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After four months of the Xbox One outselling Sony’s console, the PlayStation 4 is back on top. The PS4 was the best-selling home gaming system in the United States in November, according to industry-tracking firm The N...

Google has started disabling Flash and displaying HTML5 content instead on certain websites for a small number of people using its Chrome browser. People can still explicitly permit Flash to load on the affected sites �...

The Future of Credit Card Security May Involve Blinking Numbers Your credit card may start winking at you soon in an effort to keep your data safe. Oberthur Technologies has developed a digital display powered by a micro...

McMahon has long showed an interest in small business issues -- especially supporting women entrepreneurs -- and her fans include advocates with deep ties to S.B.A. programs.

GUEST: 2016 was a big year for chatbots, and the whole world is fascinated. These conversational agents are on their way to disrupt many industries and transform our everyday lives. But there are many unique industries t...

The philanthropic arms of both Salesforce and Google have joined up with Zendesk chief executive Mikkel Svane, Asana cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, and the city of San Francisco in a effort to reduce ...

ANALYSIS: Twitter is full of jerks. Ten years into its existence, the social media platform is struggling more than ever with trolls, hate speech, and even terrorist organizations. Executives have been more aggressive ag...

Some folks in the United Kingdom are raising money for charity by talking about games for a very long time, and one of VentureBeat’s own is participating. Gaming-industry veterans have come together for the Mega Panel:...

Five months after its debut as part of Y Combinator’s summer 2016 batch, Sixa is now publicly available for usage, enabling developers to tap into a personal computer built entirely in the cloud. As part of its launch,...

Peter Fabiano has worked at Capcom for nine years, helping the company to grow its external development in places like Canada, where the Japanese game publisher has a big studio that just made Dead Rising 4. Capcom has a...

eero helps stay connected in your connected home.

If E.U. negotiators have their way, Britons may have a way to remain as E.U. members - for a fee.

PRESS RELEASE: Quercus Assets Selection, which specialises in renewable infrastructure investments announces that it has reached its first close of €150 million, led by its Co-Founder and CEO, Diego Biasi. The three ne...

On January 20, 2017, the Republican Party will take control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the presidency for the first time since 2006. What could this mean for the U.S. economy and for U.S. small busi...

Depression is a serious clinical issue that warrants serious treatment. But by embracing these three behaviors, we can increase our resilience and brace ourselves against it.

Samsung has announced plans to obliterate all remaining Galaxy Note7 devices in the wild with a software update that prevents the device from working altogether. The fire-catching Galaxy Note7 calamity has caused untold ...

Using video to improve the in-store customer experience sounds promising. But one expert cautions it must be done right else risk alienating customers.

Tim Sweeney stitched together an interesting vision of the future in a talk this week at the VRX virtual reality conference in San Francisco. He wants to build the Metaverse, the virtual world envisioned by Neal Stephens...

Marijuana businesses may be salivating over the huge opportunities of the California market, but Florida may give the state a run for its money.

Tinder gets a new CEO — again. The popular dating apps said on Thursday that Sean Rad, the company's co-founder, is stepping down as chief executive. He will trade jobs with Tinder's current chairman, Gregg Blatt, who ...

Sprinklr has introduced a new product, called Audiences, that lets brands be more efficient when advertising across social channels. The objective is to sync the conversational data Sprinklr gathers across Twitter, Faceb...

Healer Tech has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for Flexr, a connected sensor that attaches to a muscle and gamifies rehabilitation and exercise. The device is a confluence of trends such as the Internet o...