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Snapchat is used by over 150 million people, and its parent company just went public in an IPO that gave it a market cap of $25 billion. But it appears Snap might have some work to do in terms of convincing advertisers t...

GUEST: In 2015, only seven companies were licensed to test prototypes for autonomous vehicles on California roads. Today, that number has more than doubled, with 27 companies now licensed. Brands are competing to reach t...

PREVIEW: Mass Effect may have left our home galaxy behind, but it is taking wave-based cooperative shooting with it. BioWare’s reboot-sequel (a “requel”) to the Mass Effect series, subtitled Andromeda, will debut M...

GoPro plans on eliminating 270 positions as it tries to turn itself around. In a release containing guidance of its first quarter results, the company announced that the job cuts were part of cost-cutting measures that a...

Oracle cofounder, chairman, and chief technology officer Larry Ellison is back at it, saying negative things about Amazon Web Services (AWS), the undisputed leader of the public cloud infrastructure market. Today in Orac...

Nothing stops the Energizer bunny except for the threat of a liability lawsuit. Energizer and accessory manufacturer PDP is recalling one of its gaming peripherals due to a potential burning hazard. The company is asking...

Since the launch of Muslim Girl in 2009, Amani Al-Khatahtbeh's blog has become a prominent media company and community for Muslim women to discuss topics ranging from Muslim identity and politics to fashion tips and pop ...

Getting work and getting well-paid work are two very different things. If you want to become a highly paid freelance consultant, here's a step-by-step strategy to hit that goal.

GamesBeat is hiring. The Reporter for GamesBeat helps set the tone of coverage for VentureBeat’s gaming channel, covering news about video games, video game publishers and developers, gadgets related to video games, st...

Nordstrom has a way with customer service and with the retail customer experience. And if you haven't been keeping up with recent updates how the Seattle-based retail giant does business online, offline, and via mobile, ...

We're looking for a skilled editor to help lead our pioneering coverage of PC gaming. GamesBeat's PC gaming channel provides a 360-degree view of the industry ecosystem. PC gaming is growing around the world, as it’s b...

SHOP/Who What Wear will launch in the first week of May and will allow the outlet's mostly millennial, female readership to seamlessly buy clothing and accessories curated by the site's editors.

GUEST: Wi-Fi is crucial to the way we work today. Fast, reliable, and consistent wireless coverage in an enterprise is business-critical. Many day-to-day operations in the enterprise depend on it. And yet, most of the ti...

Here’s the preliminary agenda for our GamesBeat Summit 2017 event coming on May 1 and May 2 at the historical Claremont resort hotel in Berkeley, California. The event is GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and t...

About 15 new Google Assistant actions are now available to chat with on the Google Home smart speaker, including credit card recommendations, the latest Trump tweets, and a stock tracker from The Motley Fool. Last week G...

Mag Interactive's 2016 sales surpassed 28 million euros ($29.8 million), up 70 percent from a year earlier thanks to revenues from casual puzzle mobile games such as Ruzzle. All told, the Stockholm-based Mag has had more...

David Jaffe’s Drawn to Death debuts in a couple of weeks as a “hybrid shooter brawler” arena combat game for Sony’s PlayStation 4. In an interview with GamesBeat, veteran game designer Jaffe — creator of titles...

The ad industry is in the midst of its biggest evolution to date. However, it doesn't need to be an end of world scenario. There's never been more opportunity to create ownership of an industry, a category, a discipline ...

Let’s get retro dangerous. Capcom announced The Disney Afternoon Collection today. It’s a bundle of six games from its back catalog from the Nintendo Entertainment System (the console that revived the home gaming bus...

Anyone with kids will likely share their smartphones and tablets with their offspring for any number of reasons, be it to help with their homework, entertain them when you’re busy, or — yes — to keep them quiet whe...

This article is the first of what is intended to be a six-part series, constituting a Baedeker, or casual walking tour, of the Uniform Voidable Transactions Act (UVTA). This segment covers the history of fraudulent trans...

EXCLUSIVE: GitLab, a startup that provides open-source and premium source code repository software that people use to collaborate on software, is announcing today that it has acquired Gitter, a startup that provides chat...