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Google’s second-generation Chromecast has been a while in the making, but now there appears to be some fresh leaks on what we can expect to see from it — and when. The new Chromecast, which almost looks like a party ...

Adobe enhanced its current marketing cloud leadership position today, announcing record revenue just as key rival Salesforce made major announcements about expansions to its marketing cloud. The battle is heating up. Ado...

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GUEST: Linkedin is one of the most successful Web 2.0 companies in history — but it's success stops short when it comes to mobile. LinkedIn's main mobile app has long attempted to do everything its web product does: th...

Facebook has filed a patent for a new way to ascertain the digital signatures of cameras from photographs and then associate it with users within a social network. The application notes that the association of camera wit...

AT&T’s customers aren’t the only ones who hated the carrier’s draconian phone unlocking policies. AT&T is now suing three ex-employees for taking part in a massive scheme to unlock thousands of AT&T phones from the...

It was once the norm for a salesperson to interrupt a decision-maker’s day with a reasonable expectation of success. Indeed, for 10,000 years before the telephone, what we now refer to as “cold calling” was how cus...

No other social network comes close to LinkedIn for professional networking and lead generation. However, while many professionals use the platform to make new connections, LinkedIn is much more than just an online rolod...

According to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), revenue from programmatic advertising in the was over $10 billion in 2014 in the U.S. alone, and is expected to increase this year.

The Xbox One is about to get a makeover. Microsoft announced this morning that it is rolling out what it is calling the “new Xbox One experience” for select gamers that are in the console’s preview program. Those p...

Microsoft today launched a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with improvements to the Start menu and tablet mode, a slew of app updates, and ORTC support in Microsoft Edge. This build includes more than just the usual bug f...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, September 29 at 9 a.m. Pacific, 12 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. International marketing fails are legendary — and show that even mega brands can blunder bi...

GUEST: For those who haven't noticed yet, the market for mobile games in the West has started to mature. Mobile game revenue of six public listed companies combined (DeNA*, EA, Glu, Gree*, King, and Zynga) grew a paltry ...

Google and other tech industry players testified in Washington this week that the 30-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) needs and overhaul. The law, written in 1986, was meant to set warrant rules arou...

BlackBerry’s Android phone, codenamed Venice, continues to see leak after leak. Following the slew of images we’ve already seen, we now have a hands-on video. In June, rumors that BlackBerry was building an Android s...

Android users should probably be extra careful about what applications they download these days, especially when using non-Google Play stores. According to Cheetah Mobile’s security research lab, there’s a new virus ...

We’ll have somewhere around 80 speakers and moderators at GamesBeat 2015. They’re the best and the brightest of the game industry. We’ve publicized many of them below already. But you’ll have to find out about tw...

Photography service EyeEm has unveiled a new web upload feature which it says will help make images more searchable. Called “EyeVision,” it analyzes any photo in order to craft a set of suggested tags and categories ...

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VB EVENT: Long-time entertainment industry kingmaker Peter Levin, now president of interactive ventures and games at Lionsgate, will join the ranks of dozens of games industry notables at GamesBeat 2015. Levin will be sp...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we celebrated the 30th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., Amazon showed off a Fire TV made for gaming, and The Witness finally got a release date. Enjoy, and have a ...

Twitch and Battle.net accounts are about to hook up. Blizzard announced today that Twitch users can now log into their Battle.net accounts in the game-streaming service. To incentivize players to do so, Blizzard is givin...