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Trump wants to repeal the estate tax, but striking back, California could enact in its own estate tax. If it does, will billionaires leave the Golden State?

ANALYSIS: As media outlets struggle to replace the rapidly disappearing revenue they used to get from traditional advertising, they see Google and Facebook taking the lion’s share of what has come along to replace it. ...

GUEST: We all know by now that voice control and conversational UI are changing the way we interact with our devices. Chatbots and voice-controlled Siri-like assistants are determining how we consume information, product...

Dungeons & Dragons is heading into virtual reality, and its first battle ground is going to be a chess board. Wizards of the Coast and Experiment 7 announced Dungeon Chess today, which debuts March 28 for the Oculus Rift...

Amazon today announced that there are now more than 10,000 Alexa skills available on devices like the Amazon Echo. By comparison, there were roughly 130 skills available last January, and Amazon surpassed the 5,000 mark ...

GUEST: About once a decade, a new computing platform comes along and forever disrupts modern life. The smartphone was one such watershed moment, and now we’re facing another: the coming invasion of thinking machines. P...

Here are five ways that building relationships with influencers can actually boost your SEO campaign.

Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius just received some new content. Square Enix today released a 2.0 update today for its mobile role-playing game, which is available for download on iOS and Android as a free-to-play game, that ...

PRESS RELEASE: Tantalus Systems, a leading smart grid solution provider for municipal and cooperative utilities, announced today that the company raised $6M of additional capital from a combination of new investors, incl...

Jacqueline Ntuyabaliwe, a former Tanzanian beauty queen, is the founder of Molocaho by Amorette, an emerging furniture manufacturing company with a twist

An Iowa company wins its challenge to the California Franchise Tax Board's assessment of the $800 minimum tax for doing business in California, where the Iowa company did no more than invest in a 0.2% passive non-managin...

The Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation has launched an initiative to preserve the legacy of video game pioneers. It’s another step in the recognition of video games as an art form. ...

With the advent of big data, there is a lot more information available that tells businesses what type of experience to create for their users that will then maintain their loyalty and help draw new users. That's a big r...

After four months of being slowly released, Twitter announced that its Periscope Producer service is now available to everyone, allowing broadcasters to incorporate high-quality live video from sources other than their m...

CollectiveSun, which helps small nonprofits finance solar projects, has simplified its financing model.

GUEST: Consumers are becoming savvier at tuning out ads, and marketers are scrambling to find new ways to reach them. At the same time, people — especially teens and millennials — are becoming increasingly engaged wi...

Facebook is done with testing mid-roll video ads and is making it available to “eligible” publishers starting today through its Audience Network. What this means is that now when you watch videos, you not only could ...

Mobile-game marketing firm Chartboost has jumped on the growing enthusiasm for “playable ads” for mobile games by launching the Chartboost Playable Ads business. Tests show that these types of ads work far better in ...

Open source code can be a nightmare for engineers who are developing software. Fossa, which announced today a seed round of $2.2 million, is launching technology to help companies understand what's actually in those line...

Tax preparation can be easier for the self-employed with these three tax software programs.

(Reuters) — The New York Stock Exchange will conduct a trial run of Snap Inc’s initial public offering on Saturday, according to a notice given last week to stock traders, in anticipation of what is expected to be th...

Summer travel to Europe is about to get cheaper and more accessible for Americans living in out-of-the-way areas of the Northeast. Norwegian is introducing new routes to the U.K. from airports near Hartford, Providence a...