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Reports of VW patriarch Piech ratting out deposed CEO Winterkorn to German investigators rekindle speculations of what really happened at VW

Another gaming company is downsizing its staff. Perfect World Entertainment, the publisher responsible for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and other massively multiplayer online role-playing games, has confirmed to GamesB...

Social media can help you scale your small business--as long as you have followers. Here are the strategies I plan to use to triple my following this year.

GUEST: The figures are in, and consumer spending on virtual reality hardware was surprisingly low in 2016. Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Sony's Playstation VR all underperformed against the market's expectations, leaving so...

While some of Facebook’s top executives have already spoken out against President Trump’s immigration moratorium, other company employees are protesting the ban by boycotting flying. A handful of Facebook employees h...

According to research compiled by Hubspot, Facebook ad revenue grew from just under $2 billion in 2010 to $12.5 billion, with ads on the popular social platform accounting for "more than 9% of total digital ad spending a...

We're taking the radical step of eliminating traditional job descriptions in favor of a simple edict: Figure out what needs to be done, and do it. Here's why.

Intel is flooding the skies with drones, doing everything from sending them out to inspect massive solar arrays in the Mojave Desert to lighting the night sky above Disney World with 500 drones. It’s all part of a virt...

A new report from market research firm Super Data offers new estimates for the market size of virtual reality in 2016, suggesting 6.3 million VR headsets were shipped in 2016. Last year saw the launch of several high-end...

With Valentine's Day just around the corner, let's consider a company that we can all learn a few customer service lessons from, 1-800-Flowers. The company is innovative and totally focused on the customer.

(Reuters) — Shares sold in a $3 billion initial public offering by the parent of Snapchat will lack voting power, testing the commitment of big asset managers in their recent fight for investor rights. In a registratio...

Trump's executive order on immigration is blocked for some of the same reasons Obama's order granting residency to millions of immigrants was shot down.

Too many people are getting promoted for the wrong reasons. Too many people became leaders for doing what they were told to do inside the box they were given: They moved the most product, followed the status quo, and loo...

Listen to the GamesBeat Decides podcast GB Decides on Facebook Watch on YouTube Subscribe on iTunes, Google Play Music, or Stitcher. The best game of 2016 was Overwatch, according to the GamesBeat staff. But this sensati...

(Reuters) – Chief executives of major U.S. companies huddled with President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday and some of them expressed concern about a travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries...

Having trouble coaching an employee? Read these seven warning signals to see if they are coachable.

Microsoft wants you to have the latest and greatest Skype experience. If you want the old Skype, well, uh, tough. The company said today that starting on March 1 — less than 30 days from now — people will no longer b...

Another indie megahit is escaping its download-only origins to hit a retail outlet near you as a physical disc. Stardew Valley, the life-simulating farming game that debuted on PC last year, is coming out on disc as a Co...

A federal judge in Brooklyn unsealed documents this week related to an investigation into a user of WhatsApp, the popular Facebook-owned messenger for smartphones. The documents reveal a New York FBI agent used a grand j...

Leaders provide the framework that ensures individuals, teams and companies move forward with purpose and progress in mind. Here's how to step into your role as a leader with success in mind.

Fire Emblem: Heroes has already made millions. Intelligence firm Sensor Tower has stated that Nintendo’s second mobile game has grossed $2.9 million in its first day. It launched for iOS and Android on February 2. The ...

GUEST: When governmental leadership in industry and philanthropy have let us down, there have always been pioneering souls that pick up the slack. Andrew Carnegie, George F. Johnson, Bill Gates: all supremely wealthy, an...