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A new paper from MIT's Sloan Business school finds that hyperactive patent litigators robbed the tech industry of billions in investment.

My friend Ed Zimmerman wrote a terrific post for his WSJ blog, “Help Me Help You”, on soliciting him (and others like him) for investor introductions. I wanted to add to Ed’s post and observe that not all introduct...

Harmonix's new music game is fun, but the Kinect fails it.

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This map reveals where driverless cars are street-legal, and which states are stuck in legislative limbo. In 2011, Nevada became the first state to legalize the testing of driverless cars. California later followed suit....

Italy launches three times as many startups compared to San Francisco and has a third of the institutional investors in Silicon Valley? Holy sh*t: Startup paradise! Well ... not really.

You might be forgiven for thinking that France is a terrible place to start a tech company. But most of what you think you know is probably wrong.

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

The web-slinger would be proud of your grappling hook skills.

The Federal Communications Commission wants to know who is really to blame for crappy connectivity some U.S. citizens are experiencing when they try to watch Netflix. Netflix said it’s the ISPs fault, while ISPs claim ...

"Magellan was an explorer. Chuck Yeager was an explorer. You guys have a fucking camera on your face".

Tech CEO Nirav Tolia -- originally charged with felony hit and run for his involvement in an accident near San Francisco last year -- took a plea deal Thursday for a reduced charge, authorities said.

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the death of a worker at one of Amazon’s fulfillment centers, according to a press release issued yesterday. Jody Rhoads, 52, d...

Nintendo of America's president and chief operating officer remains an optimist at E3 2014.

FTC clamps down on mobile spamming, issues $150 million find for the mastermind of a scam that made millions.

One of the world's most prestigious science publications, Nature, is out with a new OpEd arguing that top-notch PhD programs should lower their math requirements to admit more women.

The IRS does not like the concept of "personal goodwill", but courts have often approved it.  In the Tax Court decision in the case of Bross Trucking, the concept was confirmed again, helping to save the taxpayer from w...

Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor, co-presidents and co-founders of Juicy Couture became famous for their celebrated casual clothing line, which they went on to sell in 2013 for a whopping $195 million. Sure, their...

The data privacy obligations of both platforms and apps may play a big role in shaping the consumer-driven health movement in coming years.

How to pare down your lifestyle and move internationally. With less headache and more fun. Kind of.

As if Comcast didn’t already have enough people mad at it, today the company confirmed plans to roll out a nationwide Wi-Fi network by using the wireless routers rented by its residential customers in San Francisco. By...

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