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VB EVENT: Google and Amazon may be top dogs in their respective industries, but they both face challenges when it comes to mobile. Google is the largest ad company in the world, and it earned that status by dominating se...

Game developers have an opportunity to set price expectations for virtual reality games, but as with mobile, the industry will probably decide the price for a new game download is … nothing. Free-to-play gaming is comi...

Even though the year is already underway, it's still early enough to get a head start on making this one of your best years yet.

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s counterintuitive to think that covering your eyes and ears with a screen and speakers can lead to awesome interactions with your friends, but Sony has demonstrated that it’s true. PlayStation V...

Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, aka the Woz, shared his feelings about the Apple Watch today in a Reddit Ask Me Anything session. His feelings were, well, not the most positive. Here’s how he put it: I worry a little bi...

How do relatively small startups get big name companies as clients? This question was originally answered on Quora by Eileen Carey.

Looking back, I see similarities with the "social-local-mobile" revolution of the past six or seven years, which was inconveniently labeled SoLoMo for short. Indeed, the mainstreaming of Snapchat really marks an end to t...

The digital marketing world is ever fluid, always dynamic and never dull, especially to the ever growing need to grow that CMO constantly faces. This is in part due to the emergence of new trends that are fundamentally c...

In just three months, Mozilla will ask developers to try out Servo, its new browser engine. The news was first revealed in a Google Groups posting, and we reached out to Mozilla for more information. “This June, Mozill...

Sony announced yesterday that its PlayStation VR headset costs $399 when it launches in October. And that move has gone over well with industry analysts, who expect this to be a $30 billion market by 2020. “I like the ...

Combat Flip Flops has embarked on an ambitious mission to create world peace by shelling the so-called enemy with "business, not bullets.” The Issaquah, Wash.-based company fires up economic growth in war-torn countrie...

Ninja Theory is making a highly realistic viking psychological thriller called Hellblade. At the center of it is a woman warrior, Senua, who is battling madness. The game studio showed off an amazing demo today at Epic G...

Microsoft today announced that its browsers will stop supporting the RC4 cipher over S connections next month. The change to Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 will come as part a cumulative security update on the n...

Late last year, the OECD published a series of 15 reports under the umbrella of its base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project. The series comprises 1,931 pages of research, analysis and recommendations for how coun...

Epic Games has gathered momentum in the past year as it made its Unreal Engine for game development available for free, said Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic, at a session at the Game Developers Conference today. Epi...

The stock market is a volatile mess and venture deals are down -- which makes now a great time to start a business.

Financial institutions’ compliance functions have come a long way, but they still have some distance to travel before they reach the right strategic position within their organizations.  In Accenture’s 2016 Complian...

I’m coming to you from Washington, D.C. in this episode of The Future in Five with a special guest – Ron Painter. Ron is the President and CEO of the National Association of Workforce Boards (NAWB). We explore the to...

George Osborne's 2016 Budget had a lot to offer start-ups, scale-ups and small businesses.

Lance Allred, born into a polygamous family and legally deaf, he grew up to play a decade of professional basketball around the world, including a stint with the Cavaliers, becoming the first deaf NBA player. He is now l...

Is the AI revolution going to bring about some kind of marketing apocalypse? Not really. But we're in for some serious changes in the years to come, and it's in our best interest to stay ahead of them.

When entrepreneurship wasn't as effortless as I first thought, I felt like I'd failed.