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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a concept earlier this week for a new sunflower-shaped spaceship that will take actual photographs of planets outside our solar system. While scientists have been able to detec...

VentureBeat is looking to move in a couple of months, and this means that our wonderful San Francisco office is up for grabs for occupancy for the remainder of our lease – June 1 to Dec. 31, 2014. What can ...    �...

Are you a veteran, active duty member or spouse of either? Do you have the next great technology and want to make it real? Then you need to stop inundating your friends with your "cool idea" and apply to this year's Tech...

Phil Spencer says that Microsoft is learning and adapting as it fights the console war.     

When Cofounders Alex Sherman and Peter Schwartz left venture capital-backed digital advertising company MediaMath to found their own startup they wanted to do things differently.

Vicarious, a company that produces artificial-intelligence technology, has closed a fresh $40 million round of funding today that includes a handful of notable investors like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla found...

The phone is increasingly the key to confirming you are who you say you are.     

Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. Following the Turkish Prime Minister Recep ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan used a court order to institute the ban on Twitter yesterday, but he's seeing significant pushback at home and abroad.     

When you are starting your own business, there is no shortage of advice and opinions flowing your way. While you can certainly gain valuable insight from listening to others, it?s important to take most words of wisdom w...

I was fortunate enough to attend SXSW last week, and if you?ve never been, I highly recommend it. Not only is it one of the greatest annual gatherings of leading thinkers in digital, music, and film, it?s a concentrated ...

Everywhere Else Tennessee conference speakers have some great stories of how they got started in tech.

Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. In two months, a pair of cofounders left th...

It’s not just consumers who are dumping their BlackBerrys — even the White House is considering alternatives. Specifically, the White House is testing Android phones from Samsung and LG, reports the Wall Street Journ...

Connect with leaders from the companies in this story, in real life: Come to the fourth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit April 14-15 in Sausalito, Calif. Request an invitation. President Barack Obama is planning to meet ...

Flappy Bird cast a giant shadow over the GDC.     

Think of the last time you spent eight uninterrupted hours completing every item on your to-do list and left the office feeling like not a single moment was wasted, even if you were a little tired. Can you think of anyth...

The talent market is far from efficient. On the one hand, all organisations have talent problems and lament their inability to attract and retain top employees. On the other hand, and in stark contrast with this war for ...

A review of A.G. Lafley and Roger L. Martin, Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works, Cambridge: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013.

Which has helped your career more? Positive feedback? Or constructive critiques? We recently collected data from 2,479 people on this question.Their response was a surprise.

After banning Twitter last night, the actions of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan have failed spectacularly. Immediately following Turkey’s ban, Twitter issued an SMS workaround. Then, ”#Twitterisblockedin...