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GUEST: The world's largest gaming company is taking on the world's largest gaming platform. The number of Chinese Steam users has reached 17 million, based on SteamSpy. With its current growth rate, it's just a matter of...

I am not a big reader. I prefer to learn from actions and experiences. However, there is one book I make mandatory for my salespeople: SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham.

GUEST: As you no doubt have experienced, a new market of conversational devices and services has emerged. From Amazon Alexa and Google Home to Facebook Messenger bot and intelligent assistants, we’re surrounded by conv...

If a buyer offered you enough money to exit your business with financial independence today, would you sell? Learn how an accurate measurement of your current financial resources can determine how soon and successfully y...

Destiny 2 is not Destiny 1.5. Bungie revealed a great deal about its upcoming online shooter today during a streamed event, showing off gameplay and announcing new features that mark big changes and improvements from the...

Medium is hoping to sweeten the pot in order to get you to become a paying member. The publishing platform provider said that members will now be provided an audio version of every “exclusive, member-funded story” al...

GUEST: Whether you’re onboard or not, smart homes are the future. Of course, there are still a few quirks, and some devices are downright ridiculous. (Consider the Grillbot, an automatic grill cleaner, or the Davek Umb...

1-Page was the first Silicon Valley technology company to go public in Australia. Less than three years after going public, its stock cratered and its board is set to shutter operations. What went wrong?

At Google I/O 2017 developer conference yesterday, the company announced a standalone Daydream VR headset in partnership with Qualcomm, with Lenovo and HTC slated to release commercial versions later this year. Today, th...

Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg introduced Blizzard chief Mike Morhaime to announce that Destiny 2 will be available on the PC via Blizzard’s Battle.net online service … an no one else. “One community of g...

In content marketing, automation seems to be advancing extraordinarily quickly. So how much longer before the entire field is taken over by automated software?

Activision and Bungie revealed the first new details of the Destiny 2 science-fiction shooter that comes out on the consoles and the PC in September. Among those details are the first fragments of the game”s main campa...

Research shows businesses that use this checklist make 75% better decisions twice as fast with half as many meetings and 20% better performance.

The benefit of a tethered, desktop-powered virtual reality setup is that you can get significantly more visual fidelity from a GeForce GTX 1080 plugged into a power outlet as opposed to the tiny, battery-powered GPU in a...

The Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow grows ever closer, and we must face it with brave, determined resolve. This week on the GamesBeat Decides podcast, co-hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti determine whether the...

Activision and Blizzard revealed the first gameplay details of science-fiction shooter Destiny 2 at an event in an aircraft hangar in Hawthorne, California. Destiny 2 comes out September 8 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, an...

Google is prepping big things for the future of its mobile virtual reality program. The company revealed plans to update Daydream, the hardware-software platform that powers Google’s VR services, to version 2.0 in the ...

John Underkoffler gave an illuminating talk about the future of computing interfaces — and how slow the tech industry has been about creating new ones — at our recent GamesBeat Summit event in Berkeley, Calif. His ta...

As everyone on the planet expected, the FCC voted to repeal Obama-era net neutrality regulations today. Those regulations currently enable the agency to prevent internet service providers from favoring some websites and ...

Google is expanding its Android Pay mobile payment service to more markets, saying that soon it’ll be available in Brazil, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, and Canada. The company also promised that a streamlined mobile checkout...

If Star Trek ends up being right about the future of the human race, it might turn out to be how San Francisco has become the capital city of our species as it starts to explore the galaxy. Name your innovative company o...

Overwatch’s heroes are getting some fancy new locales to kill each other at. Blizzard revealed today on the team-based shooter’s Twitter that three new Arena maps are coming May 23 as part of Overwatch’s first anni...