This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Neema Moraveji wants to measure your life. Moraveji has spent the last two years creating and building the Spire Stone. About the size of an egg and shaped …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Forget about buying their stock. Now you can donate to giant corporations like General Electric or Anheuser-Busch, assuming you’d actually want to. Indiegogo on Wednesday launched “enterprise crowdfunding,” expanding beyond novice entrepreneurs, filmmakers …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Remember Panasonic? Well, not enough people do. Once it discontinued its best-in-class plasma TVs, the Japanese giant faded from the stage in many consumers’ minds. But a new year means new opportunities, and …

A symbol of the dot-com bust is back. Is it time to panic? San Diego-based Wrapify recruits drivers and swathes their cars in vinyl advertisements, often for companies not much older than the 5-month-old startup. For the last few months, everyday commuters rolled along the streets of San Diego and San Francisco promoting young companies like security-camera firm Butterfleye, in-home …

Cord cutters will have another chance to watch presidential contenders trade barbs. On Saturday night, the CBS Television Network, which is hosting a debate between Democratic hopefuls in Des Moines, Iowa, is making the event available live online. CBS owns CBS Interactive, the parent of CNET. So far, cord cutters haven’t been guaranteed a look at the debates during the …

Are you a cord cutter hoping to watch the presidential debates? Too bad. Of the first three debates among the candidates running for president of the United States, only one was accessible outside a cable subscription. Take the debate among the Republican presidential wannabes on October 28 in Boulder, Colorado. It was carried on CNBC, which could only be viewed …

Since Richard Nixon sweated and scowled his way through the first televised presidential debate with John Kennedy in 1960, TV’s importance in American politics has been well established. Being a successful politician, or at least getting elected, requires knowing how to look good on camera. But judging by the first debate for presidential hopefuls streamed live in virtual reality, it’s …

There are already 10,000 apps for the Apple Watch. James Martin/CNET Apple released its first foray into the smartwatch market in April. At an event in San Francisco today, the company revealed how it’s doing on a key metric: apps. More than 10,000 apps have now been developed for the Apple Watch, said Jeff Williams, Apple’s senior vice president of …

After launching less than two years ago, Vroom predicts that its used-cars sales will reach $300 million this year. Vroom Can $54 million make the used-car lot obsolete? Vroom is banking on it — or at least trying to make buying a car a little less horrible. The startup announced Monday that it has raised eight figures from investors, including …

Millennials and deep-pocketed investors have escalated Snapchat’s valuation. Snapchat Already flush, Snapchat just got more cash. After raising $200 million in March, the photo-messaging app has raised an additional $537.6 million, according to government documents released on Friday. Those securities filings suggest that Snapchat might pull in another $112.3 million in funding, bringing its total for this year alone to …