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Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Agile Extensions‘ Wiki extension for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), the cloud service formerly known as Visual Studio Online. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. T...

Nokia is acquiring Finland-based telecommunications software company Comptel in a cash deal worth €347 million ($371 million). Founded out of Helsinki in 1986, Comptel develops software for Operations Support Systems (...

(Reuters) – Intel chose the White House Oval Office as its backdrop to announce a $7 billion investment in a previously shelved Arizona factory, which it said would create 3,000 jobs when it is up and running. Intel Ch...

If your brand is struggling to get a handle on what content to create next, then read this advice from a Forbes Under 30 entrepreneur to learn the type of content your audience will love.

After receiving an honorary degree today at Scotland’s University of Glasgow, Apple chief executive Tim Cook spoke about a wide number of topics during a fireside chat and question and answer session with university st...

Mobile push notifications about emails and chat messages after you leave work is a reality of modern life, one that most people can uniformly agree sucks. France hates it so much that it passed a law requiring employers ...

GUEST: The only thing about flying worse than getting through security checkpoints at the airport is being stuck in travel purgatory — forced to sleep on the floor at the terminal. When it comes to travel, unavoidable ...

LinkedIn is rolling out additional features designed to maintaining the collaborative and professional spirit of the professional social network. On Wednesday, it began rolling out the ability for users to manage comment...

(Reuters) — A former National Security Agency contractor was indicted on Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges he willfully retained national defense information, in what U.S. officials have said may have been t...

Troy Ball, first woman with a legal whiskey distilling license and founder of Asheville Distilling Company, shares the business lessons she learned making moonshine in the Appalachian Mountains of Asheville, N.C.

VB LIVE: Why does the CMO of internet giant Mozilla think marketers have gotten lazy? Join our latest VB Live event to hear why over-relying on martech tools could actually be hampering your business — and why you alre...

Hollywood is determined to figure out how the hell to adapt a video game, and now Netflix is tapping Dracula to have a go itself. Castlevania is getting the Netflix Original Series treatment, according to a post from tel...

So long, sci-fi. During a conference call today going over its record financial results for the fourth quarter of 2016, Activision Blizzard noted that the next Call of Duty game will focus on traditional gameplay and tak...

It's official, voice search is the future. You need to be prepared for the way it will impact the customer discovery process.

Thanks to some of its legacy games, Zynga had a good financial fourth quarter for 2016. The mobile and social game publisher reported GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles, or earned) revenue of $190.5 million. ...

Natural Cycles, which until yesterday was marketed as a fertility tracking app, has announced today that it it is the first app to be certified as a method of contraception. The Stockholm, Sweden-based startup, which lau...

You may already know this if you have ever sent me an email and waited for a response, but I’m living in a post-apocalyptic world where email is not as viable anymore. You can understand why. I’ve been processing ema...

Hitcents and Feelingtouch Games are making an offer you can’t refuse. They have launched The Godfather: Family Dynasty mobile game based on Paramount Pictures' The Godfather films. The licensed free-to-play title is an...

The Facebook Journalism Project is Facebook's attempt at fixing the fake news problem. But how effective will this project be? And what does it mean for content marketers?

Amazon’s livestreaming platform Twitch is introducing Communities, a new way to discover content and reach the right audiences on the site. The new directory — an open beta test — will help users find and create co...

Google today is talking for the first time about the system that powers its Smart Reply feature for responding to messages on Android Wear 2.0. It goes beyond Smart Reply, as it has shown up inside Inbox by Gmail and mor...

Microsoft today announced plans to launch Visual Studio 2017 on March 7, 2017. Visual Studio 2017 went into public preview in March 2016 and hit Release Candidate status in November 2016. Formerly referred to as Visual S...