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GUEST: Time flies when you are having fun and going through the roller coaster ride of startup life. It's been seven years since I wrote my "Startup Fundraising 101" article here at VentureBeat, and I still get emails on...

(Reuters) – Israel’s Space Communication said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at SpaceX...

GUEST: After a slow start for initial public stock offerings this year, there are some promising signs that the IPO market may come to life in the weeks after Labor Day. Yet even if the IPO pipeline starts flowing again,...

If Disney can’t succeed with a mobile game, then you know that the $36 billion mobile game market is truly difficult. Late last week, the company shut down its Marvel Avengers Alliance and Marvel Avengers Alliance 2 ga...

If employees don't want to be micromanaged, they need to demonstrate common sense in the workplace.

If you've been contemplating starting your own small business and you're ready to get started - even in a taco truck - here are 11 steps you help you get going.

FEATURE: An astronaut steps out from the lunar lander in front of me, beginning the familiar “one small step for man” line before a voice shouts “cut!” from behind me. The lights cut on and the scene opens up to ...

American Airlines is taking some heat, encouraged perhaps by online news sites that give flyers a forum on which to rant about the carrier's new video.

GUEST: The first ever MOOC I took had 160,000 people signed up for it. The forums were buzzing with activity. New posts were being added every few minutes. If I had any question at all, it had already been asked and answ...

A new Seattle VR startup from three people who helped make the hit online shooter Destiny has received a $3.5 million seed round of investment from several overseas backers. Polyarc will focus primarily on virtual realit...

Advanced Micro Devices is announcing that desktop systems with its 7th-generation AMD A-Series processors are shipping today. The new systems are based on AMD’s code-named Bristol Ridge accelerated processing units (AP...

It’s all over, but for the massive cleanup to remove all that Playa dust from cars, clothes, and the deepest crevices of the human body. But the annual Burning Man festival in Black Rock City conjured up its usual mena...

Autonomous ocean drone startup Saildrone has raised $14 million in a Series A round led by Social Capital, with participation from the Capricorn Investment Group and Lux Capital. Founded out of Alameda, California in 201...

Personal branding is your secret SEO weapon, and it's time you integrated it into your campaign. Here's how.

Japan-based Softbank announced it has completed its takeover of ARM Holdings in one of the year’s biggest tech deals. Announced back in July, the deal is Softbank’s biggest since it bought Sprint several years ago. S...

Northzone, a Swedish-founded venture capital (VC) firm with hubs in London, Oslo, Stockholm, and New York, has announced the closure of its biggest fund to date. The firm says that the NZVIII fund was oversubscribed, wit...

(The Bridge) – Tokyo-based Pulit, a Japanese startup developing distribution technologies for digital image and video content, this week announced that it has secured 50 million yen (about $500,000) in its seed round. ...

Ishan is not your average teenager while most students his age are working entry level positions and repeating life on a daily schedule.  Ishan Goel is busy expanding and growing is businesses and network globally. It w...

Norway has once again proven to be the friendliest place in the world for electric cars. The country where plug-in cars make up a higher proportion of new-car sales than any other now also boasts the world’s largest si...

With all the chatter and hype that surround bots, artificial intelligence and conversational commerce, it can be hard to remember that very little percolating today on chat platforms with billions of users didn’t exist...

While $600 headsets like the Oculus Rift are trying to take gaming toward a VR future, 4K displays are looming on the horizon as the logical next step for high-end PC gaming. For Acer, that future is right now. The compa...

I did it. On my sixth day of playing World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Legion, I’ve hit the level cap of 110. Despite it taking over 10 hours, the journey felt brisk thanks to the quality of the zones and quests....