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When Irving Fain quit his job to found CrowdTwist, a consumer loyalty engagement platform for brands in 2010, he ran up against some big roadblocks. First, the Series A-funded TechStars startup had to figure out how to g...

Former Tumblr president John Maloney has found a new home as president of mobile news startup Circa. Maloney hasn’t had an official role at another company since he stepped down from as president at Tumblr in 2012. His...

She’s still alive and working, but not many people remember Régine Zylberberg anymore. Forty years ago, everyone, especially the “glitterati,” knew her as Régine, owner of a chain of the coolest and most expensiv...

Last year it was reported that computer science had become Stanford's top major, and it's easy to see why.

Seriously, you should really, really come to this event! And bring a nerdy friend. Be sure to reserve your seat before we get into standing-room-only territory!

Enterprise information management leader OpenText said today that it would be doubling its workforce in Ontario, Canada by hiring 1,200 new employees. That’s an investment of up to $2 billion, the company said, and it ...

Guest Post: For cybersecurity to truly become the moonshot of the 21st century, we need leadership in the highest places.

In it's short life, Slack is already cash-flow positive. And it's ramping up quickly. (Read: hiring.)

Elon Musk claims SpaceX could save the government up to $1 billion if it were allowed to bid on military contracts for rocket launches.

Mike Gallagher of the ESA and Jens Begemann of Wooga will join our slate.

Guest Post: If you haven't been keeping up-to-date on recent developments from Google+, you may be excited to learn there have been a handful of interesting updates from the Google+ team of late. In spite of Google's rec...

Business email app Acompli has hit the No. 9 spot in the free productivity app section of Apple's App Store.

The fiber wars are heating up. AT&T is stepping up its plans to wire 21 cities with gigabit-per-second fiber, possibly before Google does. And today, we hear Google may be adding outdoor Wi-Fi to its own Google Fiber cit...

Roku's new HDMI Stick is a happy median between Apple TV and Chromecast.

Katrina Lake's friends used to kiddingly call her CEO/janitor. Today, her willingness to get her hands dirty is paying off.

Check out our entire week's worth of coverage on VentureBeat's channel for video games, GamesBeat.

By Elinor Robin, PhD

Twitter just cozied up big time with Yahoo Japan. Today Twitter announced it will integrate its promoted tweet and promoted account campaigns directly into Yahoo Japan’s “Promotion Ads Campaign Management Tool.” Th...

Google's chairman and head of hiring, Laszlo Bock, has given a few insights on how he sorts through a multitude of bright applicants.

It's easy to forget what a CEO accomplished in a seven-year run.

Android and iOS are battling each other in every major market in the world, and gaming is the biggest part of that fight.

The Everywhere Else conference series is all about connections. And nothing says "connection" like a great party.