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London-based blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic has closed a $5 million Series A funding round led by Paladin Capital Group, a Washington-based VC specializing in disruptive security applications. Santander InnoVentur...

The Oculus Rift headset ships in one week, and the virtual reality company is working to ensure it’ll have plenty of content ready to go when people plug in their Rifts for the first time. To help developers distribute...

(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday stepped into the high-profile patent fight between the world’s two fiercest smartphone rivals, Apple and Samsung, agreeing to hear Samsung’s appeal of what it contends w...

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I consider hiding money offshore a particularly pernicious form of tax avoidance.  I also find the concept of IRS rewards for whistleblowing very disturbing. So it was tough to know which way to root in the most recent ...

Businesses can measure many misleading numbers. A company might show healthy profits, but be losing customer loyalty in the long-run. Another might show solid top-line growth, but could be struggling to retain their top ...

Nintendo’s first mobile game is the most downloaded smartphone application for iOS and Android in Japan, but that isn’t exactly bringing in the big bucks. Miitomo is the 176th highest-grossing iPhone application in J...

DoorDash, the food delivery company that helps restaurants deliver food to their customers’ homes for a fee, has raised another $127 million in its third round of funding. The company just posted about the series C fun...

Nvidia continues to invest in its GeForce Now cloud-based streaming technology, which can deliver PC or console games to an Nvidia Shield set-top box in the living room. Instead of using a console or PC, the GeForce Now ...

Yes, the system is broken-especially for women-and there are many people trying to fix it. But that takes time, and patience has never been a virtue of mine. I was brought up to believe that the one thing I can change is...

Sarah Nadav asked a deal flow manager for an American-run VC firm in Tel Aviv why his company had never funded a startup with a woman CEO. She was sufficiently horrified by his response that she posted their text exchang...

The top four messengers today have more users than the top four social networks.

VB EVENT: On Thursday, VentureBeat will host an event on Mobile Data Strategy in San Francisco about how best to put together a fast-growth mobile strategy using data. The event is driven by our independent research — ...

As head of the Collaboratory for iCrossing/Hearst, Ben Kosinski scouts the new technologies most relevant for brands and publishers. In this video, he shares his insights about why messaging services are growing in impor...

ClicksMob and AppGrade are getting hitched. ClicksMob is a mobile-only performance advertising platform that delivers users to app developers and publishers. As a third-party broker, ClicksMob can access thousands of sou...

Today Google finally told the world its real strategy for competing with public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS). Google first launched the Google Compute Engine infrastructure as a service (IaaS) in 2012, b...

Based on her love of subscription services like Birchbox and Netflix, this 25-year-old had an idea that could save merchants millions of dollars. Her male bosses dissed her. That's when she took control.

2016 is potentially the end of the road for the Wii U. Nintendo is going to end production of its latest home console, according to a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei. This will essentially put the struggling system...

Shopify has launched a developer SDK that merchants can use to integrate the ecommerce platform into their websites and mobile apps. This new tool builds off of the integrations that were made with Facebook, Twitter, and...

Twitter today is announcing an enhancement to its Crashlytics crash reporting tool. Once developers have turned on the Answers mobile analytics tool within Crashlytics, they can now receive special Velocity Alerts that a...

Is traditional advertising dead? First, let's define "traditional advertising" and then assess what it means to be "dead" in this context.

Inside the Series C funding round for food delivery startup DoorDash.