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Cyanogen, the startup behind the Android-based Cyanogen mobile operating system, is working with Microsoft on a major integration of Microsoft’s Cortana personal digital assistant for Cyanogen OS, if a report today is ...

Futurefly, a startup that includes former Remedy Entertainment game veteran Oskari "Ozz" Häkkinen, has raised $2.5 million in funding for a new mobile game and app-messaging technology. Häkkinen, the former head of fra...

How much is a bestseller actually worth to your business success and PR? As it turns out, quite a bit, according to 4-time author Wendy Lipton-Dibner. But bestseller status is only meaningful if it's achieved with authen...

Last year Apple sold 4 million iPhone 6 devices in the first 24 hours of preorders. Preorders of the new iPhone 6s start tonight at midnight, and Apple will be hard-pressed to match last year’s number. That’s because...

On-demand car service Lyft has been cited by federal regulators over unwanted autodialed text messages. In a release by the Federal Communications Commission, it’s alleged that the company is violating the Telephone Co...

Nick Earl, a former Electronic Arts executive who joined mobile gaming company Kabam in November, announced today he is leaving his job as president of worldwide studios. Earl said in a blog post that he was leaving “w...

GUEST: Much has been made of Apple’s decision to incorporate ad-blocking into iOS9, with many seeing it as a direct barrage aimed at Google’s traditional ad-revenues. However, there's another update in the new OS tha...

Fundbox, which enables small business owners to be instantly paid on invoices, received funding from Spark Capital Growth and Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, which processes many B2B payments and invoices.

VB EVENT: In two weeks, some of the most prominent thinkers and practitioners in agile marketing will be meeting up in San Francisco to discuss how you can extend the principles of modern software development to your mar...

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories. -B...

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush wants to fix the nation's tax law. Which is great - it needs a lot of work. But so far, Bush doesn't seem very interested in fixing something even more important: the IRS. Becau...

Getting the word out about your business can be challenging, especially with so many other businesses clamoring for consumer attention. Today, some of the most effective marketing is done online, where customers spend a ...

The role of the chief information officer is changing dramatically. Gartner famously predicted a few years ago that by 2017 the chief marketing officer’s budget for new technology would outstrip that of the CIO. That m...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Halo composer Marty O'Donnell won a court case against Bungie, Apple TV showed off gaming support, and PlayStation 4 beat its competition again in sales. Have a gre...

After a concerned Windows user wrote in to the Inquirer, reports blew up this week that Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 installation files onto users’ machines without them reserving a copy of the new operating sys...

The Justice Department says it's going to get tough on white-collar crime and go after more high-level employees rather than settling with companies. Good luck there -- white-collar enterprises don't make it easy to pros...

When it comes to ambition, you can’t get much bigger than ChronoBlade. The inaugural free-to-play mobile title from San Francisco developer nWay is expected to debut early next year, and it will be the latest test of w...

Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo can all breathe a sigh of relief. Apple had the living room video game console makers in its gun sights, but it didn’t pull the trigger. True to Steve Jobs’ legendary disdain for games, ...

As a native New Yorker and long-suffering Jets fan now living in the Philly suburbs, I’ve also become an Eagles fan. I think it’s OK to simultaneously root for two different teams as long as one is from your hometown...

India’s homegrown ecommerce giant Snapdeal, which raised $500 million at a $5 billion valuation last month, announced Friday that it has started offering “instant refunds.” What it really means by instant is that c...

If you've been in business for more than a few years, you have undoubtedly experienced a dysfunctional work marriage. Described here are four classic situations--along with what you can do about them.

Alex Stephany knows a thing or two about the "sharing economy. " As CEO of JustPark he presides over a businesses that matches drivers in search of parking lots with businesses and private individuals with spaces availab...