Secret identities are pretty valuable. Street-artist Banksy knows that pretty well, having never revealed his (or her) own.But not all things can stay... read more »
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Search behemoth Google is back on the prowl again, today snapping up microblogging‚ Twitter recommendation service Fflick for around $10 million, the ... read more »
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By now you will have heard about the first official Angry Birds Day when lovers of that crazy iPhone/Android game come together to celebrate the ongoi... read more »
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Google has had a tough time in the past couple months or so, being more or less being positioned by the media as a company that is in danger of losing... read more »
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The New York Post is reporting the unsurprising news that Google is getting over its unrequited love for Groupon by trying to buy a smaller online-cou... read more »
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Apple may have bought the voice recognition company Nuance, the creator of the popular Dragon Naturally Speaking software, according to a brief statem... read more »
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Graphics chipmaker Nvidia announced today that it will have &''the world&'s first quad-core&'' mobile processor out today. That means its latest offer... read more »
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When it comes to the quickly growing online textbook-rental market, Chegg is the young giant to beat. But its smaller competitor, Bookrenter, is mak... read more »
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Wea4‚¬a4„re expecting to see many new tablets and phones this week at the Consumer Electronics Show, and one new player in the market has already an... read more »
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Kurani Interactive, developer of the Opinionaided iPhone application, announced today that it has secured $275,000 in funding from crowdsourcing angel... read more »
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With all the hubbub surrounding AT&'T&'s T-Mobile acquisition today, one question is certainly on many T-Mobile user&'s minds: When will they get t... read more »
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Last time we checked in Former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin was using Twitter to contest Gawker over the leak of her book America By Heart, bypassing... read more »
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We&'ve been tracking the progress of Diaspora, the open-source Facebook alternative, since before the project even started. That&'s because the idea g... read more »
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It was just a few months ago that Digg dropped 10% of its staff. Now the company is making much deeper cuts &8211' 25 employees will be laid off, a li... read more »
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Here&'s our review of the week&'s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Amazon continues ti... read more »
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Good news for the Mozilla faithful: The final version of Firefox 4 is now available for download, a full day ahead of its official March 22 release... read more »
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Rovio just raised $42 million in venture capital funding a week ago. But the developer of the hot Angry Birds mobile game says it will likely go publi... read more »
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With Apple readying subscription options for digital newspapers and magazines, it was only a matter of time before Google took its own stab at a digit... read more »
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Urban Airship, a startup that makes it easier for mobile app developers to offer push notifications, in-app purchases, and other key features, has clo... read more »
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Google is working with Samsung on a new Android phone that will have a &''clean install&'' of Android, and the release was at least initially planned ... read more »
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