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(Reuters) – Chinese banks are hiring blockchain experts as the government pushes use of the technology behind bitcoin to increase transparency and combat fraud in its financial sector. Lenders have struggled for years ...

Many entrepreneurs know that conferences need to be a key part of their growth strategy, but the thought process doesn't go much further than that. Here are three ways my team increases the ROI of conferences.

Tesla is suing a former manager as well as Chris Urmson, the previous director of the Google self-driving project, and a new venture the two men have launched. The lawsuit filed Thursday in Santa Clara Superior Court all...

Elon Musk isn’t building a commercial hyperloop -- his idea to shoot people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes through a vacuum tube. But Musk’s Mars-bound company, SpaceX, is challenging students and in...

Microsoft today started rolling out a new Windows 10 preview build for people participating in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. Build 15019, which follows build 15019, does have significant bugs that might i...

Let's look into the crystal ball and predict how Google's Rich Answers and the Knowledge Graph will evolve.

One of the best games of 2016 is about to get an interesting new mode as part of a major content update. In February, developer Respawn Entertainment will launch the Live Fire patch for its sci-fi shooter Titanfall 2. Th...

GUEST: Tax season is around the corner, and for most Americans, it involves dealing with the complex tax code, an accountant, and maybe friends who claim to be tax experts. According to IRS statistics, there were 507 mil...

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands debuts on March 7 on the console and the PC. It’s a vast, open world where your stealth soldiers take on a Bolivian drug cartel. And one of its unique features is four-player co-op,...

It isn't always possible to make the leap of quitting the job that pays the rent to pursue your passion. It's important to know when you are ready to jump on the entrepreneurial roller coaster.

Bob Bates, a veteran of 45 games developed, has launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a new text adventure called Thaumistry: In Charm’s Way. The title is part of the wave of games that appeal to the nostalg...

Endurance International Group, a publicly traded company that operates many hosting providers, will be laying off employees at its office in Austin, Texas. The move will impact around 90 employees providing customer supp...

Samsung’s Galaxy Note7 fiasco is largely over, but the consequences will likely continue for many months, if not years. The company has already put in a ton of work to stymie the inevitable impact on its brand and sale...

That didn’t take long. Obsidian’s Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire has already passed its $1.1 million crowdfunding goal on Fig, the Kickstarter competitor that can issue equity to backers, in less than 24 hours afte...

Penny Arcade and ReedPOP announced today that they will stage a new gamer event called PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia. Announced during PAX South 2017, the new tabletop gaming event will take place in Philadelphia in Nove...

This former corporate HR professional turned her interior design side hustle into a lucrative new company. Now she creates beautiful, highly organized homes and offices so that her clients can leverage their environments...

A cautionary yarn: In Leesburg, Virginia, anonymous accusations that a knitting store -- yes, a knitting store -- has been "openly hostile to customers who voted for Donald Trump" signals a new era of intimidation on Mai...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we play Resident Evil VII (which or may not be scary, depending on which of our staff you ask), Overwatch passes 25 million players, and a new Pokémon game release...

More than a year ago, long before Russian hackers tried to influence a presidential election, Keeper Security CEO Darren Guccione argued that the United States needs to treat the nation's cybersecurity as if we were at w...

Ghost Recon Wildlands has incredible environments where you can climb to a mountaintop and then visit everything that you can see from that mountain. I saw the game in a preview last week at Ubisoft in San Francisco, and...

Corporations love startups right now. For startups who take dollars from such strategic investors, here's what to know in order to get the biggest boost from new big-company friends.

Adobe today announced Adobe Contribute and Adobe Director will no longer be for sale nor supported as of February 1, 2017. At the same time, Adobe is also stopping Shockwave for Mac updates and support on March 14, 2017 ...