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Frontier Developments are bringing us to space with Elite: Dangerous, and now to the theme park with Planet Coaster.

While potential franchisees might weigh a number of factors when considering a franchise brand, in the interest of a viable approach we approved three basic criteria to frame the study.

GUEST: The open-source software movement started in the late 1990s. Since then, open-source software has transformed the software industry. Today, many infrastructure software startups employ open-source strategies to ma...

Nintendo sales chief is bullish on a full slate of Wii U and 3DS games for 2015.

VB WEBINAR: App owners and brands are leaving a vast untapped set of MMA features on the table -- along with revenue that these features could generate.

The startup PingTank, which creates animated emoticons, hired a 12-year-old to be its VP of youth marketing.

The company is getting some traction with self-insured enterprises, which are offering the Doctor on Demand service to their employees as an add-on to their health insurance benefits.

Mobile live streaming startup Meerkat today showed off something really cool: streaming from a GoPro instead of a phone. “You can see, the future is here,” Meerkat cofounder and chief executive Ben Rubin said during ...

Microsoft just gave me a little glimpse into the future thanks to a special visor and some fancy holograms. I'm not sure if it was the future of gaming, but it was definitely the future of ... something.

Simplifying the process of incorporating Amazon Cloud Drive into non-Amazon apps could result in broader adoption of the service.

The Fed has achieved a good mix of financial institutions, tech vendors, payment disruptors, users and consumer advocates on its steering committee for faster payments.

GUEST: Advertising dollars have always followed consumers to the platforms they spend the most time on. As users flock to mobile, where exactly will ad spend fall?

Connecticut is trying to significantly increase business taxes; the business community does not like that much.

The new camera will integrate with Nest's flagship smart thermostat product, as well as its smart smoke alarm.

The Nest Protect smoke alarm will now test itself on a regular basis to make sure it's working.

More than a third of GitHub's 32 million visitors come from Europe -- the largest concentration of GitHub users around the world.

The new product, Trends, will also feature curated data sets created by the Google News team.

Twitter is a powerful tool for businesses when used correctly. It can help you generate leads, solidify your branding, and build connections with your prospects. The trouble is, if you have no followers, you can’t expe...

Today's news and insights for business owners, including why America's strip malls are dying.

Intel has acquired Recon Instruments, a Vancouver, Canada-based maker of heads-up displays for athletes. Recon makes two products: The Recon Snow2, which is a ski mask with an integrated display, and the Recon Jet, a pai...

At the age of 26, I returned from my first trip to Paris. It should have been a dream, all expenses paid working as a fashion styling assistant dressing an A-List actress for a multi-million dollar liquor campaign. I as...

Twitter today announced it has acquired machine learning startup Whetlab. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Whetlab, which has only been around for about a year, built technology to make machine learning “better an...