Formspring, the online question/answer service, has raised $11.5 million in Series A financing, bringing its total to $14 million. Now all the company... read more »
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Phone manufacturer Motorola has acquired 3LM, a stealth startup that develops security technology for phones running Google&'s Android mobile operatin... read more »
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In case you missed it, here&'s the video of yesterday&'s Web 2.0 Summit interview with Evan Williams on Twitter&'s relationship with Facebook, devel... read more »
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It looks like we won&'t have to wait until next week&'s Consumer Electronics Show to check out Verizon&'s first 4G phone &8212' HTC&'s Thunderbolt And... read more »
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Book and media retailer Borders announced today that it will hold off on paying some publishers in order to buy time and reorganize its debt amid ay... read more »
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Around YouTube headquarters, there&'s a stat that management likes to throw around to make it clear that the company isn&'t resting on its laurels. N... read more »
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Kenneth Olsen, who died at 84 on Sunday, was a natural disruptor in the early days of computing. At Digital Equipment Corp., Olsen&'s minicomputers un... read more »
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Digital Chocolate, a developer of social games that appear on sites like Facebook, announced today that it has raised $12 million in its fourth round ... read more »
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Newly launched rental-property startup RentPost has a simple goal: to bring the aging and overly complex category of property management software i... read more »
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Sean Parker might be part of a consortium bidding to purchase Warner Music Group. If he wins, the founder of Napster might get some sweet revenge on t... read more »
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From what we can tell from a brief Reuters report, Microsoft is in talks with HBO and Showtime to broadcast and sell a la carte video through the XBo... read more »
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The iPad 2 has been jailbroken already, according to a video posted this evening.A hacker who goes by the nickname @comex on Twitter claimed tonight t... read more »
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Something is up on the Facebook vs. Google data reciprocity front. It looks like Facebook is removing Gmail from the list of third party email provid... read more »
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Peter Vesterbacka, whose company Rovio makes the immensely popular Angry Birds game, has a big vision for the future of mobile gaming.Vesterbacka lead... read more »
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The e-reading battle is raging hot, and while statistics ostensibly showing an insurgent iPad should be taken with a grain of salt, the volatility of... 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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VentureBeat is bringing our DEMO pre-conference tour to San Diego next Wednesday, Dec. 15.If you&'re a tech entrepreneur with an awesome product idea ... read more »
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Much-lauded startup Qwiki a4a4 an online Wikipedia-esque service that throws displays information with computer-generated voices, images and video ... read more »
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Microsoft is releasing a development kit in March that will help third-party developers create applications that use its Kinect motion controller.That... read more »
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The Department of Energy has finalized a $343 million loan guarantee to develop a 500-kilovolt transmission line in northern Nevada that will connect ... read more »
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