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The tech industry has long been guilty of gender inequality and bias - and the misrepresentation and under-representation of women in tech is a topic I've covered many times.

Lisa Su, CEO of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, said in an analyst conference call that enthusiasm for cryptocurrency and gaming will drive demand for the company’s Vega graphics chips in the third quarter. Overall,...

Entrepreneurs and investors often lament the lack of diversity in tech in Texas. But a few organizations, and people, are going beyond just talk and are actively working to better even the playing field for underrepresen...

EXCLUSIVE: It’s hard to make players happy in free-to-play mobile games, and now it’s Scopely’s turn to face the wrath of players after some glitches in its popular The Walking Dead: Road to Survival game. Such pla...

GUEST: Picture this: You walk into a restaurant; the host greets you by name and seats you at your favorite table in the corner. You’ve hardly had time to put your napkin on your lap, and the server is pouring the off-...

96% of businesses fail due to the oldest mistakes in the book. Equip yourself for success by avoiding these 5 mistakes.

Advanced Micro Devices posted a GAAP second-quarter loss of 2 cents a share and 2 cents a share profit on an adjusted basis, even as it continued with the launch of its most competitive chips in a decade. But in the thir...

Torla is a charming role-playing adventure for PC that’s raising funds on the crowdsourcing site Kickstarter. Its art style is reminiscent of old Flash games with expressive stick figures and vibrant colors, and it dre...

The Game Developers Conference has named Katie Stern as its new general manager starting on August 7. She’s taking over for industry vet Meggan Scavio, who resigned in May after 18 years in the role. Though Stern hasn�...

China is increasingly becoming a fintech Blockchain innovator, competing with other Blockchain platforms the world over for better security and easier usability.

Startup firms like Samoyed Financial, a Chinese online credit card issuer, are on the cutting edge of consumer lending.

Five years from now, company leaders will be looking back and wishing they developed an artificial intelligence strategy sooner, according to one of the veterans of the field. Andrew Ng, the cofounder of Coursera and the...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting a tournament in Germany with a $350,000 prize pool. The Gamescom PUBG Invitational will take place August 23 through 26, and developer Bluehole is planning to sell cosmetic item...

Up-and-coming "entreprenerds" pitch their business ideas to an increasingly receptive and influential industry at San Diego Comic-Con.

The past five years have been some of the most exciting in CPG. Let's take a look at past CircleUp25 winners to see how some of the most innovative recent consumer brands are doing today.

Millennials are often expected to hop from one job to the next in search of the "perfect fit." However, I have several millennials on my team who have stuck with our company for several years. Here's what I'm learning fr...

Take-Two‘s big money maker, Grand Theft Auto Online, is adding a new multiplayer mode and another high-end car. Grand Theft Auto Online is the online component of Grand Theft Auto V, the open-world game that came out i...

Flash will officially be dead in three years. Adobe today announced it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of 2020, encouraging content creators to migrate existing Flash content to open forma...

Heroes of the Storm‘s esports league is encouraging fans to cheer for their teams … with money. People watching the best players compete in Blizzard’s MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) can use Twitch’s Cheer...

Vicarious, which is working on narrowing the gap between human and artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $50 million in a round led by Khosla Ventures. The Union City, California-based startup is us...

Introduction Smart homes are homes which have enough home automation within them to be almost fully automated (at least according to the standards of the day), and they are becoming more and more common around the world....

REVIEW: Integrated audio built into motherboards and video cards has eliminated the need for dedicated sound cards in most desktop computers, but this has forced Creative’s Sound BlasterX team to build products that se...