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(Reuters) – Banks involved in the blockchain consortium R3 CEV have expressed interest in investing $59 million in the company's first funding round, less than half its overall target, a person close to the deal said o...

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GUEST: GE's recent acquisition of ServiceMax, a cloud-based field service solutions provider, marked the first billion-dollar SaaS (software as a service) acquisition by a company outside the traditional software busines...

Getting knocked offline is costly. When a novel hacking attack crippled parts of the Internet in October, it cut off consumers access to popular websites like Netflix and Kayak for hours at a time. For online retailers, ...

Content marketing in the B2B sector can be incredibly boring. The internet is already inundated with generic newsletter offers, sell sheets disguised as whitepapers, and promotional blog content not-so-subtly designed to...

GUEST: Google and Facebook are without a doubt two of the greatest entrepreneurial success stories of the digital age. Both companies serve billions of users. They are the winners of our era. But what if they got the cor...

DockATot has sold nearly 10 million units of its well-designed baby lounger in the past year. Now the company has come up with CloudTot, a monitor that detects moisture and alerts the parent if the baby has wet the bed i...

GUEST: Vrideo, the portal that started back in 2014 with the lofty aim of being the YouTube of virtual reality, called it quits earlier this week. Two years is like a decade in “VR-years”, as those in the fast-moving...

The election is over and we have a new president-elect. When I polled my online audience in October about who they would vote for in the upcoming contest, two-thirds of our respondents said Trump, while 13% chose Clinton...

GUEST: Mobile games haven't heard the Call of Duty the past few weeks. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real-time, to bring you a monthly report on how gaming brands are generating ...

In Silicon Valley, there are companies that prefer to target low-hanging fruit, problems that may not be significant but that have a high likelihood of gaining traction quickly. But a few are bucking this trend, instead ...

Poor Ethereum. As if it didn't have enough troubles already. Earlier this year, it hard forked to rescue the DAO, only to suffer the ignominy of seeing miners continue to mine the old chain in defiance of clear and expli...

Business lending in the U.S. continues to climb as 2016 winds to a close, and many businesses considering 2017 growth plans will undoubtedly seek financing in the coming year. One way to prepare for borrowing is to under...

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(Reuters) – Uber will seek to convince Europe’s top court next week that it is a digital service, not a transport company, in a case that could determine whether app-based startups should be exempt from strict laws m...

Earlier this week Russian president Vladimir Putin said that, while new technologies such as Uber or Alibaba should not be demonized, they may still threaten the traditional economy in the future. "I believe that [new] b...

Rogue One isn’t the only Star Wars event in December. On December 2, BioWare will release a new expansion for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Star Wars: The Old Republic. The expansion, called Knigh...

Stripe, a US fintech firm founded by two Irish brothers, has raised $150 million (£121 million) in a funding round that values the company at over $9 billion (£7 billion). The investment round, first reported by The Wa...

EXCLUSIVE: Niantic Labs is reportedly planning a huge Pokémon Go update for December that will give players a lot of what they’ve been asking for. The update will include more than 100 new normal and Legendary Pokémo...

GUEST: In April, 2016 (a mere seven months ago) Mark Zuckerberg, David Marcus (and, in a smaller side tent, myself) went on stage to proclaim that the future of business is conversation. Imagine the opportunity to commun...