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Of the 29 companies presenting, a few stick out as the most interesting and innovative. Here are the highlights.

The Secret Service is looking to a hack on the email accounts of former President George W. Bush and five of his family members and friends.

DataXu pulled in $27 million in funding today, proving that investors continue to see potential in the massively complicated world of ad-tech.

VentureBeat's annual Mobile Summit is back for a third year, and it's shaping up to be our biggest one yet.

Epic formed Impossible Studios out of the ashes of Big Huge Games, which developed Kingdoms of Amalur, back in June.

Customers of Coinbase, a platform for buying and selling digital currency Bitcoin, have bought or sold more than $1 million worth of Bitcoin in the past 30 days.

Inclement weather on the East Coast has forced Microsoft to cancel its Surface Pro launch event. There might be a trend here.

If you follow VentureBeat but don't regularly check our GamesBeat site, here's a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Portland accelerator Upstart Labs announces new funding, investments, partnerships, and an expanded team.

"There's a lot of pressure in companies to deliver mobile, cloud-enabled apps," Gutmans says. "Half of teams are telling us that that they've missed dates because they cannot work together."

The game became the bestselling PlayStation Network game of all time, but the team fragmented after it was done.

We?ve been hearing for years that journalism is dead ? and indeed, it?s bad news when there are websites devoted to tracking newspaper layoffs and the death of entire papers. Ann Handley and I are both veterans of the Bo...

In the wake of ongoing Apple PR problems over labor abuses in China, HP is stepping up its own game.

Looks like connecting the world's top document software with the cloud is paying off. Microsoft has announced that more than one billion Office documents are now stored in SkyDrive, following the launch of Office 365 Hom...

Proving just how versatile Google+'s Hangouts group video chat feature can be, NASA announced yesterday that it will offer its first Hangout with the crew of the International Space Station later this month.

Thanks to growth in its advertising business, AOL's revenues are climbing upwards.

Recently, a friend emailed me for advice on how to approach a potential partnership. I emailed her some topics to discuss, but my main piece of advice was this: In business, as in romance, it's a good idea to date before...

By Joseph Ajao, a Singularity University alum who co-founded Oacsoft Technologies--a Nigerian company that develops low-cost software for SMEs, Schools and Government agencies.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Moody's, AOL, and American Axle and Manufacturing Holdings.

Shareholders were not impressed by the sound of jingling change coming from kiosk operator Coinstar's pockets for Q4 2012, pushing the company's stock down nearly 10 percent in after ours trading.

A lot of decision-making and back-and-forth go into the deals that happen in startup world.

Twitter added an extra feature to its search today, allowing anyone to find tweets older than one week.