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With the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, I feel like I’ve got an IMAX theater in my home. And the most relaxing VR experience I’ve seen so far is Ocean Rift. With Ocean Rift, you are immersed in an underwater wo...

GUEST: As I learned from my work in flight dynamics, to keep an airplane flying safely, you have to predict the likelihood of equipment failure. And today we do that by combining various data sets with real-world knowled...

Customers don't care about customer service. At least, not exactly. 

GUEST: Last year, I moved to Europe to work in a growth stage venture capital fund. Having invested in tech companies in India and the US before, I expected the European tech ecosystem to be much smaller in comparison. H...

With no IPOs taking place in the first quarter of 2016, much attention is now focused on unicorns. Will they be able to maintain their billion dollar valuations, or will they would be picked off one at a time, succumbing...

A German professor was arrested at an airport for buying a human skull in Italy. Here's why it's a bad idea to try to stow a skull in the overhead bin.

GUEST: Over the last few months, Goldman Sachs, DigiCapital, and ABI Research. have all released projections for the augmented reality and virtual reality market. The projections range from the Goldman Sachs low end of $...

After taking shots at PR’s biggest blunders, I’d now like to do the opposite. What are the things small businesses do best to achieve great PR outcomes without big agencies or high costs? This week I had a conversati...

Gabe Leydon, chief executive of Machine Zone, made some news this week as he renamed his company MZ and announced he would license the company’s core infrastructure for running mobile games. In a new strategy, MZ is li...

It's now confirmed that Google will be saying goodbye to the Google Wallet Card in a move considered to be part of a wider effort to cull operations that have continually resulted in losses. The card will then be retired...

GUEST: Fidelity Investments last week again marked down the valuations of some of the highest-flying unicorns in its portfolio. Not surprisingly, the front-page news stoked the current narrative that the market for late-...

In America, dogs have a higher standard of living than most kids in third world countries. Dog owners love to spoil their itty bitty snookums with BBQ Kobe beef treats and squeaky balls a la Petco even though Fido devour...

There are countless marketing books out there, and so many of their messages almost seem to blend together. It can be difficult to sift through the clutter and find what's impactful. However, there are some standouts. Wh...

What do you do with a decommissioned nuclear power plant? If you’re the French government, you offer the land it sits on to Tesla Motors as a potential new factory site. Tesla has mulled large-scale European production...

Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week.

(Reuters) – Security researchers and civil liberties advocates on Friday condemned draft legislation leaked from the U.S. Senate that would let judges order technology companies to assist law enforcement agencies in br...

EXCLUSIVE: Glu Mobile, the maker of celebrity mobile games such as Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, has laid off a number of employees, GamesBeat has learned. San Francisco-based Glu has been making mobile games since 2001 and...

Mickey is trying to cross the road … but there is no other side! Disney Crossy Road debuted on iOS and Android on Wednesday night, and it is already the top downloaded game on iOS. Industry-tracking firm Sensor Tower e...

Nintendo’s mobile debut is going well. 1.6 million people downloaded the publisher’s Miitomo social platform in the U.S. alone from March 31 through April 3, according to industry-tracking firm Sensor Tower. That num...

VB WEBINAR: Think of it as a free crash course from top experts who can make sense of the sometimes incomprehensible. We’ve taken the complexities of mobile app acquisition and monetization — from the best tools to t...