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Facebook has developed technology that could finally make its service palatable to Chinese authorities, who have blocked it since 2009. The social network giant has quietly built a tool for blocking certain posts from sh...

FEATURE: The PlayStation 4 Pro is fast, but let’s see if we can make it faster. One of the many improvements the PS4 Pro has over the original 2013 console is the capability to support the high-bandwidth SATA 3 data in...

A startup based in Finland called Eve has already raised more than $860,000 through an Indiegogo campaign for the Eve V, a $699 convertible Windows tablets with high-end specifications. The campaign is way over the $75,0...

Shoppers who visited a J.C. Penney Company (NYSE:JCP) store last year this time probably noticed that the shopping floor was well supplied with the right merchandise-- Liz Claiborne, J. Ferrar, Stafford, and the like -- ...

Forget about catching a turkey — you need to grab yourself a Ditto. Since it launched in this summer, Pokémon Go players have been wondering how they could catch the elusive, blobby pocket monster. The squishy-looking...

Entrepreneurs running fast growing companies don't have much to worry about from today's Autumn Statement, but the self-employed and owners of small businesses might not be quite so happy.

Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino has found that employees who break the rules are actually good for business. In the latest publication in the HBR series, Rebel Talent, Gino shared the results of a six-we...

In the $36 billion mobile gaming market, Russian developers and publishers are on the rise. And one of the fastest-growing companies is Playrix, which quietly became the No. 2 game publisher in Europe in mid-September, a...

While Blizzard is starting its own official esports league for Overwatch, third-party event organizers continue to turn to the popular game for their own tournaments. Next Generation Esports (NGE) is the latest company t...

Amid billions in AI investment and a rush to make profitable bots by virtually every major tech giant from Apple to Google to Samsung, it can be tough to remember there are bots out there with a mission to protect the mo...

Everyone wants a bigger, better business. But before expanding, ask yourself these critical questions.

Glu Mobile has made its name with celebrity games such as Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, and it has figured out another way to make money with celebrities. Today, the San Francisco company is launching iMessage stickers for ...

Looking for a new excuse to stare at your phone all day during Thanksgiving? Microsoft today announced that the Microsoft Solitaire Collection is now out for iOS and Android as a free app. Microsoft’s version of the si...

Using new approaches to funding and data, an entrepreneur is helping students avoid crushing debt while getting a college education.

Any mergers and acquisition professional will tell you the first principle of the M&A game is to thoroughly misunderstand the technology and marketplace of the company you are intending to acquire. Wait, you're saying th...

While music video streaming service Vevo may have launched in 2009, this past year or so the company has been acting a lot like a fresh-faced startup. Starting earlier this year, the company began an ambitious re-boot wi...

HoneyBaked Ham sells one of the most popular holiday food items. But what is it like for millennials who work there? Why do they love the company and the culture?

EXCLUSIVE: Etermax, the South American game developer that gave us Trivia Crack, is launching a new match-3 puzzle game Melody Monsters. The title debuts on Thanksgiving, and it’s the eighth game from Buenos Aires-base...

Apptopia, an app intelligence startup based in Boston, has raised a $2.7 million seed round of funding from Ashton Kutcher’s and Guy Oseary’s Sound Ventures VC firm, existing investor Mark Cuban, 500 Startups, and a ...

The science fiction in games and other entertainment used to be very different from real-life technology. Sci-fi creators made time machines and flying cars. But increasingly, we see the creative visions of plausible sci...

Overcoming the challenges of starting a business from home

Google is entering the music festival realm this year with news that it’s sponsoring and livestreaming a series of five shows spread across five cities, in support of five different good causes. Sponsored in conjunctio...