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Samsung plans to introduce three new Smart TV offerings it hopes will give customers a more tailored and personalized viewing experience. Next week at the Consumer Electronics Show, the company will announce it has teame...

GUEST: The year 2016 was pretty messy by all accounts — just look at what John Oliver has to say about it. Between Harambe, Brexit, Bowie, the American election, a Syrian refugee crisis, shootings, and, of course, the ...

In 2016, we finally got high-end virtual reality headsets from Oculus, HTC, and Sony, but it was a yellow-electric rat and the adult-film industry that made the most noise when it comes to the next generation of computin...

You had plenty of amazing games to play in 2016, and that’s a problem because you probably missed out on some other amazing games because you just kept booting up Titanfall 2 and Overwatch again and again. But that’s...

The Hero’s Song isn’t over until the rubenesque hero lady sings. Pixelmage Games, the studio responsible for Hero’s Song, has shut down, according to a post on the company’s website. Hero’s Song was an open-wor...

GUEST: In 2017, the digital ad space will grow in size and complexity, creating more opportunities for advertisers and new challenges for market players. We’ll see more opportunities for ad placements within mobile app...

The year 2016 was an interesting one for startups. Between high valuations and the glory of reaching unicorn status, entrepreneurs have been frenetically chasing private investors — who were more than willing to delive...

It’s been a banner year for Alexa, Amazon’s AI assistant. Millions of Alexa-enabled devices were sold this holiday season, according to an announcement made by Amazon. And an estimate stated that more than 5 million ...

Switzerland could become a player in the fintech sphere if it can convince bright young things that forging their own pathi is better than a cushy number in a traditional bank.

You can learn a lot about branding and social media from the millennials on your team.

The year is over, and we want to talk about what happened. And that’s why we have a podcast. It’s GamesBeat Rewind week on the GamesBeat Decides podcast. We’re posting new episode looking back on 2016 all throughou...

2017 can be the year of big dreams and life-changing small steps, here are 17 quotes to help you stay anchored in your goals.

GUEST: The past few months were full of exciting announcements around two key topics: artificial intelligence and mobile messaging. Both have made significant leaps in progress, and together will make a very exciting yea...

There are number of important trends unfolding in Latin America that will be important for investors to watch in 2017. Both U.S and Mexican flags fly outside of a factory in Tijuana, Mexico. Photo by N. Parish Flannery. ...

YouTube stars with more than 10 million subscribers have experienced a sharp drop in viewership since February, according to a new study. In the study commissioned by Kotaku, the social statistics tracker SocialBlade fou...

ANALYSIS: One might argue that Facebook behaved with imperious disdain, or callous indifference at best, in its treatment of publishers in the final month of 2016. The social media giant admitted misreporting publishers�...

Before Pokémon made us go, it turned us into Nintendo 64 gladiators. YouTube channel Did You know Gaming‘s latest video looks at Pokémon Stadium, the Nintendo 64 series that let players battle with their pocket monst...

As the bot ecosystem grew in 2016, we were pleased to present 5 bots to try each week. We brought you the five most popular bots, as they appeared on Botlist during the previous week. And now, as we prepare to welcome a ...

When Audio Network launched in 2001 in London, founders Andrew Sunnocks and Robert Hurst were coming to the market with a deceptively simple idea. Having decamped from classical music publisher Boosey & Hawkes,their aim ...

The past few years have been extremely busy in the world of mergers and acquisitions, setting records around the world. In tech, the semiconductor industry has rapidly consolidated while mid-sized players like EMC and Li...

(By Taiga Uranaka and Makiko Yamazaki, Reuters) – Panasonic Corp will invest more than $256 million in a New York production facility of Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors to make photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, deepening...

Portable consoles are great and all, but sometimes nothing beats gaming on a couch in front of a big screen. YouTube channel Gaming Historian has done a video on the Super Game Boy, the Super Nintendo device that enables...