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Riveter, The Co-Working Spaces For Women, Have Raised $4.75M For Expansion We were around in the beginning, when WeWork was just expanding out of New York City. We knew they were onto something. Co-Working was already a ...

Music streaming company Pandora made a rare foray into acquisitions today with the news that it has snapped up adtech startup AdsWizz. Pandora is doling out $145 million in total to secure AdsWizz, “at least” 50 perc...

We are more informed than ever, but we're also more anxious, less trusting and addicted to the 24/7 news cycle. How can we successfully manage our social media, while staying creative and sane?

GUEST: The news about Amazon’s Alexa bursting out in spontaneous laughter would have been funnier if it hadn’t cast a spotlight on what’s wrong with the current approach to chatbots and virtual assistants. Amazon r...

Augmented reality gaming is in its infancy. It wasn’t until July 2016 and Pokémon Go‘s release that most people had even experienced it. Fast-forward to 2018, and game designers are trying to figure out how to adapt...

February saw a huge jump in downloads in the Minecraft Marketplace. Players on PC, mobile, and Xbox consoles downloaded 372,509 pieces of content from various creators, which is up from 239,062 downloads in January. Mult...

Digital transformation is an ever-evolving process. CMOs need to know and accept that fact but also know that change can be and will be a good thing, if they use some common sense and follow some basic rules.

In the continued fallout from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook today said it’s taking new steps to tighten its control on how app developers can use the Facebook Platform. All apps that were given large amount...

OPINION: The discussion around women’s rights has accelerated this past year with movements like the Women’s March, #MeToo, and #TimesUp. And yet, I find myself asking: Is anything actually changing for women in tech...

Intellectual property law permits, and even encourages, individuals to learn from what people have written, invented or created before. The key is always knowing where to draw the line...

The 'passion founder' of popular aden + anais baby brand tells Mergermarket she's been let go from the company as its private equity owners work to scale its boutique cache into an omni-channel titan.

Congress took the first step today in opening startups to investments by more people making under $200,000 per year

Siri was already coming off a bad year. Then HomePod’s messy release cast a spotlight on its many failings as a digital assistant. Now the floodgates are open: Former Siri executives and engineers are openly discussing...

GUEST: When a small-to-mid-sized business first implements a new technology, it’s often only one person inside the company who owns the entire product. In the early ’90s when the web was in its infancy, my role inclu...

When Peter Resnick bought CleanWell, he had no CEO experience, and frankly was not looking to be an entrepreneur. Rather, he wanted to invest in a business that was eliminating toxins and chemicals from everyday cleaning...

The cities angling to become a tech hub in the Midwest typically fall into one of two categories. There are college towns, like Columbus and Ann Arbor, and traditional hubs of Fortune 500 activity, like Chicago and Minne...

Nolan Bushnell, cofounder of Atari, is the godfather of the video game industry, and the producers at media company Vision Tree are making a biopic about him and Atari. And they’re announcing today they are funding it ...

Almost everyone on the GamesBeat team is at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, and we’re going to have some audio dispatches from that event later this week. For now, since I’m all alone, I de...

Epic Games stunned everyone a couple of years ago with the realistic digital human character Senua, from the video game Hellblade. And today, the maker of the Unreal Engine game tools showed another astounding demo, dubb...

This is not about the death of a woman run over this week by an Uber driverless car. This is about what happened before the tech ever got deployed in the vehicle in the first place. It had to be stolen first.

PRESS RELEASE: AlternaScript, the leading provider of premium health supplements, is on a mission to eradicate America's fastest growing epidemic: off-label prescription drug abuse. This press release features multimedia...

Epic Games, CubicMotion, 3Lateral, Tencent, and Vicon took a big step toward creating believable digital humans today with the debut of Siren, a demo of a woman rendered in real-time using Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 techno...