It&'s a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Facebook Deals for Facebook Places (i,e., location-... read more »
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Electric car startup Coda has hired Phil Murtaugh, a former General Motors executive with a boatload of experience launching cars, as the company&'s p... read more »
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It&'s Christmas time for Instapaper fanatics: Developer Marco Arment has finally delivered Instapaper 3.0 for the iPhone and iPad, bringing with it ne... read more »
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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... read more »
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Mozilla has just published their annual &''The State of Mozilla&'' report. They do this once they&'ve filed their audited financial statements for th... read more »
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Social music-streaming service Rdio announced today it has raised $17.5 million as it expands to new platforms and regions.Created last year by the fo... read more »
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The Gillmor Gang took advantage of the presence of multiple Android lovers to provide a visceral demonstration of the anti-Jobs reality distortion fi... read more »
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Just a few years ago, Ford and GM were posting billions of dollars in losses and fast losing favor with American car buyers. One of them, GM eventuall... read more »
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CloudMade, a company that provides mapping data to 16,200 application developers, just announced that it has acquired German startup OneStepAhead.I la... 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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Adobe, the developer of popular design applications like Flash and Photoshop, brought in a record $1 billion for the first time in its fourth quarter ... 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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The U.S. needs to maintain its lead on innovation in the energy sector given the rise of China&'s growing energy needs and its commitment to cleantech... read more »
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Kabbage, which runs a service that helps eBay sellers pick up a quick cash advance, announced today that it has raised $6.65 million in its first roun... read more »
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Bob Compton and I finally have something to agree about. The Washington, D.C.‚a4‚¬‚a4œbased venture capitalist produced a provocative documentary, 2 M... read more »
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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... read more »
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Herea4‚¬a4„s our roundup of the weeka4‚¬a4„s biggest tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:... read more »
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As consumers buy their iPad 2 tablets and take them home this weekend, one of the apps worth trying out is a familiar one. Just as Apple migrated Gar... read more »
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World of Warcraft: Cataclysm is Blizzard Entertainment&'s most ambitious expansion pack for its wildly popular online role-playing game yet. Instead o... read more »
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Do you really need another way to chat with your friends The founders of a new startup called Convore think so &8212' and after poking around the site... read more »
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