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Meet HomeRun, Keith Rabois' 11-year-old plan to streamline home sales.     

Guest Post: 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. Lilyhammer, Game of Thrones, Ho...

You will be pivoting your business in your lifetime, whether you are a new startup, or a mature company like Motorola or IBM. You can count on it and plan for it, or you wait for the next survival crisis brought your way...

Guest Post: The point of this story isn't "cocky kid blows off homework and gets away with it," though on the surface that's exactly what happened.     

Don't let cyber attacks kill your game! Join GamesBeat's Dean Takahashi for a free webinar on April 18 that will explore the DDoS risks facing the game industry. Sign up here. Trivia app Quizup today quietly expanded int...

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Friday's session are Micron, CarMax, and GrubHub.

This year workplace turnover will reach shocking new heights--here's how to hang on to your superstars.

VividCortex is launching with tools to keep a watchful eye on MySQL databases. And support for more databases could be on the way.     

With Alibaba's investment, Tango is starting to sign bigger games for its network.     

Facebook and Twitter battle it out via their photo/video standalone apps.     

Sponsored Post: 1stPay POS® is a revolutionary iPad® point-of-sale to grow your business and better manage daily operations. The 1stPayPOS® cloud-based iPad POS system provides big data analytics for small-to-medium s...

Did Mozilla's chairperson have a change of heart? Did the board take him out? Or is Eich simply tired of the public scrutiny and intense anger and disappointment being aimed in his direction?     

Over the last 10 years, the sales industry has witnessed a disruption. Due to the innovation of Internet cloud-based business transactions and an upsurge in sales technology development, the sales profession is in a stat...

Manta.com polled 1,235 small business owners on their social media usage and strategy. These five platforms are the ones SBOs say are the hardest to maintain.

While Verizon's focus on social good is praiseworthy, the contest is also clearly a way for the company to ingratiate itself with the startup community.     

EquityNet intends to be the Kickstarter of crowdfund investing. Like Kickstarter, EquityNet has a fairly broad reach: Since its 2005 debut, EquityNet has signed up more than 20,000 investors, who have collectively invest...

By Harry Wang, director of health and mobile product research at Parks Associates

Guest Post: Over the last 12 months, native ads have done a fantastic job of blending in with the content they're served in, which has proven to be much more engaging when compared to traditional banner ads.     

Bringing her years of experience to Skillshare, Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran wants to help the best aspiring entrepreneurs build their businesses.

Returning for its second year, VentureBeat's DataBeat event is laser-focused on helping companies increase profitability through big data and smart analytics tools.     

A patent application from Apple, published Thursday and first pointed out by Apple Insider, describes headphones that know when the user is speaking and provide new kinds of noise suppression. The application, # 20140093...

Microsoft is bringing elements of the Windows experience to its Azure public cloud. Of course.