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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters, Joseph Menn) – Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world, Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, tried to damage rivals in the marketplace by tricking their antiv...

Is this a harsh thing to say, or is there a semblance of truth in it? Or even worse, is this the norm?

Contrary to what you've heard, selling is the oldest profession in the world, because “In the beginning,” the serpent sold Eve the apple. You might say she bought wholesale and then sold the apple retail to Adam. And...

By Mohan Sawhney 

Sorry, Jay Z: Your friend Barack Obama joined Spotify today. The White House inaugurated its account on the music streaming service with a two-part summertime playlist — one for daytime, one for nighttime. The Slow-Jam...

A piece of correspondence unearthed by a public records request may provide more evidence that Apple is indeed building a self-driving car. A report in the Guardian today says that Apple engineers met in May with officia...

Telegram, the encrypted messaging app backed by VKontakte founders Nikolai and Pavel Durov, announced today that its users send 10 billion messages per day. That’s up from 1 billion daily messages in December. That’s...

Last week the baseball great headed to Times Square to announce the release of "Portball," the world's first-ever sci-fi reality baseball game, in collaboration with NYC-based mobile app development agency Appetizer Mobi...

Overnight, live-streaming app Meerkat became the “it” thing in app-happy San Francisco this spring. Everybody seemed to be doing it. Suddenly, Twitter acquired Periscope in mid-March and shortly afterward cut off Mee...

Reuters published a story today claiming security firm Kaspersky Lab tried to damage rivals (including Microsoft, AVG, and Avast) by tricking their antivirus software programs into classifying benign files as malicious s...

It’s all about retention. That’s why Opera Mediaworks announced this week that its had acquired Yvolver. Headed by game veteran Steve Nix, the Dallas-based Yvolver created a marketing engagement platform that bears r...

Comcast is preparing to launch a video platform that will compete for ad dollars with web video players like Facebook and YouTube. The service is called “Watchable,” Business Insider reports, but that name could chan...

Facebook today is announcing that it has expanded the capabilities of OpenBMC, the open-source software that the social networking company developed to help it control certain aspects of its data center hardware. When Fa...

If someone you trust offered you the business opportunity of a lifetime, but you had to find or temporarily borrow $100,000 in the next 72 hours, could you do it?

Hillary Clinton came in second, with Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio in a virtual tie for third place.

EXCLUSIVE: Marketers are like anxious lovers. They want to know every little detail about you. Today, data management platform (DMP) Lotame is offering them more pieces of you. It is announcing a new Semantic Classificat...

Becoming wildly successful is the result of a combination of factors — pure chance, hard work, and taking risks.

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Splatoon is still selling well for Nintendo, Blizzard considers a Warcraft 4, and we discuss why 20 million downloads doesn’t necessarily make Angry Birds 2 a suc...

VB EVENT: Modern organizations need leaders who understand disruption, embody agility, and are naturals with new digital tools. Join us at GrowthBeat to learn from leaders who do all this. Samir Patel, the founder of Gro...

The Casual Connect game conference was a big affair this week in San Francisco, and it was a bellwether for the health of the game business. To me, it showed that the Golden Age of Gaming is still happening, but the indu...

For most companies, growth depends on the ability to collect, unify, and apply data about their customers. That data is critical to predicting customer needs and delivering relevant experiences across a multitude of chan...

This week saw the return of the most-watched ball game in the world. One league in particular is broadcast in 212 territories to an audience of over 4.5 billion people — the Barclays Premier League. You may call it soc...