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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies attract a lot of hype, but whilst there are small signs that they are entering the mainstream, the underlying blockchain technology holds significantly more promise

(Reuters) — China's move last week to ban initial coin offerings (ICOs) has caused chaos among start-ups looking to raise money through the novel fund-raising scheme, prompting halts, about-turns and re-thinks. China i...

The electronic paper display developer E Ink created the electronic ink technology behind Amazon’s Kindle ebook readers. Now it is using that same technology to help create Dazzle, a giant public programmable art insta...

After careful conversation with our sponsors and other supporters, we’ve decided to reschedule the GamesBeat Conference on October 5 and October 6, 2017 to April 9 and 10, 2018 at the Claremont Resort & Spa in Berkeley...

GUEST: Cryptocurrencies and ICOs have given hobby investors and speculators the opportunity to make quick gains unheard of in any other investment products. Although, if we're being honest, more often than not, most peop...

When it comes to failed public launches of Silicon Valley startups, there is bad, there is bumbling, and then there is Bodega. No doubt the team at Bodega woke up this morning ready to bask in the glow of a Fast Company ...

Beca Alexander used the experience gained as a blogger to cofound the world's largest influencer casting agency, Socialyte. She explains how she's grown from apartment-based start up to 50-person SoHo media agency that w...

Chat app users can now play Exploding Kittens with Microsoft’s conversational bot Zo, the company announced tody. Exploding Kittens is the first partner game launched through chat with Zo, a Microsoft spokesperson told...

Bruce Straley, who was a co-director along with Neil Druckmann on major Naughty Dog hits The Last of Us and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, announced today that he is leaving the studio in a blog post. He did not reveal hi...

Playa Games announced that it is working on Shakes and Fidget: The Adventure, a classic-style point-and-click adventure game spinoff of its Shakes and Fidget massively multiplayer online role-playing game. It is targetin...

Hawaii was slow to get its medical marijuana program up and running - now it wants to be cashless.

The Little Ball That Could is a game where you guide a rolling sphere through a dangerous obstacle course. If that sounds familiar, that’s perhaps because you are vaguely remembering Sega’s Super Monkey Ball series f...

Email marketing is one of the most effective marketing channels. However there are pitfalls to avoid to reaching your goals.

Perennial products have to be inherently good, but they need marketing, too. Best-selling author Ryan Holiday describes the key factors in marketing work that endures.

Noah Swartz seems to specialize in abstracting adorable games and distilling them into text adventures. He’s turned colorful ball-roller Katamari Damacy and cutesy cat collector Neko Atsume into text-only command-line ...

Rocket League is getting a major update this month that will introduce a number of changes to how arenas, customizations, and competitive seasons work. The Autumn Update, as developer Psyonix calls it, is rolling out to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Team communications developer Slack and enterprise company ServiceNow today announced a partnership to bring their products closer together. A Slack app integration will launch this fall to provide ServiceNow ...

Goichi Suda, who goes by Suda51, and his studio Grasshopper Manufacture have made their names creating stylish action games like Killer7 and Lollipop Chainsaw. But now Suda51 is returning to one of his most popular franc...

IBM has unveiled a new approach to simulating molecules using a quantum computer, a breakthrough that could change materials science and chemistry. In the journal Nature, Big Blue said this will enhance our understanding...

Reading is like a liberal arts education. Everyone would love to escape into a world of ideas, but it's hard to put life on hold.

At its Microsoft Edge Web Summit 2017 event in Seattle today, Microsoft announced that Edge now has 330 million active devices. Charles Morris, lead of Microsoft Edge’s web ecosystem team, revealed the milestone onstag...

Last week, I showed you the first two elements of building a brand that separates you from your competition. This week, I'm putting a bow on that package by revealing how a Lead Product and a Bullseye Product are critica...