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How A McKinsey Alum Rents Jewelry To Millennials By Subscription Meaghan Rose left her job at McKinsey five years ago to found Rocksbox, a jewelry subscription service with a twist. She says a heavy Instagram presence is...

Jun-Hyuk Bang, founder of mobile gaming company Netmarble, may soon become South Korea’s newest billionaire. Based on the company’s financial results and the performance of the online and mobile gaming industry, FORB...

EXCLUSIVE: T-Mobile is holding its Uncarrier 11 marketing campaign kickoff event on Monday, and more information has come to light about its unique offer enabling customers to earn shares of the company’s stock. Accord...

Nest CEO Tony Fadell is leaving the company he founded six years ago. Fadell announced the news in a lengthy post on Nest’s blog, where he described his departure as “bittersweet.” Fadell sold Nest to Google (now A...

From telegraph to Twitter there is one connection option whose relevance has borne witness to every one of the others: in-person contact.

I have a prophecy for Path of Exile players — you’ve got some new challenges ahead of ya. Publisher Grinding Gear Games released its Content Update 2.3.0 today. This drop includes both Standard and Hardcore versions ...

Toledo, Ohio has a dope science museum and a decent minor-league baseball team — although I think that squad’s newest jersey might make it the top attraction in that town. The Mud Hens, the triple-A developmental bas...

Rather than being influenced by the coasts, the New Heartland is now influencing trends outside of its borders.

Yesterday’s whirlwind episode of VB Engage with Joel Comm left our imaginations racing. We discussed Snapchat, live video, and being an Internet pioneer, as well as ’80s video games and talking shadows. So what could...

The year is 2027. Mutant cyber-corgis have taken over the surface. The human race now lives underground, and every restaurant is a Taco Bell. Thankfully, in this dystopian hellscape, Fender guitars are still in the video...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we look at the quirky Dangerous Golf, Donald Trump goes under the knife in Surgeon Simulator, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End artists talk about the PlayStation 4�...

Amazon’s Twitch division is going to be at war with Google’s YouTube Gaming and Facebook in livestreaming events at one of the world’s most important video game extravaganzas, the Electronic Entertainment Expo. San...

Pistons are coming to Minecraft. No, not the Detroit Pistons — although that would be pretty great. Minecraft developer Mojang announced today that it will release piston blocks for free for the Pocket and Windows 10 v...

Marketing is a broad spectrum where you can get it so wrong that you go bankrupt or get it so right that you become a billionaire in a year. Successful companies do things differently that help them to get through their ...

Our next speaker for our GamesBeat 2016 event is Clinton Foy, managing director and general partner at CrossCut Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm in Los Angeles. Foy is also the chairman and co-owner of the p...

Warranties designed to prevent lawsuits are instead becoming the cause of them under an unusual New Jersey law.

We reveal a new Comic-Con exclusive with a Star Trek theme.

Tribune is shedding its storied name and re-branding as Tronc, a Nasdaq-listed digital business with a name and strategy that is mostly a random word association of buzzwords.

There was once a time when technology reigned supreme, and investors flocked to developments that had the potential for scale and monetization. Back then, the marketplace rewarded innovation and experimentation. That tim...

One of Asia's most successful messaging apps has an array of innovative services and revenue that's doubled, but its valuation could halve at IPO thanks to Facebook.

Over 25 years, Blizzard has demonstrated a knack for creating outstanding video game franchises. I have seen time and again the company keeps coming up with amazing hits based on new intellectual properties. It is the mo...

A recent Forbes Insights study, “Speed to Insight: Accelerating Dynamic Customer Engagement,” based on a survey of more than 270 executives and sponsored by Acxiom, explores the critical steps a marketer must take to...