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GUEST: The Consumer Electronics Show is just around the corner and is expecting over 165,000 attendees and more than 3,800 product demos. But as exciting as CES always is, the changes we'll see there will be incremental....

Microsoft Cortana is playing catch-up with Siri and the Google Assistant, but that’s about to change that. The company Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded in 1975 has made no secret of the fact that they intend to become...

Prevent Biometrics is creating a mouth guard that can sense impacts during sports events and tell you via a mobile app if there’s risk of a concussion. The Minneapolis-based company will show the mouth guard and mobile...

Long story short, Angelo Alleca started a series of investment funds, and allegedly used the money from the newer funds to cover investment losses in the older funds, while concealing all losses from investors. The fraud...

GUEST: Throughout history, Italy has been recognized as an excellence for creativity, style, and outstanding entrepreneurship. This creativity, however, hasn’t translated to tech startups. Italy trails behind every oth...

GUEST: Everyone seems to be talking about artificial intelligence these days, and you’re probably wondering why it’s suddenly such a hot topic. Is it the prospect of creating autonomous robots and self-driving cars? ...

GUEST: Google first made waves in the hardware market when it purchased Motorola in 2011 for $12.5 billion. A company on the scale of Google getting involved in hardware put some established manufacturers on edge, though...

Second Life is by far the most successful virtual world ever created. And with Project Sansar, the creators of Second Life believe at Linden Lab believe they can use virtual reality to create a far more immersive experie...

Carmaker Tesla today said it will start making people pay money when they don’t pick up their Tesla vehicles from Supercharger charging stations after the vehicles have been fully charged. The idea is this will mean wh...

Oculus is one of the most prolific stimulators of virtual reality content in the industry today. The Facebook-owned company has been funding VR games and projects for years now through Oculus Studios. In October, Faceboo...

Whether or not this current iteration of VR is video games' next evolutionary step has yet to be proven. Cartoon by Steve Napierski.

This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 74 tech funding deals (totaling €395 million, $413 dollars) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news it...

The ride-hailing giant appears to be initiating a legal fight with regulators to avoid a $150 permit

(Reuters) – Airbnb Inc is looking to raise an additional $153 million as an extension of a recent funding round, boosting its coffers as the company pushes forward with global expansion. Airbnb on Friday authorized the...

The SaaS market's rapid growth shows no signs of slowing down. According to data from Statista, the industry is worth approximately $93 billion today and could be worth more than $150 billion by 2020. We've already seen ...

Uber has fired back at California state regulators over demands that it halt testing of its self-driving cars in San Francisco. The company’s head of its advanced technology group and cofounder of autonomous trucking c...

SheEO is re-engineering funding for women entrepreneurs with a plan to take #radicalgenerosity and roll it out, city-by-city, over the next five years. Their ambitious goal is to get to one million women committing $1,00...

At its core, Gusto wants to be a people platform, service businesses will want to rely on for anything relating to their employees. The company once known as ZenPayroll once centered on processing payroll, but has since ...

Sweden’s Stillfront Group, maker of games such as Call of War, has acquired Dubai-based Babil Games for $17 million. The deal shows that the Middle East and North African games market is becoming a significant market o...

Global law firm King & Wood Mallesons is dissolving. It's motto, 'The Power of Together' did not work out for its thousands of attorneys and staff. What does the failure of its 'bigger is better' strategy portend for oth...

Take a step back for a look at the big picture and it’s clear that 2016 was a remarkable year for bots and virtual assistants. Within the span of a few months this spring, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft all mad...

Kim Gordon is taking the Southern California housing market by storm. Her homes sell quickly and secure a price that is $1 million to $2 million above comparable properties in the area. In this Q&A, Gordon discusses her ...