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In the mid-2000s, some reporters I know started using a piece of desktop software called Scrivener to organize their notes and drafts for longer work, particularly narrative journalism that involved scenes interspersed w...

Pokémon Go is an international phenomenon not just because it offers a nostalgia-fueled game anyone can access on a smartphone, but also because it gets people out into the real world interacting with one another and th...

Venture capital investment still looks healthy despite recent market volatility, but early-stage companies are seeing less of it than the unicorns.

Real-world game design for mobile has its roots in pervasive game design, augmented reality, mixed reality, ubiquitous gaming, and a dozen or so other classifications. None of these are perfect, but real world is the mos...

GUEST: Big companies can too easily become victims of what I call "innovation tourism": They partner with startups and VCs in an effort to innovate, but they wind up merely sampling new technologies and practices and fai...

Social investment is on the up - held as a panacea to social sector financing challenges it may in fact represent a challenge to all the sector stands for.

GUEST: The growing popularity of messaging platforms, paired with rapid advances in A.I., is driving a new era of meaningful interaction with chabots. Just as browsers like Chrome and Firefox provide access to every web ...

GUEST: "Learn to code." Around the world, it has been a familiar refrain. And the world has duly learned. Time was that the standard in-school computer education was little more than word processing, spreadsheets and som...

Magic Leap’s relationship with Disney extends to a "secret" lab in San Francisco where developers will be invited to work on projects prior to the launch of the company's highly touted technology, according to Magic Le...

Our newest speaker at GamesBeat 2016 is Omar Siddiqui and CEO at Kiwi, maker of story-based social and mobile games. Kiwi has created a new bot platform that enables developers to quickly create their own game bot charac...

A group of unexpected entrepreneurial hubs outside Silicon Valley and New York City are delivering superior value for investors and the investment community is starting to take notice.

After letting oil prices head to the mid-$20s and drive a few hundred American frackers out of business, Saudi Arabia wants oil prices to head above $50 again – and stay there.

Ride.com has shut down its carpool service, blaming the move on low gas prices and little incentive from people to use it. The company will no longer be providing shuttle service for commuters, having given its last ride...

In order for the brain to make decisions, it often relies on short cuts.

Being successful on Instagram isn't as simple as creating an account and occasionally posting. In fact, most marketers struggle to generate any kind of momentum. This difficulty can be broken down into these 10 major bar...

Yes, we know. Our smartphone batteries are bad because they barely last a day. But it’s partially our fault because we’ve been charging them wrong this whole time. Many of us have an ingrained notion that charging ou...

Yesterday Google updated its Google Keyboard Android app with a nifty feature: the ability to customize the keyboard’s background with your own image. For the past few months, this feature was limited to devices runnin...

GUEST: Chatbots have been around for a while. Yet, now that Facebook will allow businesses to deliver automated customer support and interactive experiences through bots, they will be everywhere soon. Brands might feel t...

Chatbots are in their infant stage. It’s clear that the first incarnations using the Facebook development tools are more of a proof-of-concept. But, as we witnessed at Mobile Beat 2016 this past week, there have alread...