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Founder of the popular style and entertainment site The Chic Spy on the life of a roving publisher, instilling an entrepreneurial spirit in others and the last time she laughed uncontrollably.

Global payments platform provider Currencycloud has scooped up another £20 million ($25 million) in a Series D round led by new entrant GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from existing investors, includin...

Google has launched Chrome 57 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Among the additions is CSS Grid Layout, API improvements, and other new features for developers. You can update to the latest version now using the browser’s b...

Not everything that harms you is unlawful, even in a very litigious country. Will the court in Washington recognize these circumstances as unfair competition, or discuss this as another unforeseen risk of being in busine...

My time with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (read the review) is mostly about trying to do something and then freaking out when I realize it’s possible. Like … if an enemy has the body of a horse, I could pr...

EXCLUSIVE: While perhaps best known for his role as an investor on the hit show Shark Tank, Robert Herjavec doesn’t always, well, swim with sharks. VentureBeat caught up with him at the Google Garage in Silicon Valley,...

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More teams and more money are coming to World of Warcraft’s esports scene. Blizzard today detailed the 2017 for World of Warcraft’s 2017 Arena season. Arena pits two teams of three players against each other. The top...

GUEST: Planning to Netflix and chill this weekend? The movie you choose to watch may be heavily influenced by Netflix's sophisticated algorithms. Similarly, decisions like where you choose to dine and what you choose to ...

Successful companies find a way to activate the bring-it-on gene in each and every employee, not just their executives.

The team at Hello Games built their dream game, and now they want to help struggling creators who are trying to do the same thing. The indie studio behind the sci-fi game No Man's Sky recently created Hello Labs, a new d...

At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google announced the launch of Cloud Dataprep, a service that lets people clean up their data sets before pushing it into a service like Google’s BigQuery man...

Airbnb announced today the close of an oversubscribed round of more than $1 billion. Last Fall, the hospitality giant filed forms with the SEC to indicate it had raised $555,462,180, VentureBeat has learned. Today, the s...

Google is getting back into the team collaboration space to take on Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workplace by Facebook, and Cisco Spark with a new service called Hangouts Chat. Available in a private beta, it blends private r...

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Airbnb has raised more than $4.5 billion since its founding.

Louis Castle, a veteran game developer of games such as Command & Conquer, has taken a job as head of Amazon Game Studios in Seattle. He becomes a part of Amazon’s growing contingent of veterans game makers such as Ric...

At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google is announcing updates to its Firebase portfolio of mobile-oriented cloud services. First, Firebase is getting an integration with the Google Cloud Functi...

Hugging Face, a company named after the hugging face emoji, is bringing its AI bot from private to public beta today and is now available in the iOS App Store. Hugging Face doesn't want to sell products or connect you to...

At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google announced the launch of a new discounting system for its Google Cloud Platform public cloud offering. Customers will be able to get a lower cost after co...

The gaming industry can be a grueling one, known for pushing employees with long hours. But one company has plenty of happy workers. Fortune released its list of the 100 best places to work in America, and Activision Bli...

At its Google Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today, Google announced that it will open three more regions of data centers around the world by the end of 2018. They’ll be coming to the Netherlands, Canada, and C...