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(Reuters) — A federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a $120 million jury award for Apple Inc against Samsung, marking the latest twist in the fierce patent war between the world’s top smartphone manufacturers. Th...

(Reuters) — The technology behind the controversial bitcoin electronic currency could lead to sweeping improvements in how financial transactions are carried out worldwide, Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said o...

Amazon today sent some of its users an email informing them that it has changed their passwords. Amazon made the move after discovering a list of email addresses and passwords that had been published online and suspectin...

Following yesterday’s U.S. appeals court ruling upholding a jury decision in favor of Apple and against Samsung over Samsung’s infringement of Apple patents, today Samsung issued a statement saying that it’s “loo...

Landfall is a new Oculus Touch-based top-down shooter game where you get to view an entire sci-fi battlefield and maneuver your soldier through it. It is one of a wave of good-looking titles coming for the Oculus Touch c...

The presidential election is almost at an end and most of the country couldn’t be happier at that fact. But businesses might be looking at the presidential election in a different way. There are a lot of marketing less...

GUEST: Just as cars are beginning to drive themselves, healthcare decision-making is facing its own automation ramp up. Soon, patients will be able to enter their current symptoms through a portal, with the help of an in...

I’ve lived in the harsh light of reality for too long. It’s time for me to return to go back into the simulation. Earlier this week, I shared my early thoughts about PlayStation VR and did a livestream on Facebook sh...

GUEST: Agile development, rapid learning, granular instrumentation, a large-scale compute and data infrastructure, cutting-edge machine learning — these are the ingredients that give innovative companies their edge. Bu...

If you are running your business with one or more partners, having a clear and complete partnership agreement in place is essential for those moments when the group doesn't quite see eye to eye.

The main set of tools used to create Microsoft and Slack bots now work together, the companies told VentureBeat this week. The integration means Microsoft Bot Framework users will be able to make bots for Slack, and Botk...

Preparing yourself for a marketing interview requires a bit more work than most other positions. Millennials have found themselves emerged with the digital marketing world, so any job involving marketing requires some te...

It’s not easy to keep people playing the same game for years. To do so, you need a lot of content. You studios have to make so much stuff that you might overlook creating anything interesting. Destiny: Rise of Iron is ...

PREVIEW: Lone Echo is one of the interesting virtual reality games coming for the Oculus Touch. Set in outer space, it gives you a real feeling of moving through zero gravity on a space station, and it looks like it will...

With the rise of video eating into our attention span, it's becoming increasingly difficult for companies leveraging videos to help them recruit. Five years ago a recruiting video was a differentiator. Today it's become ...

GUEST: Many entertainment platforms have attempted to reach Generation Z (people born in the 1990s to mid-2000s), but few have succeeded. Snapchat and YouTube are good examples of companies who are popular with Gen Z …...

Bootstrapping a company takes a lot of courage, especially when you’re going up against industry incumbents in an increasingly-crowded SaaS market. Those successful companies have time and experience on their side. The...

(Reuters) — A Yahoo Inc media executive fired from the internet company last year has filed a lawsuit claiming a job review process implemented by Chief Executive Marissa Mayer was used to cut men from executive ranks ...

Apple has banned a popular app for programmers from its app store, as well as deleted the app developer’s account, the developer says. The app, called Dash, is for Macs and iOS. It’s been around for years. It lets de...

Twilio has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise an additional $400 million from the public market. The company said that it will not receive any proceeds from this transaction and tha...

I’ve put a lot of time into PlayStation VR, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift (and compared them to one another), and I’ve learned that I don’t want these headsets to try to re-create the kinds of experiences I play on a T...

GUEST: Dashbot.io, a tool for analyzing bots, recently surpassed 70 million messages processed. One of the questions that comes up often for developers is buttons. What performs better: free-form text input or button-dri...