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There’s nothing like a quiet room. Today Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company already operates an anechoic chamber of its own as part of Oculus Research and is now constructing a second i...

Pay me now or pay me later. Knowing which chess move to make can determine the outcome of your EdTech business and the use of the freemium model can bankrupt your business before the market realizes your value.

A potential move by employees to unionize comes at a critical point for Tesla as it targets exponential production increases at the Fremont plant

PRESS RELEASE: Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm, today announced it closed a $14 million growth financing for Dejero Labs, Inc., an innovator in cloud-managed solutions that simplify the t...

Another startup has joined the race to develop Hyperloop, a futuristic transportation system that theoretically can propel passengers and things at hundreds of miles an hour in small pods. The new Los Angeles-based start...

VentureBeat's Bots Channel tracks the most important news and analysis from the exploding field of bots and messaging. Each week, we select the top stories and present them in our free weekly newsletter, BotBeat. We incl...

The NHL is right behind the NBA in getting involved with competitive gaming. Delaware North, a company that specializes in offering food services at entertainment venues, today announced a “strategic partnership” wit...

While it has taken steps to clamp down on the spread of “fake news,” Facebook continues to resist attempts to portray the company as a media entity. But the reality is that many people use it as a news outlet and hav...

GUEST: A lot of things happened in 2016. For starters, 2016 was the year when the filter bubble popped and the fake news controversy shook the media industry. Following the U.S. elections, Facebook came under fire as hav...

Microsoft and Sony both have something to brag about when it comes to 2017’s console sales. According to Microsoft, the Xbox One console had its best January in the U.S. since launching in November 2013. However, Sony ...

This whole “games as a service” thing is really working out for Activision Blizzard. The publisher had a record fourth quarter and a huge year for 2016. A large part of that success is thanks to money made from in-ga...

After a long run of annual releases, Skylanders is taking a different direction. Activision Blizzard announced today during its financial call for the fourth quarter of 2016 that its toys-to-life series Skylanders will n...

GUEST: In many ways, we’re close to a tipping point in the development of artificial intelligence technologies, with fleets of self-driving cars, hive drones, automated retail experiences, and more. Companies of every ...

Storm Ventures’ investment team is growing by one — the firm has hired Pascale Diaine as a principal. The founder of Orange’s startup accelerator starts her job as a venture capitalist on February 13 and plans to f...

VB LIVE: With an extraordinary 960% ROI, influencer marketing should be a top priority. But who should you connect with, how do you develop the relationship, and how can you leverage it effectively? Join this interactive...

Gary Whitta, the screenwriter for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, will be one of our speakers at GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. He will speak to our theme of the inspiration tha...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Steam Greenlight meets its end, Call of Duty is returning to its roots, and Grand Theft Auto IV joins the Xbox One’s backward compatibility list. Enjoy, and have ...

Ark: Survival Evolved has some competition. Funcom announced today that its open-world survival game Conan Exiles has already reached 320,000 copies sold after one week on Steam Early Access. The sales have helped the No...

On the surface, visitor counts seem like a good point to measure. But is this really the right metric we should be measuring?

OPINION: I don’t really mind vacuuming. It’s not my least favorite chore, but if I can spend less time doing it, why the hell not? Enter autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners. I’ve been using a Roomba 980 — iRobot�...

The main financial gains in Agile will come from strategic Agility, not operational Agility.

GUEST: Back in the days of the Cold War, Ronald Reagan said that his attitude towards the Soviet Union was “trust, but verify.” For years, brands have built up trust — or at least the perception of trust — in the...