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Shutterstock Ten minutes deep into an employee-drive-by "got a minute?" meeting, a good leader begins to realize their employee is a liar. The ask of simply wanting a minute has now turned into 10 minutes of venting. Of ...

I’m always on the lookout for companies doing amazing things that have a beneficial impact on others, and Shift.org appears to be one of them. The company launched on Thursday with an honorable mission: to help people ...

If Shigeru Miyamoto wants to retire from Nintendo, he could potentially find a new gig as a musician. The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon has invited Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aimé on to show off the upcoming ...

GUEST: In an essay in the Guardian last week, renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking wrote: "Whatever we might think about the decision by the British electorate to reject membership of the European Union and by ...

Web developers have Google Analytics. Mobile publishers have Flurry. There are analytics for servers, analytics for marketing, and analytics for sales. Now we also have analytics for smart agents. Today as Google announc...

Microsoft today started rolling out a new Windows 10 preview build for PCs for those who participate in the Windows Insider program. Build 14986 comes about a week after Microsoft released build 14977 for Insiders but st...

Qualcomm Technologies announced at Microsoft’s Windows hardware conference that the Qualcomm Snapdragon processors will now support Windows 10 devices. Speaking at the WinHEC event in Shenzhen, China, Qualcomm and Micr...

IRS wants to know who is using Bitcoin and in what amounts. So much for anonymity. Meanwhile, even the government seems to be paying Bitcoin ransom.

Credit: Glassybaby.com With Help From Jeff Bezos And Martha Stewart, A Cancer Survivor Builds Glassybaby While Lee Rhodes was struggling through chemotherapy in 1995, her husband brought home a dark orange cup he'd made ...

Messaging app Telegram announced that it has integrated with If This Then That (IFTTT), a service used to make connections between more than 350 apps and devices ranging from Facebook and Salesforce to Alexa or Google As...

Obsidian Entertainment has laid off an undisclosed number of employees who were working on Armored Warfare, its free-to-play team shooter that features tanks, not soldiers. According to studio chief executive officer Fea...

GUEST: The recent Google Home launch has focused people’s attention once again on the consumer segment (B2C) of AI-driven voice assistants. Home, with its Alexa voice assistant, represents the first able competitor to ...

While many of us have read about the ways we are wired to react rather than wisely choose how to act, it sometimes takes a practical book, offering actionable insights to enable us to see exactly how to actually think an...

Yahoo has officially launched a mobile app version of its Q&A product. Called Yahoo Answers Now, it’s available on iOS and Android devices for those in the U.S. and promises that users will receive “quality answers q...

Blizzard’s MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) has a new man in charge. Heroes of the Storm director Dustin Browder announced on Blizzard’s forums that he is leaving the development team for that game to work on a...

2016 is drawing to a close, so it's time to take a look back at some of the most important trends in SEO that 2016 had to offer.

Dashbot announced on Thursday that it has integrated itself with Google to provide the analytics backend for bot developers building on top of Google Assistant. This comes on the heels of Google launching conversational ...

Journalists are debating whether and how Donald Trump's tweets should necessarily be covered as serious news, even if they are spoken by a future President of the United States. - Cartoon by Ted Rall.

A German business is bringing its innovative consultancy model to the UK and harnessing the skills of people with autism.

The Oscar-winning film Rocky is 40 years old, and Hollywood studio MGM is celebrating with the release of a new mobile game. Developer Tapinator is releasing Rocky, a free-to-play app for iOS today. This game gives playe...

Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that its new Canada region of data centers is now available for people to use. Computing, storage, database, and other services are online ou...

Chris Ostoich, Cofounder at LISNR, has motivated the team through its ups and downs. (Photo provided by LISNR) We have wins and losses every day. The turmoil makes us stronger. Sometimes success can encourage complacency...