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The billboard magnate passed away on Tuesday morning.

Disney laid off about 250 people in the combined consumer products and interactive media division this week. And among those affected is the internal game studio in Bellevue, Washington, that built the Marvel: Avengers A...

Shopify is an awesome e-commerce platform that’s affordable, easy to use, and ready to go right out of the box. It’s much more than a shopfront. Shopify stores feature fully-secure checkouts that allow retailers to ...

GUEST: If you trade stocks, you’ve probably made a few losing trades that still keep you up at night. The stock market moves quickly, and volatility can lead even the most seasoned trader to buy or sell in a panic. Wha...

One of the stories to make election headlines this week was the news about Hillary Clinton?s health. There was speculation about the status of her pneumonia and whether she was suffering from additional issues that might...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission officially announced a recall of Samsung’s Galaxy Note7 smartphones following reports of the phone’s batteries exploding. The program applies to devices purchased before Se...

Five lessons I've observed from working with aspiring entrepreneurs on the set of Shark Tank.

Oracle said today that it will unveil the second generation of its cloud infrastructure offering at its annual OpenWorld conference in San Francisco in the coming days. Oracle brought in $171 million in the quarter that ...

PRESS RELEASE: Coupa Software, a leader in cloud-based spend management, today announced that its Vice President of Strategy and Market Development, Gabe Perez, will present this month at two premier industry conferences...

Are holiday-centric, seasonal SEO efforts worthwhile?

Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users visiting popular torrent site The Pirate Bay are being greeted with a malware warning. Unlike the last time this happened, in May 2016, the whole domain isn’t blocked. The homepa...

GUEST: Apple’s virtual assistant Siri is about to be the most well-fed data science algorithm on the planet. Over the past year, Siri hasn’t looked good compared to her peers in the bot world — Facebook and Amazon ...

Facebook-owned Instagram said today that it’s changing the way some of its ads work in the photo-sharing app. Now when you look at an Instagram ad for at least four seconds or tap on the name of the profile that placed...

Activision released a story trailer for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare today, and it gives us our first look at the science fiction version of the UFC’s most famous Irish striker. Conor McGregor is in Call of Duty: Inf...

Seventeen years ago, PayPal was founded as a way for people to transact on the internet. Since then, the payment processing company has expanded its thinking to explore how it can expand its impact, not only on the web, ...

As an entrepreneur, you’re often so consumed with your venture that you forget to take a step back, and put everything into perspective. But a death in my family recently forced me to do this, making me reflect on how ...

EXCLUSIVE: Previously overlooked regulatory filings point to a partnership between Apple and wireless charging technology company Energous dating back to 2014. Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that Apple was explori...

Microsoft today updated Outlook.com with three enhancements to sharing, rolling out over the next few weeks. The Outlook web app is getting support for Google Drive files, sharing Facebook photos, and an improvement that...

Epic Games announced the latest round of Unreal developer grant recipients, awarding $100,000 to six developers who are using the Unreal Engine 4 to make their games. Raleigh, N.C.-based Epic has set aside $5 million in ...

Google today announced the availability of Verified Access for Chrome OS devices. The company has used Verified Access internally for years to enhance security of Chrome devices, and it’s now making the feature availab...

Activision has released a new video describing the single-player campaign for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, the latest installment in the annual blockbuster series that has generated more than $15 billion in sales in t...

Apple was right. It takes a certain degree of courage to do what is right in the long-term.