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Two years ago, Luis Garcia was serving in Afghanistan for the U.S. Army. From his mobile phone with limited signal, he discovered Instagram and forever changed the course of his life. He now has 6+ million followers on I...

Facebook’s Game of the Year award goes to Gardenscapes, a match-3 game created by the relatively unknown mobile game publisher Playrix. The win is a nice recognition for Playrix, the Vologda, Russia-based company that ...

Update, 6.17am (PT) December 21: The compromised Netflix Twitter account is now apparently under the full control of Twitter again, with all rogue tweets removed. The hack lasted around 40 minutes. You can read the origi...

Jo Malone, the founder of Jo Loves, provides advice to female entrepreneurs as well as guidance on how to overcome adversity and start a second company.

My company doesn't tell prospects "We're selling an account-based marketing software." Instead, we offer a solution. And that, we've found, is something customers actually want to buy.

GUEST: Much as they are today, people were enthralled by artificial intelligence in 1973 — the year Michael Crichton released the film Westworld. The film became MGM’s biggest box office hit of the year, yet launched...

Investment firm Greylock has named Josh McFarland as its newest investment partner. The selection ends an eight year courting process Greylock had engaged in to bring Twitter’s current vice president of product on boar...

Esports isn’t a small operation these days. Players are becoming superstars, and this means they have to navigate a complicated world of legalize if they want to earn good money. Ryan Morrison and Michael Lee, two lawy...

With Rogue One: A Star Wars Story hitting theaters last week, we have that galaxy far, far away on our brains, and that led us to suss out the top 10 best games from that franchise during our weekly GamesBeat Decides pod...

Nintendo’s first gaming app for iPhones is megapopular, but it is also annoying some iOS gamers because it ignores the free-to-play business model. Super Mario Run is free to download (review), but it requires a $10 pu...

Minecraft developer Mojang is wishing all of its console players a happy holidays with a big update and a couple of downloadable-content packs. The block-building phenomenon is now at version 1.10 on Xbox, PlayStation, a...

If Steve Jobs could do it, you can too. Non-technical entrepreneurs can lead technical companies if they follow a few basic rules.

When shopping around for small business loans, most people ask themselves a few important questions. How much money can you get? What's the interest rate? How long will you have to repay what you've borrowed? But there's...

What do companies have to do to build a better relationship with their customers and develop customer loyalty? Is it just about points? Or is there more to making customers loyal?

Analytics is not optional anymore. If you are not acing it, here is your 2017 analytics plan.

In what appears to be the largest digital advertising scam in history, a group of Russian hackers reportedly built a click-fraud machine that stole up to $5 million daily from top advertisers and publishers. But even tha...

In recent months, Google has confronted a new and unsettling trend: Its top search results for questions about the Holocaust lead to neo-Nazi sites, while queries about different ethnic groups direct users to racist or i...

Brianna Wu, a game developer who stood up for women facing harassment in the game industry, has decided to run for the U.S. House of Representatives. She hasn’t officially announced she will run yet, but she posted the...

Hot on the heels of Twitter, Facebook, and Google releasing their 2016 retrospectives, the Wikimedia Foundation has now revealed the most-edited Wikipedia articles for 2016. As with previous years, there are some surpris...

November is the coolest month for new game launches. And this year, total digital revenue grew to $6.7 billion in November, up 13 percent from a year ago, according to market researcher Super Data Research. Categories su...

PRESS RELEASE: Augmenix, Inc. a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and sells proprietary absorbable hydrogels that separate and protect organs at risk during prostate radiotherapy, today announced th...

A team of six women undergraduate students at MIT has invented a life-changing device for the visually impaired that converts text to braille instantly