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Twenty five years ago, Nintendo owned the game industry. Sega was an upstart challenger, and it could only compete by breaking the rules. Tom Kalinske, former CEO of Sega of America, was one of the chief rule breakers. H...

John Hanke put in his time evangelizing location-based gaming and augmented reality. He spent six years refining Ingress as the first AR game from Niantic Labs, which was incubated by Google. So it’s nice to see that w...

David McJannet joins HashiCorp from Greylock Partners as CEO.

Few people expected Donald Trump to get this far in his presidential campaign, and far fewer expected his message to reach (and resonate with) such a wide audience of Americans – especially given his audacity during sp...

Facebook has launched two new creator tools designed to give publishers additional insights into how people respond to their 360 videos. More than 250,000 videos with this capability have been uploaded to the social netw...

Palantir Technologies, the secretive data company cofounded by Peter Thiel, has acquired a data visualization and publishing startup called Silk, the startup announced today. Following the deal, the team behind Silk will...

GUEST: Messaging apps draw more users than smartphone games, utilities, and even the most popular social networking apps. That’s exciting news for chatbot companies that want to build something instantly relevant and u...

To say that "good content" is all you need for a successful search optimization campaign is misleading and inaccurate.

With the Olympics underway, elite athletes across the world are in an arena that they have likely dreamed about for a lifetime. Imagine the pressure of knowing that your shot comes once every four years. Most will get on...

Last year, Forbes published our first-ever Fintech 50 list of the top firms in the space. We're doing it again and would love to hear from you -- which companies should we consider?

Overwatch might be getting ready to reveal a new character … and if not, at least we’ll get to see a nice video. Blizzard announced today that it will show the next animated short for its hit team-based shooter at 9 ...

A whole lot of crickets. That's what many frustrated recruiters say they hear when they post a job opening.

After a long day of work, sometimes a glass of wine is exactly what you need to unwind. But why drink alone when your pet could imbibe with you?

Welcome to Negotiate This, where we're telling true stories of how using collaborative negotiation can expand what is possible. We ask women entrepreneurs and leaders to share their stories of how creativity and col...

Pokémon Go is so popular that it is leading to a number of fan meetups around the world almost by accident, and that led us to wonder about the potential of an official gathering. The Pokémon Company has considered eve...

GUEST: Four executives from different corners of commerce sat down together with VentureBeat editor in chief Blaise Zerega at the MobileBeat2016 conference on July 13 during a panel. The goal? To discuss the future of co...

Hollywood is making a Pikachu movie, and not only because of the success of Pokémon Go. While Legendary Entertainment and The Pokémon Company revealed they are working together on a Detective Pikachu live-action film i...

The Sixth Circuit rejects FCC power to preempt municipal broadband laws.

Warhammer’s latest video game is an adaptation of one of its most popular books. Eisenhorn: Xenos is out now on Steam and the iOS App Store for $20 and $10, respectively. It retells the first book in author Dan Abnett�...

As an Olympic host and a key player in the global economy, Brazil is a hot topic these days, so we’re taking a look back in time to 2012 when a team of our cultural ethnographers ventured to Brazil on a two-week journe...

Small businesses struggling with cash flow are happy to get the shot in the arm of client pre-payments. It may be a win-win. It may not.

SPONSORED: This sponsored post is produced by YetiZen. Before we dive into the article, let me ask you 3 questions: 1) Are you a B2B company whose core customers are game and app developers? 2) Does each closed customer ...