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EXCLUSIVE: With the launch of iOS 10, Apple made it possible to make apps and games embedded in iMessages, or Apple’s version of text messages. And today, Mastermind Studios is launching a an iMessage strategy game cal...

One of the rules of investing in publicly traded companies is that you cannot profit by looking into the past of these companies, but into their future. For a simple reason: market prices already reflect the past, but no...

GUEST: Slack helps people work together regardless of location or device. It connects groups, systems, and data under purposeful contexts, and it’s the application that has improved my working life most significantly. ...

The Xbox One had a strong quarter in the United States, but Microsoft’s gaming division still saw an overall decline. Gaming generated $1.9 billion for Microsoft in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017, which covers t...

Facebook isn’t done adding more features to its Instant Articles product. Starting today, it’ll now display 360 photos and videos shared by publishers, which could be an interesting opening into experiencing news in ...

Advanced Micro Devices said its financial performance for the third quarter beat Wall Street’s expectations for the maker of PC and server processors. AMD reported revenue of $1.3 billion (on a non-GAAP basis) in the t...

Microsoft today reported earnings for its first fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $22.3 billion and earnings per share of $0.76. In Q1 2016, Microsoft saw $21.7 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0....

GUEST: Google Assistant is the humbly named artificial intelligence agent that lives in Google’s new Pixel phone, and it represents the most powerful accumulation of applied data science in history. Google feeds its va...

International money transfer service Xoom has announced features and integrations designed to do what it was meant to do: exchange money overseas. On Thursday, the company said that it has added a money request feature w...

Even if you don’t watch competitive Hearthstone, you have a new reason to pay attention. Blizzard announced the Choose Your Champion program for its market-leading digital card game today. Players pick one of the 16 co...

Razer wants to give gamers a portable desktop replacement without any sacrifices, and it may have accomplished that with its latest notebook. The company is updating its 17-inch Razer Blade Pro laptop with the Nvidia GeF...

Podcast-creation app Bumpers launched today with a $1 million seed investment led by Spark Capital. The New York-based startup lets users create and edit original audio content using their phone. Bumpers’ iOS app featu...

Spotify has announced that free users will have full on-demand access to the music-streaming service on Samsung’s smart TVs for the first time. So far, one of the perks of being a $10/month Spotify subscriber has been ...

Rockstar Games released a teaser video of Red Dead Redemption 2 this morning, showing beautiful vistas of the Wild West. It’s a sequel to Red Dead Redemption, the smash-hit, open world game from Rockstar that debuted i...

Several traditional insurance big players - like Chinese giant Ping An - are showing us great examples of how to pivot in accordance with the demands of the new digital era.

VentureBeat's Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We i...

West Elm's plan to enter the hotel business is the latest example of a retailer seeking revenue streams beyond the showroom. It also copies the practice of hoteliers that merchandise their own unique experiences. For ret...

The Nintendo Switch is a bold move from Nintendo to get back into the good graces of gamers with a hybrid device that blends a traditional home console with a portable device. The company announced today that the Switch ...

Udacity, the online education platform founded in 2011 by computer scientist and the former head of Google's "moonshot" Google X program Sebastian Thrun, has revealed a slew of new partners for the company’s recently l...

Square has introduced a product that is likely to provide merchants and small business owners with the flexibility to work with their current infrastructure. Instead of forcing its customers to purchase its Square Stand ...

Nintendo has shown us its future, and now it’s time for us to try to make sense of it. The house of Mario has finally given us a good look at its next system, the Nintendo Switch. The console formerly known as NX is a ...