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Americans are handing in passports in record numbers, and it isn't about politics. It is about the IRS, FATCA, and global reporting.

If you talk to people who need money to make a game or those who invest in gaming, you’ll repeatedly hear how difficult it is to get funding. But one industry veteran thinks the problem is that some startups don’t ha...

Beating Bloomberg and student debt--the best entrepreneurial stories from the past week.

The for-profit university is facing a suit over land-use violations on most of its 40-some properties, as well as a trial over illegal recruiter compensation.

ANALYSIS: Earlier this week, Twitter’s stock hit an all-time low, briefly plummeting to $13.90 — almost half its IPO price in 2013, and one-fifth of its peak $69 price in December 2013. The rock-bottom moment served ...

Electronic Arts has unveiled the trailer for its new Battlefield 1 first-person shooter, set in the trenches of World War I. It’s release is set for October 21. Battlefield has been slugging it out with Call of Duty fo...

Electronic Arts unveiled Battlefield 1, set in World War I (which the series has never done before). But that doesn’t mean you’ll spend all of your time shooting rifles at the enemy from the protection of a trench. T...

Electronic Arts is getting ready to rumble with the futuristic rival Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare by going back in time. Today, EA announced its new Battlefield 1 game, set in the trenches of World War I. It’s releas...

When Trion Worlds set out to make its next game, the company thought it was building something for the free-to-play business model. But to the publisher’s surprise, it turns out it was actually making something quite d...

Amidst the euphoria and amazement at Leicester City's English Premier League victory, something significant about its achievement is in danger of being forgotten.

Some lessons become clear over time. At our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, that was evident in our opening fireside chat with Robbie Bach, former chief Xbox officer at Microsoft and author of the recent Xbox Revisited, a m...

Jacob Juma, a wealthy and controversial Kenyan businessman has been shot dead in Nairobi, Kenya.

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We’ve just noticed the appearance of a site called BotRevenue.com, which is setting itself up as a platform that allows chatbot owners to promote other bots and get traffic back. The service hasn’t launched yet. When...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! It was another busy week for us, with our GamesBeat Summit going on in San Francisco. We also celebrated Star Wars Day by showcasing some of the series best (and now cheapest)...

It’s not surprising that Airbnb appreciates its hosts, and the feeling appears to be mutual. At a couple of company events I’ve been to, hosts in attendance responded quite enthusiastically to product updates, cheeri...

Google is announcing today that its BigQuery cloud service for running SQL-like queries on data can now easily take in data from the Google Sheets cloud-based spreadsheet software and then save query results inside Googl...

Celebrity Chef Eric Ripert reveals his customer service best practices, why he loves millennial customers, and how to read a customer's mind.

At our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event this week, our theme was about underdogs. And during our talks with some of the leaders of the game industry, we found that everybody has an underdog story. Companies like Microsoft, Ep...

There is a difference between advisers who can give feedback on the process and mentors who tell you what to do. Get the right advisors who can question your major decisions - without telling you what to do since they do...

DigiExam, a startup that’s setting out to digitize academic exams, has raised $3.5 million to grow internationally and establish itself as the de facto provider of digital exams and assessments. DigiExam is a cloud-bas...