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In 2014, Mark Estee, 45, an entrepreneur in Reno, NV, who runs five restaurants, opened an ambitious venture he called Reno Provisions in an old J.C. Penney building. The $1.2 million project included a 10,000-square-foo...

Grand Theft Auto is still one of the biggest gaming franchises in the world. Publisher Take-Two Interactive revealed today that developer Rockstar Games has shipped more than 60 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V acros...

Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO) reported earnings that beat financial expectations for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31. The company managed to make adjusted net income in the qu...

Microsoft today shared details about some of the features it is working on for its Edge browser this year. The news focuses on developers, but a lot of what was unveiled also naturally trickles down to the user. Because ...

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GUEST: Congratulations to cofounders Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds, and the entire SwiftKey team — makers of the world’s smartest mobile keyboard application — on their acquisition by Microsoft. Rise of AI and natur...

In a conference call with analysts, Nintendo chief executive Tatsumi Kimishima kept fans guessing about big strategic initiatives, but he did disclose additional details about upcoming mobile games, Nintendo’s new loya...

EXCLUSIVE: Totspot, a marketplace to buy and sell children’s clothes, announced today that it closed a $1.5 million seed investment led by Seven Seas Venture Partners. GGV Capital, 500 Startups, and Structure Capital a...

Is the U.S. on the path to another year of slow growth, or are the executives in this survey merely being influenced by all of the negative headlines and taking a relatively short-term view of the next 12 months?

Texas Hold ’em is one of the most popular card games in the world. Yet one company is looking to shake up a formula that began more than a century ago. Earlier this week, Mediarex Sports & Entertainment launched a new ...

New data shows mid-size manufacturers -- long considered past their prime to overseas pressures -- are still going strong.

5 tips for millennials working to get ahead in business.

In the name of making Silicon Valley more transparent when it comes to diversity, Intel released a lot of data in its global diversity and inclusion report, building on its earlier report that 43 percent of the company�...

YouTube, eager to capture cord cutters with original content since 2011, is about to debut one show and three movies exclusive to the company’s Red subscription service and Google Play. We’ve known this was coming si...

U.K.-based startup Sonovate announced today that it closed a $22 million (£20 million) series A round. Dawn Capital led a $5.5 million investment for Sonovate, while Shawbrook Business Credit provided the remaining $16....

Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content-blocking plugins to the browser preinstalled on its Android phones. The first plugin available for Samsung’s browser was Adblock Fast, a free and open source solution...

EXCLUSIVE: China’s stock market has had a bad year, but the country’s game industry remains strong and on track to grow dramatically over time. That’s the underlying belief behind Chinese game market analyst firm N...

Handshake announced today that it has raised a $10.5 million Series A round for its college career network. Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the investment will be used to help the company build additional...

Square has created a publication that’s not centered around payments, transactions, or commerce, but rather on female engineers. The company wants it to be a guide for other businesses that have an interest in supporti...

Google has revealed that it’s giving away its high-speed Fiber Internet access for free to all residents living in all public housing properties that have Google Fiber available. In partnership with the U.S. Department...

Everybody knows that gaming could be big on augmented reality, but they haven’t really shown what would be fun. But a video made by Brooklyn Boulders and startup Randori shows how augmented reality could be used to mak...

ANALYSIS: Amazon is planning to open up 400 physical bookstores as the Internet giant takes its battle with brick-and-mortar retailers to the frontline. The confirmation, according to a report in yesterday’s Wall Stree...