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The dust from last week’s abrupt shuttering of Mode Media — a company once valued at $1 billion and with $100 million in revenues — is anything but settled. According to a document obtained by VentureBeat, the comp...

GUEST: It seems like the bifurcation between adtech and martech is finally getting the attention it deserves, and like so many complicated and nuanced topics, it is being grossly oversimplified in the press. In the relat...

In spite of what some people believe, customer service is getting better. Really! It’s just that customers are smarter than ever and know what great customer service is. After all, we teach them. Companies tout their a...

(Reuters) – Facebook on Friday apologized for an error in the way it measured a key metric of video viewership that significantly amplified users’ viewing times on its platform. The social media giant had said a few ...

GUEST: Consumers want to interact with businesses on their terms in the channels they choose. The built-in audience and familiarity with Messenger makes it the ideal place to engage customers with new offerings and to le...

You must put your foot to the pedal in peak seasonal buying periods to ensure you maximize sales when the buying is good.

You must put your foot to the pedal in peak seasonal buying periods to ensure you maximize sales when the buying is good.

GUEST: This coming week, the largest big data conference, O'Reilly Strata event, will gather close to 10,000 attendees in one of NYC's largest conference hall - the Javits Center. I had the pleasure of presenting at the ...

In the Wild West of VR game development, designers are eager to get their projects into the hands of consumers as quickly as possible. The best way to get feedback on a piece of software is to put it into the hands of th...

Turtle Beach’s Elite Pro roster of products is all about serious gamers, and the company has packed the two marquee offerings in that range with features to make those gamers take notice. The Elite Pro Tournament Gamin...

African Rainbow Capital (ARC), an investment firm controlled by South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe, has acquired an 18.36% stake in public listed Afrimat, a company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange.

GUEST: I recently consulted with the US Navy on all things "transhuman." In those conversations about how science and technology can help the human race evolve beyond its natural limits, it was clear that military is kee...

EXCLUSIVE: H2O.ai, a startup that offers commercial support for open-source machine learning software, last week laid off 10 percent of its employees, mainly in sales, VentureBeat has learned. Cofounder and chief executi...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 75 funding deals (totalling €379 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel.Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week:...

Snapchat, the company that has pushed an ephemeral messaging app for the past few years, today unveiled a new name for itself, Snap Inc., and a second product: glasses called Spectacles that feature a camera that can cap...

Palmer Luckey founded the modern VR movement and made millions of dollars selling his company to Facebook. Now, he’s using that cash to pay for a group of self-proclaimed “shitposters” who want to influence the upc...

Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey is bankrolling a group that creates and shares occasionally racist memes to promote Donald Trump. The organization he is support is offensive enough that some developers are pulling their ...

VB LIVE: Your user acquisition strategy zeroes in on high-quality users. Now you have to make that pay off. In Part 3 of VB Live's mobile data series, marketing VPs break down how to go beyond value prop and design to am...

Two years ago New York Post media reporter Claire Atkinson revealed that Liberty Media planned to buy Formula One auto racing from its controlling shareholder the private equity firm CVC so there shouldn’t have been an...

Thursday’s night National Football League (NFL) contest may have resulted in the New England Patriot’s 27 to 0 shutout of the Houston Texans, but how did Twitter fare? According to the sports league, Twitter produced...

GUEST: The time has come! You and your development team have put weeks of effort perfecting your new chatbot and are finally ready to unveil your creation to the world. But building a bot is just the first step. There ar...

GUEST: Excitement for virtual reality has been building for some time, but come October 2016 we will enter the first round of the title fight. 2016 holiday sales will be fueled by a VR frenzy backed by billion-dollar har...