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EXCLUSIVE: Trim, perhaps the most popular personal finance bot on Facebook Messenger, today launched Savings, a cash-back on purchases program for Visa cardholders. By opting into the program and allowing the company to ...

Highly Coveted Startup Battlefield Heads To Kenya For years the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition has been one of the most sought after contests to win by up and coming startups across the globe. Startups would ...

Square Enix is trying to sell Hitman developer IO Interactive, but the studio hasn’t pulled the plug on its bold live content strategy. IO announced a series of new missions and a big update for Hitman. On Friday, the ...

GUEST: Two and a half years ago, President Obama called on the FCC to classify broadband internet as a utility. It joined a small club that you know well: electricity, gas, and running water. And now this club may be wel...

Sometimes when a small entity gets caught up in the whirlwind of the federal court system - whether right or wrong - they can easily feel like they want to run for the door, and find the passage back to the place they we...

VB LIVE: Slow load times and big file sizes will kill your app--especially outside North America. How do you deliver rich content and still have happy users? Join our latest VB Live event, where we’ll take a deep dive ...

Since CDFIs, many of which are nonprofits, are focused on helping existing and aspiring small business owners, they have become a critical vehicle for small business lending in low-wealth communities.

GUEST: Automation. From assembly lines to cubicles, this word strikes fear into the heart of workers the world over. However, automation's effect on creative professionals (and designers in particular) is somewhat unclea...

ISTE 2017: Showbie Simplifies The Digital Classroom There are a lot of tools out there from full fledged LMS systems to collaboration platforms for teachers, administrators and districts to use. What educators are lookin...

Abylight Studios wants to turn the Nintendo Switch into a sculpting studio with Qbics Paint, a 3D modeling and sculpting game that’s slated for release later this year. Abylight has experience developing casual games w...

Intellectual property battles can make or break a company. But now the IP wars have reached a new level of ferocity, and a superstar engineer may go to jail over it.

A conversation with Patty Alper, author of 'Teach to Work' and a proponent of project-based mentoring for businesspeople and kids.

As with in all other industries, trends in manufacturing tend to come and go on a rotating basis. Each year brings with it a new set of trends--some of which will stick around for years to come--that characterize the dir...

Anne Ricketts, founder of Lighthouse Communications, joins Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint, for a conversation about effective workplace communication.

It’s now easier to create charts from data stored in Google Sheets, thanks to a new feature added Thursday. Users can open up the Explore tab and type in the sort of chart they want, and the software will produce it fo...

ISTE 2017: BoardShare Is The Easiest Way To Share Your Board Anywhere, Anytime Smartboards and other interactive boards are an expensive expenditure. Most schools have some kind of board sharing device that allows teache...

Google has paid security researchers millions of dollars since launching its bug bounty program in 2010. The company today expanded its Android Security Rewards program because “no researcher has claimed the top reward...

Virtual reality makes you feel like you’re in another world. But as soon as you try to use your hands, the illusion breaks. That’s why ManoMotion has used computer vision technology to create a low-cost way to inject...

Intel and market researcher Strategy Analytics have applied their collective brainpower to the impact of self-driving cars, and they’re predicting that we’ll see a “Passenger Economy” emerge from all of the servi...

Meet 10 Kenyan millionaire entrepreneurs you've never heard of

M-commerce is a rising phenomenon. With 77 percent of North Americans now owning a smartphone, it was only natural that people would start using their mobile devices for buying products and services. This rise in e-comme...

Pete Winstead, founding member of Winstead PC, talks about the motivation behind hanging his own shingle, the values that have brought the firm to where it is today, and some of the business aspects behind his firm's suc...