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GUEST: In the next 7 years, true augmented reality will not become mainstream anywhere except the automotive industry — and here’s why. Despite the explosive growth, AR software and content is now mostly created for ...

It's great to learn from your mistakes. It's even better to learn from someone else's. Here are 11 lessons I wished I knew before starting my own business.

Upper Deck Entertainment is known as a purveyor of trading cards, like sports memorabilia and Konami’s Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. It revolutionized the industry when it came out with premium quality baseball cards, and now i...

GUEST: Reno, a city just four hours away from Silicon Valley, is the home of Tesla’s Gigafactory. It’s a city whose economy once chiefly relied on the low-wage casino industry, where bankruptcy and crime were frequen...

Succession planning is not just a catchphrase; it requires serious work, attention and planning. Here's why a five-year strategy should be at the center of your succession plan, and how to better secure the legacy of you...

Google announced today that it’s cutting the price for high-speed storage attached to its cloud virtual machines. Customers will pay up to 63 percent less for Local SSD storage that’s attached to the virtual machines...

GUEST: Artificial intelligence has attracted broad attention lately, but most of the conversations surrounding this topic are irrelevant to the actual, impactful progress being made in so many areas. In the real world, a...

We are talking road-trip games on the GamesBeat Decides podcast this week. PC gaming editor Jeffrey Grubb and reviews editor Mike Minotti talk through their memories of playing video games on America’s highways, at Dis...

Matt Calkins, is co-founder and CEO of Appian, the Reston, Virginia-based, publicly-traded firm that positions itself as a platform that makes it easier and faster to create software applications. Its low-code solution r...

Get out the swimsuits and hot dogs, Overwatch‘s Summer Games are back … even if the real summer is ending soon. The second run of this event, which was Overwatch’s first when it launched last year, includes all of ...

A new Ubisoft office is opening in Stockholm, and it’s lead is Patrick Bach, the former general manager of Electronic Arts’ DICE studio that makes games like the Star Wars shooter Battlefront. Earlier this year, Ubis...

We think of viral marketing as something which only began to materialize after the birth of the web. However, the fundamentals of piggybacking on social media to spread brand awareness have their roots in traditional mar...

There are two main ways to get links "naturally," without risking penalization: link building and link earning. But which one is better?

Elgato sells one of the top affordable cards for capturing gameplay video, and now it is filling out its product lineup with more tools for Twitch broadcasters and YouTube creators. The company revealed its Cam Link and ...

Is Minecon still a con without the actual convention part? Minecon Earth is going to put that question to the test on November 18, when this new version of the Minecraft community event begins streaming. The 90 minute br...

Pro.com, which provides quotes and contractors for home improvements, announced today funding of $10 million in a round led by DFJ. Existing investors Maveron, Madrona Venture Group, and Two Sigma Ventures also joined. A...

In the present-day startup world, warm introductions to potential investors still play an important role. However, the industries grow, and the number of VC firms is now bigger than before, and many of them are willing t...

After the massive Outlook.com overhaul last year, Microsoft is back at it again. The company today announced Outlook.com beta, a new version of the web email client users can try to improve by giving feedback to the team...

GamesBeat 2017 will take place at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5-6, and we’re delighted to announce our next two legendary speakers, who can teach us a lot about making big decisions in the game bu...

In a wide-ranging interview, António Horta Osório, CEO of Lloyds Bank, discusses Brexit and its ramifications, challenges posed by the digital age to banking, and many other fascinating topics.

Starting today, Instagram is allowing a select group of users invite a friend to join an Instagram live video broadcast. To add a person to an Instagram live video, check to see if you have a new icon in the bottom right...