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Why Jeff Bezos needs to rethink his philanthropy strategy and embrace complexity over instant gratification. Getting off Twitter into the real world is the first step.

GUEST: News of Bitcoin and Ethereum is everywhere these days. The two cryptocurrencies have had returns over the past year that make a big-time hedge fund manager look like he’s running a lemonade stand in front of his...

GUEST: Last month, The Kauffman Institute released its annual Index of Startup Activity, which analyzes entrepreneurship across the country. The report assigns every state a Startup Activity Index number based on the rat...

Co-Father of the Xbox, Robbie Box shares five lessons he learned as a Microsoft Intrapreneur

2K’s Firaxis Games made a lot of changes to the basic design of its turn-based combat game with the new expansion XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. The tactical combat game launches on August 29, the same day as turn-based Ma...

Nintendo announced last year that it is planning to generate more money from its world-famous characters by licensing them out to other companies, and that has led to one of the most bizarre crossover mashups at the infl...

It has been almost 15 years since the launch of the original Beyond Good & Evil and the re-announcement of its sequel this week at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles. That migh...

ISTE 17: Learn How Kajeet Is Solving The Homework Gap Digital learning is becoming a way of life for students across the country. Text books will one day be a thing of the past. Now, student get their classwork, lessons ...

GUEST: This is an exciting time for those of us in computer vision — we’re seeing it merge with AI to enable all kinds of new possibilities. At the LDV Vision Summit in New York a few weeks ago, I came away with five...

In the years before the Great Recession, companies grew so fast that the objective was to handle it all. Most businesses and leaders took the same approach to managing that growth. But are we inclusive and vulnerable eno...

GUEST: Blockchain startup Bancor closed a $150 million ICO raise this week — a landmark event, both in the speed and the magnitude of the raise. What is Bancor doing that got investors so excited? It’s trying to hit ...

Clutter, A Startup Taking On Public Storage, Has Raised $64M Public storage is an industry that slowly but surely gets disrupted about once a decade. Self storage facilities are everywhere, in every little town and city ...

Perhaps the most dystopian thing I've heard this year — and AI reporters hear a lot of dystopian things — came from Facebook executive Regina Dugan, head of the social media giant’s Building 8 research lab. During ...

Worrying about a dystopian future of massive unemployment ushered in by automation seems like the latest parlor game for Silicon Valley. Meanwhile, small cities across America are already struggling to provide residents ...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 8 technology M&A transactions, 4 IPOs and 70 tech funding deals totalling about €559 million (about $626 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European t...

ISTE 2017: New York Startup Fusfoo Is A Video Network for High School Students, By High School Students What if high school students had their own cable network, what would they do, what would the content be? New York st...

GUEST: A recent whirlwind of rumors have said Amazon could be launching all kinds of new business lines, including cars and pharmaceuticals and that it’s interested in acquiring corporate messaging platform Slack. But ...

GUEST: When AI is easy, it works wonders. That’s the concept behind Amazon’s dominance in the home and just about everywhere else. We like things to “just work” and not cause a lot of problems. The Amazon Wand, i...

Some tech companies considering expansion to the heartland worry about finding local talent. That’s the skills gap. Meanwhile, many workers there, even if they were to acquire the skills sought by tech companies, don�...

OPINION: Arguably, no company in modern games has benefited from the work of modders more than Bethesda. My first experience with The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind role-playing game over a decade ago involved installing i...