Startup News

EXCLUSIVE: Global tech giant Samsung is announcing today that its Made With Samsung program for promoting mobile apps will be extended to independent game developers. That means that game developers will get considerable...

(Reuters) — Tesla Motors said on Wednesday it was on track to deliver 80,000 to 90,000 electric vehicles this year and that it would produce 500,000 in 2018, two years faster than expected. Tesla’s Model 3 sedan, its...

Of course, the success of Apple, Facebook, and Google is unparalleled, but they represent an incomprehensibly small percent of all tech company founders. In other words, the tech business is a bit like playing the lotter...

It takes a heavy time investment and hard work to be successful on Instagram, and without these seven essentials, your campaign is practically sunk.

Wall Street seems to think so. Shares of the ailing company rallied sharply as soon as the new CEO Joseph Papa assumed office, replacing departing CEO Michael Pearson. I wouldn’t share Wall Street’s enthusiasm, for s...

Making money from mobile gaming is expensive thanks to rising costs of acquiring users, but one company wants to subvert this by treating the products it makes as a form of art, not as just a consumer product. Nexon chie...

Imagine you’re a filmmaker. Cinema is your craft, an art honed by more than a hundred years of brilliant ideas and happy mistakes. With it, you can do something that probably once felt like magic: capture any moment, i...

An important piece of Office news was buried in all the OneDrive and SharePoint announcements last night. Microsoft today launched Office Online Server (OOS), which essentially lets businesses host their own Word, Excel,...

VB LIVE: Celtra, the data-driven ad platform for two-thirds of the Fortune 500, processes over 2 billion analytics events daily. Join Celtra Director of Engineering and Analytics Grega Kešpre as he shares hard-won insig...

Heads up--any day now, the Department of Labor is expected to publish final overtime rule changes that could affect future labor costs. It's time to take a close look at employees' hours and your company's salary structu...

Google updated Google Slides with a new Q&A feature, the option to present directly from an iPhone or iPad to a Hangout call, and a laser pointer option. The new version is rolling out globally now on Android (Google Pla...

Your startup needs to be advertised in order to sell products and land those first sales. The problem is that banner blindness is rampant, particularly among the younger generation, with click-through rates of 0.06%. Thi...

Mark Zuckerberg is moving full steam ahead on his initiative to improve the education system in the U.S. The Facebook chief executive announced today that he and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, have selected former deputy ...

As the age of collaborative commerce continues to unfold, many companies are not evolving their marketing function in lockstep with the new environment.

I’ll take an AT-AT over a robotic titan any day. Respawn Entertainment, known for the multiplayer shooter Titanfall (and its recently announced sequel), is working on a third-person action-adventure game set in the Sta...

Twitter today launched its Vine app for Windows 10. The company has released the new app with support for desktops and tablets, but not phones (though the existing Vine for Windows Phone app gets the job done, albeit wit...

The onset of May marks both the start of National Small Business Week and the conclusion of April’s Financial Literacy Month, a time when providing education and resources around financial matters and money management ...

EXCLUSIVE: Mother’s Day is this weekend, and if you were worried about finding the right gift, well, there’s an app for that. Wait - scratch that, apps are suddenly so last year. Instead, for 2016: There’s a bot fo...

VB INSIGHT: LiveNinja is announcing a new suite of products today that fly right in the face of conventional customer service. Instead of engaging an agent in a chat window or phone call in real time, it lets you, the co...

Welcome to the workforce, Class of 2016! Not two weeks ago, you were posing for tasseled cap pictures with your shiny new diplomas, packing your bags, and moving out of your college digs. But now it’s time to get down ...

You don’t have to break your R2-D2 bank to celebrate Star Wars Day with some great games. Star Wars is a multimedia giant that has spanned over four decades, with gaming making up a large part of its cultural impact. T...

Do a little due diligence, K.B. Lee advises, before spending your hard-earned entrepreneurial funds on PR.