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Two major European carrier launches have given Germany its first commercial 5G service and U.K. customers their first unlimited 4G/5G data plans.

Getting acquired is a complicated process and fraught with pitfalls. Here are a four key strategies to maximize offers and get the best value when you sell your business.

Baidu revealed at its Create 2019 conference in Beijing that DuerOS' install base recently surpassed 400 million as voice queries topped 3.6 billion

Sonic brands deserve your attention but do they provide ROI? Here's who is getting it right (and wrong).

Innovation is thriving in large cities, but rural areas run the risk of being left behind and miss out on the benefits entrepreneurship can bring. New research from the University of East Anglia explores what policy supp...

An interview with Christie Pitts, CEO of Backstage Capital, on how diversity and innovation are more linked than you might realize

Amazon has released Alexa Presentation Language (APL) 1.1, the latest version of its suite of development tools for Alexa devices.

VentureBeat is pleased to announce its first ever Women in AI Awards at Transform 2019, honoring the changemakers in the field of artificial intelligence.

If you want to see an example of how failing to properly regulate a new technology can be bad for companies, users, and communities, look no further than Paris. Last year, the city allowed dockless electric scooters to b...

Ride-sharing company Lyft detailed Disaster Relief Access Program, the protocol it uses to evaluate -- and respond to -- disasters.

Saber Interactive has released a free update for World War Z that adds a new difficulty option for its existing chapters.

Nearly a dozen countries demanded that Apple remove allegedly illicit apps from the App Store during the second half of last year, and it largely complied.

Mentors provide a wealth of knowledge and experience to us, they guide us through challenges and increase our likelihood of success, they lift us up and take our success personally. They are invaluable. So why do only 37...

In a new preprint research paper, scientists describe a system that enables robots to map a room from sound signals alone.

If you've ever tried to make a FaceTime video call, you know that your eyes can't look straight at the screen and camera at once -- iOS 13 fixes that.

When voice actress Sarah Elmaleh helped Rami Ismail create the GameDev.World online-only game development conference — translated into eight languages in real-time — it was only one of a number of things she has unde...

E.Ventures, a 20-year-old fund with headquarters in San Francisco and Berlin, has raised $400 million for two early-stage venture capital funds.

Benjamin Franklin was not only the scientist among our Founding Fathers, he was also the merry prankster. But when a Frenchman tried to prank him, Franklin turned the joke into a grand - and profitable - lesson for build...

Do outsource tasks that are slowing you down; don't outsource the tasks you love doing yourself.

Whether you're expecting a new retainer or a response to an email, you've most likely invested time and effort into your communication. And when you're ghosted, it can feel pretty frustrating.

Above all, remember that timing is everything.

A transparent and fair model can be applied to a bevy of skilled service marketplaces.