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Businesses and developers will be able to make bots for the newly announced Microsoft Teams using the Microsoft Bot Framework, the company announced today in an event held in New York. Built into Office 365, the chat app...

GUEST: While there's been significant interest around chatbots, most bots have significantly under-delivered to date. Industry insiders attribute this to the fact that it's still a nascent space and refer us to the early...

It looks like Civilization VI is going for a Domination victory. Take-Two revealed today with its earning reports for the second quarter of fiscal year 2017 that its new strategy game has already shipped 1 million copies...

The money is in basketball and crime simulators. At least, that’s the case for one of the biggest gaming publishers in the world. Take-Two Interactive generated $420.2 million in revenues during the second quarter of i...

(Reuters) – Wearable fitness device maker Fitbit Inc’s revenue forecast for the key-holiday shopping quarter fell well short of analysts estimates, hurt by stiff competition from rival device makers. Shares of the co...

Take-Two Interactive shipped more than 4.5 million copies of Mafia III to retailers in its first week, and the company said in its earnings release today that it is the fastest-selling game in the history of the 2K label...

In its third quarter 2016 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed it now has 1.79 billion monthly active users (up 16 percent year over year) and 1.66 billion mobile users (up 20 percent year over year). The compa...

Facebook announced its third quarter financial earnings today, revealing that it had $7.011 billion in revenue and an earnings per share (EPS) of $1.09. For those of you playing at home, Wall Street analysts predicted th...

Google today said that it has stopped supporting and developing Google Android Developer Tools (ADT) plugin for the Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE). Android Studio is the official IDE for Android develop...

All the ghosts should’ve returned to their graves by now because it’s time to go turkey shopping (at least in the States), but spooky creatures still haunt Pokémon Go. Developer Niantic threw its first seasonal even...

From the email hack of the DNC to discussions at the Presidential debates, cyber security has been a hot news item over the past few months. While Russia may not be coming after your corporate email accounts, according t...

GUEST: Bots are hot. We imagine them to be wickedly intelligent, like Samantha from the movie Her. The reality is duller. Early chatbots suck. They can’t chat. There is no “I” in their AI. They are so hopeless that...

Message.io launched a private beta of its enterprise tool to convert Microsoft Teams, HipChat, Skype, and Slack bots today. The startup launches its bot converter the same day as the launch of new collaboration and chat ...

Nintendo is moving on to a new generation of hardware in March with the Switch, but it looks like those old Mii avatars may stick around. The publisher released a special trailer for its upcoming Japanese release Miitopi...

Older entrepreneurs have some built-in advantages over younger ones, says EIX professor David Deeds.

Tickets on the resale market for Game 7 of the World Series in Cleveland nose dived as the Indians lose Game 6. Are fans jumping off the bandwagon?

Microsoft today launched a preview of Microsoft Teams, an obvious Slack competitor (even Slack thinks so). The big difference? There’s no free version and no consumer version, and there are no plans to offer either. Gi...

When Laura D'Asaro was studying abroad in Tanzania, she came across a street vendor selling caterpillars. "It was delicious. It tasted like lobster!"

EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton’s emails have been a constant source of news throughout this election cycle. And while attention on Donald Trump has been focused on secret servers that allegedly talk to the Russians recentl...

Few people want to watch ads, even on Twitch, but that’s not stopping the streaming site from trying to improve them. Twitch today announced SureStream, which it says will optimize the delivery of video ads and ensure ...

Old school networking is still an important skill. Here's how to get the most out of it.

I have always been a fan of considering mergers & acquisitions as a viable way to more quickly scale your business. But, this road is not foolproof by any means. Below are some of things that can go materially wrong with...