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If you are planning a trip for the holidays, you now have a resource to find gyms in Pokémon Go before you arrive at your destination. PokeScout, an interactive map website for tracking the location and status of gyms i...

Neil Blumenthal talks about the impact Adam Grant made on his career, how colleges can evolve to better support future entrepreneurs, why he decided to adopt the one-for-one business model originally conceived by Toms Sh...

ANALYSIS: From virtual reality (VR) to self-driving cars, a number of notable technology trends have emerged throughout 2016. But over the past week, one feature in particular has really come to the fore: group video cal...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not Christmas. It’s Steam sale time! Valve actually holds multiple sales on its digital PC games store a year, but the holiday event is one of the biggest of year. New an...

Making cybersecurity predictions about the year ahead is generally an exercise in pessimism. Intrusions will continue, yes. Hacks ain’t going anywhere, for sure. More secrets will leak, no doubt. Just ask the Democrati...

Steam’s big winter sale is live, but the servers are not. Valve’s PC gaming portal is seeing connection errors as gamers rush to get deals on software. The service is famous for these seasonal discounts on most of it...

Let’s face it: 2016 was a bad year in so many uncountable ways. But when it comes to video games, it was a great year to have some relief with the escapism that games offer when you need a break from the real world. We...

Twitter has acknowledged that it incorrectly calculated video advertising metrics with the result likely impacting some campaigns between November 7 and December 12. The company placed the blame on a “technical error�...

One of the major under-currents motivating Chinese companies to have a strong presence in the U.S. is pure globalization.

GUEST: K-12 educators are deep in the midst of rethinking the design of the classroom and the responsibilities of the teacher within it. The internet brought a rush of new educational resources and technologies, like hig...

GUEST: I'm not sure that Nintendo's much heralded free-to-start (F2S) monetization model was worth the wait. It was a year-and-a-half ago that it was first touted, with Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata's famous statement that ...

It can be difficult to find an appropriate gift for anyone, especially a business colleague. Gifting should always be sincere and from the heart, but in a business relationship, there may also be an element that goes bey...

Everyone now has the ability to broadcast video but the difference is the quality of the content. Anyone can have a public access TV show, but it'll never been as good as something on HBO. Don't be public access; you're ...

By all accounts we are entering a new age of robotics, driven by a combination of ever-more sophisticated software and the falling price of hardware components. We've all become accustomed to the presence of robots in ma...

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

Fighting corruption is a big bet for India and for foreign investors buying Indian stocks. Why? Because winning it would mean India has beaten corruption and pushed forward and become a developed country. On the other ha...

GUEST: We’ve seen a steady stream of physical spaces devoted to VR and AR popping up recently — hubs where VR and AR developers can share resources, experiment, and network. One of the first VR spaces was Upload's Co...

GUEST: When VCs get excited about or interested in a new vertical, it tends to be all or nothing. I was recently putting together a presentation on one of these exact kind of verticals, Insurance Tech, when I came across...

Mozilla today announced that it will continue to support Firefox for Windows XP and Windows Vista until September 2017. In March 2017, XP and Vista users will automatically be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Releas...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we talk about our favorite Star Wars games, Super Mario Run makes a lot of money, and we listen to the beautiful voice of Waluigi sing a Christmas carol. Enjoy, and...

I hope you are getting a warm pair of boots for the holidays, because it’s time to go back outside and catch pocket monsters. Pokémon Go is getting a holiday event beginning December 25, according to developer Niantic...

Japanese role-playing game fans have something new to look forward to. Atlus has created a new development team, Studio Zero, where Katsura Hashino is directing a new fantasy title. Hashino has been in charge of some of ...