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Social-game developers have a tough challenge trying to keep people coming back to their game for as long as possible, but no one strategy is going to hook everyone — and that’s where Optimove wants to help. Optimove...

A VC and entrepreneur provides real-life advice on knowing when it's time to make the jump.

GUEST: CrunchBase data on US funded startups shows that in 2014, only 18 percent - about 1 in 5 - had at least one female founder. It's a gain over 2009, when that number was only 9.5 percent - but there is still a lot o...

VB LIVE: Loyalty is the age-old metric that can make or break your business; AI is the hot new technology that's transforming marketing as we know it. May-December romance? These marketing masters think so. Join this VB ...

GUEST: Lately, those saying that fintech lenders have been overvalued are being vindicated by an across-the-board slashing of valuations. Numerous fintech lenders have taken down rounds or markdowns, while Wall Street ha...

Chandrakant Patel has a deep history working on hardware and fundamental science at Hewlett-Packard, and he has used that background to create a vision for the future of technology that combines the physical and digital ...

GUEST: AIs are going to utterly disrupt the economics of the world as we know it. But first they're going to disrupt the economics of software development.

When growing businesses need to compete with incumbents in any industry, they need to bring a secret weapon to the market. Those larger companies have bigger guns, bigger budgets, and serious resources to keep their bran...

Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare has a better story than it has had for some time. And one of the reasons is that Activision’s Infinity Ward studio recruited a couple of veterans from Naughty Dog, the maker of narrative-...

GUEST: Last year was the first time SparkLabs revealed our rankings for the top 10 startup ecosystems in the world here on VentureBeat. Now I'm excited to present our update for 2016. The top 10 haven't changed, but ther...

You can now shop for Amazon Alexa skills the same way you shop for anything else on Amazon.com, the company announced today. Owners of Amazon Alexa-enabled devices like an Echo or Tap can find, enable, or disable skills ...

Microsoft today announced a few updates related to its Kinect sensor. For one thing, the company said that it has followed through with its promise to expose RGB, depth, and infrared data from the Kinect for third-party ...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 15 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 81 tech funding deals (totalling €401 million, about $447 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech...

Startup founders and some members of the Bots Facebook group are accusing its creator, Matt Schlicht, of misleading them about his intentions. In May, Schlicht asked for and received more than 100 pitch decks from entrep...

BlizzCon is underway in Anaheim, California, and publisher Blizzard Entertainment used its annual massive fan event to make several big announcements. But don’t go back and sit through the video just to get the news be...

GUEST: Ever since the mobile revolution began, we have been able to collect huge amounts of data. In fact, in just a single minute, there are 4,166,667 Facebook likes, 347,222 tweets, and 284,722 Snapchat snaps generated...

Blizzard has plenty of updates coming to World of Warcraft. The publisher detailed upcoming patches coming to Legion, the latest (and according to GamesBeat, the best) expansion released for its massively multiplayer onl...

Google and Blizzard are opening up StarCraft II to anyone who wants to teach artificial intelligence systems how to conduct warfare, because apparently I’m the only one who has ever seen The Terminator. Researchers can...