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Pearson made the strategic investment in Voxy, and intends to incorporate the language-learning technology into its existing suite of tools.

Is your favorite to-do list app not "long-term" enough for you? Then meet Bucket Lister.

Guest Post Sean Parker was almost right: Facebook was throwing the best party on campus, but now the party goers don't stay up past 10:00 anyway.

Dropbox head of product for business and mobile will be speaking at CloudBeat 2013 about the company's new platform.

A look at voting machines through the ages.

LinkedIn and Yelp had very rosy earnings reports this week -- and it shows in public trading, too.

A day after introducing the first true Google phone, Google has finally announced an app for recovering lost devices.

Farbood Nivi sold assets of his test prep startup Grockit to Kaplan. Now, he is moving ahead with a bold, new idea. How did he do it?

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.

Online retailer of home goods Wayfair announced that it has acquired DwellStudio, a lifestyle brand that creates high-end furniture, bedding & bath products, rugs, home decor and accessories, and items for babies and kid...

"The proposed relief is intended to halt Apple's anticompetitive conduct, restore lost competition, and prevent a recurrence of the illegal activities," the Department of Justice says.

If you're not an active musician, you probably haven't heard of Bandoozi. For that matter, even if you are an active musician, you probably haven't heard of it either. That's because it's a bootstrap operation based out ...

Where government-funded agencies see roadblocks, entrepreneurs see opportunity. But is a one-way mission to Mars a good business bet? Mars One is going all in, NASA be damned.

Lookout Mobile just found what may be the most sophisticated mobile malware businesses operating today.

How green is Google when it helps fundraise for a senator who believes climate change is a hoax?

Guest Post In the private sector, startups are coming up with ideas to keep students from falling into crippling debt. Will they work?

The NSA started out this week with a plan to explain its PRISM program and justify itself to the American public. But it failed miserably.

Add a statement necklace to a t-shirt and jeans and up your glamour factor immediately.

That the Moto X doesn't feature the absolute fastest mobile processor doesn't matter much. It's all about simplicity, comfort, and some forward-thinking features.

We've accumulated the key observations from the game industry's leaders at Casual Connect.

Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners have once again increased their bid to buy computing giant Dell to $13.75 a share plus a special dividend of 13 cents a share.

I was inspired last week after speaking with an executive of a metal forming company in Louisville, Kentucky that is not waiting for others to solve our nation's skilled labor problem. Tom Hudson is a doer and the CEO of...