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Stripe announced on Tuesday that it has acquired Tonic, an app development and prototyping service, in a move meant to shore up its developer offering. While financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, it was reveal...

Snapshot images of molecular targets are crucial tools of the drug discovery business. The vivid 3-D architecture of a disease-related protein is a good starting point to develop drugs that bind properly with the target....

Upscale coworking space Industrious announced today that it scored a $37 million series B round to compete with WeWork in more than 20 cities. Backed by Riverwood Capital, Industrious says it aims to open 12 new location...

VB LIVE: While social media is table stakes today, measuring its success, especially its impact on other channels, is another thing entirely. Join Playboy’s Chief Digital Officer and CRO to understand how they’ve rei...

Life Is Beautiful's attendance has nearly tripled in three years, bringing in nearly 35 million dollars to Downtown Las Vegas in 2015. Here's the story behind the fest's success.

If there’s any sign that China’s game market is frothy, this is it. The film company Huayi Brothers Media Corp. has invested $288 million for a 20 percent stake in China’s Hero Entertainment mobile game company. He...

All social media strategies need to start with the optimization of your social profiles. Here are 7 steps to doing so.

Ubisoft wants the world to know that it’s doing just fine without Vivendi meddling in its business. The French-based publisher has launched a new page called “We Are Ubisoft” that promotes its properties and value ...

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. Highlights include Snooze in Microsoft Edge, an improved PC upgrade experience, and better pin logic. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep...

Coffee With Alli Webb, Founder Of Drybar

Facebook revealed on Wednesday that it plans to open a data center in Los Lunas, New Mexico. The seventh such facility is expected to go online in late 2018. The company wasn’t forthcoming with specifics about the data...

Speakers at this year's FutureFest discuss the developments in their industry they're most optimistic about. Contributors include: Henrique Olifiers, Cindy Gallop, Martin Morales, Marije Vogelzang, Matt Kelly, Lizzie Ost...

Lyft has formed a partnership with Budweiser in an effort to reduce fatalities from drunk driving while also “celebrating beer drinkers.” The on-demand ride service announced that starting September 16 through the en...

GUEST: Bot building is a nascent field, and that’s part of what makes it exciting: It offers a chance to escape conventional design paradigms and the saturation of existing app stores to create something that’s refre...

By Nigel Fenwick

It is not your prospects job to remember you; it is your job to remind them you exist. Any smartphone can be a great tool to help you do that.

More than a year ago, people using Amazon Echo devices began asking Alexa, the intelligent assistant within, “Why can’t you distinguish my voice?” said Dave Isbitski, Amazon’s chief evangelist for Alexa and Echo....

Location, location, location. Not only is it the number one rule of real estate, but it’s also a de facto rule for where to build startups. And the number one location, unquestionably, is Silicon Valley. The stretch of...

GUEST: Chatbots have received a lot of hype recently, which is well deserved. There are numerous examples that begin to demonstrate the exciting potential of this technology. Already we’ve seen Donald Trump and Hillary...

Facebook will never take money from businesses or merchants that utilize the new ability to pay for products or services inside Messenger bots, said Facebook head of product for messaging Stan Chudnovsky. On Monday, the ...

The most interesting booth at the Techcrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco was the very clean and corporate-looking Westworld exhibit, featuring models dressed in white who invited you to get a taste of the ultimate tra...

Apple started rolling out iOS 10 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific on September 13. After 24 hours, a period that included a serious hiccup that bricked some devices, data analytics startup Mixpanel estimates that 14.53 percent of i...