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When a great idea from an innovator or intrapreneur inside a corporation, nonprofit or government fails to reach its potential, there can be soul searching or worse. Failing gracefully is an important skill for entrepren...

Paul Ramsay, Australia's gentleman billionaire, has died at the age of 78 after suffering a heart attack on his private yacht while on holiday in Spain.

As last beta weekend for Wildstar approach, sales on preorders for the MMO is ramping up.

Paul Singh of Disruption Corporation, Crystal Tech Fund and 500 Startups tells it like it is (and for startups to stop calling themselves startups).

EA will provide games that Comcast users can play via tablets on the TV.

Apple may soon tap micro-LEDs for its next generation of devices. Apple tacitly confirmed its purchase of LuxVue, a low-power, micro-LED display maker, in a statement today, following a TechCrunch report about the acquis...

Building a company isn't easy. One of the common themes at this year's EE Tennessee conference was that most of the speakers spoke about utilizing failure. The benefits to failing, it seems, can be the probiotics for you...

Here's the real deal behind Orbotix's funding.

"In the real world, a large number of third-party applications do not adhere to a whitelist to patch this vulnerability. This makes the systems based on OAuth 2.0 or OpenID highly vulnerable."

Big data plus retail equals the potential for greater sales. Google sells lots of stuff, so it could could net some perks by acquiring Rangespan.

To convince Walmart to stock the Genesis, Sega took over the retailer's home town.

It's no longer enough to just sell tools for data scientists. At our DataBeat conference in two weeks, we'll talk about how certain technologies lead to growth more frequently than others.

Or perhaps you’d like some NASA software for controlling liquid oxygen in a rocket propulsion system? You can have either of them for free — along with another 1,000 or so programs that the legendary agency is now ma...

While deceptive marketing still happens (far too often), customers are getting smarter and are making stronger and more insightful demands. Using dark psychology to manipulate a consumer audience into supporting things t...

Minimum goes beyond traditional shooters by requiring you to focus on an overpowered Titan instead of other players.

A badger will now tattle on websites that ignore the “Do Not Track” feature built into web browsers. OK, so this badger isn’t actually a real animal, but rather the namesake behind the Electronic Frontier Foundatio...

The way to maximize the performance of most organizations, says CAMPUSPEAK CEO T.J. Sullivan, is to identify their "middle members" and then find opportunities to further draw out their skills.

People who party a lot know the dark, sad hours before the dawn, when you’re exhausted, home is a long way away, and there are no trains running. So do the entrepreneurs behind Skout and Nixter, but in a very ...

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

Sandwich chain Subway is considering signing a “ground-breaking” sponsorship deal with Formula One auto racing which would give it access to 1.5 million new customers according to new research.

Organic, biodynamic or sustainable: which winemaking practice is best for you and the environment? Part III in my series.

Microsoft is also having some issues with in-game purchases for titles like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Halo 4.