While gamers wait patiently for their virtual-reality headsets to go on sale, there's another industry ripe for the VR picking: movies. That means, as VR technology matures, filmmakers have to work out a new approach to their craft. But if they get it right, audiences...
Corporate partnerships, like human ones, depend on what each side brings to the relationship and what each side needs. So, using that give-and-take formula, an alliance announced on Wednesday would seem to be a good match. IBM, the technology giant, and Box, a Silicon Valley online file-storage...
The key to mobile success: knowing what users do and what they value. We're in love with apps. Recent figures from Web application design and development company Go-Globe reveal that we now spend 89% of our mobile time in apps, and we're spending 21% more time in...
A standard championed by Mozilla and its rivals could supercharge the Web. Competing browser makers, led by Mozilla’s Firefox engineers, made a surprising revelation last week: They've been secretly working on a joint project that could vault the Web into its next stage of evolution....
Pebble, the Kickstarter success story, continues its upward climb through the wearables market thanks to a deal with Best Buy, which has exclusive preorder rights for its Time smartwatch....
With Qualcomm’s support, robots are about to get a lot smarter. The trouble with making a smart robot: fitting its big brain into its head. Now Qualcomm, known for making Snapdragon smartphone processors, wants to step in to help run those rigs....
The deaths of five people, including three children, in a raging fire that engulfed a home in New Orleans last November was “a terrible tragedy,” the city’s first deputy mayor, Andy Kopplin, said....
California Governor Jerry Brown recently imposed mandatory water restrictions to combat severe drought that “demands unprecedented action.” Many investors have grown familiar with the global trends changing in the way water is supplied, transported, treated and used. Those mega-trends, however, have not translated into much...
Tamr, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup that helps companies understand and unify all of the disparate databases across a company, announced a $25.2 million Series B round today....
James V. Caruso is the new president and CEO of Madison-based Cellectar Biosciences. He succeeds Dr. Simon Pedder, who retired due to personal family reasons. Pedder had served as CEO and president since October 2013. Caruso, 56, was also named to Cellectar’s board as a director. Caruso has...