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PRESS RELEASE: Wellington Financial LP, a privately-held specialty finance firm, announced today a US$4 million commitment for Agilence Inc., the leading provider of cloud-based analytics for store operations and loss pr...

Anthony Smith started Insightly in Australia because small businesses didn't have the right tools to manage their sales relationships. Now he's ready to take on the tech giants on their home turf.

GUEST: There's a popular perception out there that most people, particularly office workers, are concerned that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for their jobs. After all, more and more simple tasks in the workplac...

On Friday, GamesBeat held its first PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Family Chicken Dinner night. For hours, game developers and designers, composers, writers, and other media personalities came together to fight over a f...

GUEST: I recently introduced my kids to the original Star Wars trilogy. As we watched together, there was one thing that bothered me over and over. That "thing" was a gangly, gold-plated klutz of a droid called C-3PO. Th...

Alpana Bawa specializes in bespoke, "small batch" fashion design. Despite colossal retail changes since the 1980s when Bawa's first collection launched (yes, Madonna purchased an outfit) the Alpana Bawa store remains ope...

VB LIVE: Last year, AR and VR raked in $1.8B, with 6.3M headsets shipped. And those numbers are expected to just keep climbing. Join this VB Live for insights into VR and AR usage, consumer attitudes, and to learn whethe...

I'm a fan of strategy ex-post facto: establish a lofty purpose rooted in love and human insights, express that purpose through creative work that amazes, and whatever unfolds from there... that's your strategy.

Information gathered on companies from ESG reporting is showing that sustainable initiatives are not only possible, but also profitable.

Upping the stakes in an already epic round of backbiting on Uber’s board, Benchmark today sent an open letter to Uber employees explaining why it decided to sue founder Travis Kalanick. The influential VC firm then pos...

GUEST: We have a summer home in New England in a semi-rural area, just ~10,000 people in town, with a potato farm across the street. Drive down the road and you can see the tall stalks of corn waving on other farms. Most...

GUEST: In the first Terminator movie, Arnie's T-800 is sent back in time to kill a human. In Terminator 2, the T-800 is programmed to protect a human. This idea of having our machines grapple with the concept of “kill/...

Google Assistant has a smattering of recently released voice apps that do things like help Airbnb guests, play a rap lyrics karaoke challenge, or give guided whiskey tastings by Johnnie Walker. The Actions on Google plat...

Assessments of employees are often based more on vague impressions and emotional opinions than on measurable data. This isn't productive for employees, who are being judged on imprecise measures, and it isn't productive ...

What seemed like a simple case of retaliation against a right-wing hate site has turned into a debate over who really dunnit. A post appeared on The Daily Stormer claiming that the hacking collective known as Anonymous m...

EXCLUSIVE: While the star of Samsung’s Unpacked event on August 23 will undoubtedly be the Galaxy Note8, the mammoth smartphone is not the only device poised for an unveiling in a little over a week. Samsung also plans...

Learning 2017 Preview: OpenSesame Offers Over 20,000 elearning courses, making it the iTunes of elearning Whether you’re a continuing education institution, a corporate trainer, run a corporate university program or yo...

What comes first: diversity, social good, and politics, or business success?

The United States may not be in the midst of a robot revolution quite yet, but new data indicates that Heartland cities should be prepared to see more and more robots at their factories. Today, the Brookings Institution ...

Ev Williams' celebrated blogging platform has lost its footing.

One of the most popular neo-Nazi websites has apparently crossed a line with its domain host by mocking the victim of a fatal attack this weekend in Virginia.

Peter Molyneux is a legendary game designer, creator of the first “god game” and maker of hits such as Populous, Black & White, and Fable. He took a lot criticism from Internet haters a few years ago for over-hyping ...