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Venture capital investments hit a near-record high of $58.8 billion in the U.S. in 2015, according to the MoneyTree Report from PwC (the National Venture Capital Association), based on data from Thomson Reuters. That amo...

Here's how to get more done every single day, including those crucial but huge tasks like writing a book or shooting a video. Why conventional wisdom on productivity and to do lists will is dead wrong, and what works ins...

The Supreme Court agrees to hear an appeal of a class action tactic in a case over XBox 360 consoles.

Before I moved to my current law office in New York, for ten years I worked in Los Angeles sometimes working with people in the entertainment industry getting them immigration visas to work in Hollywood. I was particular...

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. Jawbone confirms $165M funding round and COO Samat's departure to Google Jawbone has raised a new round ...

Jawbone has raised a new round of funding, bringing in $165 million from The Kuwait Investment Authority to fund its operations. The company also revealed that president Sameer Samat will be leaving to take another job a...

Microsoft today announced updates to its support policy for Windows on certain types of computer processors. The changes show Microsoft wanting Windows 10 to be running on the latest silicon. The news is particularly imp...

The number of U.S. gamers who watch esports has grown 100 percent over two years, according to a national study by market researcher Frank N. Magid Associates. The study showed that fans are into watching competitive vid...

Regardless of the size of the business, ultimate responsibility for success lies with the CEO. If you’re a small business owner, that’s you. And the most critical CEO tasks that result in success or failure lie in th...

The Dollar Shave Club is one sharp example of how manufacturing supply chains are being disrupted. Yet its approach to winning market share is disarmingly simple. Other staple consumer goods, from pet food to diapers, co...

A study from Mayor Bill de Blasio's office found Uber and competitors have not significantly added to NYC congestion.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One continue to build substantial audiences of gamers willing to spend cash, and 2015 is proof of that. The game industry made $13.1 billion in revenue from new hardware and software sold at U....

When it comes to on-site factors for SEO, content marketing, and other inbound strategies, most people pay attention to structural elements and aesthetic elements. Structural elements include title tags and meta tags in ...

Until now, sellers of companies that are C corporations were more likely than not exposed to tax death. That is, double-taxation. First, tax on the sale of assets. Then, tax on the distribution of proceeds. However, Cong...

Twitter has announced that it has updated its polling feature, giving users the ability to customize how long the polls lasted for. By default they were 24 hours, but now it can be modified to run as short as five minute...

We’re a matter of weeks away from seeing Nintendo software on non-Nintendo devices. The publisher’s first smartphone game is coming in March, Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima wrote in an editorial for Japanese ne...

Great content seems rare in today’s internet landscape. Ensuring your company is associated with top-tier content is a massive undertaking that will require a lot of strategy first, and a lot of execution second. You�...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we picked the 10 best RPGs of 2015, the PlayStation 4 continues to outsell the Xbox One, and Psychonauts 2 finished its crowdfunding campaign. Enjoy, and have a gre...

VB EVENT: We're pleased to introduce our first two speakers for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4 at the scenic Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, California. This event is...

I thought I might have been doing a service in a recent piece I did indicating that Bernie Sanders is not proposing a 90% income tax rate.  In some ways the Sanders campaign is a little at fault for this rumor, since th...

When Advanced Micro Devices created its own stand-alone graphics division, Radeon Technologies Group, and crafted a new brand, Polaris, for its upcoming graphics architecture, it was an admission of sorts. AMD championed...

China may have hit the pause button, and the stock market tanked. Game investments and game industry acquisitions fell sharply in 2015, even as venture capital got a huge boost thanks to the creation of so many “unicor...