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(By Liana B. Baker and Greg Roumeliotis, Reuters) – Yahoo Inc will decide on its next strategic steps only after releasing quarterly earnings on Feb. 2, people familiar with the matter said, as the company continues to...

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Men make up 80 percent of the people working on games today, but women may represent a majority of the next wave of highly trained developers and designers. The University of Southern California’s game-design program f...

From small California solar power companies to regional hospitals, there's cautious preparation ahead of El Nino.

When you think of all the roles and departments inside of an organization (and there are many!) I believe that HR is most ready for some massive change. Why? Out of all the functions HR has perhaps remained static for th...

Stolen Uber Accounts Worth More than Stolen Credit Cards

This VC veteran on the challenges female-led startups endure and why forgetting failure is key to surviving in the venture world.

EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft has internally delayed its planned rollout of Windows 10 Mobile to current Windows Phone 8 handsets for another month, VentureBeat has learned — after shooting for a January release. News of the re...

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Everyone is  aware and in awe of the steady, rapid growth that Salesforce.com has had in recent years: 2015 saw growth like never before, with an estimated 1 million jobs projected by 2018 that will be directly enabled ...

Adblock Plus, the world’s most popular ad-blocking tool, today announced it has passed 500 million downloads. The half-a-billion milestone was achieved after 10 years: It just so happens that this is the same week that...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, a prototype for a different take on Star Wars: Battlefront III leaks, we see what Metal Gear Solid looks like in Unreal Engine 4, and Waluigi tries on some underwea...

Over 4,000 studies have shown negative health impacts associated with exposure to flame retardants, and last year, the nation’s largest furniture retailer, Ashley Furniture, announced that they would stop using flame r...

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Oil's slide may be adding to market jitters on Wall Street, but some small businesses on Main Street are seeing boosted bottom lines.

Last fall, Fortune published a great piece on the 21st century workplace titled “Why every aspect of your business is about to change.” The article focuses on the changing nature of workplaces and the economy, and it...

Twenty years to the day after the New York Times opened for business on the Web, the media giant has launched an online multimedia time capsule outlining key milestones at the Times over the past two decades. A History o...

Silos stifle communication and prevent teams from working together to achieve organizational objectives. CMOs, with their focus on the customer, are ideally positioned to bust them.

SPONSORED: The mobile mega-trend is impacting both consumers and retailers in a big way, and it's happening both in stores and out of them -- especially when mobility and analytics collide.

TheSquareFoot, a commercial real estate leasing marketplace, is trying to disrupt the office-leasing industry by using technology.

I had the rare pleasure of hitting the highest level in Call of Duty: Black Ops III multiplayer a week ago. This is the earliest I have ever hit level 55 in a Call of Duty game. That tells you that I like it, and that th...

EXCLUSIVE: GetSocial raised $2.5 million to expand its social networking platform for marketing and monetizing mobile games. The Amsterdam-based has built a backend platform for amplifying engagement of mobile gamers as ...