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It’s the day technology companies and investors have been waiting for: Snap, the parent company of disappearing-photo app Snapchat, has finally priced its stock in the most highly anticipated initial public offering in...

(Reuters) – SolarCity, which was acquired by Tesla Inc at the end of last year, slashed nearly 20 percent of its staff in 2016 as it sought to preserve cash amid slowing growth in the rooftop solar industry. In a regul...

Market researcher SuperData Research predicts that the Nintendo Switch game console will sell five million units by the end of the 2017. That could be a healthy start to a next generation of consoles, particularly since ...

Nexon Group said today it has created a strategic partnership with connected play firm PlayFusion. Tokyo-based Nexon has been investing in a wide variety of game companies as it expands from Asia to the West. PlayFusion�...

As an entrepreneur who built a business here, it's impossible to write a blog without giving homage to the spirit of Mardi Gras. To me this festival is all about putting work aside, celebrating life, learning to let loos...

After a doozy of a morning, Snapchat owner Snap finished its first day trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $24.48 per share. That left the company with a market cap north of $28 billion. That’s far, far, and away...

GUEST: Aldous Huxley claimed that “most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” While Huxley wasn’t writing about voice-assisted devices, his understanding of our propensity to...

Blizzard has unveiled the new hero that is joining the Overwatch team. Orisa is a new robotic Omnic character that has an enormous four-legged body. She is the newest tank, and she should shake up matches with her new ca...

Clearly just about every major company exhibiting at the mobile industry’s largest trade show got the memo about connected cars being the future. While a visitor had to go hunting to find displays of new smartphones, c...

An action star, a spy, a kid playing hooky from school, and a ’90s music star go on a road trip. Who wouldn’t want to play that game? Dan Inoue was the localization director for Final Fantasy XV, which made him respo...

Facebook has released a Messenger platform update giving bot developers greater flexibility and control over how they want the app experience to be for users. Included in version 1.4 is a redesigned persistent menu that ...

Online publishing platform Medium started the year off with a pivot and layoffs. As the company tries to reinvent itself, Automattic, the creator of WordPress, is looking to capitalize with a new import tool for moving f...

With so many consumers using chatbots, nearly 1.5 billion in 2015 according to eMarketer, brands need to be at the ready to take full advantage of this ever growing method of communicating with their customers.

PRESS RELEASE: Ekium, a major player in engineering and integration, has received the Solution Partners certification from Adents, a developer of identification and traceability software. Throughout France, Ekium will ma...

Nintendo’s new Zelda is out tonight at Midnight, and it’s one of the best games ever made. But it’s also one of the publisher’s randiest as well. The Legend of Zelda: Breath has a significant number of characters...

Despite a tough few quarters last year, including market share losses throughout, Fitbit is still the king of wearables. Big tech companies were expected to dominate just as they have with smartphones and tablets, but th...

PRESS RELEASE: Nimble, the pioneer of Social Sales and Marketing CRM, today announced it has raised $9 million in a Series A round of financing led by Imagen Capital Partners. Additional investors include Mark Cuban's Ra...

SNAP starts trading. Snap, the company that runs Snapchat, opened on the New York Stock Exchange this morning at $24 per share. At that price, the company had a valuation of $33.6 billion, Investors Business Daily report...

As an e-commerce copywriter, I can vouch for the fact that writing product descriptions or a homepage that opens up hearts and wallets is tough.

After 25 years in the games business, Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards last night. John Carmack, another peer of Sweeney’s in graphics wizardry...

Ever is releasing a new tool that promises to make it easier to share photos with friends and family. Called Friends, it leverages image recognition to identify who’s in a photo and then automatically share with them. ...

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