When uber-investor Marc Andreessen moves into a market, you have to figure it&'s hot. Today, his firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $18 million in ... read more »
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Oracle and Intel are in a high-stakes spat over the future of Intel&'s Itanium chip. Oracle announced last night that it had stopped all development o... read more »
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Gilt Groupe has built a big business from flash sales, where consumers converge on a particular shopping deal for a limited time. And now the company ... read more »
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Intel is not to be counted out of the smartphone battle yet, as its chips are headed to 35 tablets (including some already available) and &''premier&'... read more »
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Waze, makers of an innovative crowdsourced app that offers free driving directions, is on a roll. The company just announced that it has scored $25 mi... read more »
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Despite the United States&' position as an Internet powerhouse, the state of 'broadband in this country compared to some other places around the... read more »
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Orange Valleis one of 70 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week. These companies do pay a f... read more »
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Social gaming is an international phenomenon. While Zynga is the leading social gaming company in the U.S., in Brazil it is a company called Vostu. ... read more »
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It is 25 degrees here in NY and I feel like a wuss. We California people aren&'t cut out for the weather out here. I&'ve got thermal underwear (top &a... read more »
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm broke all PC game records, selling more than 3.3 million copies on its first day of sales on Dec. 7.Blizzard Entertainment... read more »
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Samsung&'s Galaxy S selling spree continues, as the company announces it has shipped 3 million of the Android phones to the US since they first went o... read more »
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Government incentives and a rich pool of investors will make this a good year for solar projects, but one big question lingers &8212' what will happen... read more »
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In a New York Times profile on Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, the company revealed a few interesting stats showing the growth trajectory of the net... read more »
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Bump Technologies, the startup that first grabbed attention by allowing users to a4Abumpa4 their phones together and share contact information, j... read more »
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Apple, the company responsible for the widespread popularity of heavily compressed music, is looking into offering high-fidelity music files that will... read more »
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As soon as the Apple iPad 2 went on sale today, the teardown crew at iFixit got their hands on a machine and tore it apart. In a 23-step process, they... 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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This morning&'s discovery of a mind-bogglingly offensive title in Amazon&'s self-publishing e-book platform has drawn a variety of responses. There a... read more »
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Things aren&'t looking great for Cisco&'s consumer tech sector, whereproduct orders dropped 15 percent in the most recent operating quarter compared... read more »
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We&'re releasing the second wave of tickets right now for the fourth annual Crunchies, the startup awards co-hosted by TechCrunch, GigaOm, and Venture... read more »
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