Over the last week I&'ve gotten several pitches from companies taking a new twist on OpenTable&'s business. One of two things has happened: Either the...
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Here&'s our roundup of the week&'s top tech business news. First, the five most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Steve Job...
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This is more than a case of sour grapes. Time Warner CEO Jeffrey L. Bewkes belittles movie-rental company Netflix in an interview with The New York Ti...
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The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, known as CES, was a blow-out success with more than 140,000 attendees, according to preliminary figu...
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Game fundings broke a record this year as 91 companies raised more than $1.05 billion in 2010. That number is up 58 percent from a year ago, based on...
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Much-lauded startup Qwiki a4‚¬a4¯ an online Wikipedia-esque service that throws displays information with computer-generated voices, images and video ...
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Last night, social introduction service Hashable rolled out a new site design to members. While the site is still semi-closed (you need an invite or...
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We wrote about the Foursquare for websites OneTrueFan, at the startup&'s launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in September. After three months in Alpha, OneTr...
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Five years ago, video games were in a &''golden age.&'' The Playstation 2 was dominating sales and found its way into most households, and gamers stil...
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If Groupon&'s rebuke of Google last Friday taught us anything, it&'s that sometimes the coolness conferred by just saying no is worth more than any a...
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Social game companies such as Zynga owe much of their success to Facebook. But they&'ve learned the lesson in recent months that they should diversify...
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John Doerr, the legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist, gave high praise to Zynga, the leading social game company, saying it was one of the best...
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Google&'s App Engine, a platform that helps developers build web applications by streamlining some of the work they&'d typically have to do themselves...
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Inbox &''un-clutterer&'' NudgeMail now has tens of thousands of users within the first three months of its launch, with a significant gain this week t...
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The Internet IPO is back‚a4‚¬‚a4¯if you are a Chinese Internet company. Youku, the YouTube of China, saw its shares pop more than 100 percent in its...
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Bump Technologies, the startup that first grabbed attention by allowing users to a4‚¬Abumpa4‚¬¯ their phones together and share contact information, j...
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MindJolt, the game distribution company that was acquired by MySpace founder and former CEO Chris DeWolfe earlier this year, has landed a big new part...
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The Nook Color is starting to make minor waves (in spite of my prejudice) as it&'s really quite a lot of machine for $250. And now the SDK has been op...
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Here are the top stories we&'re following today on the GreenBeat:Comverge software expands to cars, air conditioning &8212' The company is a top playe...
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Earlier today, Google launched its eBook store with 3 million books, many of them free. I&'ve been playing around with it on my iPad even though ther...
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