Chris O'Brien

Feature Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. For the next five weeks, a group of entrepreneurs are conducting an experiment in living and coworking in a castle about one hour west of Paris. The goal of the Proof of Concept 21 innovation […]

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. HELSINKI, Finland — With all the creative components that go into making a video game, it’s easy to overlook the craft of writing and performing the music. And yet, it’s the music that often enhances and cues the […]

Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. In an industry that constantly lusts toward the future, the Internet Archive has once again helped retain tech’s past by announcing that it has saved more than 500 Apple II programs. The San Francisco-based non-profit has been doing yeoman’s work for years now, […]

Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. As part of a sweeping set of digital reforms under consideration, the French government has taken steps to simultaneously embrace and regulate the esports industry. The esports rules are part of a larger package of proposals known as the […]

Feature Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. At this point in Silicon Valley’s history, it’s nearly impossible to walk down the street without tripping over some incubator or accelerator created by a major corporation hoping to magically capture a […]

Following a permanent suspension from Twitter, conservative pundit Milo Yiannopoulos has filed a series of data requests with the social networking company demanding that they turn over all of his personal data. The tech editor of the conservative news site Breitbert says he is entitled to this information under British and Irish law. The move is part of […]

Paris-based Coorpacademy announced today it has raised a new round of $11 million in venture capital as it seeks to build out its online platform for corporate education. Investors in the new round include Serena Capital, NextStageAM, and Debiopharm Investment funds. Launched in 2013, Coorpacademy hopes to use the new money to expand across Europe and […]

Feature From the time that Laurel Duermaël and her husband Adrien left France to pursue their startup dreams in Silicon Valley, it seemed that nothing went as planned. But somehow, through a failed video game startup, battles with cofounders, the loss of personal savings, and the stress of living in a strange land, their tale has arrived at the […]

We’re thrilled to announce the return of GamesBeat Next, hosted in San Francisco this October, where we will explore the theme of “Playing the Edge.” Apply to speak here and learn more about sponsorship opportunities here. At the event, we will also announce 25 top game startups as the 2024 Game Changers. Apply or nominate today! As Paris-based […]

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More The trend of tech mega campuses continues to transform the face of Silicon Valley, thanks to companies with nearly unlimited pools of cash building palatial headquarters designed to keep employees within arm’s reach. Case […]

Paris-based BlaBlaCar has offered to acquire Russian bus platform Busfor as the carpooling king continues evolving to meet changing mobility demands.

AI startups globally raised $8.4 billion in Q1 2020, up from $5.58 billion the previous quarter and roughly flat compared to Q2 and Q3 2019.

According to Canalys, shipments of desktops, notebooks, and workstations increased by 25% in the fourth quarter of 2020 compared to Q4 2019.

The Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud report released today highlights top issues for companies embracing the cloud.

According to Canalys, companies are spending record sums on cybersecurity, and yet the number of successful attacks is higher than ever.

Following the acquisition by Twilio, Segment is focused on a building the next generation of customer data management tools.

Grip today announced it has raised $6 million in a round led by YL Ventures as the Israeli company develops a new SaaS security approach.

Hive wants to encourage machine learning in the cloud by allowing enterprises to access hosted ML models via APIs.

Deep Instinct announced it has raised $100 million to accelerate deployment of its deep learning cybersecurity models.

Kets Quantum Security believes it’s possible to address current and future security issues with chip-based encryption.