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Death isn’t the end of a beloved Blizzard character. The developer announced during the opening ceremonies for BlizzCon in Anaheim today that Varian Wyrnn and Ragnaros will become the newest characters in Heroes of the...

To take an extreme example Facebook is indicated as having an overall tax rate of 40.5%. I can actually tell you how they got that number. According to its 2015 10-K (Page 57) Facebook had "Income before provision for in...

GUEST: Global trade and investment have been great engines of progress for much of the world. Over the past two decades, poorer countries reduced the gap between themselves and their richer counterparts for the first tim...

Shutterstock Finding the right people to work at Torsh is one of the biggest challenges I face as a CEO. But identifying the ideal candidate for a certain role is only half the battle. That person needs to accept my offe...

GUEST: Chatbots are mostly intended to be practical and helpful. They help us with our daily tasks so that we can focus on what we do best. But it’s not all serious work. Since we’re living in the era of connectivity...

Apple today temporarily lowered the prices of some of its accessories for connecting to its new MacBook Pro laptops, each of which comes with up to four USB-C ports and a headphone jack but no other ports. The gesture, w...

Subprime Credit Card Surge Pushing Up Missed Payments Credit card lending to subprime borrowers is starting to backfire. Missed payments on credit cards that lenders issued recently are higher than on older cards, accord...

You can probably imagine a situation where you need to see your phone screen at all times but cannot look down at it because your hands or eyes are on something else. I bet you can also imagine laughing in disgust if som...

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Blizzard announced that its next character will hit Overwatch in a week as part of the game’s test servers, and now we can finally detail how she will eliminate you during matches. Sombra is all about infiltrating and ...

GUEST: Although chatbots are just now gaining ground as the next “big thing” in customer service, a small number of them have actually been working behind the scenes for quite some time. SMS banking has been around s...

Be careful out there! Blizzard revealed the latest expansion for its digital card game market leader Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft during its BlizzCon event in Anaheim, California, today. bringing back lapsed players. ...

Is this boring NFL season getting you down? Well, we have some more modern competition to look forward to soon. Blizzard today announced the details for its new Overwatch League, an official organization designed to prom...

What if there was a formula to determine true cost of injuries to games lost in the NBA? Here it is. Will it be a game changer?

Shabnum left her village to become a nanny in Mumbai but when she arrived there, she was sold to a pimp and forced into prostitution. Despite her resistance, the captors tortured her until she succumbed to the rules of t...

Twitter today announced that the iOS version of its Periscope live video streaming app now gives you a way to record streams with the front-facing selfie camera on iOS devices with an artificial “mask” of Hillary Cli...

In the 1980s, the idea of working as a Gameplay Counselor for Nintendo’s Power Line service was a dream job for kids around the United States. The internet eliminated the need for most people to get their gaming tips a...

ANALYSIS: Where to watch Twitch Blizzard Times Friday, November 4 from 12:15 p.m to 10 p.m. Pacific Saturday, November 5 from 10:30 a.m to 3:45 p.m. Pacific You may not be a pro, but you can always learn from them. On No...

Google today said that over time it will switch to using the mobile versions of websites, instead of desktop versions, in order to rank them for search results, thus making its search index more mobile-first. So far, the...

By Peter O'Neill Marketers have much to think about when it comes to their strategies as we approach the New Year. For B2B professionals, Forrester identified three key areas to focus on: account-based marketing, vendor ...

ReverbNation and AudioKite are now one company, which should be good news for musicians looking to learn how the public truly feels about their new music.

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! Activision Blizzard, Take-Two, Zynga, and more reported their quarterly earnings, and we covered them all. Also, we try to figure out what the Wii U’s legacy will be as Nint...