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GUEST: Three things that didn't occur in 2016: Ryan Lochte and three other US Olympic swimmers weren't robbed at gunpoint in Rio. Sadly, the heavily favored Golden State Warriors didn't win a second consecutive NBA champ...

Rhode Island startup Drive Time Metrics announced today that it took in a $2.1 million seed investment to further develop its technology, which helps monetize connected car data. The funding includes a $250,000 commitmen...

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced in association with Centrify. This past February, communications-app maker Snapchat posted a public apology to its employees on its blog, stating that it had fallen victim to an...

A new wireless broadband initiative announced on Monday in South Africa – backed by multi-billion Rand investment from several banking and telecoms industry veterans – will offer a data-only network using a next-gene...

Just like Larry Ellison said Oracle would, today at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, the company unveiled its second generation of cloud infrastructure for third-party developers to run their application...

The 2016 Rio Olympics are finished, but that doesn’t mean the hard work put forth by the athletes has stopped.

PRESS RELEASE: RealtyShares, a leading online marketplace for real estate investing, today announced that it has raised more than $200 million in capital from its network of investors for residential and commercial real ...

Another day, another machine learning acquisition. Today Etsy announced it’s buying Blackbird Technologies, a startup that developed search and recommendation tech for ecommerce companies using machine learning and art...

GUEST: I am a Uber power user, meaning I use Uber as my primary means of transport. In the morning I use UberPool to get from home to office and in the evening from office to home. I do this six days a week. Here is what...

Gamers spent plenty of time testing the digital combat prowess of vikings, knights, and samurai. Ubisoft has released some numbers for the recently ended closed alpha of For Honor, the upcoming melee combat-focused game ...

IBM aims to enable hybrid clouds with the announcement today of cloud-based Power Systems, storage systems, and new software. Big Blue is unveiling the products and services at its IBM Edge event in Las Vegas today, all ...

4K Ultra HD televisions are expected to double sales to 15 million units in the U.S. in 2016, and the next-generation TVs are now being adopted at a faster rate than predecessor high-definition TVs. Sales of 4K Ultra HD ...

If you're still using email marketing, you're throwing your money away. Learn how one millennial is generating more revenue than ever using Facebook Live as a marketing platform.

It was while walking home in late 2014 that Kit’s Michael Perry had his "holy shit” moment. That's when he became convinced that he should to move his startup deeper into SMS as a way to offer a marketing service to ...

Formula One is one of the most high-speed, high-tech and high-pressure sports with hundreds of millions of Dollars of prize money on the line in decisions which need to be made in hundredths of seconds. It makes the seri...

GUEST: It all started with a conversational interface, and then bots just took over the debate. Even in this great piece, while Dan Grover mentioned the ubiquity of chat, he also highlighted the fact that we should recog...

If ever there was an example of how sport can boost a destination’s visibility, Sochi is it. In 2014 it hosted the Winter Olympic Games and in 2018 matches of soccer’s World Cup will take place there. Just five years...

Apple has released its latest iteration of the iPhone, the iPhone 7. There aren't many major improvements. However, it is missing something: the earphone jack familiar to users of electronics for over a century. Cartoon ...

Curt Schilling, who was a star in MLB, but saw failure in business at the expense of the taxpayers, settled part of that debt. Now, does it impact him if he runs for office?

Both Sony and Microsoft consoles now support playing podcasts in the background while you’re in games or other apps — although the PlayStation 4 requires you to jump through a few extra hoops to get this working. You...

Google today launched Android Studio 2.2, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with over 20 new features across every major phase of the development process: design, develop, build, and tes...

Facebook has acquired Nascent Objects, the hardware development firm that aimed to make it easier for developers to go from concept to product in a matter of weeks. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Nas...