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EXCLUSIVE: New data released today by Verto Analytics, a result of its new partnership with iResearch Consulting, shows that mobile apps are growing at staggering rates in China. If you look at the headline findings — ...

If you ever see Arnold Schwarzenegger fighting a yellow electric rat, you shouldn’t put your money on the Governator. When it comes to games, only Pokémon and military strategy game Mobile Strike (for iOS and Android)...

Team communication app Slack is 2 years old today. And the app has picked up some seriously impressive growth in that time period: It now has 2.3 million daily active users, up from 2 million two months ago. Slack curren...

Smartphones could become the makeshift quake detectors of the future, thanks to a new app launched Friday designed to track tremors and potentially save the lives of its users.

When Taylor Ferguson started as a freshman at Towson University in Baltimore, she was already well ahead of her nursing program classmates. As a high school student in the Academy of Health Professions Program at Western...

China's Economic Slowdown could be offset by the continued rise of its powerful and leading tech companies Alibaba and Tencent.

Amazon launched its Lumberyard video game engine this week, showing its intentions to become a much bigger platform company in the games business. To date, Amazon has shown it wants to compete against the likes of Apple ...

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The Department of Commerce wants to play matchmaker, pairing agile fintech startups with centuries old Wall Street staples.

Apple appears to be the latest tech company to start producing its own television content. Following on Apple’s 2014 acquisition of Beats Electronics, the company is now making its own show called “Vital Signs,” st...

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Research shows easy return policies lead to more purchases, but also to other surprising shopper behaviors. Instead of lenient return policies, retailers can establish approaches that in...

A French court ruled on Friday that a case against social networking company Facebook over a painting of a nude woman can be tried in France, rejecting Facebook's argument that it is governed by Californian law.

Google today announced it is shutting down Picasa in less than three months. The company is asking Picasa users to try Google Photos for all their picture needs. Google acquired Picasa from Lifescape in July 2004 and beg...

As promised last year when the company introduced it, Pinterest today announced that it has released its Teletraan tool for deploying source code on GitHub under an open source Apache license. “Teletraan is designed to...

YouTube has acquired the online music platform BandPage. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, nor was there any mention of whether BandPage would be shuttered in the process. BandPage is a marketing platform for musicia...

So as many young entrepreneurs are busy starting and building a business and network, try taking five minutes, 10 minutes, or even 30 minutes to be grateful for the people and things that you have.

Cybersecurity startup Cynet announced earlier this week that it raised $7 million from Lazarus Management Company. The Tel Aviv-based company offers a “solution for detection and remediation of advanced and unknown thr...

Small business banking and innovation are two words that you rarely hear in the same sentence. Common wisdom points to heavy regulation as the primary cause of banks lagging behind the rest of the business world when it ...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, the PlayStation 4 beat the Xbox One again, Amazon reveals a new game engine, and we learn a bit about Destiny’s future. Happy reading, and have a great weekend! P...

At some point in your career as a business owner, you’ll need a business loan; probably from a bank, but perhaps from a non-traditional source, like a crowdfunding lending platform. Allow me to help maximize your chanc...

FEATURE: Blizzard Entertainment executives consider deep mobile games to be a possible next step for the company, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this week. We talked with president and co-founder Michael Morhaime,...

Is it possible this whole notion of true corporate culture change is just flippant ideology? Is it really that simple?