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The holiday sales season can put some companies in the black and leave others singing the blues. Here are 3 ways to rev up slow sales in December and beyond.

U.S. construction companies have built solid revenue gains since the housing bust, but the upcycle can bring challenges related to managing cash flow for some contractors and subcontractors due to a widening gap between ...

A top marketing challenge is converting data into analysis that can then be used to generate greater demand. Randy Guard, the EVP/CMO of SAS, provides insight into the top challenges marketers face converting data into c...

GUEST: As hardware startup investors, we spend a good part of our lives looking at hardware projects and predicting winners and losers. Naturally, we’d like to see more entrepreneurs in the “winners” pile. So for a...

Others suggest that the women coming forward to say #metoo are "just doing it for attention" -- as if anybody wants this kind of attention -- and fear they could be next. As women can attest, idea that living in fear is ...

GUEST: It’s been18 months since the final rule of the JOBS Act went into effect, allowing equity crowdfunding. In those 18 months, everything proponents of the rule said would happen (and none of what the detractors sa...

For B2B companies, having a quality contact database that is clean, consistent, and up-to-date is crucial. Here's how to ensure yours is the powerful marketing tool it can be.

GUEST: New releases in the online gaming industry are highly anticipated events. Millions of gamers anxiously waiting to leap onto a shiny new game service is an irresistible target for hackers--with bragging rights bein...

Huuuge Games came late to social casino games, launching its Huuuge Casino in late 2015. But the company has carved out a niche in the $4 billion global market. Anton Gauffin, CEO of the Palo Alto, California-based compa...

Entrepreneurs and their startups can win valuable press coverage that boosts their brand awareness and their revenue

Two of my favorite PC games are Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Mount & Blade (both Warband and the original), so consider me excited when I saw Tales of Glory for the first time. With a heavy focus on first-person melee ...

Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

GUEST: PlayStation again goes big, topping its rivals in TV ad spend once again after leading in October and September. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and co...

GUEST: Ignore the noise about a "terminator scenario" where machines become self-aware and seek to destroy their flawed human masters. Those of us who live and work in the "salt mines" of machine learning and artificial ...

We've all tried writing in VR but, with the way we hold our Oculus Touch controllers and HTC Vive wands, it's an awkward experience at best. Drawboard wants to change that for the better. Drawboard's creators call this n...

GUEST: Seemingly overnight, capable voice recognition joined forces with artificial intelligence and machine learning to push voice-enabled experiences to the forefront of business thinking. But before brands leap into t...

It was a busy week in video games. The Game Awards unleashed its “world exclusives” on Thursday, and we dive deep into all of the announcements from that show on this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast. On this episo...

GUEST: The lack of diversity in tech has been front and center this past year. Large tech companies have publicly vowed to fix the problem. But how? One answer is recognizing, acknowledging, and eliminating unconscious b...