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EXCLUSIVE: Cloud storage startup Bitcasa today posted a “goodbye” message on its homepage without saying exactly what’s happening to it. In fact, Bitcasa has been acquired by Intel, VentureBeat has learned. The acq...

Four skills that are under-discussed, rare and essential in the modern workforce:

Who are the brightest young entrepreneurs in London's start-up scene today? Here are 10 to keep a close eye on during 2017

A man’s home is his castle — sometimes literally. Developer Funcom released a new video for its upcoming survival game Conan Exiles, showing off how building works in the open-world title. You can watch it above. Con...

Gamers are familiar with the sense of touch you get from rumble controllers, but it’s a pretty blunt form of force feedback. But Hap2U thinks we’ve all been out of touch. So the five-person French startup has created...

The earth is warming, but unevenly and only on average -- which may or may not explain a spate of unseasonably cold weather that many parts of the United States are experiencing lately. Who knows? Cartoon by Joe Heller.

A Credit Card Trend That Could Make Building Credit Harder A new practice in the credit card industry is making signing up for a credit card for the first time a little bit harder. Discover is the latest credit card comp...

GUEST: The sci-fi fantasy of seamless, AI-powered shopping has captivated the public imagination for many years running. Today this dream is essentially a reality, as evidenced most recently by Amazon’s new physical gr...

Blood-testing company Theranos today announced that it has cut 41 percent of its workforce, less than three months after laying off 43 percent of its employees. Today’s move affects more than 150 people. Theranos is no...

EXCLUSIVE: How are humans going to compete with bots and AI down the road? According to child development startup EQtainment, it is emotional and social intelligence that will set us apart. The Manhattan Beach, Californi...

French startup Gaspard unveiled a connected wheelchair with the ability to track a person’s position on the chair. It is one more smart device in the Internet of Things, and it could make life better for millions of pe...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we look ahead to 2017’s game release dates, Mega Man goes to mobile, and XCOM 2 is getting new content thanks to an upcoming mod. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!...

After a long day at work, people love to unwind by playing video games. And a lot of them apparently like to play a game that takes them back to work. Owlchemy Labs announced today that its virtual reality game Job Simul...

This series explores what it takes to understand middle-Americans, how the geography of their lives plays into the essence of who they are, and how their value structures differ from communities on the West and upper Eas...

The business world is finally starting to recognize the importance of values brought to the tech business ecosystem by women.

Behind-the-scenes drama has ended a Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament before it could start. The Professional Esports Association (PEA) today announced that it is suspending its plans to run a league for Counte...

As Donald Trump’s inauguration nears, the U.S. semiconductor industry and the White House filed reports on its concerns about maintaining the rapid pace of innovation amid China’s ambitious industrial policy to boost...

SPONSORED: Presented by Tableau Marketers have gotten the message: data matters. Yes, we've gotten data-savvy, but many marketers still aren't fully leveraging the value of their data. Let me tell you what I mean. By now...

PRESS RELEASE: Dova Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical, late-stage company, having recently completed enrollment in two global, pivotal Phase 3 trials, is pleased to announce the appointment of its new CEO, Alex Sapir. Mr...

When the leaders of the tech industry get up on the big stages at the Consumer Electronics Show, you can learn a lot. I’m at the big tech trade show in Las Vegas, where face-to-face interaction can still yield some ins...

Management is about more than ideas -- it is about practice. Management is not like religion, or science. It is a form of warfare. The best innovators in management have practically always been practitioners who want to ...

Apple’s response to a shareholder proposal requesting that the company disclose more about its charitable giving was to oppose it…by disclosing more about its charitable giving. In a proxy statement filed today, Appl...