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Tax Court disallows billion dollars in losses from EY tax shelters

(Reuters) — Venture capital firm Benchmark Capital is suing former Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to force him off the board of the ride-services company and rescind his ability to fill three board seats,...

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What took place this week in the credit card and payment industries

Cryptocurrency is here -- and it's wonderful, easy -- and frightening. Play -- but proceed with caution.

Tonight, GamesBeat will stream the first Games Industry Family Chicken Dinner Invitational Tournament for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. This is an informal competition where developers and other people who work in the...

X.ai has raised $10 million to respond to calls by its user community for the intelligent assistant to adopt new features and move beyond English-speaking markets. X.ai previously raised about $23 million in April 2016. ...

GUEST: Yesterday, BioGenerator's first co-working lab tenant, Confluence Life Sciences, got acquired by Aclaris Therapeutics, Inc. at a valuation of $100 million. On the acquisition, Confluence’s lead founder Joe Monah...

If you’ve been online, you’ve seen fake news. A team of graduate students from Carnegie Mellon University created a virtual reality game called Project Axon to raise awareness about how our own behavior on social med...

Word of mouth marketing sounds easy right? It is it but it isn't.

If you want Sega’s new throwback Sonic The Hedgehog game on PC, you’re going to have to wait an extra two weeks. The publisher revealed today that Sonic Mania is coming out August 29 instead of August 15. The 16-bit-...

It turns out one of the most important factors for improving search ranking might be a subjective one: user satisfaction.

Making AI models at the University of Southern California (USC) Center for AI in Society does not involve a clean, sorted dataset. Sometimes it means interviewing homeless youth in Los Angeles to map human social network...

In the past year, executive wages have broken new records while labor struggles and uncertainty soldiered on, creating some interesting juxtapositions in the numbers.

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Colleges and Universities Are Using Unit4’s Student Management System To Modernize The Student Experience Unit4 is a robust SaaS provider with products that solve problems, create opportunities, and simplify a wide ran...

Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we delved into Hearthstone’s new expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne. Also, Overwatch is getting Deathmatch modes, and we announced some exciting s...

Chance The Rapper and His Company SocialWorks Donating 30,000 Backpacks To Chicago Youth Growing up going to school with a rip and tattered backpack or no backpack at all is a reality for so many students across the coun...

There are plenty of Angels in America, but not many that can claim to have done 150 investments. And not many Angels have written a personal check to Elon Musk. You might benefit from the wisdom in the new book from Jaso...

Google is going through the throes of a diversity controversy over its firing of James Damore, the white man who wrote a diversity memo that created a firestorm and got him fired from his job at Google. It isn’t clear ...

Classworks and Classbloom Help Turn Data Into Actionable Learning Data, data, data, we can never get too much of it. It seems we write an awful lot about products, instructors and administrators who are pulling all kinds...

ANALYSIS: The global e-taxi battle took another interesting turn this week when Didi Chuxing — by far the largest ride-hailing company in China — invested in Careem, an Uber rival that’s popular in dozens of cities...