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Just in time for his inauguration, London-based fintech firm Trading.co.uk is launching an app that will generate trading alerts for shares based on comments made on social media by Donald Trump. Keeping one eye on the U...

GUEST: The console crushed all it's competitors in terms of digital attention GamesBeat has partnered with attention analytics company iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real-time, to bring you a monthly report o...

PRESS RELEASE: Source Photonics, a leading provider of optical components and modules, today announced that Francisco Partners has completed the sale of the company to a private equity consortium led by Redview Capital a...

What do you think of when you think about chatbots? If you're like many others, it's possible that you think of them as nothing more than that annoying little window that pops up when you're visiting a website. You know ...

GUEST: I've been talking to some of my banker friends* about their thoughts on the M&A market for 2017 under the new Trump administration. The general consensus is that there will likely be more M&A this year for the fol...

Google's Tilt Brush app is evolving from a new way for artists to create into an important new tool in a developer's arsenal. Back in October 2016 the search engine giant open-sourced the Tilt Brush Toolkit, a set of scr...

GUEST: Startups in Warsaw, Krakow, Prague, Budapest, Bratislava, Tallinn, Riga, or Vilnius don’t attract as much capital as the ones located in the top hubs in Europe — London, Amsterdam, or Berlin — but these East...

EXCLUSIVE: Rumors have been spreading lately about where Jay Leek, former managing director and chief information security officer (CISO) at Blackstone, will be heading next His pick? ClearSky, an under-the-radar venture...

There's some magically fattening about the special grossness of the food we get free at the office. So why can't we stay away from it? Cartoon by Ted Rall.

Carnival Corp. unveiled an ambitious plan to use its Ocean Medallion wearables and Ocean Compass Internet of Things Network earlier this month at CES 2017, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas. It was a very interesting ...

The IRS does not actually call people up and demand immediate payment. If they think you owe them money they contact you by snail mail with progressively more threatening letters. Eventually one of the letters will tell ...

There are plenty of freelance sites and job boards to help you find clients, but don't forget Google as another powerful option.

This time a year ago, Amazon's Alexa had a little more than 100 skills. Today there's more than 7,000, and they're being added fast. Last November, Amazon launched the Alexa Skills Marketplace to allow the owners of devi...

The French have a reputation for long lunches and short work weeks. And, a law went into effect on January 1 that gives French workers the "right to disconnect" from their companies outside of working hours. Do the Frenc...

Great leaders use their power to provide a vision for the future and a mission their team believes in. Here's what I've learned about leadership from four of the most powerful leaders of our time.

Augmented and virtual reality are slowly but surely being integrated into shopping experiences worldwide. At CES for example, Gap and Asus teamed up for an AR shopping app that may point toward the future of mobile shopp...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 15 technology M&A transactions and 78 tech funding deals totalling €455.7 million (about $488 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news it...

GUEST: Over the past half year, bots have been a widely discussed topic. Experts and the media heavily discussed all the possible benefits, the future, and the value bots could create for businesses and consumers. Arguab...

Two year old federal net neutrality rules, which prevent Internet service providers from blocking or slowing websites and online services, could be an early casualty of the new Trump administration. On Friday, Politico r...

Apple filed a $1 billion lawsuit against supplier Qualcomm Inc on Friday, days after the U.S. government filed a lawsuit that accused the chip maker of resorting to anticompetitive tactics to maintain a monopoly over key...

Tribalism -- extreme loyalty to your group and hostility to other groups -- dominates the news and politics today. It's bad for business. Entrepreneurs can push it back using proven principles of good leadership, communi...

Brianna Wu, a game developer who stood up for women facing harassment in the game industry, has official declared that she will run for the U.S. House of Representatives. In a blog post, Wu said she would run for the Hou...