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After a deep playthrough, I’ve become very interested in the narrative story of the Mafia III video game coming from publisher 2K Games (a Take-Two Interactive division) on October 7. It’s a simple mob revenge plot o...

Lots of my family members have allergies. But we’re feeling a little better now that we’ve got an air purifier that attempts to clean the air in a big part of oure home. Coway’s Airmega is a Wi-Fi-connected filtrat...

GUEST: Investors dropped $681 million into A.I.-centric startups in the Valley last year. This year the number would reach $1.2 billion. Five years ago total A.I. investment piked at roughly $150 million. This is how Sil...

Data privacy has turned into one of the most important, hotly debated topics globally. And while lawyers, governmental officials and technology experts weigh in, the people who should be most concerned, involved, and eng...

GUEST: Since Silk Road (the first cryptomarket) was put under the spotlight in 2011, the role these online market places play in global illegal trade has become hotly debated. No scarcity exists of claims, predictions, h...

GUEST: How is it that the big, bad Valley - 48 miles worth of growling, industry-eviscerating talent, ambition, and money - has become a compliant lap dog for the anti-competitive overlords of the most astonishingly brok...

Sony touted the 4K graphics capabilities of its PlayStation Pro video game console at its event in New York City a couple of weeks ago. VentureBeat’s Harrison Web attended the event and was able to check out games runn...

Sony is set to bring your smartphone into virtual reality for the first time with PlayStation VR, offering you "supreme relaxation." Really. The company's music division, Sony Music Entertainment, announced a new relaxat...

GUEST: Building bots is easy. Keeping users around is not. Since Facebook Messenger bots launched at F8 in April 2016, over 30,000 bots have been created. Major brands like ESPN, Star Wars, and Yelp have released apps on...

GUEST: "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." – Edsger W. Dijkstra, computer scientist. Many articles about chatbots focus on their use ...

GUEST: Last year a DIY project went viral. Its creator, Clay Bavor, who also happens to lead VR at Google, used a 5K iMac and a host of lighting tricks to simulate a painting. House guests couldn’t tell that the paint ...

VB LIVE: Traditional banks have left a huge gap for fintech innovation. But innovations in data aggregation have actually transformed the landscape for everyone. Our latest VB Live event uncovers the secret to leveraging...

Generalizing about anyone’s age or generation is always dangerous. I know BabyBoomers who still live it up like they just graduated college, and have Millennial friends who are already entrenched with three kids under ...

Some sales of companies are structured in a way that the sellers' proceeds vary with post-deal performance of their firms. Integration expert PJ Makhfi of Uniddo says that the process of integration of your company with ...

GUEST: Creating and presenting revenue forecasts to investors is always tricky for startup founders. Forecast too high, and they won't believe you, forecast too conservatively, and they may lose interest. To get a sense ...

When business owners begin to consider transferring ownership, they often look for rough estimates of the value of their business. This number is important, of course, to determine proceeds that will be available for ret...

GUEST: Two years ago, Y Combinator cofounder Paul Graham wrote on his blog that 95% of great programmers are not from the United States. Luckily, today's interconnected world grants us access to resources and talent from...

GUEST: Virtual reality may be generating most of the buzz today, but another major tech shift looms much closer on the horizon: machine learning. The technology has already made inroads with the public through platforms ...

His campaign told the conservative small-business lobby it's in, but assured conservative tax activists that it's gone.

Kids are naturally curious, the core ingredient for all great ideas. So if you're an entrepreneur looking for new ideas, the good news is that engaging and listening to kids is a whole lot cheaper than Harvard.

Every four years, someone runs for office and proposes to change the levers of taxation that will help or hinder you. Have you read the plans of this year's candidates?