has over 300 million monthly active users of video and voice calling within its Messenger app, a growing sign of the service’s growing integration in our daily lives. David Marcus, Fac...

Chairman?s son Jay Y Lee will join the company?s board and take an important step towards formalizing his role as new head of the company.

For weeks, Hillary Clinton and her campaign have described her continuous hacking cough as a symptom of seasonal allergies. Now, after she collapsed at a 9/11 commemoration ceremony, she is admitting that she has pneumon...

A new trend in the running world combines craft beer with 5K races. Organizers hope to lure more would-be athletes across the finish line. Will it work?

Global payment technology company First Data announced on Monday that it has launched what it describes as the "first fully integrated Bluetooth payment card reader." With its very own contactless reader, the Clover poin...

It may be true that entrepreneurs think differently, but perhaps that has nothing to do with the chemical makeup of their brain. Having an unwavering passion for what you are creating propels you forward with a strong mo...

Instagram is rolling out a new keyword moderation tool today, as the Facebook-owned photo and video platform looks to help its 500 million-plus community filter out comments they find offensive. The initiative represents...

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Trophit and Adways have teamed up to create entice users to adopt new apps using PreLaunch.Me, a platform for pre-registering users for games and apps on both iOS and Google Play. Tel Aviv-based marketing startup Trophit...