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Japan’s SoftBank Group is near a deal to purchase ARM Holdings for $32.4 billion in cash, according to a reports in both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. Both media outlets cited sources familiar with the matter....

Gimme Shelter: VC-Backed M&A Tax Strategies For QSBS/1202

In the wake of recent activity in the race to launch a Bitcoin ETF, a newly formed company has filed to create an ETF out of another digital currency, ether.

GUEST: Over the past few months, the internet has been buzzing about bots. Microsoft, Facebook and other major players are opening up their A.I. platforms for developers, and these toolkits are an exciting and important ...

Microsoft today announced that it has released a new version of the Skype Preview app for people participating in the Windows Insider Program. This doesn’t replace the standard Skype Windows app — it’s just the lat...

In what is expected to be its last earnings ever as a public company, Yahoo’s (YHOO) second quarter financial results didn’t disappoint. It announced today that it took in revenue of $1.31 billion and had an earnings...

Netflix now has 83.18 million subscribers after adding just 160,000 subscribers in the U.S. and 1.52 million abroad last quarter, missing the modest expectations it set back in April. The company blamed its sluggish grow...

“I don’t look at the competition. Let them look at me.” -Jim Mullaney, CEO & Founder, Edoc Service, Inc.

Even with Pokémon Go taking over the digital world of mobile gaming, physical retailer GameStop is still seeing the benefits. GameStop is seeing brisk sales at its stores that are near important locations in the top-gro...

Chicago-based Insureon, a tech startup looking to disrupt the small business insurance sector from the inside, is using cash from a recent $31M raise to invest in its tech platform. CEO Ted Devine said the company also p...

GUEST: Bots have captured the business public’s eye. Facebook opened up its Messenger platform to bots in April, and, since then, over 11,000 bots have reportedly been published. To understand the promise of the bot pl...

Hollywood and games have had a weak bond when it comes to making money from each other. But in the era of mobile games, that is starting to change, said Chris DeWolfe, the chief executive of Los Angeles-based SGN. That k...

It's clear: with a few exceptions, the niche-only app is increasingly becoming a bad play for both time-stretched consumers, who want greater value and convenience from their apps, and creators, who need to deliver that ...

Esports is one of the fastest-growing segments of the gaming industry, and we’ve put together a panel of experts to talk about it at GamesBeat 2016. During this session, FaceIt chief executive officer Niccolo Maisto, D...

Seismic is a SaaS business, selling software to mostly larger and medium sized companies that automates and facilitates the creation and dissemination of content to support sales.

In part 1 of a 5-part series on SEO basics, we'll introduce SEO, and walk you through best practices for starting a campaign.

  Americans are expected to shell out nearly $63 billion on their pets this year , according to the American Pet Products Association. Two out three households have a pet of some kind, making the pet industry even large...

Google today launched the fifth and final release of the Android 7.0 Nougat developer preview. You can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview. The f...

A lot of news and announcements (cough: MobileBeat!) were made in the chatbot world last week, but if you hadn't heard, one-month old Austin-based startup Conversable had a pretty good week. Hear about Pizza Hut and Whol...

I have been writing about how to raise venture capital for years.  But, I got a very unexpected question the other day: what exactly is venture capital?  I just assumed everyone understood what venture capital actually...

The success of a venture matching freelancers to employers depends not only on customers buying into the concept but also the platform's ability to attract people who can do the work successfully.

Forget about blocks and castles. Minecraft players are going to need to craft an escape plan later this month. Telltale Games revealed today that the seventh episode for Minecraft: Story Mode releases on July 26 for Play...