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The GamesBeat staff has reemerged from the fighting pits (aka our home offices), and we’ve come out with a top 10 list. And we lost almost no crew members! So, after weeks of consideration and a rough 90 minute discuss...

By Scott Shepard

Apple and Samsung have inked deals with UnionPay to enter the mobile payments space in China by early 2016, according to a report by Bloomberg late Thursday. We’d already heard rumours last month that Apple Pay would l...

The Court can simply require schools to compensate or account for those applicants who are in fact displaced by use of the race-plus factor.

Transit commuters are finally going to be on equal footing with drivers--when it comes to tax breaks.

Update on Friday, December 18: Xbox Live is down again for some. People are having troubles getting their Xbox One to function. Xbox Live is experiencing an intermittent outage, according to a number of complaints on soc...

Even though the number of businesses owned by African Americans entrepreneurs is rising sharply, many struggle to secure the financing they need to start or grow their businesses. According to the Small Business Associat...

Entrepreneurs of color help play a key role in the city’s recovery.

Fresvii has raised $4 million from Japan’s Nissay Capital to expand AppSteroid, its mobile gaming social networking service. The funding shows the huge demand for bring social to mobile games, which have become a $30 b...

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When I think about the excitement around virtual reality, I sometimes imagine a large group of investors and designers leaping on a careening bandwagon in which the driver has been shot and the brakes have come loose. Do...

(Reuters) — Facebook Inc is offering employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters at least $10,000 to move closer to the office, a reflection of the challenges many tech companies face in the increasingly expensive and...

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. Spark Capital leads $15M round for San Francisco drone startup Lily Camera drone startup Lily announ...

It’s finally over. The October 15th tax deadline is behind us, which means tax practitioners have mercifully finished their filings for the year. Unless of course, you chose to make your career in the not-for-profit ...

Kinglet is the "eHarmony of commercial real estate," working as a matchmaker of sorts for companies who have extra office space and looking to sublet that out to entrepreneurs and start-ups that are a) in need of a good ...

The Lending Club of China, Yirendai, went public on Wall Street, in a trend that runs counter to Chinese companies seeking to go private or list in Shanghai.

SPONSORED: As mobile, social media, advertising, and online payment technologies have grown and adapted, they have combined to create a perfect storm of engagement, content, and commercial opportunity that has changed th...

Cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services today that its AWS IoT service for working with data from Internet-connected devices is now generally available. Amazon first announced the beta launch of AWS IoT at the ...

EXCLUSIVE: At Pinterest, that company with a popular app for pinning images and other content to boards, much of the source code is written in the longstanding Python programming language. But in the past year, a few of ...

Less than 2 percent of Permian basin tight oil wells are commercial at $30 per barrel oil prices. Sorry about that. I know that many believe that U.S. shale and tight oil plays are commercial even at current low oil pr...

Google is no idiot. It knows people are searching the Internet for information about U.S. presidential candidates. So Google went over to the White House and filmed a video of the place. It’s more immersive than your a...

Microsoft today updated the web version of its email client in Office 365, Outlook on the web (formerly Outlook Web App), with address book improvements and flight events in your calendar. The former focuses on learning ...