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About six months ago, Apple launched the iMessage App Store, which allowed developers to create iMessage apps and allowed existing apps to create iMessage extensions. iMessage apps can help people do things like share Ai...

GUEST: The chatbot market is changing and growing rapidly. Bots are constantly improving, and people are relying on them more frequently. As bots become more believable and human, smartphone apps continue to dwindle. In ...

Two Chinese startups in robotics raised millions in funding from venture firm in latest sign of financing trend.

A lot of people love the experience of virtual reality, but not many have figured out the business side of it. The fledgling medium for games, entertainment, and many other applications has sprouted a lot of startups, bu...

GUEST: Chatbots were last year’s big hype, and they are this year’s big commerce and marketing frontier. Indeed, they are coming into their own as an interface for businesses to communicate with their customers, and ...

PRESS RELEASE: Gender bias is bad for business. Research proves that ads and entertainment in which women and girls are accurately portrayed generate significantly more awareness, recall, and purchase intent than ads in ...

Microsoft is continuing to work on a series of upgrades to the Xbox One interface, and now it is testing new multiplayer and profile features as well. Xbox Live is getting competitive gaming features this month in the fo...

Any venture-backed startup founder knows that choosing the right investor is just as important as building the right team. I've seen my fair share of great companies fail because the founders didn't choose the right inve...

At its Interconnect conference in Las Vegas today, IBM announced the launch of IBM Cloud Object Storage Cold Vault, a service for storing data that only needs to be served up occasionally. The service is available now. A...

PRESS RELEASE: Madrona Venture Group, an early-stage venture capital firm, announced today two new additions to the team. Maria Karaivanova is joining Madrona as a Principal focused on sourcing and evaluating new investm...

Being an entrepreneur is probably the worst job I've ever had: 12+ hours days, six days a week and miserable pay. Unmeasurable doses of stress and responsibility with hardly any recognition. Not exactly the dream job. Ex...

Nine months after first introducing the service to North America, Microsoft has announced that its Bookings app is to start rolling out to Office 365 Business Premium subscribers globally. Microsoft Bookings is a web-bas...

Microsoft today announced that its desktop email and calendar app Outlook 2016 for Mac now supports the MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar display. Office 365 subscribers and Office 2016 for Mac customers can use the new feature ...

Netmarble Games has filed papers to raise $2.4 billion in an initial public offering (IPO). The Seoul-based company is South Korea’s largest maker of mobile games, with hits such as Marvel: Future Fight, and it recentl...

Tipit has launched an automated photo editing mobile app called Model. The iOS app enables amateur photographers to add artistic special effects to photos, turning ordinary pictures into “augmented reality” artwork. ...

Akeneo has raised $13 million to expand its product information management software for ecommerce companies. The round comes from Partech Ventures and Alven Capital. Founded in France in 2013 and now based in Boston, Ake...

Electronic Arts is releasing Mass Effect: Andromeda on Tuesday for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC, and it’s the latest installment in BioWare’s epic science fiction series. And as you might expect, you encounter som...

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Carlos Watson pursued a few different careers before co-founding OZY.com, the international online magazine. In this article, he shares his parent's good advice as well as his own advice for people looking to pave their ...

Ecommerce giant eBay is continuing its longstanding battle with Amazon by rolling out a new “Guaranteed Delivery” service for shoppers. Beginning in the U.S. this summer, eBay will allow some sellers to offer a “3 ...

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After using N26, Europe's first mobile bank, for the past 8 months, I've put together a comprehensive N26 review to capture my thoughts on what they're doing well, how much money I've saved by switching to banking with t...