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Clare Wiese, the daughter of South African billionaire, Christo Wiese, has reportedly acquired a $6 million villa in the upmarket Clifton area of Cape Town, South Africa.

ProtonMail has finally introduced two-factor authentication (2FA) to its encrypted email service, meaning you can now make it harder for third-parties to access your account should they gain access to your password. The ...

Looks like Pokémon Go was listening to the TV show’s lyrics: “I wanna be the very best. Like no one ever was.” It certainly was when it comes to leading the app stores. Google said today that Pokémon Go is the to...

Food delivery giant Just Eat is laying claim to a significant milestone today — the world’s first takeaway meal delivered by a robot. We first revealed back in July that Just Eat was partnering with Starship Technolo...

The great cord-cutting revolution continues today with the news that HBO and Cinemax are now available to Amazon Prime subscribers for $14.99 and $9.99 per month respectively. The news comes almost a year after Amazon Vi...

At its re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas today, public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of a new service called CodeBuild, which is meant to automatically compile develope...

byChristopher A.H. Vollmer,Kristina Bennin, andDeborah Bothun Massive shifts are afoot in media and marketing. Sectors that didn't exist a few years ago -- social media, native advertising, and in-app advertising, to nam...

There are plenty of reasons to put off starting a business. Carlene and Martin Goh could have found one when she was diagnosed in August 2013 at age 33 with stage IV non-small cell lung cancer. They had only been married...

WorkRamp, an enterprise training software, today announced it has raised $1.8 million in seed funding. The startup is aiming to improve training within companies by providing tools and templates to enhance employees’ s...

GUEST: VR is hot! But is it permanent? Those of us who are old enough to have seen the rise of virtual reality in the '90s and then the fall and then another rise in mid 2000 and then another fall, know that the present ...

Shivika Sinha, Director of Digital Marketing, Alex and Ani // Photo by Joseph Canoza The holiday season is supposed to be joyful, and it is. But there's also a darker truth: it spikes consumption, strengthens unethical b...

Box has updated its Microsoft partnership with a feature enabling you to easily access files from the cloud-based file storage service onto the mobile versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This comes months after Box ...

NASA's new report lists 25 worries related to interplanetary travel, such as alien contamination. What's the solution? Cartoon by Ted Rall.

Music streaming service Spotify, one of Europe's most valuable tech start-ups, could start to become profitable as early as next year, said a board member who was also one of the company's first investors.

It’s time to transform and roll out … to fight a battle to save the multiverse. Kabam announced Transformers: Forged to Fight today. It’s a new “action-fighting” game for mobile, and it features characters from...

PlayFab announced it has raised $3.15 million in a second round of funding for its infrastructure for connected PC and mobile games. The company is one of the important new players that helps small and medium-sized indep...

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On Wednesday, the White House released a list of the "President's Top 10 Actions to Accelerate Entrepreneurship". The list highlights some important challenges that the Obama Administration has undertaken over the last e...

From aspects as long-term as educational funding strategies for their children (generation Alpha) to current household dynamics with older generations, millennial parents still grapple with the aftermath of The Great Rec...

Oculus is about to release the motion controllers for its VR headset, and the company announced it will have 53 games that support the device during what it is calling the “launch window.” Oculus Touch, which is a se...

An engaged audience is what fuels likes, shares, leads, and sales from your social media marketing. Finding creative ways to keep your followers responding to your content is what yields positive returns for your busines...

The 20 Tennessee co-workers who won a $420M jackpot must determine if they are partners or just a loose collection of friends. And the IRS could be watching.