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GUEST: 2016 was a huge year for bots, with major platforms like Facebook launching bots for Messenger, and Amazon and Google heavily pushing their digital assistants. Looking forward to 2017, we asked 21 bot experts, ent...

The sexual harassment allegations by Susan Fowler and others against Uber were so egregious because it revealed a vast incongruence between the internal culture at Uber and its external brand image. Customers have discov...

GUEST: The history of family offices - private wealth management vehicles established by high net worth families - has long been entwined with that of venture capital. Indeed, several leading VC firms, including Bessemer...

The 2-year-old indie menswear brand generates over $500,000 in annual sales.

Vainglory’s spring season championships will take place at London's O2 venue. Teams from North America and Europe will compete in the first unified championships for Vainglory, which is Super Evil Megacorp’s mobile m...

Judicial Watch claim that Satanic group's exemption application was fast tracked by IRS is totally without foundation.

GUEST: One of the first questions many founders ask is whether and when they should form an advisory board. Advisors can be valuable extended members of the management team. Good advisors can share their experience on a ...

A platform dubbed the 'Kickstarter for Apps' on the Blockchain, U.S.-based fintech start-up Apptrade, has received a $100,000 boost and backing midway through its crowdfund from a leading decentralized exchange in the bl...

As Brexit talks loom, UK business leaders are either battening down the hatches and anticipating a downturn, or awaiting it with optimism.

Ted Price and Jason Rubin were pioneers at the start of the console video game business. Price started Insomniac Games in 1994, making games, such as Spyro the Dragon and Ratchet & Clank. Rubin cofounded Naughty Dog, mak...

GUEST: The politics of protectionism are turning America inward at roughly the same moment high valuations have forced Chinese firms to seek profits abroad. From a macro perspective, globalization marches on, albeit with...

Bixby, announced this week and scheduled to make its debut on March 29, is Samsung’s new intelligent assistant. The service is expected to be inside the Galaxy S8 at launch and to eventually be included with all Samsun...

ANALYSIS: As London reels in the aftermath of yet another horrific terrorist attack, the U.K. government has reignited the debate on the use of encryption in mobile messaging services. The attack in Westminster last Thur...

Lyft is taking a page right out of Ride Austin‘s book with a feature that allows riders to donate part of their fare to charity. Called Round Up & Donate, the feature being tested by the on-demand ride hailing service ...

Blizzard Entertainment just announced that it will launch StarCraft: Remastered, a remade version of the real-time strategy hit that debuted in 1998. The remake will have 4K graphics and 1080p cinematics, upgraded audio,...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is known for short bursts of activity on Twitter, oftentimes answering fans and reporters questions on the social media platform. On Friday, as Musk was on a flight to Cape Canaveral--presumably to at...

GUEST: Many high-end celebrities and fashion models use personal shopping assistants or stylists to help find the best clothes for them. For many women, however, that’s not really an option. We often rely on friends or...

Nintendo is testing out its upcoming online shooter Splatoon 2, and it turns out that the game is a lot more of the same except it’s on the Switch. But that means you can play the game anywhere you have an Internet con...

Technology can be a wild beast. Anyone who lives and breathes tech knows the rules are always changing. One day a certain smartphone, say the Google Pixel, is the coolest thing ever, the next you find out everyone has mo...

(Reuters) – Uber suspended its pilot program for driverless cars on Saturday after a vehicle equipped with the nascent technology crashed on an Arizona roadway, the ride-hailing company and local police said. The accid...