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Every upcoming generation is something of a mystery to those who born a decade or so earlier. Thus, baby boomers scratched their heads and wondered what to make of so-called "Generation X" and today anyone who is over th...

Obayedul Hoque, a Subway franchisee and resident of Alexandria, Virginia, has been sentenced to two and one half years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States. After his 30 month prison term, he will hav...

Witnessing the rapid advancements in modern medicine, paired with the emergence of wearable technology, mobile apps to monitor personal health and the rise of digital programs to replace traditional health plans -- healt...

VB EVENT: We’re delighted that Robert Hoffer, the mastermind behind the world’s most popular bot experiment so far, will join as a speaker at MobileBeat 2016, our event that starts tomorrow in SF. It’s the first si...

As livestreaming continues to proliferate throughout the internet, issues have started to emerge that causes people to think about how to best use these services. A concern creators, including broadcasters that are integ...

A record number of people are leaving the traditional workforce for freelance work.

Pokémon Go, the mobile app that’s reignited the cult of Pokémon for millions of berserk, smartphone-wielding fans, works on Chromebooks. But only certain Chromebooks — those that already support Android apps and th...

As people around the United States gather at parks and other public spaces to capture and train their augmented-reality creatures in Pokémon Go, the three companies responsible for the the mobile app are probably having...

The PC market continues to slowly but surely decline. Both Gartner and IDC have found PC shipments were down globally, again. Gartner estimates worldwide PC shipments fell 5.2 percent to 64.3 million units in Q2 2016, th...

If you hang out on Hacker News, a developer-oriented online discussion forum that was spun out of Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator last year, then you probably can’t remember every single one of the threads that...

VB EVENT: VentureBeat today announced the finalists from the first ever international botathon, which took place over the weekend. More than 200 teams participated in this hackathon for bots. Finalists from Melbourne, Ne...

Here are six hypothetical stories that illustrate how local optimization can be done wrong.

This brave new world of Pokémon gaming can be surprisingly dangerous. Pokémon Go launched for mobile in the U.S. on July 6, and it has immediately become a hit. However, some people are using the location-based game fo...

Notetaking software company Evernote today revealed the identity of its new chief technology officer: Anirban Kundu, a 10-year veteran of Yahoo who most recently worked as vice president of engineering and distinguished ...

The reason you keep bumping into other Pokémon Go players is because millions of people are trying to catch ’em all. Approximately 7.5 million iOS and Android owners have downloaded Pokémon Go in the United States si...

Paramount TV and Anonymous Content have bought the rights to make a television series based on Electronic Arts‘ Battlefield video game series. Michael Sugar, the producer of Academy Award Best Picture winner Spotlight,...

The gaming industry in the United States is about to open up about some of its most guarded data. The sales-tracking intelligence firm The NPD Group is expanding its monthly gaming report to include point-of-sale informa...

A couple of weeks after pulling back the curtains on its smart toy called Cozmo, today Anki announced that it will also be releasing a developer SDK in beta that lets anyone tap into the power of this robot, including it...

After former President Bill Clinton met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch in a secret meeting, Lynch's Justice Department announced that it would not indict Hillary Clinton for her private email server and destruction ...

Laura Faulkner contributed to this article. This post is the ninth in a series about effective management practices and how they benefit both companies and the people that work for them.

The market for home security cameras that connect to your smartphone is broadening on a seemingly daily basis. There are many options to choose from right now. I've even reviewed several models in this column, in recent ...

Give Theranos some credit. After months of waging a counter PR attack to blunt negatives stories, the company has shifted gears and appears to be trying to be more transparent. For instance, in announcing the latest sanc...