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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions yesterday during a live public Q&A about the future of the social network. The last question was asked by a shy 8th grader from a local school; she wanted to know how he fo...

The two big players in the casual game market have switched positions in the last two years.

Israeli data center infrastructure startup Stratoscale has big plans — and if they pan out, enterprise virtualization giants like VMware had better watch their backs. “We’re virtualizing the entire data center as o...

If you ask Paul Eremenko, head of Google’s Project Ara, what excites him the most about the experimental modular phone, he’ll tell you it’s the opportunity for developing life-changing personal technologies. During...

The new phones are the same design as the Beats Solo2's, but are wireless.

Historically, mid-term elections during a second term of any U.S. president have been unfavorable for his party. But in 1998, an embattled President Clinton went against conventional political wisdom and history. During...

From Walmart to JCPenny to the local barber shop, donation requests are everywhere. But some unfairly put consumers on the spot.

A social marketing firm for pop-up stores and events has opened the first online shopping mall that extends the shelf life of pop-up products. And it offers a listing of some of the best pop-ups happening this holiday s...

Behind the "Grand Bargain" saving Detroit's art collection from creditors, an untested legal theory about who owns a public collection.

It's not all about working hard.

Tax has become one of the least talked about Big Data challenges around: How do you capture all of a company?s financial data on a worldwide basis, get it into shape to be manipulated, analyzed and reported in a highly c...

Ugandan-born multi-millionaire entrepreneur Ashish J. Thakkar, the founder of Mara Group, is not giving up on Richard Branson?s commercial spaceflight company Virgin Galactic?s space mission just yet despite a recent fat...

Facebook today announced an update that gives you more control over what shows up in your News Feed. You can now quickly unfollow people and Pages right from the News Feed on both desktop and mobile. This functionality f...

Brain-to-brain communication takes a major step forward?but the world got a little lonelier along the way.

I read an interesting book called “Entrepreneurial DNA” by Joe Abraham, the founder of BOSI Global, an operating partner to venture-backed and owner-operated companies. The book is based on Joe’s study of over 1,00...

The photos spread like wildfire—striking a nerve throughout a community, and within days, becoming both national and international media stories. The headlines read something like this: Three high school girls had disq...

As Bitcoin businesses become compliant with financial regulation, they’re eschewing anonymity — and the Bitcoin community is not happy. Bitcoin ATM Robocoin stated yesterday that all of its ATM operators would have t...

The Android market is huge but highly fractured in China, and Rovio turned to the experts for help.

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

It’s that time of year again and Forbes Magazine is building its annual list of America’s Most Promising Companies for 2015.

I've been wearing the device around for a few days now, and while I definitely have my complaints about the device's performance, interface, and app, I definitely feel like I'm getting $200's worth of fitness tracker.

Strong female characters make for better games.