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Baltimore Startup Blispay Raises $12 Million Dollars   Last week we brought you the story about the Kauffman Foundation’s latest Main Street report. In the report Baltimore slipped down 13 notches for startups and ent...

Meggan Scavio, the general manager of the Game Developers Conference, said in a blog post that she has resigned from her job. Scavio has worked in various capacities on the GDC, the big game industry event that draws 26,...

FEATURE: Look around at most video game companies founded in the 1990s, and you’d find similar stories: People growing up playing 8-bit games on their computers and home gaming systems. But it’s not the story you’d...

PRESS RELEASE: Market Logic, a leading provider of enterprise SaaS marketing information systems, today announced a €45 million investment from GENUI, Summit Partners and current investor Sycamore. The investment will ...

Impact investors seek both financial returns along with social and environmental impact. To achieve this, the impact must be inherent in the business model, meaning that as they sustainably scale on a financial and opera...

GamesBeat’s Mike Minotti is going to be ecstatic. Sonic Mania will launch on August 15 on the consoles and PC for $20. Fans can preorder the digital edition now for Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft Xbox One, and PC. The S...

Amazon is throwing money at young playwrights to spur new original stories for Audible, the audiobooks company it bought in 2008. Amazon announced the news in the New York Times today, but the company has not yet said ho...

VB EVENT: It's time for us to take action. The nation sent a strong signal during November's election. A good number of American workers say they feel left behind. They don't have the job or education to partake of the t...

I surveyed 376 online marketers, and was able to draw some broad conclusions about the state of the industry. Here are 7 big takeaways from the survey responses.

Small businesses can learn a lot by looking at big businesses. Some of the top creative firms that work with industry giant like PayPal and Google share their top lessons from the field.

MGM and Hugo Games have teamed up to create a mobile game based on the Vikings television show. With the Viking-themed Clash of Clans has been a top-grossing mobile game for years, it may not be a bad bet. Since 2013, Mi...

PRESS RELEASE: Augmenix, Inc., a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and sells proprietary absorbable hydrogels that separate and protect organs at risk during radiotherapy, today announced that it ha...

In a recent survey, 430 women CEOs were asked what the most important factors in helping young, aspiring entrepreneurs were. The biggest factor, they said, was access to capital.

Last night, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced Max-Q, a new approach to designing gaming laptops to deliver three times the performance in a third of the size of previous laptops. In doing so, he held up a 10-pound gami...

The program is attractive to developers, because of the relatively low returns applicants expect from their investment (as the primary motivation is U.S. permanent resident status). Some projects have resulted in crimina...

Some people just have a positive effect on others--and on the world. Take a guy named Terry Millard, known to all as Moose. One of Moose's Air Force squadron mates, Jim Hubbard, met him in Korea in 1980, not long after M...

SPONSORED: Presented by Murka What hit $976 million in the fourth quarter of last year? If you bet on the social casino games industry, you’ve won the jackpot, according to analyst firm Eilers & Krejcik Gaming. These a...

There’s a subscription service for everything these days, and GameMine thinks mobile games should get in on the action. The publisher just closed a $20 million Series A round that Palisades Venture Capital led, and it�...

Toronto Startup Bookmark Is A Website Builder Startups May Actually Use As entrepreneurship and startups continue to grow globally, we’re finding that more and more founders may not be web experts. Many entrepreneurs a...

PRESS RELEASE: AdAction recently celebrated its four-year anniversary on Monday, May 29th. Founded in 2013 by veteran digital marketing expert and CEO Brian Fox, AdAction has become a leading solutions provider across th...

TwitchCon, the annual event for all things livestreaming, announced that its tickets have gone on sale this morning. TwitchCon has become a place where the influencers on the Twitch social video livestreaming service gat...

SyStem, a New York City startup founded by two City College of New York engineering students at Zahn Innovation Center, is building food for the future with computerized indoor farming systems.