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Full stack startups can bypass incumbents and give them an independent path to innovation. It's a powerful concept that's now being tried in many business verticals. How we as entrepreneurs will wedge into these industri...

Last summer, Pokémon Go players descended on Milwaukee County parks in droves, and those Poké masters allegedly left quite a mess. This has prompted a response from the people in charge of those public spaces. The Milw...

Sprinklr is a social media management platform founded by Ragy Thomas with the missionary like zeal to grow the business to more than 1,300 employees with venture funding that values the company at $1.8 billion. Can an I...

New York City-based VC firm Union Square Ventures (USV) announced today that it has invested in Tucows, a 23-year-old company that has been publicly traded for over 15 years. It is currently trading on the Nasdaq at $48....

Forget about the Super Bowl (as exciting as it was). Twitch announced today that Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok, a member of the professional League of Legends team SKT T1, broke a record on the livestreaming site today for ...

Facebook is being pressured by a group of shareholders seeking the removal of company chief executive Mark Zuckerberg from the board of the directors. A proposal has been put forward claiming that an independent chairper...

The Super Bowl is one of those rare events that still attracts a live television audience of tens of millions of people, and that continues to make it a massive venue for gaming publishers to tell people about their game...

PRESS RELEASE: Frog Capital, a European private equity firm focussed on growth stage tech companies, today announced the appointment of Martin Hauge as non-executive Chairman. "We are delighted to welcome Martin to Frog ...

Donald Trump promised to end what he called "China's outrageous theft of intellectual property." But here's how two dealmakers -- one Chinese, one American -- showed how to resolve U.S.-China intellectual property tensio...

Narkis Alon, Founder and CEO of Double You, utilized her specialized training in an elite intelligence unit of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) to start a company in a very unique way.

Earthfall is a lot like Left 4 Dead. But instead of shooting zombies, you are shooting aliens who came out of a meteorite that hit the Pacific Northwest. The game might very well seem derivative, but developer Holospark ...

EXCLUSIVE: Very little remains unknown about the LG G6, the company’s 2017 flagship smartphone being unveiled on February 26 ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. And thanks to planning material reviewed ...

GitPrime is bringing on a seasoned industry executive to help guide the company through the next stage of its growth. After two years of building out its productivity analytics product, GitPrime has hired Prosper cofound...

Innervate is launching Gamesight, a do-it-yourself marketing platform that allows game companies to promote their titles to social influencers. Seattle-based Innervate has created a suite of tools designed to help compan...

Growing tension with Iran could damage the pipeline of entrepreneurial talent between the Middle Eastern powerhouse and the United States.

Google today is announcing that it’s partnering with Ivyrevel, an online-only women’s fashion brand with financial backing from H&M, to build an Android app that will recommend a dress that users can buy — through ...

EXCLUSIVE: Game developer Adam Orth, the creator of the groundbreaking VR title Adr1ft, is going all in on virtual reality. Orth said in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat that he is joining VR game startup First Cont...

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Hearthstone might be about to do the dinosaur. Lost Secrets of Un’Goro may be the next expansion for digital card game, according to a leak discovered by Reddit users as spotted by IGN. The title comes from the resume ...

EXCLUSIVE: Spotad — an advertising technology startup that uses AI to deliver mobile ads — announced today that it has closed a $3.5 million Series A, led by VLTCM in Hong Kong. The startup combines advertisers’ ow...

Every small business owner will one day exit their company. These are the must-know lessons for entrepreneurs who want to gracefully transition their businesses one day.

Google is rolling out a notable update to its Maps app for Android from today, one that serves up easy access to real-time data on places to eat and transport. Swiping up from the bottom will surface three new tabs, repr...