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Celebrating a decade of promoting diversity, Girls in Tech leader Adriana Gascoigne rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange today. Started a decade ago, the nonprofit group now has more than 50,000 members a...

A lot of gaming trends rose to prominence in 2016, but here at GamesBeat, we’ve focused on the one trend we saw again and again as we look back on the year. Lootboxes were the biggest gaming trend of 2016. These are th...

I thought this was the year that new technologies like virtual reality would shock me with new kinds of games, but that didn’t really happen. Sure, I found a handful of VR games delightful, but it was the familiar fran...

GUEST: Bots are making their presence felt, but a new approach is needed to unlock their full potential. The year 2016 will be remembered in technology circles as the year that the bot craze reached maximum volume. Not s...

It happened again last week. The battery display on my iPhone 6 plunged from around 50 percent to below 10 percent, and then the phone shut down entirely. All of a sudden, I found myself cut off from Google Maps in an un...

Samsung today pulled the covers off of a new wireless speaker that it will formally introduce at the CES conference in Las Vegas next week. The H7 speaker features Samsung’s previously announced Ultra High Quality (UHQ...

As seen at Facebook, a focus on culture can have a huge impact.

AppDynamics, a company that sells software for application performance management (APM), today submitted its S-1 regulatory filing kicking off the process to go public. The company is seeking to raise $100 million in the...

Hearthstone’s newest expansion, Mean Streets of Gadgetzan, came out almost a month ago. The set adds 132 new cards and shakes up how players create decks and compete, raising some classes up (hello, Priest) while sendi...

GUEST: The implications of artificial intelligence (AI) have been a discussion point ever since the term was coined back in the 1950s, and it continues to generate both wonder and unease in equal measure. Stories about n...

Facebook has rolled out an update to its Messenger.com client for instant messaging that allows users to search for text in individual conversations. The feature became available to everyone “a few months ago,” a Fac...

A classic adventure game is kicking off the new year for PlayStation gamers. If you have an active PlayStation Plus subscription in January, you can add a couple of new games to your game collection. PS Plus is the premi...

U.S. small businesses are wrapping up 2016 with stronger sales and improved profitability. Businesses with less than $10 million in annual revenues have experienced, on average, 7.3 percent annual sales growth during 201...

EXCLUSIVE: 2016 was a year in which Chinese mobile games became popular around the globe. A total of 84 games from Chinese publishers made it into the top 1,000 rankings globally, compared with 45 a year ago. That’s an...

Facebook has acquired The Eye Tribe in a move that’ll likely see the Danish startup’s eye tracking technology being used to improve the virtual reality experience through Oculus. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the...

Among content marketing's greatest strengths are its practicality, its simplicity, its multifaceted effects, and its timelessness--the fact that it will be relevant forever. Or will it?

Microsoft today announced changes coming to Office.com for Office 365 home, commercial, and education customers. The update has started rolling out and will continue through early 2017. Instead of just showing a row of t...

It's especially worthwhile to stand out to millennial workers, who represent a substantial and rising percentage of the workforce. So how are businesses specifically appealing to millennial workers for seasonal positions...

FrontLearners offers schools an out-of-the-box, end-to-end e-learning solution. Participating classrooms receive a kit that includes a server loaded with content, a router to establish a wi-fi connection, and tablets tha...

When starting a business, making a profit was your initial goal. When that goal is met, it feels like success for an organization. But Aileron Business Advisor Tony Collins argues that although profitability is important...

Lou Castle has made more than 150 games in his 34-year career as a game developer. But he had a challenge on his hands with his latest project, War Commander: Rogue Assault. The mobile game is a mobile strategy game that...

Independent publisher Fantagraphics celebrates four decades of fighting for comics as art and literature. Now that they've won the argument, what's next?