Online game company Gazillion Entertainment has named a former Blizzard executive as its president and chief operating officer.San Mateo, Calif.-base... read more »
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Autodesk, the 3D computer-aided design company, has purchased 3D game design platform Wild Pockets, VentureBeat has learned.Wild Pockets, which launch... read more »
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Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept Android program that can literally keep an ear out for credit card numbers.Dubbed Soundminer, the softw... read more »
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Myspace today released a statement confirming yesterdaya4a4s reports that it plans to lay off a large percentage of its workforce &8212' specifica... read more »
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For the first time ever, shipments of Android smartphones outpaced all of the competition worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2010, including longtim... read more »
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It looks like smartphone owners are pretty cheap, despite carrying around flashy and often expensive devices.Prices for paid applications on app store... read more »
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Even though MeeGo doesn&'t appear to be a big part of Nokia&'s future now that the company is looking to Windows Phone 7 as its primary operating syst... read more »
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Hearsay, a startup backed by Sequoia Capital, is emerging from stealth mode today and launching its first product. That&'s Hearsay Social, a service t... read more »
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Blog plug-in Zemanta has raised $3 million in venture capital as it attempts to bring a4Asemantica4 blogging to the rest of the world, the compan... read more »
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Who determines the big topics of conversation on social media such as Twitter It&'s isn&'t the loudest bloggers with large followings of virtual fans.... read more »
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SoloPower, a maker of flexible thin-film solar power panels, has raised $13.5 million in its fifth round of funding from Crosslink Capital and others,... read more »
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This article is brought to you by Thomson Reuters and the Knowledge Effect. To learn more, please click here. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about ... read more »
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Netflix has confirmed a deal to air an original television series starring Kevin Spacey on its internet streaming service in a deal that changes the g... read more »
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Kuggaa Mobile is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. Aft... read more »
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Today&'s funding announcements include ways for artists to produce content and engage fans online:Cloudpic grabs $6M to help artists collaborate from ... read more »
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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... read more »
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Most web-based startups go through testing to make sure their sites appeal to their target audience.Website testing services like Optimizely usually t... read more »
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Mozilla has released a new add-on called F1 for its popular Firefox browser that makes shaing Web content super easy.F1 creates a button on the top-ri... read more »
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Just about every inside joke imaginable popped up at this evening&'s Crunchies awards, an event that honored startups that have performed above and be... read more »
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If you believe Oracle, Hewlett-Packard&'s chief executive Leo Apotheker has been dodging Oracle&'s subpoena in a lawsuit against SAP. But Apotheker ha... read more »
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