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Real small business owners share how this untraditional form of marketing worked wonders for them, bringing in leads and putting their brand in front of a whole new audience.

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Music has always been secret weapon for The Bard’s Tale. And tunes are still one of the core competencies of the revival, as creative director and lead designer David Rogers showed me during a demo I did a few months b...

GUEST: The hype has diminished, reality has set in, and chatbots need to start solving real-world business problems or they will be relegated to a business technology fad that failed to find a practical application in th...

In the wake of a move to LA, engagement to Pastor Chad Johnson, expansion of her home décor company, Believe By Michelle, and a Destiny's Child reunion at Coachella, Grammy winner Michelle Williams talks business, Beyon...

The word crowdfunding is becoming less and less well defined over time as more things fall into its orbit. Some activities now known by the monicker are finding other terms more apt. Read this to decipher it all.

EXCLUSIVE: Driverless grocery store startup Robomart plans to launch a pilot program in Santa Clara, California this fall, CEO Ali Ahmed has informed VentureBeat. Robomart introduced its concept of a store on wheels at t...

Andreessen Horowitz has tapped former regulator Katie Haun to co-lead a new $300M crypto fund as the VC firm's first-ever female general partner.

Two winning founders were selected in NY to represent the startup talent emerging from the metro area and compete in the Beijing finals this August in China's bid to attract startup talent.

The NES Classic Edition sold out quickly after its release in November 2016, but soon you’ll have another chance to get one at retail price. The $60 micro console is coming back to retailers on June 29. The NES Classic...

Grant says Lively gained early traction due to Instagram and influencer marketing strategies but owes a recent jump in sales to its experiential pop-up shops. In April, Lively raised $3M which will fund Grant's goal to t...

Lessons from Gravitas CEO on how to join your personal mission with your company's vision.

Frostkeep Studios‘s Rend seeks to improve on the survival game formula seen in titles like Facepunch Studios’s Rust and Studio Wildcard’s Ark: Survival Evolved. Its players are sorted into three factions straight a...

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VB EVENT: Restaurant chain TGI Friday's (TGIF) used AI at many levels of its marketing operations to double its off-premise sales in just the last year — adding up to $150 million in revenue, according to VentureBeat�...

Facebook is launching Oculus TV as a new way for you to watch TV shows and movies in virtual reality on the Oculus Go VR headset. I tried it out briefly. It feels like sitting in front of a 180-inch TV screen, and it is ...

Competitive gaming is becoming more mainstream on consoles and PC. One startup founder sees mobile as another medium for e-Sports, and is building a game that will launch competitive gaming on our smartphones.

Abyssal Arts announced today that the first chapter of City of the Shroud, a tactics game that tries to buck the genre’s usual tropes — will launch for PC on August 9. City of the Shroud combines real-time tactics ga...

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SPONSORED: It's useful for anyone (especially those working in tech) to get a handle of the chief areas that crypto (or blockchain, or whatever you want to call this new movement) is making a difference and is being used...

3 simple ways to craft brand messaging that stands out from your competitors.

Analysis of the decision of Judge Kerrigan of the U.S. Tax Court in Reserve Mechanical Corp. v. Comm'r, which considered whether a risk-pooling arrangement afforded adequate risk-distribution to a small captive insurance...