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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe weighed in on Facebook about Oculus founder Palmer Luckey’s ill-considered contribution to an anti-Hillary Clinton Internet campaign. Luckey made a lot of money selling Oculus to Facebook for $...

GUEST: 37 percent of edtech funding deals, representing $1.07 billion, were made in China-based edtech companies in 2015, up from 18 percentin 2014. These are companies teaching software development and other technology ...

Disney gave up on its Infinity games earlier this year, but Warner Bros. is forging ahead in the battle for the toys-to-life market with Lego Dimensions, which combines Lego toys with big entertainment brands and funny L...

GUEST: Last month, journalist Kyle Chayka wrote an article for The Verge in which he coined the term 'Airspace' to describe the "coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live/work spaces" that share a certain set of h...

What causes some entrepreneurs to bounce back and persevere in response to failure or disappointment, while others are left despairing and defeated? In my experience as a psychotherapist, researcher, and host of The Fail...

What causes some entrepreneurs to bounce back and persevere in response to failure or disappointment, while others are left despairing and defeated? In my experience as a psychotherapist, researcher, and host of The Fail...

According ton one study, "if a person is thinking about football while doing other things, irritated when a game is interrupted, missing family or other important events to watch a game or depressed, angry or violent whe...

GUEST: As football season gears up again, it's a good time to consider the relative benefits of broad-based live TV advertising vs. more targeted and distributed digital options. It’s not the black and white comparison...

GUEST: Self-driving vehicles are already on the nation's roads and many more are coming. Uber, Google, Tesla, and the major automobile manufacturers have plans to develop and deploy tens of thousands of such vehicles on ...

GUEST: "Where are the UK tech companies that can become the next Google or Facebook?" goes the cry. Well, I think the UK has plenty of what it takes to grow a tech titan or two, or three. Britain consistently punches abo...

I'm known to be a bit negative about email. When you receive a few hundred of them a day, it tends to make you a little skittish, even a little depressed. Yet, it's still my primary form of communication, especially when...

There has been a lot of news coverage recently about Wells Fargo committing massive fraud.  CEO John Stumpf repeatedly promised that he would take ‘personal responsibility’, but as yet there has been no indication t...

China’s State Council has issued new regulations that call for the central government to grade the performance of different provinces, municipalities, and other local areas on their handling of food safety policy and i...

Developers are given a plethora of tools which can be used to build and grow their mobile apps. Platforms release APIs and SDKs with the hope apps will be built upon them, and there are even resources dedicated to increa...

Innovation is a team sport. Multidisciplinary collaboration is the stew in which creativity and innovation thrive. However, even in cross-functional teams, work is ultimately performed by individuals. This article provid...

Even if you've tried virtual reality or already own a VR system, nothing has prepared you for what's coming over the next month. Three major VR platforms are expected to launch before Thanksgiving Day with massive announ...

With a background in mechanical engineering, Ryan Farley isn’t someone you would expect to have an interest in the quality of your lawn or the depth of the green in your Kentucky bluegrass.

Traditionally, companies talk about caring about the consumer experience. I dare you to find a company who doesn't say this is a priority. But this rarely translates into a truly, consumer-centered design and innovation ...

Let's face it, we've all found ourselves trapped this loop: we install a certain app whenever the need arises, run out of space two weeks later, and with long and thorough deliberation, finally decide which ones get to s...

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

The Microsoft Garage group, which regularly releases experimental applications for Android, iOS, and other platforms, has developed a new Microsoft Excel add-in called Project Córdoba that’s designed to help students ...

At the Minecon conference in Anaheim California, Mojang, the Microsoft-owned game developer behind Minecraft, announced today that on October 18 it will release the Boss Update for Minecraft Pocket Edition for Android an...