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We’re delighted to announce another trio of speakers for GamesBeat 2016 to address how augmented reality and virtual reality are moving beyond games. (Check out the new agenda here). Our panelists include Jules Urbach,...

VideoLAN today released VLC for Android 2.0, the first major upgrade to the popular video player in six months. The release brings a number of new features and enhancements, and is available to download immediately from ...

Any online publishers hoping ad blocking was a trend that might fade better think again. In a report from eMarketer released today, the marketing research firm projected that the number of Americans using ad blockers wil...

Lessons from a startup founder who raised more than $1.5 million through crowd funding.

The 2016 Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles last week marked Sony’s biggest virtual reality push yet, and one of the company’s competitors likes what he sees. Palmer Luckey, who invented the Ocul...

Microsoft today is announcing new capabilities for running applications in containers — an alternative to more traditional virtual machines — both on its Azure public cloud and in companies’ on-premises data center...

Slack is on a mission to make it easier for us to get things done, supported by the launch of new message buttons — interactive elements that enable better interactions with some of the 500 apps in Slack’s marketplac...

PRESS RELEASE: AdAction is eager to introduce its first-in-class data-driven platform, Action Insight (AI). The Action Insight platform programmatically optimizes media sources for real-time bid management, KPI visibilit...

Yahoo has launched an application to make it easier for people to plan their next trip. Called Yahoo Radar, it brings the company’s search, communication, and content areas together to help you research your destinatio...

Today’s era of collaborative commerce, where companies such as Airbnb and Uber rule our lives as the ioT movement takes shape, is giving way to a more pervasive overall collaborative culture.

Chatbots. Everyone is talking about them, but what do they mean for the future of the human race, and will we forget how to talk to each other twenty years from now? Before we dig into how brands and marketers can remain...

REVIEW: For an entire week, I’ve forced myself to live more actively — and not because I read a quote on Instagram that inspired me be healthy. Nope, it’s because I was testing Samsung’s new Gear Fit 2. I have a ...

You can now share your live videos on Tumblr. The company has added publishing and discovery support for the increasingly prolific video format on its blogging platform, which means that you can now post your videos from...

The entrepreneurial landscape has undergone a dramatic transformation, but one thing that hasn't changed are the foundational principles and traits that define what it means to be an entrepreneur.

That lack of maturity turned the celebrated financial innovation of May into a blazing wreck last week, as a feature of Solidity, the smart contract programming language of the Ethereum blockchain, permitted an unknown i...

Last week, Zenefits CEO David Sacks made one of the more daring turnaround moves in recent Silicon Valley history. Following several months of turmoil over compliance issues that led to the departure of the company’s f...

Technology is changing fast, and the next generation of inventors and engineers will need to follow their curiosity to take on new challenges. One company has raised some cash to facilitate exactly that. Piper is a start...

This is a story about Randy and Dave (R&D).

Tesla has made an offer to acquire SolarCity, the solar energy company Elon Musk cofounded nine years ago. In a blog post announcing the deal, Tesla says it has offered to buy the company for “approximately 21% to 30% ...

Today Adobe announced that it saw “record” revenues of $1.4 billion and $0.71 earnings per share during its second 2016 quarter (yes, another record). Analysts had expected revenues of about $1.4 billion and earnings...

Here are 7 businesses that know what it takes to be successful on Instagram. Follow their lead!

You won’t need to double up on subscriptions if you only want Xbox Live for Minecraft. Microsoft has confirmed to GamesBeat that no one will have to pay for an Xbox Live Gold subscription to use the cross-platform mult...