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Apple has made an agreement to lease a large piece of real estate in Sunnyvale, California on which it plans to occupy a second “spaceship” office building. And if recent reports about the scale of Apple’s electric...

By Rebecca Dalzell

The British Grand Prix was the first race of the Formula One auto racing championship in 1950 and it has been on the calendar ever since. However, its future is now in jeopardy despite a report today revealing that its o...

These phrases make you sound passive-aggressive, even when you don't mean to be.

CEOs frequently point to jumbo peer company financings and wonder if they can expect the same. Private markets are so imperfect that it's hard to know for sure. Staying flexible and having an honest dialogue with investo...

Shakira is going to be part of Rovio’s Angry Birds family. That’s not so easy to do, as her hips don’t lie, and the Angry Birds cartoon characters don’t actually have hips. In any case, Rovio just shared a new vi...

Google has officially changed its name to “Alphabet,” according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Alphabet will act as a holding company, comprising all of Google’s various companies, as well...

All eyes are on Hurricane Joaquin along the Eastern Seaboard as the storm gathers strength. Homeowners and business owners up and down the Atlantic coast are preparing for the effects of what is expected to be the most p...

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Tuesday, October 20 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. “The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.'...

"They have the resources to really amplify the brand. I was in tears, delighted, when I told employees. I'm not cashing out. I'm rolling the dice again," Brewery cofounder and 30 Under 30 alum Meg Gill told FORBES.

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Apple has bought a U.K.-based artificial intelligence startup called VocalIQ, whose technology might eventually make Siri more conversational and smarter. VocalIQ’s software helps computers and people speak to each oth...

EXCLUSIVE: Online backup storage provider IDrive is launching a new corporate venture arm, IDrive Ventures, and has started to make investments in startups out of a $10 million fund. The main person in the effort is IDri...

Technology was originally envisioned as a way travel suppliers could bypass travel agents and gain direct consumer bookings. Increasingly, suppliers are using technology to direct bookings through travel advisors. Acqual...

Entrepreneurs are fascinating people. We are all interested in how their minds work, how they make decisions, and most of all, how they succeed. As angel investors, we have a vested interest in learning the path to entre...

VB EVENT: Prior to his onstage appearance at GamesBeat 2015, Ninja Metrics CEO Dr. Dmitri Williams spoke with us about the mobile game's industry to "whale-fish," and how our relationship with our heaviest users could be...

Facebook’s fast-growing digital video push is still very much a minnow to Google’s whale, according to VB’s latest research report: FB v GOOG: Who’s really winning in digital video? There’s been a lot said late...

I know, I know. Shocking title, right? I mean, who knew? Somebody get me Joe Pulizi on the phone, stat. He's never gonna believe this. Ok, enough levity. You can get a sense of just a touch of sarcasm in my tone I presum...

Even though we're in the age of smartphones, car and property rental companies still rely on paper documents to record damage disputes. Watch the founder of Record360 predict how all asset conditioning will take place on...

Microsoft now owns one of gaming’s most popular middleware tools. The Xbox company announced this morning that it has acquired Havok, the technology company best known for creating a physics engine of the same name, fr...

To startup companies looking to enter the book publishing field, Amazon.com is a huge immovable object in the middle of the road.  Most publishing startups don't really try to compete with Amazon; instead they try to ...

Motorola today announced plans to upgrade 11 of its phones to Google’s new Android Marshmallow operating system. Here is the list, announced in a blog post. 2015 Moto X Pure Edition (3rd gen) 2015 Moto X Style (3rd gen...