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In September, Facebook launched 360-degree video support, which is perfect for a virtual reality headset. GoPro was one of the first companies to jump on the opportunity, alongside the likes of Discovery, Vice, and Star ...

Why would an increase in lending rates be good news to an entrepreneur in search of financing?

VB WEBINAR: Watch the CMO Roundtable for free on-demand right here. The tools they use may be leading-edge but when it comes to engaging mobile app users, Playboy and GameStop adhere to advice our grandmas might have giv...

Top daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel filed lawsuits on Friday to contest an order to shut down their online gaming operations in New York state, asking a state court to rule that the games are not il...

Is calling your prospects dummies a good way to attract clients? You bet it is.

Apple's Tim Cook Says Cash Will be Dead for the Next Generation of Kids

If you’re looking to up your game professionally and give yourself a competitive edge, you may be considering an executive MBA program. Unlike a full-time MBA program, EMBAs let you keep working while getting your MBA,...

Brigham Young University has been voted by The Princeton Review as the most "Stone Cold Sober" school 18 years in a row. So what are its students doing on the infamous social networking app Snapchat?

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Eve: Valkyrie creator CCP Games raises $30M for virtual reality games Virtual reality pioneer CCP Ga...

EXCLUSIVE: More Fallout 4 Tips and tricks Review The jankiness of Fallout 4 MIT isn’t evil Fallout 4 isn’t just causing a wave of “sick” days across the planet. The excellent open-world role-playing game is also ...

Unity Technologies has armed more than 2 million developers with the tools to make video games. And those developers have shown a lot of enthusiasm for gaming’s newest platform, virtual reality. So much so that we coul...

Put away your phones, tablets, laptops, smartwatches, TVs, etc. — at least while you eat. Amen. “Sadly the family meal, this great symbol of togetherness, is disappearing in some societies,” and we have technology ...

Microsoft today launched Office Insider, an ongoing preview program for Office 365 subscribers looking to test new features and improvements coming to the suite’s apps. Office Insider currently only applies to Office 2...

Digg, the viral news site gunning for a comeback, today announced a $4 million raise led by a subsidiary of Tokyo-based startup incubator Digital Garage. On top of that, the site is getting a new CEO. In a company statem...

It seems like we just can’t get enough of Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games. Sweeney has been a video game graphics guru for more than two decades. During that time, he has seen computing technology get 100,00...

Bethesda Softworks said that it shipped 12 million copies, or $750 million worth of post-apocalypse role-playing game Fallout 4 to retailers for its launch day. And it says that follow-up shipments have already begun, su...

SPONSORED: Mobile apps must continually seek new ways to differentiate in a competitive market that is only getting fiercer by the second. Brought to you by Skyhook, this post is part of a series called “Apptitude” l...

We’re all trying to get a handle on virtual reality, and its cousin, augmented reality. Will it be a bust? Or will the two industries become a $150 billion market by 2020, as tech advisor Digi-Capital predicts? Will th...

Dave Berkus has been angel investing for more than 20 years - before the term "angel" was popularly known.

Corporate accelerators canb be better than traditional ones for startups in certain sectors. Automatic introductions to vast networks are just one of the benefits of corporate accelerators, Venture Capitalist Nancy Fechn...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu might be best known for his hawkish foreign policy, his confrontational, even alienating demeanor, and his determination to resist Iran and radical Islamist forces at all costs. ...

I was recently traveling extensively throughout India, and was excited to visit Thiruvananthapuram along the southwest coast, filled with British colonial architecture and lined by popular beaches. What intrigued me abou...