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GUEST: Walmart's acquisition of Flipkart has created shockwaves in India, with the realization that the vast majority of its $16 billion price will go to foreign investors, namely Tiger Global, SoftBank, Naspers, and Acc...

GUEST: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the far reaching personal data privacy regulation going into effect Friday, aims to give individuals more control over their personal information. Among other requirement...

Nearly six years after a federal jury awarded Apple over $1 billion for Samsung infringements of iPhone intellectual properties, a jury retrying the damages portion of the case has reached a unanimous verdict, modifying ...

Every Teacher Could Use A Hand With Reading Instruction, Lalilo Is Your Virtual Teaching Assistant Every teacher could use an extra assistant in the classroom especially when it comes to reading. However, with budgets ac...

Saleforce's Michael Sollami gave a talk on recent advances on computational photography at the Re-Work Deep Learning Summit.

Valve knows that deep shame you carry with you everywhere. It knows that you’ve maybe played 20 percent of the games in your Steam library for any significant amount of time, and it wants to help you deal with that pil...

Facebook’s new archive for U.S. political ads — created to give users more information about who is advertising on Facebook and who they are trying to target — went live today. The archive was first announced in Oc...

Apple knew before launching the iPhone 6 series that its 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch devices were considerably more likely to bend than the iPhone 5s, but continued to downplay the issue — despite charging users steep prices...

Ubisoft chief executive Yves Guillemot is probably still glowing somewhere in France after fending off the threat of a hostile takeover by Vivendi and promising to bring Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege to China with ne...

GoGo Brain Is Helping Students Listen, Focus Better and Follow Directions As teachers start digging into student performance and assessment they start to understand the whole student. While a student may be grasping conc...

(Reuters) — Uber disabled an emergency braking system in a self-driving vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Arizona in March and which failed to properly identify the pedestrian, raising serious questions about i...

Lately, more and more companies are getting into the publishing business, and even some indie studios are trying their hand at helping their fellow developers bring titles to the market. For small teams, partnering with ...

PRESS RELEASE: Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of identity for the enterprise, today announced the next grantee of the Okta for Good Fund, Fast Forward, an organization that funds and supports ...

Digital video game sales generated $9.09 billion in revenue in April, up 23 percent year-over-year from $7.42 billion, according to analyst firm SuperData Research. The bump in revenue came from console and mobile spendi...

A woman claims that her Amazon Echo recorded her voice and sent it to a random contact without her knowledge.

Though Qualcomm and 5G device makers expect unlimited data service to enable the coming 5G era, some cellular carriers are beginning to push back on the idea, Yonhap reports. South Korean mobile giants SK Telecom, KT, an...

SPONSORED: We are data scientists, analytics experts, and creative whizzes, all on top of our traditional role of being stewards of the brand. How can we also now own the customer experience and take the lead in engaging...

Yelp's new Collections feature uses a combination of machine learning, algorithmic sorting, and manual curation to put highly rated businesses at your fingertips.

Caffeine is a new social broadcasting platform for livestreamers, and today the company is launching a new monetization system built around digital items. The new monetization system, which is in a "pre-release" state, w...

“Adult entertainment” giant Pornhub is entering the busy virtual private network (VPN) space with the launch of its very own VPN service. Dubbed VPNhub, the new service is available for free via native apps on Androi...

EXCLUSIVE: Social trading platforms aren’t new, but they are few and far between. The idea is simple — to alleviate pressure for new investors, they can copy the actions of successful traders. Today, CoTrader is intr...

Rover has raised $155 million in a fresh round of funding as the dog-sitting platform looks to expedite its expansion into Europe. The cash influx constitutes $125 million from a range of funds and accounts “advised”...