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Ryan Holiday beats all the odds.

Thirty years ago, Banana Republic was a different looking and sounding company than it is now.

Appointment TV has seen better days. Sure, live sporting events, big-time award shows, live TV talk, and breaking news still have the capacity to draw large, shared audiences in real-time. But more and more consumers are...

Target, Best Buy, and Walmart might not sell as many games as they are expecting as consumers migrate away from physical media.

The common thread that’s driven the American Dream throughout our nation’s 200-year history is the desire to achieve autonomy.

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Just outside Des Moines, Iowa, Facebook has developed a whole new way of moving data around its data centers. The social networking company clearly wants to support an increasing number of users. To that end, it’s rede...

While Apple is still running around trying to ship its first smartwatch, Android Wear is welcoming yet another addition: the ASUS ZenWatch. The watch, which comes with an elegant leather band, curved stainless steel body...

It's the time of year when most medium to large companies do year-end performance reviews. Unfortunately, when it comes to reviewing performance, most people--the employee being reviewed and the manager who has to "condu...

Are you looking for a beautiful, professional design for your business website, blog, or online magazine? In this post I share my 10 favorite free WordPress themes of the past year.

Today was the day that happiness came to London.

Let's face it - being an entrepreneur is easier today than 20 years ago, but way more complicated in the choices you can make. An interesting story from Smart Host founder, Evan Hammer, recently brought new insights into...

The secret to successful digital marketing in 2015 is pretty simple. You’ve got to know your customer.

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

Stanford continues its wildly popular course on building Internet empires. Every week, investor Sam Altman brings in new Silicon Valley celebrities to spill novel secrets. Recently, they held a special two-week series on...

The buyers are coming out of the woodworks. Don't expect the buying frenzy to end soon.

If you're trying to care for a large population of people, you want to develop for the mobile platform that the largest number of people are using, Wong suggested. That's Android.

The new systems will be several times more powerful than any U.S. supercomputers today.

Nancy McIntyre discusses the future of educational games as global audiences develop a taste for them.

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Seed investor enthusiasm and capital inflows to seed funds have driven up the price of equity in early-stage companies. This makes the market tough for early-stage VCs: investments need to perform better than ever. But, ...

Today Microsoft announced the beta launch of Skype for Web, a project to bring completely plugin-free calling to all major browsers, powered by the Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) standard. The new service, rolling ...