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Zynga’s stock price rose 4 percent to $2.25 a share in the first full day of trading on Wall Street after the company announced that it had appointed ex-Electronic Arts veteran Frank Gibeau as its new chief executive o...

Zynga’s founder has stepped down from his role as chief executive officer for the second time, and this has Wall Street thrilled. The social-gaming publisher’s stock price is up around 8 percent in after-hours tradin...

I decided to run a Google AdWords campaign to direct people to my book. It didn't go exactly how I'd hoped.

Capria Ventures, led by Dave Richards, has launched an accelerator to mentor fund managers in the developing world, allowing them to be more effective impact investors.

One of the problems with virtual reality is that it’s going to cut you off from the world around you, but HTC and Valve have already figured out one solution to help you keep your bearings. The HTC Vive head-mounted di...

Nintendo is known for making Mario games, designing cute pocket monsters, and having an effective legal team. The publisher announced today that it has successfully fought off an appeal from technology firm UltimatePoint...

VB EVENT: Jill Soley, VP of marketing at customer support software company Freshdesk, has joined us as one of our participants at the sixth annual VentureBeat Mobile Summit on April 4-5. The event focuses on strategies b...

The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would invite vetted outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public U.S. Defense Department websites as part of a pilot project next month, in the first-ever such program offere...

Telecommuting continues to climb in popularity among workers and employers, hitting 37% in 2015 according to a recent Gallup poll. Interestingly, that study also states that remote employees were just as productive as in...

Google today announced that Google Docs, the web and mobile app for composing web-based documents, is getting a few new templates. These are in addition to the document templates Google introduced last year. But the new ...

If you want any kind of positive ROI, it's essential that your content is "good enough" for consumers. But how can you tell if it is?

The U.S. Department of Defense is rapidly ramping up its cyber efforts to combat the operations of terrorist organization ISIL, or ISIS. Speaking at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Secretary of Defense Ashton Car...

The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the formation of a new Defense Innovation Advisory Board, with the idea of improving the department with help from people in the private sector from Silicon Valley and other...

When people talk about content marketing, they pull up obvious examples: content marketing in exciting industries. Like adrenaline-filled GoPro videos of daring feats that most people can only dream of, or travel agenc...

VB WEBINAR: The VC landscape for martech remains one of the hottest areas of investment. In this essential webinar, our VB analyst and panel of venture capitalists will fill you in what’s getting commitment from invest...

Hell hath no fury like a Brussels bureaucrat scorned. Consider European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager.

GoTenna, a Brooklyn-based startup behind a portable personal antenna for smartphones, announced today that it caught a $7.5 million investment. Walden Venture Capital led the series A round, followed by MentorTech Ventur...

The ongoing struggle at the heart of the advertising industry is to create ads that drive brand goals while not disrupting the consumer experience.

When it comes to online advertising, one concern publishers, agencies, and marketers share is in determining where programmatic ads are being displayed. Everyone wants to get their money's worth, but what happens when ad...

Recruitment services giant CareerBuilder is expanding into the background screening realm today with the acquisition of Illinois-based Aurico. CareerBuilder is perhaps best known for CareerBuilder.com, one of the biggest...

EXCLUSIVE: We live in the age of the never-satisfied, always-mobile customer. That is just one of the statements I can confidently make after ingesting thousands of pages of mobile marketing and consumer attitude researc...