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Taxis have been taking a beating over the past few years, thanks to the popularity of on-demand ride services like Uber and Lyft. Sensing an opportunity, Flywheel, which was at one point called Cabulous, set out to moder...

GUEST: The beauty and skincare world is oversaturated, especially if you include all the affordable convenience store brands. If you’re a shopper with a budget, you are likely mixing different products and blindly gues...

The influencers are so powerful that they are affecting how companies are selling their games. Gearbox Publishing has revealed to GamesBeat that it is going through with its promise to end all of its business dealings wi...

This isn’t a good day for GameStop or its customers. The video game store chain is investigating a potential security breach on its website, according to Krebs on Security. Along with traditional brick-and-mortar store...

If your business is making too many--or worse, all!--of these common marketing missteps, your campaigns are doomed to fail.

In the online chat world, LivePerson enjoys the rare distinction of being more than 20 years old. While many of its counterparts in the bot-AI world are still sucking from baby bottles — having entered the market last ...

With the right balance, embracing corporate transparency can prove to be extremely beneficial in the growth and development of your company, and your employees.

What took place last week in the credit card and payment industries.

That new $1,200 GeForce GTX Titan Xp you ordered this week will have full support for some of the latest games and updates for Windows. Nvidia has released the latest drivers for its GeForce graphics cards (version 381.6...

GUEST: “It’s not you — it’s me.” Many people, journalists, and even companies who have invested in the chatbot industry have spoken out about the so-called chatbot engagement problem. The issue they are seeing ...

Out of touch and relying on an internal creative team, Pepsi's recent ad debacle signals bigger problems within the Advertising Industry.

Bethesda is showing off its next big game. The publisher is launching Prey, a science-fiction game about a person who is the subject of a research test in space. Naturally, things go wrong, and you must save the day usin...

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs — this is the first build since finalizing the Creators Update, which you can download right now. The next few builds won’t bring many big noticeable changes ...

Twitter defied a U.S. government request made on March 14 for records (IP addresses and any associated phone number or mailing address) that could identify who is behind ALT_uscis, an account critical of U.S. President D...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Blizzard wins a legal fight against a cheat-maker, we decide which educational game is the best ever, and someone gets The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild runni...

Facebook’s Instant Articles opened up to all publishers nearly a year ago, but the mobile viewing product was very much read-only. Publishers didn’t really have a native way to support converting readers into somethi...

Judge Gorsuch is about to become Justice Gorsuch, with a docket full of important business cases ahead of him.

A year ago this week, the Kik Messenger Bot Shop was born. Today, with more than 20,000 bots available — and some, like CNN and Roll bots, already past the one-million-user mark — the Bot Shop has truly arrived. In t...

Microsoft revealed details on its Xbox Scorpio game console on Thursday, giving exhaustive specifications on the hardware that will go into its next gaming machine. So begins a series of revelations that will take us thr...

SPONSORED: Presented by Avalara Until recently, sales tax compliance didn't make headlines or get a lot of attention from company executives or their investors. But after a major shift in the tax landscape, companies are...

What's the secret? How do some brands seem to churn out winner after winner while the rest of us sit by with ignored blog content? The folks at Cooking Panda seem to have found the answer.

Emirates responded to the recent ban on electronics in the main cabin on some of its flights with what could be a customer service coup. The Dubai-based airline announced this week that it will be loaning out Microsoft S...