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EXCLUSIVE: Scope AR has raised $2 million in a seed round of funding to expand its enterprise platform for augmented reality. The money came from Susa Ventures, Presence Capital Fund, and New Stack Ventures. AR has been ...

Despite big competitive challenges, Japanese messaging app Line saw its stock soar almost 50 percent today in its first day of trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The debut was part two of a dual stock offering for the ...

Marlin Equity Partners, a global investment firm with hubs in Los Angeles and London, has closed a €325 million ($360 million) fund in what represents the VC firm’s first dedicated pot aimed at European companies. Th...

GUEST: A quick glance at the popularity of Pokémon Go makes it seem like a runaway success. More than 7.5 million downloads and $1.6 million in daily revenue. Usage time has already eclipsed WhatsApp, Instagram, and Sna...

Ahead of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions, SurveyMonkey has launched a tool designed to provide real-time tracking of political polling across presidential, senatorial, and gubernatorial races in the U....

Twitch has announced that it plans to livestream the upcoming political conventions giving people who are already fed up with the current election season and depressed by their political choices a whole new forum to conf...

Uber and Snapchat accounted for a huge chunk of the $15.3 billion invested by venture capitalists in the second quarter of 2016, according to the MoneyTree Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Ventur...

By Samantha Parent Walravens and Heather Cabot

VB LIVE: Bots, done right, are the cutting-edge form of interactive communications that captivate and engage users. But what kind of potential do they have for sales, customer support and the bottom line? Tobias Goebel, ...

VentureBeat's Bots Channel tracks all the important and interesting news related to the exploding field of bots and messaging. And each week we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, Bo...

Games have been perceived as a guy thing back to the beginning of the industry. But that’s never been true, and a new book helps dispel that myth. Women in Game Development: Breaking the Glass Level Cap is about how wo...

GUEST: You won't get far today without actually bumping into a smartphone-addicted zombie playing Pokémon Go, the hit mobile title from Google-incubated Niantic Labs and The Pokémon Company. I'm one of the zombies. Ple...

The startup raised $40 million from some of Silicon Valley's finest to fix the airport parking mess.

Sony’s dominance continues. PlayStation 4 outsold its competition at physical retailers in the United States, Sony Interactive Entertainment has confirmed to GamesBeat. The NPD Group, which tracks this sales data, repo...

Facebook has activated its Safety Check feature for those in Nice, France following a deadly incident that has claimed dozens of lives so far. Reports indicate that a truck drove through a crowd in the city during a cele...

Niantic Labs has us all abuzz with its Pokémon Go phenomenon. This mobile gaming augmented reality experience has crossed all age and gender lines and is reaching into the mass market, according to the latest data from ...

(Reuters) – Access was restricted in Turkey on Friday to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube shortly after news that a military coup was under way, according to two internet monitoring groups. Turkey Blocks, a group that mon...

Sometimes it's better to see best practices in action than it is to simply have them explained to you. That's why I've come up with this list of five great landing page examples.

Another day, another land-grab for the burgeoning self-driving car industry as 3D-mapping startup Civil Maps has announced a $6.6 million investment round led by Motus Ventures, with participation from Ford, Yahoo cofoun...

eBay today announced that it has acquired Ticket Utils, a company that built a system for managing the distribution of tickets to multiple services. eBay will be incorporating the technology into its subsidiary StubHub, ...

Music can show us the heart of a game without requiring us to press a single button or shoot a single bullet. For Overwatch, making a score that fit all of the team-based shooter’s themes was a big challenge. Neal Acre...

While facing unique challenges of their own, healthcare and pharma marketers also deal with the same issues all marketers face.