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The story of a man born with absolutely nothing that built a self-sustaining business to support his lifestyle.

The great majority of entrepreneurs want to be wealthier. Their primary motivation is to be able to take better care of their loved ones. For many of them the ability to give more to charity is also a major motivation to...

Dandelion, a maker of geothermal systems for homes that was incubated inside Alphabet’s X, said it raised $2 million in a seed round led by Collaborative Fund. ZhenFund and Borealis Ventures also participated in the ro...

A week after the voter fraud team asked states for registrants' personal details, some legal experts are questioning whether the request was permissible in the first place.

The classic Tretorn Nylite first launched in 1967. Now it's the court shoe with clout among discerning fashion types.

GUEST: Ninety percent of all the data available online today has accumulated over the last couple of years. This pool of data is projected to grow exponentially as we all contribute to it each day through 500 million twe...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a mammoth success on Steam as well as broadcasting services like Twitch and YouTube, and the Bluehole studio built it specifically for that audience of live-video viewers. Woonghee Cho,...

Beyond the clear financial benefits of starting a side hustle that generates dependable income, there are a handful of incredible yet unexpected benefits you'll experience by choosing to build a business on the side of y...

Most of Kiva's global borrowers are women.

GUEST: Voice search is increasingly being adopted by consumers who are literally speaking to brands to get the answers to their questions. This habit of relying on a voice assistant to answer queries presents brands with...

Advice on what you should do to become an entrepreneur in your 50s or 60s from someone who left the corporate world to start a business.

Steelhouse is the upstart founded by Mark Douglas to provide solutions for marketers that seeks to reinvent the way digital advertising is created, distributed and optimized. And the company is gaining significant market...

Blizzard’s hit team-based shooter, Overwatch, has revealed its latest character. And fans can relax: it’s Doomfist. Doomfist has been teased since Overwatch’s reveal trailer, which had characters fighting over his ...

Pokémon Go is losing its Hypno-esque grip on consumers after its breakout summer last year, according to a survey by the marketing company Fluent LLC. Developer Niantic Inc. is celebrating the app’s one-year anniversa...

ISTE Releases Numbers For ISTE 2017 If you were in San Antonio Texas last week for the International Society For Technology In Education (ISTE) conference, you know it was like a whirlwind. The conference was jam packed ...

Google today unveiled a new G Suite security feature to improve data access controls and enhance phishing prevention: OAuth apps whitelisting. The feature is designed to help companies control how third-party application...

VB EVENT: VentureBeat is deeply rooted in Silicon Valley, with connections to the industry's most innovative and compelling technology and brand leaders. For MobileBeat 2017, we're bringing together the leaders and innov...

The battle of the bike-sharing startups took a serious turn today with news that China’s Ofo has raised another $700 million in a round of venture capital (VC) funding led by Alibaba, Hony Capital, and Citic Private Eq...

Is there a secret formula for building a phenomenal managament team that knows how to execute? Boxed is an NYC startup success story built from the ground up. Much of their success comes from the diversity of experience ...

As expected, Microsoft announced layoffs today that will affect thousands of its employees. The job cuts will be primarily focused in the company’s sales and marketing organizations as part of a reorganization the tech...

National Principal’s Conference 2017: Matific Creates Fun and Exciting Games For K-6 Students, Wrapped Around Math Standards If it’s math it’s Matific. The company has created hundreds of interactive mini-games tha...

CloudGate Studio is launching its dinosaur virtual reality shooter Island 359 on early access game in the Oculus Store. Hoping to reproduce the terror of fighting dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park films, CloudGate is immers...