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Online gambling firm 888 said it would buy peer Bwin.party Digital Entertainment in a cash and stock deal valued at about 898 million pounds ($1.40 billion).

Yahoo has officially filed with the SEC to spin-off its remaining shares of Alibaba Group into a publicly traded company called Aabaco Holdings. Yahoo says Aabaco Holdings will make its debut in the fourth quarter of 201...

Using drag-and-drop tools, Readz generates HTML5-based responsive sites, landing pages, Web magazines, and white papers that can be immediately visualized in its platform for smartphone, tablet, or desktop.

GUEST: At an average of $83,000 per year, top social media managers may be overpaid for their contribution

Google's shares soared as much as 16.8 percent on Friday, crossing the $700 mark and adding nearly $68 billion to its market value, as strong growth in YouTube viewership allayed concerns about Facebook Inc's push into ...

Real-money online gambling is consolidating, and that could have an impact on social casino games.

The sharing, or collaborative, economy is a new type of business built on the concept of shared resources. This ability to share what is available allows customers to access goods or services when they are needed, rather...

Ooma, which is a provider of cloud-based communications services for homes and small businesses, pulled off its IPO today. While the debut was a bit rocky, the fact is the company has built a solid platform and has conti...

Because most buyers of businesses prefer "asset" sales, sellers of "C" corporations face a big problem: double taxation. In the case of natural resources companies, sidestepping double-taxation is a very real possibility...

OPINION: Saying Xiaomi stole Apple's design smacks of a willing misunderstanding about how design works in the smartphone world.

Today, July 17, is World Emoji Day, created by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge. If you want to celebrate but you’re no good at incorporating emoji — those cute little picture-characters representing words — into yo...

The world is littered with the ashes of innovative and often superior products that never really caught on. The companies behind these products failed because they created a something that the existing market wasn’t pr...

A city isn't a city without its 'silicon' district. London has Silicon Roundabout (opening out to Tech City), New York has Silicon Alley and, over in Ireland, Dublin welcomes high-tech companies to Silicon Docks. And if ...

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

Spam is at its lowest point in over a decade.

When Brian Cohen met the person who would later be the founder of Pinterest, it wasn’t long before Cohen knew he needed to be his angel investor.

A reporter who wrote about the new GoPro4 Session created the headline the GoPro should have. Why that headline worked.

The game has been a big hit with Fallout fans, but its designers could learn a lot from mobile experts.

Capital spending by American business has been slack for nearly a year, but will grow in the coming months. Orders for non-defense capital goods (excluding aircraft) have actually declined since last August. GDP data sug...

For years Rodrick Markus has experimented with truffles. A purveyor of the world's best and rarest ingredients to the country's top restaurants, Markus deals exotics from The Rare Tea Cellar, his shop/warehouse in Ch...

Today's news and insights for business owners, including the case for cold-calling -- and why CEOs should do it every day.

Whenever I talk to companies about their go-to-market strategy, no matter how big they are, I find myself going back to the same question. I call it the $100-million-question. Here it is: When you eventually become a $1...