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Faith. It is belief without proof, and irrational by definition. And required for progress.

The one driver of any business is closing sales day in, day out.

Bing will now use AI-powered natural language understanding to help provide users with multiple highlighted perspectives when they search for different topics, Microsoft announced today. When users search for a controver...

Here are six ways you can ramp up your holiday retail sales this year.

ANALYSIS: Target’s $550 million all-cash acquisition of online grocery delivery service Shipt on Wednesday may not seem large by Silicon Valley standards. But when you consider that it’s taken startups in Shipt’s h...

Indie studio EightyEight Games is best known for frenetic mobile games like 10,000,000 and You Must Build a Boat -- but Photographs shows a softer, more introspective side. It’s a puzzler that eschews the action role-p...

EXCLUSIVE: ScribbleChat, which wants to humanize the digital chat experience by offering 3D handwriting and animated stickers, announced today that it is integrating with Microsoft-owned Skype. For now, only Skype’s mo...

Maybe the big-budget publishers are done with major new releases for 2017, but indie studios like Humble Hearts are happy to fill in the gap. That studio is launching its Never Stop Sneakin’ today, and you can get it f...

CMOs need to plan event-based marketing campaigns

Silicon Valley-based accelerator Y Combinator (YC) announced today that it is launching a growth program for later stage startups. The program, which will be a 10-week dinner series, is designed for founders of post-seri...

According to the mobile data and insights company Sensor Tower, Hearthstone’s Kobolds & Catacombs expansion has doubled the digital card game’s mobile revenues in the five-day period after its launch on December 7. T...

GUEST: Intellect is the faculty of reasoning and objective understanding. Intelligence is the ability to acquire knowledge and skills. Both of these definitions were yielded to me by my laptop, a general purpose machine,...

Google and NASA today announced the discovery of two new planets in old data from the Kepler space telescope, thanks to the application of machine learning. A pair of researchers used a neural network to search the wealt...

Starting over in a completely foreign industry doesn't need to be a setback. Take a closer look at how your experiences and skills developed from one industry can make you a major disruptor in another.

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GUEST: Contrary to popular belief, government bureaucrats aren’t trying to thwart entrepreneurs at every turn. In my experience, the opposite has been true. The state and local government officials I meet with in my ro...

When the Xbox One X launched, I started looking into the possibility of recording 4K gameplay at 60 frames per second to show off what the system is capable of. This is also something I’d love for a two-PC recording se...

With a growing backlog of highly valued venture-backed companies and some underwhelming performances by Blue Apron and Snap on the public markets, investors and entrepreneurs should follow this advice to avoid getting ca...

(Reuters) — The U.S. Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines on Thursday to repeal landmark 2015 rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet, setting up a court fight over a move that could recas...

GUEST: Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Fully automated vehicles promise a new era in car safety, but completely self-driving cars on roads are still in the future. With this...

Sea of Thieves is one of Microsoft’s biggest upcoming games, and now developer Rare is finally explaining its structure. The online multiplayer pirate sim has pleasantly surprised us with its humor, collaborative inter...

Tax Cuts and Jobs Bill is shaping up to encourage professional firms to make more partners.