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ANALYSIS: Amazon closed its $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods Market today, kicking off a new chapter not only for these two players but for the entire retail industry. The companies, which outlined their plans in a ...

SPONSORED: Presented by Intel "We started off not knowing exactly what kind of game we wanted to make," says Patric Mondou, Creative Director at Borealys Games. He's referring to the time back when Borealys began its jou...

ANALYSIS: Despite the warm response to news that Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has been selected to lead Uber, the odds of him being successful remain long. His list of challenges appears to be infinite. Repairing a cult...

Microsoft is working on a Halo virtual reality experience for its Windows Mixed Reality platform. Developer 343 Industries, the studio responsible for overseeing Halo, has previously created demonstrations for the HoloLe...

(Reuters) — Wearable device maker Fitbit Inc on Monday launched its newest device, the Ionic smartwatch, with features ranging from fitness tracking to contactless payment, as it gears up to compete with rivals such as...

Google Play announced the 20 finalists for its second annual Google Play Indie Games Festival. The festival celebrates Android mobile games by independent developers and will take place on September 23 in San Francisco a...

Three months after raising more than $500 million, Chicago tech darling Outcome Health announced today it has made a prominent hire — Twitter’s former vice president of engineering, Nandini Ramani, who will join the ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a mobile marketing world full of shiny new objects, sometimes it is the tried and trusted tactics that produce results. Push notifications, for example, still drive outstanding returns. In fact, the data te...

PRESS RELEASE: Anonyome Labs, a consumer privacy startup from cybersecurity veteran Steve Shillingford, announced today it has closed a $20.4 million Series B round, on the strength of its consumer privacy and safety pla...

In the near future, you might ask your email client how to get an introduction to a new professional contact. That's the idea behind the latest updates to Trove, a service that's designed to analyze users' email messages...

REVIEW: Never have I thought to myself, “Gee, I wish I could play Dance Dance Revolution with my thumbs.” Then, along came The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor, a riotous rhythm and role-playing game mashup. The Pu...

Insta360 has launched the One, a 4K, 360-degree video camera with a unique feature that allows you to shoot the video first and then set the point of view later, during postproduction. The Los Angeles startup said the Fr...

ZSpace Tops Education Companies and VR/AR Companies On Prestigious Inc 500 List Mixed reality, virtual reality and augmented reality are making their way into classrooms everywhere. One of the companies that’s making a...

Dell has unveiled more details for its Dell Visor virtual reality and mixed reality headset debuting on October 17. The new headset is part of Microsoft’s push to support mixed reality technology on the PC, and the com...

Dell is launching a series of new Inspiron- and XPS-branded laptops and tablet-laptop hybrids that use Intel’s latest 8th Generation Core processors. That means they’re going to be speedier for people who want to wat...

Wharton, UVA, Duke and More Are Raising Engagement With Yellowdig Today’s generation of college students are a lot different than any previous generation. We’ve mentioned this here before (quite a bit) but incoming c...

PRESS RELEASE: Xontogeny, LLC, a life sciences accelerator operating company focused on the early development of pharmaceuticals and other technologies, today announced that Fred Callori has been appointed as Senior Vice...

Chance the Rapper and SocialWorks' Partnership with LANDR Provides Donations & Classes Back in June we reported that Chicago area startup LANDR had teamed up with Chance The Rapper and his social startup, Social Works Ch...

VMware customers who want to run their workloads in the cloud without leaving behind the software they know have a new service available to them. The highly anticipated VMware on AWS offering is finally generally availab...

REVIEW: A mash-up with Mario, gaming’s biggest icon, and the Rabbids, an annoying species of screaming, slapstick Minion precursors, should have been a disaster. But Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle is another excellent...

MedGenome wants to develop research and diagnostics around rare diseases by looking at India's population of 1.3 billion, and today the company announced funding of $30 million to further its mission. Sequoia Capital Ind...

EDUCAUSE Preview: See how Cytilife Is Making Campus Life Easier By Combining AI and iOT Cytilife is an app that started on Georgia Tech’s connected campus. The app combines AI, and iOT along with other features found i...