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(Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google on Thursday released data on its two-year-old initiative to create a more diverse U.S. workforce, saying it had more black, Latino and female employees but still lagged its goal of mirro...

The "United" Kingdom just punched the European startup scene in the face, and things will get very tricky for startups in Europe in the next 6-24 months. However, there are some positives to be gleaned from the situation...

Sage Salvo, the Founder of Words Liive, knows what can happen when students are engaged in a context that stimulates them. His story shows why social enterprise and educational technology are so inspiring--and so despera...

We’re investigating the nature of these Innovation Engines in a series of What To Think podcasts, sponsored by Pivotal Tracker, and columns by VentureBeat editor at large Dylan Tweney. Tune in here to learn the secrets...

GUEST: In just eight years, the smartphone has changed how people interact with the world and with businesses, from customer service to commerce to content and beyond. And more change is coming. Every company that has a ...

Sharpen up your pocket swords, because it’s time to strike down countless waves of random enemies on the go. Project Dynasty Warriors is a new free-to-play mobile game that brings the enormous battles and melee combat ...

You want to maximize the potential return you get from your content marketing strategy, and I'm here to tell you how.

GUEST: Facebook's Messenger client runs on mobile devices, has built-in chatbots, and could support native ads. Sound familiar? Maybe the monolith of social media is building a WeChat clone after all. The number of U.S. ...

Latest Credit Card Innovation: Disposable Numbers

We’re delighted to announce another four speakers for GamesBeat 2016 to address what it takes to succeed in the near-term with virtual reality games. Check out the new agenda here. You can register for the event here. ...

VB LIVE: In part 4 of our masterclass series, our world-leading ASO authority breaks down exactly what some publishers are trying to pull off with black-hat ASO — and how to knock those fraudulent apps out out of the s...

Street Fighter V is coming to basic cable. ESPN2 is going to air the finals of the Street Fighter V World Championship live from the EVO 2016 fighting-game tournament at 7 p.m Pacific time (10 p.m. Eastern) on July 17 in...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Microsoft sells 1 million Xbox One Elite controllers, Disney announces Wreck-It Ralph 2, and the BioShock series gets remastered. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! P...

As the workplace continues to change, it's important for us to take a step back and look at where we are today and where we are heading in the future.

Yes, marketing departments have become more diverse since the Mad Men days of the '60s and '70s (although not by much). If we extrapolate the findings in the diversity reports coming out of Silicon Valley, we can assume ...

Another movie-based mobile game is reaching for the lowest of the hanging fruit. Developer Reliance Games has released a mobile game today to go along with the launch of the new Steven Spielberg and Disney movie The BFG,...

Snapchat appears to be experiencing an outage and the internet doesn’t seem happy that they can’t fully use the ephemeral messaging app. It doesn’t appear that this issue is affecting all users, but some in the U.S...

Facebook is announcing today that it’s giving some users the ability to automatically translate their posts into two or more languages and to freely edit those translations if they so choose, as part of a new experimen...

As promised, Mozilla has released the first Nightly build of Servo, its new browser engine. This is the first tech demo of Servo, which Jack Moffitt, Servo project lead at Mozilla, described to us in March as “a next-g...

Shuly Oletzky's father, Sheldon, founded Frigibar Industries in 1971. The Miami-based company makes fiberglass refrigerators and freezers for boats. In 2009, as the business was battered by the recession, Sheldon was dia...

Esports has is a phenomenon in the game business, and big companies are planting their stakes to demonstrate that they’re ready for a world of game spectators, stadiums of people watching championship finals, and team ...

Bernie Sanders won't withdraw and won't endorse Hilary Clinton. He has promised to vote for the presumptive Democratic nominee - and to campaign against Donald Trump. But for the time being, he's staying in the "race," d...