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We’re happy to announce the GamesBeat 2016 developer contest. We’re going to pick five developers who will demo their games at our annual GamesBeat conference, August 1 to August 3 at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Pa...

Call of Duty is already one of the most popular game franchises on Earth, with more than $15 billion in sales over the past decade. But Activision Blizzard, whose Activision Publishing division publishes the series, want...

Selling a company can often be difficult and time consuming. Read our list of the most common mistakes CEOs of private companies make when attempting to sell their company.

Back in 2009 some enterprising McDonald's tax planners came up with a clever variation on the shell game: park our European IP in Luxembourg, and then run the profits through a Swiss subsidiary and a U.S. storefront oper...

"Innovate For Refugees" is a business competition that seeks to find and reward tech-driven solutions that address the most acute challenges faced by refugees.

(Reuters) – Smartphone maker Samsung has for years been a spectator as Apple built a services “ecosystem” supporting its products. But now, as the two develop the market for mobile payments, the Korean tech giant i...

If you’re a sufficiently decent person, stop reading. If you’re a terrible person, the kind of person who takes pleasure in the misery of others, you’d probably like spoiled.io. Spoiled automatically sends text mes...

Dr. Stephanie Gripne founded the Impact Finance Center in Denver and has set an audacious goal to help catalyze $1 trillion of impact investment. Is she just naive enough to pull it off?

Barack Obama's appearance could validate Facebook as the live video source Mark Zuckerberg craves.

Urijah Faber has long been considered an MMA pioneer, helping to popularize the sport and its lighter weight classes as they began to garner mainstream attention.

Sales startup Outreach announced today that it scored $17.5 million for its latest funding round. Trinity Ventures led the investment, followed by Microsoft Ventures. “Outreach is the first data-driven platform for bus...

Red Hat today announced that it’s acquiring 3scale, a company with software for managing the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) that companies can expose for other developers to use. The deal is not mater...

Cannes is happening...here are the best bits with zero afterparty bragging or mentions of Snapchat. Except that one. You're welcome.

Virtual agents and chatbots will be the top consumer applications of artificial intelligence over the next five years, according to a consensus poll released today by TechEmergence, a marketing research firm for AI and m...

Nest has taken another step to showcase its ability to be a platform by opening up its store to third-party products built off of its “Works with Nest” program. While there are more than 100 supported products, the A...

Pac-Man’s most notable mobile outing is making its way into your living room. Publisher Bandai Namco launched Pac-Man 256 on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam today for $5. The Hipster Whale-developed game’s con...

Google today announced the launch of AdSense Labs, a new part of AdSense where users can explore experimental features for the website advertising system. Google has populated the new section of AdSense, which is under t...

One of the most important games in shooter history is celebrating a big birthday. Quake came out for DOS PCs on June 22, 1996, making the historic first-person shooter 20 years old. Quake came from Id Software, the compa...

As the human race prepares to shed the tissue and fluids of its bodily form in exchange for oneness with the metaverse, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is promising that Net Neutrality will apply to online VR ...

Social media has long been a popular tool for marketing, but they can play a significant role in customer service as well as elevating your brand's reputation. Here's a story of how AirBnB's Twitter support recently ende...

Steve Wynn Offers Advice to retailers on How to be Remarkable, Talks about time, expansion in Las Vegas and even King Kong

Bonfyre, the company behind a private social network for employees, announced today that it closed a $4 million investment led by Arsenal Capital Management. The funding round, the startup said, will fuel Bonfyre’s cus...