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One small business is trying to break its own record for chicken wing sales on Super Bowl weekend.

Don’t worry, no Bothans died to bring us this information. Game publisher Bandai Namco has a list that reveals every location in the country, by state, where you can play Star Wars: Battle Pod. It’s an arcade shootin...

LinkedIn (LNKD) revealed today during its Q4 2015 earnings report that it now has 414 million members, a 3.43 percent increase from last quarter’s results. “In the quarter, cumulative members grew 19% to 414 million,...

WhatsApp has released an update that increases the number of people you can have in a group chat. Before today, the messaging service limited you to 100 people, but now that has more than doubled to 256. First noticed by...

Every few months, Microsoft shares Windows Store numbers to help developers figure out what is worth investing their time and energy into. Today, the company unveiled the latest numbers, and for the first time disclosed ...

You’re going to need a large area to enjoy the full capabilities of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset. VR watchers have always known this. But now, they’re finally getting the specifics. HTC has uploaded the user ...

Epic Games is unveiling a new virtual reality edition of its Unreal Engine game-development tool today that enables you to create a video game from within VR. The move shows that VR, which is expected to be a $30 billion...

Five priorities you should consider implementing this year in order to improve the overall performance of your company.

Virginia-based startup Notarize, an electronic notarization system, launched today after a $2.4 million seed investment led by Polaris Partners, the startup announced. Notarize said that it takes advantage of a law passe...

EXCLUSIVE: Super Salvo Sports is a new football-prediction strategy game that debuts on the app stores today in advance of the Super Bowl. The title is an attempt to get the huge numbers of fans who are watching the Supe...

EXCLUSIVE: It’s kinda silly that strategy games on smartphones and tablets are, well, so static. Your forces swarm on enemy bases, but they really don’t go anywhere. They don’t really showcase “mobile.” Path or...

We’ve known for a long time that gaming videos do well on YouTube, but now the video site is sharing some data on what exactly will get people watching. YouTube Gaming revealed its top 10 trending games for January. Un...

You can't instantly make your brand trustworthy to a wide audience of people, but there are a handful of simple strategies you can use to instantly increase the trustworthiness of your brand (and the messages it gives).

The unwavering verdict of the middle market M&A world is that relative bigness brings a higher multiple when a company is sold. So Pelican Products, a specialty container-and-packaging manufacturer, while quadrupling its...

Apple’s dominance as the top smartphone maker in the U.S. continued throughout last year (it’s still second worldwide), growing slightly from 41.6 percent in December 2014 to 42.9 percent of the pie at the end of 201...

VB EVENT: The idea that an organization should be focused on its customer seems like common sense, but it is not always easy to act on. The good news is that there has been a convergence of technology, data, and organiza...

Mobile payment service Fit Pay snagged a $3.1 million seed round led by security company Giesecke & Devrient, the startup announced today. Fit Pay said its technology “allows wearable device manufacturers to seamlessly...

Zendrive today announced that it has raised $13.5 million in funding for its technology to make transportation safer. The investment was led by Sherpa Capital and will be used to improve the company's technology and add ...

San Francisco has always been a hotbed of startup competition. But Super Bowl 50 turned up the heat.

I had the opportunity to read Alec Ross's new book and interview him about what the future holds for my generation of millennials and the generations to come. 

VB WEBINAR: It's not the size of your data stockpile, it's how you use it. Join the digital marketing gurus who can make data do headstands, as they break down the latest VB Insight Marketing Analytics Report and share i...

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