Startup News

As a freelancer, you might not feel like much of a salesman. But if you want to cold pitch or land gigs through referrals, then you need to know how to pitch and follow up.

GUEST: On Thursday the FAA released an entirely new kind of map that will open up controlled airspace for drone pilots. To date, controlled airspace was a broad five-mile radius around an airport that restricted drone fl...

Investing in a video game console is very similar to buying a new smartphone or Apple computer. There really isn't any way to upgrade them, there is merely purchasing a newer model. Cartoon by Steve Napierski.

GUEST: Amazon is an undisputed leader in digital retail, but soon the online giant will venture into the realm of physical stores. This isn't so much a choice for Amazon as it is a necessity if the company plans to remai...

This new startup has a wearable smart patch that can detect your state of health via your sweat. A winner of Google's first Demo Day in London, the Switzerland and California-based startup believes that smart wearables f...

At its recent F8 annual developer event in San Jose, California, Facebook doubled down on its gaming initiatives, announcing the progress it has made with Instant Games, Gameroom, and Gaming Video. That's all part of its...

Friede says Nvoicepay, a B2B payments technology company, didn't do anything the traditional way. They closed small rounds along the way as they made money. She considers it a point of pride that they've raised $25M and ...

GUEST: Last week at Facebook’s F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg went all in on augmented reality (AR). Since then his announcement has been praised as a great thing for the AR developer world and panned as an attack on S...

It’s time to introduce our lightning round session at our upcoming GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. This session will feature five speakers talking in lightning-fast five-minu...

The small business sector is very excited about the prospects of tax reform, both at the personal and business level, as long as pass-through entities are treated the same as big corporations.

Away Co-founder and CEO Steph Korey shares how her experiences at high-growth startups helped her raise $11 million for Away and provides three strategies for aspiring founders to make the most out of their time at a ven...

Propel's free app lets the 45 million recipients of food stamps check their balances from their smartphone.

Below are five Alexa skills you ought to try this week, selected from the Trending, New, Top Enabled, and Customer Favorites This Week categories from the Alexa Skills Store. In Alexa news this week, Amazon announced the...

Giving feedback in a way that gets truly heard is a challenge every leader faces at one point or another. Here's how Radical Candor enables us to empower those around us, inspire the behavior changes we desire, and ensur...

Listening doesn't have to just be between people. It can be between a brand and its customers, or its employees. Customers and employees are talking, sharing feedback and opinions, and companies are listening intently fo...

Julie Hanna talks about the four key elements of a Silicon Valley mindset.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey snapped up more than half a million of the company's shares for about $9.5 million, a regulatory filing on Friday showed.

Happy Friday! Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items for this week: 1) Spotify has acquired US blockchain startup Mediachain Labs, though no terms were disclosed. Mediachain Labs, headquartered in ...

(Reuters) — Tesla Inc needs to complete fixing its Model S sedan emergency braking system to regain Consumer Reports’ top safety rating, the magazine said on Friday, noting that a recent update by the luxury electric...

Blizzard has rebooted Heroes of the Storm without actually rebooting it. The developer has made a big to-do about Heroes of the Storm 2.0, effectively relaunching its free-to-play multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) f...

Is there a better way to interview job candidates than to read from a list of traditional, scripted questions? Here is a better way!

The era of digital assistants is upon us. If you don’t use it already, it seems only a matter of time until you’ll want to know how to direct Windows’ Cortana. Cortana promises to outshine other digital assistance ...