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Google has dedicated the past several years to breaking down the language barriers and learning difficulties that its machine algorithms have faced, but what's the end game?

Given that a small percent of family businesses survive two generations, it's imperative owners train their heirs in financial literacy early on.

One question that trademark lawyers hear all the time is “they can’t trademark that, can they?” Take the recent news about the “Trumpertantrum.” Did Donald coin the term? Maybe not. But that does not mean he ca...

Zirx, perhaps the second-most hyped startup in the we’ll park your car nook of the tech industry (see: Luxe), announced today that it plans to shut down its consumer business at the end of the month. The BMW-backed com...

Twitter today said it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts that were used to make threats about or promote terrorist activity, especially as it pertains to ISIS. “Like most people around the world, we are horrified...

"Competition" isn't just about who is taking market share away from you in that moment or place; it's about who can help inspire your roadmap, who can really help drive you forward. That's what innovation is after all: I...

BlackBerry has confirmed a MobileSyrup report that the company recently laid off employees at its Canadian headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario. There is a discrepancy, however, concerning the magnitude of the reduced head ...

The thing about a zombie virus is that it spreads so fast you can’t contain it. Now, publisher Daybreak is finding that something similar is true of zombie survival games. H1Z1, Daybreak’s open-world online zombie su...

Don't Feel Bad, Millions Hide Bank Accounts From Their Spouses Too

SPONSORED: Imagine a Super Bowl coach so fanatical, he invests almost everything in offense. Nobody in their right mind would play the Super Bowl this way and expect to win. But that's exactly the way most companies budg...

TalentSky, a startup that claims to “represent an evolution in the employment search,” announced today that it took in a $7.5 million series A investment from over 100 different angel investors. TalentSky also announ...

Google Hangouts has received a small but important backend upgrade: peer-to-peer (p2p) connections. Google confirmed to VentureBeat that the functionality started rolling out to all users this week. Reddit user kxra firs...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo’s earnings fall a little short of expectations, someone builds a calculator inside Super Mario Maker, and Uncharted 4 gets its own PlayStation 4 bundle. ...

ANALYSIS: The mobile landscape is littered with manufacturers who lost their way, from Palm to BlackBerry to HTC to Danger.

Wiper announced today that it has raised another $2 million, bringing its total seed round to $4.5 million as the messaging app expands into entertainment. The company has also launched a $4.99 monthly streaming service ...

For the past couple of weeks, a newcomer has been at the top of the iOS app store. Color Switch is one of those free downloadable games like Flappy Bird that came out of nowhere and hit the top. It’s games like Color S...

Here are some sobering facts about the state of the American workforce. Only about one-third of employees are happy at work, according to Gallup. Nearly half (43%) of employees cite a “lack of recognition” as the rea...

Football? For some of us, the big event on Sunday will be watching whatever advertisers think will motivate us to buy their products or believe in their brand. Monday morning (and real-time tweeting) will bring a full lo...

Our subscription model didn't work. As a company we either had to adapt or die, and we weren't about to give up.

Malware may be the scourge of the Internet era, but it could be useful to have a record of how it evolved — or perhaps you would simply like to reminisce about the good ol’ days of MS-DOS viruses. For this, there’s...

Imagine Dragons, the rock band behind mega hits like Radioactive and Demons, is jumping into mobile games with a title that will help fight childhood cancer. The title is one more example of the search for a magical hit ...

Ok Mr., Miss or Mrs. CMO and all marketers for that matter – be honest here. When was the last time you caught yourself staring into space? Or the time someone asked you to recall a certain piece of information, but yo...