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Here’s a weird intersection of fiction and real life. Cisco is announcing today a new cloud service to enable smart cities, just a day before Ubisoft launches its Watch Dogs 2 video game about hacking smart cities. Cis...

Sony probably isn't going to reveal sales for its PlayStation VR headset for a while yet, but it did reveal the best-selling VR games PlayStation Store. The platform holder usually puts out a list of the top 10 and 20 be...

Brands are taking advantage of the adult coloring book craze to engage with fans.

Women are taking action. They aren't waiting for companies to give them what they deserve. They're launching heir own companies. Like these 10 tech startup founders.

A look at who will be pitching at Silicon Dragon Awards -- it's a showcase of the entrepreneurial talent that is arising from Asia.

GUEST: Marketing is only helpful when it's meeting a need. It sounds simple, but those needs can be really tough to parse. Like any consumer, my needs evolve every day, if not every minute. I won't stand for poorly targe...

A bot that helps people complete visa applications to enter the United States has launched in the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election. Available in beta on Facebook Messenger, Visabot helps complete the kinds of ...

Google last month acquired a small startup called Undecidable Labs, according to a new report. Now cofounder and chief executive Cathy Edwards is head of product and engineering for Google’s image search tool, accordin...

Location intelligence firm xAd has raised $42.5 million in a fifth round of funding, and it has acquired weather-data site WeatherBug as part of its ambition to predict where consumers will go next. New York-based xAd is...

Microsoft today announced a small but significant update to Skype for Web: Guest accounts. If you want to start a Skype conversation with someone quickly and don’t want to sign up for an account, this is for you. Skype...

Ilana Stern is founder & CEO of Weddington Way, a modern way to purchase bridesmaids dresses. I share here how she got started and what keeps her going.

The PlayStation 4 Pro is out now, and maybe you want to know what it has on the inside. Well, don’t get out your toolbox to take it apart, because someone else already has. VirtualFutureTV on YouTube has published a vi...

We haven't quite hit the end of the year, but it's time to start thinking about how the industry's going to change in 2017--and how you can prepare accordingly.

Now in its fifth year, #GivingTuesday is becoming as much of an institution as its surrounding seasonal shopping events - Black Friday and Cyber Monday - intended to kick off the charitable season, recognizing that many ...

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced price cuts for a few types of virtual machine (VM) instances that people can use to run applications remotely. This is at least the third time the C4 i...

C’mon, grab your friends. It’s adventure time. Developer Mojang updated Minecraft today to bring a number of new features into the block-building adventure. This new version emphasizes exploration with new nonplayer ...

As a serial entrepreneur and employer of many amazing female team members, I have always been fascinated by what women bring to the workforce and economy in general. In fact, in the past decade I have placed more females...

Microsoft today is launching Outlook Customer Manager, a tool designed to help companies keep track of relationships with current and future customers — without going beyond Outlook. The tool is available for free to c...

VB LIVE: So you know when your customer sneezes. But going from just watching to "gesundheit!" is a whole new level of data mastery. Join top data-driven CMOs to learn how turn a raw data stream into an ocean of actionab...

Shutterstock Let's face it. Vegetables can get a bad wrap (unless you're vegan). For many Americans, they're an inoffensive garnish at best. At worst, they just take up valuable dinnertime real estate that could otherwis...

PRESS RELEASE: As wireless lighting pioneer Wireless Environment, LLC approaches its 10th anniversary on November 28, it continues to work toward a record year of sales and employee growth. The company aims to make 2016 ...

Dugtrio is a Pokémon that’s just three heads popping out of the ground. How do you make him sillier? By giving all of those heads fancy hair. Nintendo has released a new trailer for Pokémon Sun and Moon, which come o...