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A surprise move by Ford on Tuesday to kill a planned $1.6 billion auto plant in Mexico and move that work instead to Michigan may be a sign that business leaders have listened to President-elect Donald Trump, who has bla...

Whistle, the maker of pet-tracking and monitoring devices, announced its Whistle 3 product at CES 2017, the big tech trade show this week in Las Vegas. The device can quickly locate a lost pet and can track your pet’s ...

The LG Gram 14 is a 14-inch laptop that weighs 980 grams (2.16 pounds), making it the world’s lightest 14-inch Ultrabook laptop, according to the South Korean company. LG showed the laptop at its CES 2017 press confere...

D-Vine Connect is a new way to enjoy wine from French startup 10-Vins. It’s one of the many new applications for the Internet of Things, or making everyday objects smart and connected. The D-Vine Connect sets the right...

Death nets downloads. Publisher GungHo Entertainment announced today that its free-to-play hack-‘n’-slash game Let It Die has surpassed 1 million downloads since coming out for the PlayStation 4 on December 3. Those ...

Samsung on Wednesday announced its intentions to support early-stage startups focused on emerging technologies. The company, through its global innovation group, has established a $150 million fund targeting businesses s...

Toyota on Wednesday unveiled the next concept car it’s working on, called the Concept-i. Jumping into the autonomous vehicle space, the car maker doesn’t envision a system to let you get to your destination hands-fre...

Overwatch could be adding a celebrity to its roster. Terry Crews, an actor known for his intensity and bulging muscles, wants to voice a character in Overwatch, Blizzard’s hit team-based shooter that has over 20 millio...

VB LIVE: The very best marketing campaigns grab their audience by the gonads — but it takes data to figure out exactly what goes into reaching out and touching someone. Join GPS technology giant Garmin for insight into...

GUEST: Health care doesn’t have a big data problem. It has a big data opportunity, thanks to artificial intelligence. Think about the number of inefficiencies in your daily life — long lines, traffic jams, a reliance...

Google today said it’s enhancing Google Docs for Android with support for importing files in OpenDocument Text (.odt) format and then exporting documents as .odt files. A similar thing is happening with Google Sheets f...

This little bug has big dreams that you can help come true. The stylized 2D platformer Little Bug is the latest game to seek funding on Fig, a crowdfunding site that gives people the choice to invest in a project, giving...

Reggie is a distribution center manager. He's frustrated by the fact that employees who come in full of energy and enthusiasm don't always stay that way. What's going wrong?

(Reuters) – Apple confirmed its plans to invest $1 billion a tech fund being set up by Japan’s SoftBank Group, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. “We believe their new fund will speed the development of...

It’s 2017, and — as we all know — this means that presidential politics no longer affect us and all celebrities from the 1970s and 1980s are now immortal. But the GamesBeat Decides podcast? Well that never changes....

EXCLUSIVE: HTC is poised to release a sequel to last year’s 5.5-inch One X9 phablet, later this month, in the form of the HTC One X10 — a handset only slightly different from its predecessor, according to a person wh...

You won’t have to wait much longer to leave this galaxy. BioWare has announced that its sci-fi role-playing game Mass Effect: Andromeda will come out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 21 in the U.S. and on M...

Slack announced today that it has invested in nearly a dozen new bot startups to bolster its Slack App Directory. The team collaboration chat app has invested in 25 startups thus far with money from the Slack Fund, an $8...

Even though it traded the guns for a walkie-talkie, Firewatch has become a first-person success. Developer Campo Santo revealed on its Twitter account that its game Firewatch has sold 1 million copies. The first-person, ...

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BMW is planning to put 40 autonomous test cars on public roads in the second half of 2017, as the race to capitalize on the burgeoning self-driving car industry intensifies. The German luxury car maker teamed up with chi...

AT&T has signed a partnership with Honda North America to be the exclusive provider of in-vehicle 4G LTE and Wi-Fi connectivity in both the U.S. and Canada. This is a multi-year agreement that will apply to HondaLink-com...