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VB LIVE: We're calling it: AI has forced a marketing paradigm shift, driving personalized, real-time, right-place consumer engagement at significantly lower cost. Join our latest interactive VB Live event in the new year...

Sonos and Spotify partnered earlier this year to solve a problem that has frustrated Sonos and Spotify fans alike: Sonos’ app isn’t very good, but it’s the only one that works with the company’s otherwise great c...

I’ve already written about the rumors that Pokémon Go may be getting an update in partnership with Starbucks on Thursday, and we’ve also seen other hints, and now Pokémon Go’s developers has revealed it will make...

The year is basically over now that the last handful of games are hitting retailers, and we’ve got a podcast all about ’em. GamesBeat Decides turns its attention this week to new VR controllers, HD remasters of games...

Salesforce Chief Digital Evangelist Vala Afshar talks customer relationship management on The Modern Customer Podcast.

Battlerite is ready to let it snow. Developer Stunlock Studios announced a winter patch coming to its PC arena brawler. The update is coming on December 14 and will add a new ranking system, cosmetics, and a new (yet unr...

GUEST: In a recent study by Gartner Reports, the analyst estimated that by 2020 the average person will have more conversations with bots than with their spouse. The report failed to clarify if this was attributed solely...

Arcades aren’t what they used to be, especially in the West. They’re looked upon as places for retro nostalgia, not where you’ll find some of the most interesting games available. But that’s where Japan has an ad...

LinkedIn has added a feature it hopes will make it easier for you to network with people you’re interested in talking to. Starting today, when you’re messaging someone to connect with them, the professional social ne...

John Yin of Everett, Washington, sold to restaurants a software program known as "Tax Zapper", which allowed those restaurants to underpay their taxes. Yin's software, known by the IRS as "revenue suppression software", ...

Docker, the startup that pushes open source software for packaging up code into containers that can be deployed on many machines, today announced its latest acquisition: file transfer app Infinit. Yes, that’s right, Do...

Britain leaving the European Union. The Trump presidency. Legalized marijuana. Leonardo DiCaprio getting his first Oscar. The Chicago Cubs winning the World Series. 2016 will go down as the Year of the Impossible, when p...

What's with all the razor commercials? There's three blades, five blades,shave clubs, imported razors, domestic razors. For heaven's sake, just grow a beard! Cartoon by Andy Singer.

Over the watch and through the team kills, to Sombra’s house we go. Overwatch’s Twitter account has teased a new in-game event, this time centered around the December holidays. The tweet includes an animated GIF of a...

Amazon’s Twitch game-livestreaming division acquired voice chat firm Curse back in August. Now Curse is launching a major update for its voice-over-internet-protocol app with video calls and screen sharing. These featu...

Google has officially launched 4K UHD films on Google Play Movies & TV. We say “officially” because the company quietly started adding 4K titles to its catalog a few weeks back, but the choice was scant at first. Fro...

PRESS RELEASE: Doyodo, LLC, a Santa Monica-based innovation incubator founded earlier this year by media and games industry veterans, is proud to announce the launch of RetroEngine Sigma on Indiegogo today. Featuring a k...

IBM today announced a program designed to speed up the development of blockchain-based applications for business. Blockchain technology — which enables secure, decentralized recording of information — has been pickin...

Cloud file syncing and sharing company Dropbox today is announcing the launch of mobile offline folders for paying customers. Those with Dropbox Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans should see the feature show up on Andro...

In the midst of uncertain leadership, Zenefits is moving forward with its product roadmap. Today, the company announced that its new homegrown payroll service will now be available in three more states: Florida, Texas, a...

Microsoft today is announcing new enterprise-oriented features coming to Windows 10 with the release of the the Creators Update, which is due out in early 2017. For one thing, Microsoft is including new mobile applicatio...

Paragon has just become a faster-paced game. Developer Epic Games today released the Monolith update for its free-to-play MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena), which is in an open beta on PlayStation 4 and PC. The Mono...