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“We don’t make drones. We make drones work,” proclaims Washington, DC-based Measure, a startup that’s setting out to help enterprises set up their own drone programs. Founded in 2014, Measure is a “drone-as-a-s...

Jake Paul is a 19-year-old Disney star who started a new media company, TeamDom, to help influencers build their brands and make money. TeamDom is announcing today that it has raised $1 million in a funding round led by ...

A new report published by Oxfam estimates that just eight billionaires share the same wealth as the 3.6 billion people who make up the poorest half of humanity. The charity drew on the economic state of several Asian cou...

A new batch of third-party Google Assistant actions are now available to chat with on a Google Home. New ways to speak with Google’s AI assistant focus on eldercare, prayer, and city services. One new action points you...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which split off from HP in 2015, today announced its latest acquisition, SimpliVity, a company that sells data center hardware that unites computing power and storage, which traditionally have...

Nintendo has finally given us the Switch details we craved, including a March 3 launch date, a $300 price, and new games like Super Mario Odyssey. But are we impressed? On this week's episode of the GamesBeat Decides pod...

GUEST: If you want an influencer to have conversations about your products with her followers, you can pony up some big bucks and hope she has the time to engage with each and every fan who reaches out to her. Or you can...

Pokémon Go makes $2,412 in a minute. In an hour, the popular mobile game from Niantic Labs makes $144,700. And during that time, 252 people download it. That’s the real-time calculation from Declutter.com, which repur...

Is Wendy's really benefiting from their Twitter roasting streak? And if so, can your brand benefit the same way?

The GAConf is a new one-day conference that will take on the subject of making games more accessible to gamers with disabilities. The event takes place on February 27 in San Francisco at the Mission Bay Conference Center...

Startup life takes on a recreational twist in Silicon Valley's escape room culture.

Watch the rollout of enough bots or virtual assistants and you’ll see it: the night-out use case. You want to go to a movie or restaurant or concert with friends, and OpenTable, SeatGeek, StubHub, and Fandango are happ...

Telegram Messenger will be able to make audio calls and change themes in the future, CEO Pavel Durov recently said on Twitter. Customizable themes were made for Telegram on desktop last week. VentureBeat reached out to t...

It might not be quite as exciting as the Switch reveal, but Nintendo’s next streaming event has news about one of the most cherished gaming franchises. The next Nintendo Direct will take place at 2 p.m. Pacific on Janu...

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Simplygon, a company that provides software that game studios can use to improve 3D content. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The announcement comes three months after...

While relevancy is vital to content marketing success, when it comes to mobile advertising and mobile marketing, it also comes to timing.

Through the eyes of a hot new start-up, learn how to overcome challenges and ensure success the next time your company exhibits at a trade show.

Ams, a big maker of analog semiconductors, said it has created a digital multispectral sensor on a chip in a move that could pave the way for new kinds of devices across a number of industries. The Premstaetten, Austria-...

Evernote is sprucing things up a bit. The note-taking company announced a redesign for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch this morning, introducing a series of changes that amount to a refreshed design, colorful text, quic...

News and insights for business owners from around the Web, including why college debt may be turning millennials into a lost generation of entrepreneurs, why the founder of a staffing company fired one of his top sales p...

This week, Travis and Stewart continue their Web Summit series of interviews with the fascinating Katia Beauchamp of Birchbox, the original box subscription service. We find out how the company has signed more than one m...

I started my first company when I was 26 years old. I suddenly found myself hiring people who were older than me. I made a ton of mistakes, and finally discovered how younger bosses can manage and lead older team members...