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Kyle Samani raised over a million dollars in the enterprise health IT space in under a year -- with no revenue, clients or product to speak of.

The next time you hear the phrase P2P Lending, look closely as you may find that the peer lender has been displaced by a financial giant.

Sidecar, the ride-sharing company most of us stopped talking about due to the Lyft-Uber wars distraction, has pulled off a big feat: It’s getting a license from the San Francisco International Airport to operate there....

It was Friday afternoon, October 10, when Sears quietly announced via a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that one of their brands, Kmart, had suffered a data breach. It appears based on the information ...

Unfortunately, a famous NASA study showed that the typical 98% creativity scores of five-year-olds falls to a mere 2% by the time these same children become adults. Here are five ways to breathe new life into the creativ...

Intel's strong quarter suggests the PC isn't dead yet. But it has work to do in mobile and the internet of things.

Transitioning to electronic health records is a major underpinning of the Affordable Care Act. And while the act presents many new challenges for insurance companies, the digitization of information and data opens up eno...

It’s becoming increasingly apparent that monthly subscription services are on the rise, as evident with the relative success of The Fancy (Fancy Box), Bark Box, Dollar Shave Club, LootCrate, and many others. Austin, Te...

VentureBeat has immediate openings for several tech reporters and a copy editor. We're looking for journalists with a proven track record of covering tech news, and a hunger to do more.

Chanel No. 5 spokeswoman Gisele Bündchen rides the waves this fall in the perfume campaign's new short film, 'The One That I Want,' directed by Baz Luhrmann. It's a collaboration between the world's highest-paid model ...

Integrated into the Salesforce CRM dashboard, MindTickle for Sales uses such gamification techniques as point-scoring, leaderboards, or quests in an effort to make existing training and product content into something mor...

As I’ve written previously, I’m an iPhone user. So with the recent launch of the iPhone 6, I decided to brave the throng of people at the Apple Store to see firsthand the latest and greatest from the folks at 1 Infin...

Years ago, a little company called Bump promised us a world in which we could forgo business cards by simply "bumping" our phones together to immediately exchange contact information. Well, that didn't work out so well �...

Previously, all of these indie games were available only on PC or mobile. Now they all work in browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux without having to install any plugins.

Three quarters of us check those annoying but oh-so-tempting paper flyers or circulars that come to the house every weekend, highlighting local shopping deals. Most of us, however, just want the deals — the paper we ca...

The Atlantic magazine opened up its Rolodex and managed to get some of the nation’s elite tech CEOs to fill survey. Tumblr CEO David Karp, AutoDesk CEO Carl Bass, Khan Academy founder Sal Khan, and Y Combinator’s Sam...

LinkedIn has become the latest social network to solicit ideas from researchers to explore the company’s data. Under the rules of the new LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge, announced in a blog post today, researchers w...

Fifth Street Asset Management has registered plans for an IPO that could raise $240 million, despite the weak performance of newly listed shares of other BDC managers.

How to attract and help "smart creatives"

Amazon has a network of digital-distribution websites that could help its mobile games stand out from the crowd.

Most companies try to keep their work internal, hiring new employees to fill specialized positions, such as marketing management, rather than outsourcing work. This approach is advantageous in many ways, since it allows ...

Opera Mediaworks chief executive Mahi de Silva predicts that mobile advertising will eclipse desktop dominance by 2017.