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In 1988, Julia Roberts portrayed Mystic Pizza as a 'Slice of Heaven.' But the guilty plea to tax evasion and financial structuring by its owner John Zelepos could mean up to 15 years in Prison.

Cambrian Genomics has found a way to radically reduce the cost of making DNA, enabling anyone to design an organism. The innovation has engendered both excitement and concern about the scope of potential applications.

Apple has published a set of three new videos at its site designed to help prospective Watch buyers understand how their new gadget will work in everyday life. Apple refers to the videos as “guided” tours, and has so...

Here's a list of today's tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds.

Acorns, easily the best designed investment app on the market, has secured at least $10.5 million in additional capital. Acorns disclosed the new round in a filing with the SEC, but did not respond to VentureBeat’s req...

Microsoft is working on an unlocked version of the Surface 3 tablet carrying LTE, members of the Surface team said in an Ask Me Anything (AMA) conversation on Reddit today. “[W]e are doing an unlocked LTE version,” t...

A few decades ago a 27-year-old, shiny, new Xerox sales representative was minted.

It’s the final leg of my marathon series of meetings in Israel – I am here with a delegation of Hispanic entrepreneurs – and my tour bus is climbing the slow and steady hill up to Nazareth. In the old city this aft...

The eyes have it.

VB Event: What do CMOs need to be successful? Last week VB held its first-ever CMO Council meeting at the Battery Club. Founding members, the CMOs and top marketing heads of Virgin America, Old Navy, Keurig, Google Glass...

Twitch has 100 million people tuning in each month, and that has the music and television industries taking notice.

Gaming execs: Join 180 select leaders from King, Glu, Rovio, Unity, Facebook, and more to plan your path to global domination in 2015. GamesBeat Summit is invite-only -- apply here. Ticket prices increase on April 3rd! C...

The shutdown shows the peril of cloud game purchases.

More mobile-friendly discovery could come in handy as Pinterest looks to keep expanding internationally.

Today Microsoft announced that it will no longer turn on its “Do Not Track” setting by default for Windows users. The decision comes more than two years after Microsoft first turned on Do Not Track (by default) in In...

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

Netherfire wants to bring Eastern games to the West, and it's trying to be creative.

When your favorite baseball team begins play in the coming week, check out the gear worn by batters: the batting gloves, elbow pad, wrist wrap and leg guard. You will notice products by EvoShield, the official prote...

Vine first released this update to Android and iPhone users in August.

VB Event: Lynn Vojvodich, EVP and CMO of Salesforce, and Peter Hamilton, CEO and Partner at TUNE, head to Boston in June for VB's invite-only Growth Summit bringing together 180 top marekters.

Being relaxed at work can actually be bad for your career.

Social enterprise startup accelerator Fledge has launched FledgeX, an online version that can accept many more teams.