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Tim Kachuriak, founder of NextAfter, recently listed on the Inc. 500, helps nonprofits increase donations by using scientifically sound economic principles and statistics. The company expects to reach $4 million in sales...

Google Assistant is Google’s long-overdue response to Apple’s Siri virtual assistant. It’s available by pushing the home button at the bottom of the new Google Pixel smartphones. It can send emails for you, recite ...

Mobile gamers can be insatiable. And that appetite is the key challenge for developers trying to maintain momentum for a popular app. Nielsen, the intelligence firm that studies consumer media behavior, has released rese...

There is a secret to preventing trademark infringement litigation. But on a weekly basis, we see that the secret appears to be hidden in plain sight. It's a secret which might escape even law school administrators. One t...

Trained neural networks at Microsoft are now as good at recognizing the human voice as humans, researchers announced today. In a report released Monday, researchers pitted its NIST 2000 automated system against professio...

Microsoft today sent out media invitations for an event at 11 a.m. Eastern on November 2 in New York where chief executive Satya Nadella and Office corporate vice president Kirk Koenigsbauer will speak. The executives wi...

Yahoo ($YHOO) has declared its earnings for its third quarter, generating in $1.31 billion in revenue and an earnings per share of $0.17. Wall Street analysts had been expecting the company to report $1.31 billion in rev...

Intel reported third-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates, driven by revenues from data center chips and the Internet of Things. And it sounds a lot more bullish than it had about its core PC chip market. Intel h...

Indie studio Curve Digital is aiming to take on the virtual reality market, and that has it bringing in new talent. The developer announced today that it has appointed former Sony Interactive Entertainment London Studios...

“As much as you want to have everything work perfect in your organization, it’s probably not going to work perfect,” says Jim Sever President/CEO of PSC Crace & Rigging, in the video above.

GUEST: Marketing pros always like to talk about the cool factor. In advertising it drives curiosity. In a new product it creates demand. But with the cool factor for customer engagement, the proof is in the plateau — t...

Brands would be wise to use technology as a competitive advantage when it comes to customer service.

Dr. Boom might have been kicked out of Hearthstone’s Standard format, but the powerful Legendary is still terrorizing players. Blizzard Entertainment has released an infographic sharing stats for the Arena mode of its ...

Here is a closer look at three Indian-American candidates most likely to win this November and why they are so close to victory.

Facebook’s FB Newswire service is shutting down on October 18 after more than 2.5 years as a resource for journalists to understand what’s being talked about on the social network. A specific explanation for its demi...

The new Prey game isn’t just rebooting that franchise — it’s also rebooting real-world history. Bethesda released a video today for the shooter from Arkane Studios that dives into the lore of the sci-fi world. Whil...

Google today announced that it has added a web-based text editor to its Google Cloud Shell tool for managing Google public cloud resources from the Google Cloud Platform’s online console. As a result, you can now easil...

Despite Apple’s vision of a wireless future, the company’s new flagship phones have been riddled with Bluetooth connectivity issues. The issues are caused, at least in part, by a bug in Apple’s implementation of a ...

Two months ago, Instagram launched its Snapchat Stories feature, which lets users create candid snapshots of their day. Now after more than 100 million people have become daily viewers, Instagram is making stories more v...

Google has announced that it’s expanding its bleeding-edge Canary channel for Chrome to Android. Historically, Google has introduced early versions of Chrome upgrades to the early adopter / developer fraternity, who pu...

Ubisoft is notorious for treating the PC versions of its games as if they aren’t nearly as important as their console counterparts. Or that’s at least how many PC players feel. Well, now the French publisher is attem...

The next industry I want to cover in this series of articles is eCommerce. Mind you, eCommerce is more of a medium rather than an industry. But for the purpose of this article, we’ll consider these strategies as workin...