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IBM said today it will invest $200 million in a new global headquarters for its Watson Internet of Things business in Munich Germany. The move is part of the strategy of combining Watson — the supercomputer that beat t...

Pikachu needed a quick rest at a PokéCenter, and now he’s already returned to dominating his mobile gaming competition. Pokémon Go is once again the top-grossing iPhone game in the United States, according to data fr...

VB LIVE: Major financial institutions are leaping on board the bot bullet train, hoping to amp up their customer service. But smart digital leaders at smaller firms are learning that this generation of chatbots may not b...

Someone once said that “entrepreneurs pass on a 40 hour work week to have an 80 hour work week.” Anyone who runs a business will know what I'm referring to. If you're not careful it can consume your entire life and r...

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At its “October 4 hardware event” in San Francisco today, Google announced the Pixel and Pixel XL, succeeding the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P respectively. The company calls the Pixels its first phones “designed inside a...

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Google’s biggest hardware event of the year could’ve been, emm, bigger. Today Google’s San Francisco press event featured the expected release of Pixel and Pixel XL, a release date for Google Home (announced in May...

Blizzard has announced a new mode for Heroes of the Storm, its multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) for PC. Named Hero Brawl, the upcoming addition offers players custom rules that each week. It’ll be available in th...

GUEST: Here’s a stat for you: 40 percent of chatbot users only engage in one conversation. This statistic, calculated by İlker Köksal, the cofounder of Botanalytics, suggests bot makers need to invest more effort to ...

The self-lacing sneakers that Michael J. Fox wore in Back to the Future II are now a reality, and Nike has set up a way to win a pair through the crowdfunding platform RallyUp as part of a promotion for the Michael J. Fo...

Earlier today Google unveiled the $129 Google Wifi router that people will be able to connect with one another to create a mesh network to improve connectivity. One thing that wasn’t clarified is how setup and manageme...

MobiSocial‘s Omlet Arcade social network didn’t really take off until it became the defacto social layer in a very popular game. In July, Pokémon Go launched and was downloaded more than 500 million times in two mon...

Nearly 300 million tons of plastic are created each year in the U.S. -- including 40 billion plastic utensils and 25 billion plastic cups -- and only an embarrassing 8% is recycled, while the rest is left to sit in landf...

Developers and the rest of the world will soon be able to make bots that interact with Google Assistant and new Google devices made public, the company said today in a special presentation in San Francisco. “The Google...

PlayStation VR could trigger massive growth for the virtual reality industry. A new report from market analysis group Juniper Research states that VR hardware will be worth $50 billion by 2021. By hardware, Juniper means...

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We read a lot these days about how startups seek to “disrupt” the status quo and to “eat the lunch” of their entrenched competitors. A prime example of a growing company that did just that is Uber, the now ubiqui...

At a press event in San Francisco today, Google provided more detail about the Google Home, its smart speaker that lets you talk with Google. The company first introduced the hardware at the Google I/O developer conferen...

The legal profession - the bastion of billable hours - is the latest sector to feel its tried and true business model challenged by technology. Because of the amount of data being generated, the expectations of demanding...

Google has introduced the third generation of its Chromecast streaming media dongle, called the Chromecast Ultra. This $69 device will be available in November. As VentureBeat reported last month, this new device will st...

Google announced today that its Daydream virtual reality platform will have an app based on Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, an upcoming movie based on the work of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling...