Startup News

VentureBeat reviews the Fitbit Versa 2, the first Fitbit smartwatch with Alexa. It's neat, but unfortuantely not very reliable.

Shopify has acquired fulfillment automation startup 6 River Systems for $450 million to expand its AI-powered fulfillment network.

Managers may not be getting away with as much unethical behavior as they think.

Gratitude is good for your brain, important for your relationships and crucial for your business.

Borderlands 3 is a deep loot-shooter RPG, with pleasing progression, better gunplay than in Borderlands 2, and fun quests. The humor is half-baked.

Steven Bartlett is a 26-year-old CEO and Founder of Social Chain and he's using his 2 million followers to change the world.

This top-down view of the venture capitalist works for about 20/100,000 ventures. How about the view from the bottom of the entrepreneurial pyramid, i.e. the bottom-up view of the entrepreneurs seeking to grow? This is w...

Education--especially in the United States--is primarily tackled as an issue of the public sector.

NBA 2K20 fans are asking publisher 2K Games to #fix2k20, and they are drawing attention to the issue with a trending Twitter campaign.

A new coprocessor appears set to replace Apple's M-series chips, adding sophisticated tracking of current position and inertial data for AR and other uses.

Uber today announced the opening of its Chicago-based Uber Freight HQ, which it says will be one of the engineering hubs for its transport business.

Syte has raised $21.5 million for visual search tools that help any ecommerce company enhance their apps by letting customers search for goods using images.

Most people who are self-employed think of a SEP IRA as the natural tool for retirement and tax mitigation; however, once you reach a certain income threshold, the SEP IRA doesn't quite cut it.

Three insights on how to enter and disrupt large industries by creating a new category.

P.T. is horrifying on its own, but now I've learned why I'll never have the guts to turn it on ever again. A community hacker has found Lisa.

Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat interviews Rod Fergusson, studio head of The Coalition, about the creation of Gears of War 5.

Multiple Apple apps, sometimes including irrelevant ones, flooded search results in the App Store for months until an algorithm was changed.

If you move with appreciated stock, bitcoin or other property, and then sell, all the pre-move appreciation is still subject to U.S. tax. To escape tax, you must wait a full ten years after you move.

German aviation startup Volocopter has raised $55 million in a round of funding led by Geely, as it looks to make urban air taxis a reality by 2022.

Drivetime has raised $11 million for interactive audio games that you play while driving the car. And the latest game is Jeopardy, hosted by Alex Trebek.

Panasonic's new Toughbook 55 laptop can last up to 20 hours on a single charge, or up to 40 with the included backup battery.

Google's Nest Hub Max smart display is now available, and combines facial recognition with Google Assistant so algorithms serve users personalized results.