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Indian Startup Zomato, Suffers 17m User Data Breach Zomato, the Indian startup that acquired UrbanSpoon in 2015 has suffered a massive, but contained data breach. The company serves up restaurant reviews, menu data and r...

Zak Brown, boss of the McLaren Formula One team, has forecast that over the next decade emerging markets will become bigger players in the sponsorship scene of the auto racing series which is currently dominated by Briti...

GUEST: Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have dramatically simplified how humans can interact with brands to complete everyday tasks, from ordering a coffee or pizza to paying a credit card bill, through a simple voice i...

Five years ago, Square launched a program designed to help guide female students in high school and college as they become engineers. More than 140 female college students have gone through the program from across the Un...

Talk of impeachment is already swirling around President Donald Trump. If it happens, his personality makes it highly unlikely he'll go quietly. You just know he'll take a lot of other top Republicans, and who knows who ...

GUEST: For decades, video games have been criticized for purportedly wasting time, stifling creativity, and even influencing violent behaviors. Now, it seems that video games have become an unlikely tool for AI researche...

The Burnout series is gone, and nothing has filled the vacuum it left behind. Forza Horizon 3 is wonderful, but it doesn’t have the same dedication to violent, controlled chaos that Criterion’s defunct racer did. But...

GUEST: On the heels of a decade-high year in VC fundraising, 2017 remains strong. In PitchBooks’s latest funding report, we found that U.S. VCs raised 58 funds in the first quarter, to the tune of $7.9 billion. Add thi...

London-based technology firm Improbable has had a very improbable week. The company raised a whopping $502 million from Japan’s SoftBank for its SpatialOS platform for enabling massive online gaming worlds. Then Improb...

When you have a small company, attempting to do SEO yourself can make a lot of sense. However, as with anything, you often get what you pay for. Here are a few reasons to invest in a professional SEO service.

OPINION: This year’s I/O developer conference felt a little repetitive. Almost everything announced was an iteration on what Google showed off last year. But there was one theme that was particularly clear, especially ...

Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, Nintendo wins April, with the Switch hitting the top console spot while Mario Kart 8 Deluxe was the best-selling game. But Persona 5 was right behind it....

For your safety, keep your arms and legs inside the licensing agreement at all times. Atari has extended its agreement with Chris Sawyer, the creator of the RollerCoaster Tycoon series. Atari can now use the RollerCoaste...

Hong Kong is well positioned to become a top global startup hub. Here's what the city needs to do to get there.

We’re thrilled to announce Blair Hanley Frank will join VentureBeat as a staff writer effective May 22, 2017. His areas of coverage will include artificial intelligence, big data, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise t...

This weekend, a lot of gamers are going to sit around and watch cyberathletes play video games in the FIFA 17 world championships, just a week after the Madden NFL 17 finals. In the physical world, pro football and socce...

Google released its standalone Google Assistant iPhone app on Wednesday and made it possible for both Android and iOS smartphone users to access voice apps made by third-party developers. These changes were two of about ...

Emmanuel Macron may be France’s youngest president ever, but at 39 years old he falls just outside the millennial generation. Not so for his new digital minister, Mounir Mahjoubi, 33. Mahjoubi was named to the post thi...

Vosges Haut-Chocolat and Olfactif partnered to offer their customers a decadent collection of artisan truffles and niche Parisian perfumes, exclusively available this month.

I was never much of a Guardian. I’ve been a faithful Call of Duty fan and a Halo follower too. But Activision’s Destiny didn’t do much for me when it came out in September 2014. I played it for a short time and dec...

Over the past 15 years, state laws have made livestock production more challenging. The trend is likely to continue this year. Find out why...

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