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Eyeo, the Germany-based company behind perennially popular adblocking service Adblock Plus, has today announced that it has acquiredFlattr, a micropayment and microdonation service headquartered in Sweden. Terms of the d...

Girls in Tech, a global nonprofit dedicated to eradicating gender disparity in technology, and S&P Global together announced the launch of Global Classroom, a comprehensive online technology program. The eight-week cours...

In the New York Times Best Seller, "Profits Aren't Everything, They're The Only Thing," American Management Services founder, George Cloutier, made the bold statement "Never pay your bills on time!" This is why.

As a small business, it can be hard to compete on same-day or next-day shipping with the giant e-commerce companies. Kevin Gibbon walks readers through the value of inventory planning and how to efficiently plan inventor...

The Nintendo Switch game console costs about $257 for Nintendo to build, according to a report by Japanese teardown firm Fomalhaut Techno Solutions. That’s pretty close to the console’s retail price of $300, and it l...

GUEST: One of the main arguments the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari makes in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is that humans differ from other species because we can cooperate flexibly in large numbers, united ...

Healthcare Global Enterprises Ltd (HCG), a chain of Indian cancer treatment hospitals, has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in a Kenyan cancer care center.

Who would have guessed Tracer got her catchphrase from Torbjörn? Blizzard has released the newest issue of its Overwatch digital comic series, showing players a rare glimpse of how the team operated and interacted with ...

Microsoft will reveal details of its Project Scorpio video game console tomorrow with Eurogamer’s Digital Foundry site. Microsoft officials confirmed that they have given an exclusive on the news to Digital Foundry, de...

Panera Bread founder and CEO Ron Shaich scores big on the $7.5 billion sale of the fast-casual eatery.

Innovation is a buzzword in 2017 in business circles, but also with institutional investors keen to see it used to best effect. A commitment by the Ford Foundation to give $1B to an innovative new type of impact investme...

Not only are developers and publishers debuting one amazing game after another in 2017, most of those releases are finding huge audiences as well. Nier: Automata, a sci-fi action role-playing game from Square Enix, has s...

GUEST: Computers, like many other technologies, were originally made for the 1 percent. More than 50 years ago, people would be as likely to touch a computer as to perform brain surgery. It wasn’t until Apple created t...

Now if only we knew what a “dokkan” is. Bandai Namco announced today that its mobile game Dragon Ball Z: Dokkan Battle has passed 150 million downloads globally. The free-to-play title launched for iOS and Android in...

As a small business owner, you're in charge of making sure your company grows. If you have an employee who is dragging your business down, you might need to let them go. Learn the graceful way to fire an employee with th...

Tax reform, now the priority of the Trump administration, is necessary and welcome. Most Americans are in agreement that our tax structure is too complex, and changing the model could have a real, substantial impact on c...

The next generation of Google smart speakers may include mesh Wi-Fi, an anonymous source told The Information. Mesh Wi-Fi strings a Wi-Fi connection together with the use of multiple routers to create a more consistent c...

Double Fine Productions will kick off another Amnesia Fortnight game jam soon, and this time it will do so with fan voting enabled by Humble Bundle. By purchasing the Amnesia Fortnight 2017 Humble Bundle (a package of ga...

In the world of on-demand services, everything is available at your request, be it cars, house cleaners, food delivery, parking valets, or a place to stay. So why shouldn’t there also be a place to do instant bus renta...

The Ford Foundation is committing up to $1 billion from its endowment for Mission-Related Investments (MRIs) over the next 10 years, giving a big boost to impact investing.

Venture capitalist Tim Chang and science fiction novelist Eliot Peper will speak about the inspiration that happens between real-world tech and science fiction at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, an...

Dimension Data's 2017 Global Customer Experience Benchmarking Report will make uncomfortable reading for many leaders and customer experience executives. Can you handle the truth?