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(Reuters) — Square’s decision to allow users of its mobile app to buy and sell bitcoin this year was a "pretty contentious move within the company" and remains a source of internal tension, the payment processor's CE...

Brand partnerships are nothing new. The key is to creating a relationship that is mutually beneficial for all involved.

Greg Dehn, who paid for college with eight scholarships, started Kaleidoscope Group to pay back the favor. The company works with businesses, associations and the like to help them design and administer scholarship progr...

GUEST: Results from the 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Survey are in, and for blockchain the numbers are stark. Despite its popularity as a news item, only 1 percent of responding CIOs indicate any kind of blockchain adoption, ...

After three Republican senators joined Democrats in moving to block the FCC's repeal of Obama-era internet rules, net neutrality advocates still have a long way to go, and not long to get there.

PRESS RELEASE: Indee Labs received US$2.6M in venture financing extending its seed-stage funding to more than US$5.4M (AU$7.1M). This will accelerate the development of Indee Labs' gene therapy manufacturing technology i...

E-commerce company Etsy announced today that it will open a new artificial intelligence research and development center in Toronto, Canada. The company broke the news yesterday during a meeting with Canadian Prime Minist...

GUEST: AI is arguably the biggest tech topic of 2018. From Google Duplex’s human imitations and Spotify’s song recommendations to Uber’s self-driving cars and the Pentagon’s use of GoogleAI, the technology seems ...

Prior to the announcement of Sprint’s merger with T-Mobile, now-outgoing CEO Marcelo Claure told customers to expect higher 5G prices, and T-Mobile downplayed expectations for its initial 5G speeds. But Sprint’s new ...

The American Heart Association announcement of a $30 million venture capital fund sparks criticism on Twitter and from the Cleveland Clinic's Steve Nissen.

AI is improving the lives of people with disabilities. Here are some of the ways it's making a difference.

There are a few different technologies contending for the possibility to transition search to a post-verbal era.

Lego, building on the success of last year’s Lego Boost robotics kit, has announced the Powered Up Platform, a collection of new motorized, programmable, and smartphone-compatible Lego and Duplo sets. The platform will...

GUEST: For those of you paying attention, the weather skipped spring this year and we in the Midwest find ourselves just tipping into warm temperatures. To keep from going crazy during those cold months, I would take the...

Online sales only accounted for 8.1% of total retail sales in North America in 2016, which means brick and mortar stores currently hold the economic power, but they are losing traction quickly. How can brick and mortar s...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 doesn’t have a single-player campaign. But it is tripling-down on the franchise’s popular Zombies mode in an Activision reveal event today in Los Angeles. The new Black Ops will have three Z...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will have a frenetic multiplayer mode that will be the main part of this year’s Call of Duty game, according to Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia. But in a press briefing, Treyarch also revealed...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 won’t have a single-player campaign, according to Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia. In a press briefing, Lamia confirmed earlier press reports that Treyarch decided to drop the traditional sing...

Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia confirmed something that shouldn’t come as a surprise: Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will get a battle royale mode called Blackout when it debuts on October 12. Blackout will be the biggest ...

Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will use Blizzard Entertainment’s Battle.net online gaming service. The switch from Activision’s own service to Blizzard shows increasing cooperation between the Activision and Blizzard sist...

Fantasy sports platforms have seen massive growth in recent years. The number of players has doubled in the U.S. and Canada in the past seven years, and those 59.3 million people who play spend an average of $556 every y...

As some of the savviest companies are showing us, it's no longer enough to talk about what you do for social good. Showing what you stand for is what really matters. Consumers care what your executives believe, the value...