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Since 2013, when the Chinese central government launched new rhetoric encouraging innovation and would-be entrepreneurs, the country has been gripped by a startup craze that is now reaching across borders and oceans to l...

No country spends more on mobile games than China, but even Chinese companies are struggling to get a piece of that money. China has overtaken the United States and Japan as the top country for spending on mobile games a...

The most successful marketing teams will use qualitative and quantitative data to inform their decisions.

VB LIVE: David Lane, founder and managing director of Fat Fish Games (named Best Indie Game Developer at the 2015 Apps World conference) joins our ASO masterclass to show how the company has used ASO to increase install ...

Goodbye kibble. The Farmer's Dog sells pet owners hand-cooked meals by subscription. At an average of $29 a month.

A former commodities trader who worked at Bloomberg for five years, Morgan Downey, 43, started Money.Net in 2014. His goal: Offer a superior product to the $25,000-a-year Bloomberg terminal at a fraction of the price.

EXCLUSIVE: Booking.com, the largest travel company in the world, will tomorrow announce a chat communication service that allows its millions of users to interact more easily with the hotels before and after their stays....

Google today announced that it has partnered with Fiat Chrysler to get dozens more self-driving cars in the wild. The partnership was rumored to be in the works last week, and now it’s real. “We’re planning to more...

If Nixon went to China today, he’d be playing League of Legends. Online gaming was worth $15.3 billion in China in 2015, but Asian games market intelligence group Niko Partners expects that number to reach $20.4 billio...

If you have a large deficiency with the IRS, it might occur to you to stave off them coming to grab your assets by telling them about a great plan you have to pay them off over time.  I'm not saying it won't work, but i...

While Google is the best search tool when you know what you're looking for, Silbermann wants Pinterest to become the best service to help you 'discover' things you might want but don't yet know about.

It's been just over a year since women's job review startup Fairygodboss launched as an alternative to established career sites like Glassdoor and Indeed.

Microsoft today announced the establishment of docs.microsoft.com, a new website to house documentation for its services. The site features several improvements on Microsoft’s existing properties for hosting documentat...

If you stand between people and a Call of Duty reveal, you’ll suddenly become very popular (even if you’re a bot). To promote the reveal of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, publisher Activision teamed up with Facebook...

Airbnb may be the most global among Silicon Valley's mega-unicorns.

For me, picking up everything and moving to Frisco to try and "make it" isn't an option. My marriage is too important to me. However, the demographic of entrepreneurs is diversifying, specifically by age and life stage.

A 10-year-old found a bug in Instagram that let him delete any comment. He reported his discovery to Facebook, and got paid $10,000, according to Finnish newspaper Iltalehti. We contacted Facebook, and a spokesperson con...

Google today announced that you can now visit any Blogspot domain — like, say, libraryh3lp.blogspot.com, for example — using S. And when you do that, your connection will be secure and encrypted. You’ll just need t...

Much research has been conducted on the psychology of pricing, and we've learned some surprising things about how pricing really affects sales. Following are five ways to increase sales using the psychology of pricing.

FEATURE: For most college students, the summer months offer a brief escape from endless lectures and exams. But for a small group of young game developers at the University of Southern California, the summer of 2015 was ...

It’s time to celebrate the Seven Years War. No, not that one. Plants vs. Zombies, a tower defense game where players use viscous flora to stop waves of the walking dead, turns 7 years old on May 5. It spawned a franchi...

Nigerian billionaire Femi Otedola has lost more than $400 million of his personal fortune over the last 9 weeks as the stock price of Forte Oil, the Nigerian-listed energy behemoth he controls, shed off 43.5% in value wi...