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PRESS RELEASE: North Kiteboarding and PIQ revealed a game-changer for the kiteboarding industry, in the form of a sport specific accessory. With the most advanced sensor technology, it works in real-time and displays inf...

“Russia is technologically ready to launch such large-scale projects as Elon Musk's Hyperloop," Russian minister of transport Maxim Sokolov said in mid-May at a press briefing in the southern Russian city of Sochi. As ...

European Union governments should not ban services like home-rental site Airbnb or ride-hailing app Uber except as a last resort, the EU says in new guidelines, seeking to rein in a crackdown on the "sharing economy".

Fog Creek Software, the New York company that came up with Stack Overflow and Trello, is announcing today that its new HyperDev service, which provides an online playground for developing and instantly deploying Web apps...

Phil Knight, the Nike co-founder and chairman and friend of sports stars from LeBron James to Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Andre Agassi, has published his memoirs.

Employers are hungry for talent. Here's how to attract your slice of the Millennial talent pie.

The below case is a short but interesting case about what can happen a party, here a corporation, loses the capacity to sue.

On the tenth floor patio of his apartment building on Avenida Chapultepec in downtown Mexico City, 35-year-old architect Fernando Madrid leans out over the railing and looks out at the newly built skyscrapers jutting up ...

It’s an old joke, but it’s still funny. The CEO is asked, “How many people work at your company?”

Welcome to the inaugural VB Engage podcast! With VB Engage, we are interviewing the best and brightest minds across the technology world. And for our first episode, we bring you one of our favorite digital hustlers, Gary...

Marketing tools and techniques shift at dramatic speeds. Social media channels and best practices seem to change daily, and new analytics reveal updated facts and stats constantly. Falling behind in marketing knowledge i...

Mods are now on consoles. Bethesda revealed that it has flipped the switch and made mods live for Fallout 4 on Xbox One. This is the first time that the console version of a game has had full support for add-on modules f...

After the genocide, Armenians fled to Aleppo, Syria. Now, some in the community have found their way back, including one family that has opened a restaurant.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but boredom is its wicked stepmother. And let's face it, the office can be a pretty boring and frustrating place - especially for startups who are typically short on staff, time ...

VB LIVE: AI now plays a pivotal role in so many industries, it simply cannot be ignored — those who do will simply become charmingly anachronistic. Join this essential VB Live event to understand the current AI landsca...

Disclosure: VentureBeat's airfare and hotel in Paris were paid for by Business France, a government agency that supports and promotes French companies. The trip was part of a weeklong startup tour of the French Tech ecos...

Do you have cold, hard data to know what was working and what isn't in your business. Or are you making assumptions based on gut instinct. Here's how my instincts were costing my company -- big time -- and what I did to ...

Based on what we've seen so far this year, and the amount of time we have left in the year, I suspect we'll see the following changes and trends in 2016.

When people talk about work/life balance, they usually mean the amount of time spent at work versus not at work. But what about the amount of growth at work or in the business versus the amount of growth in other areas o...

Clarity Money, a New York-based startup still in beta, announced in a public filing that it raised a $2.5 million investment. Cofounded by venture capitalist Adam Dell — brother of Dell founder Michael Dell — Clarity...

The "Are You LeBron?" questions encourage students to only drop out of school if the downside of failure is mitigated by four important precursors to success.

Minecraft is a huge deal for a generation of kids, and it is a great way to reach that young, crucial demographic. But marketers are no longer free to use the block-building game however they want to sell unrelated produ...