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I’m delighted to announce our venture investor panel for GamesBeat 2016. Our seasoned panel will evaluate whether the game investment market is tepid, hot, or just right. You can register for the event here. Check out ...

Recently I was speaking at an Education Conference in Malaysia. After my keynote, I joined in on a panel conversation. The moderator asked everyone, “Why do we think people go to school?” When it was my turn to hold ...

Evidence that Spotify is gunning for an IPO is growing, with a new report pegging the second half of 2017 as the target date. A story from Bloomberg today cites “five people familiar with the plan” who confirmed the ...

Blizzard is getting ready to send Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft players on a magical, new quest. Earlier leaks suggested that Karazhan could be the next adventure for Blizzard’s market-leading digital card game. Now ...

Image-hosting platform Imgur is making it easier for users to share photos by reducing the number of steps it takes to choose a photo and upload it to the wider community. Now all that users have to do is drag or browse ...

Macy’s shoppers across the United States will soon have a chance to shop with IBM’s Watson. Today, the two companies announced a pilot program for an in-store shopping assistant powered by Watson. The Macy’s On Cal...

EXCLUSIVE: Rahul Sandil, a former Xbox manager who led community relations for the canceled Project Spark, has taken a job as the vice president of global marketing for the HTC Vive content store. Based on his new Linked...

A transaction tax is one of those ideas that keeps popping up.  Earlier this month, Representative Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced a bill - Finishing Irresponsible Reckless Speculatnetive Trading - that would apply a ta...

Entrepreneurs Chris Nguyen and Lee Liu recently had a "Slack moment" when they realized a tool they had built for their ecommerce company was more valuable than their original product. That formed the basis of their new ...

Studios have used Unity technologies’ game-making tools to build more than 238,000 mobile apps. Those games are on 1.7 billion devices, and that provides Unity with a lot of data about the mobile market. And it’s sha...

Skyscanner, one of the internet’s oldest and largest travel search engines, has announced that it’s pulling together its various search smarts under one roof, meaning that you’ll now be able to dig out the best pri...

The rise in usage of Facebook Messenger continues unabated, and today the app marks a major milestone: 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook hasn’t been shy about touting the benefits of its messaging service, espec...

SPONSORED: The next wave of the analytics revolution will require more than just platform technology. The real challenge requires completing the stack and helping business users replicate what they did in Excel sheets. W...

EXCLUSIVE: I love Pokémon Go. You love Pokémon Go. But apparently, in your efforts to “catch ’em all,” you do find yourself playing in some interesting places. We scoured a new survey conducted by Pollfish, which...

Pokémon Go is bringing people together in the real world like no video game ever before, but another company is stepping in to combine online chatting with these physical meetups. RazerGo is a new app from Razer that en...

EXCLUSIVE: MaxPlay has announced the closed beta test for its cloud-based collaborative game development engine. The San Francisco company says its platform modernizes the process of making games by enabling people in re...

Pro skier Matilda Rapaport, 30, has died after being caught in an avalanche in Chile while filming promotional material for Ubisoft’s new game, Steep. The International Business Times reported that the Swedish extreme ...

GUEST: In the enterprise support field, there’s a trend to have self-service bots replace human assistants. In fact, by 2020, Gartner estimates that customers will manage 85 percent of their brand relationships without...

HelloVR and Improbable have partnered to create a new social virtual reality experience dubbed MetaWorld. It’s like a complete virtual world — inside virtual reality — where you can interact with a huge number of f...

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In terms of App Store underdogs, it might be hard to find a bigger one than Nick Halavins of Latvia. The 27-year-old developer has been programming for 16 years and has been part of several startups, which has allowed hi...

By 2020, athletic apparel is projected to be a $66 billion industry. With more high profile celebrities stepping into the spotlight and championing active wear, as witnessed with Kanye West expanding his collaboration wi...