It turns out that the cloud is just a bunch of buildings.That&'s what telecommunications provider Verizon is banking on by buying Terremark, which run... read more »
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A little over a year ago Zynga sued rival game startup Playdom for, among other things, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of contract, breach ... read more »
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Cleantech had a record year in drawing in venture capital in 2010, with $7.8 billion invested globally, according to a new report from the Cleantech G... read more »
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This post is is sponsored by Sprint, the Now Network. Learn more here. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. Spr... read more »
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 ' Last year, Google Checkout debuted a holiday savings promotion in time for Cyber Monday, the monday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It lo... read more »
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Since French artist Alexandre Oudin took advantage of the new Facebook design to express himself, we&'ve been seeing some creative ways to mess with... read more »
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Intuit announced today that it is continuing efforts to reach out to startups and other partners with a new challenge through its Intuit Collaboratory... read more »
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Ikea has declared war on the incandescent light bulb.OK, maybe it&'s not so much a war than a flat-out refusal to engage. At any rate, the mass furnit... read more »
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We&'re in the midst of a very important racea4sthat could help dictate the future of location-based services. But instead of the usual Silicon Vall... read more »
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Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus took the stage for about 10 minutes to talk about his fast-rising company. First h... read more »
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If 75 percent of my day is spent writing, the remaining 25 percent is probably going over TechCrunch stats. I&'m obsessed with it. That&'s why I do so... read more »
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A new mobile payments company, Paydiant, announced today that it has received $7.6 million in first round funding, led by North Bridge Venture Partner... read more »
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From AdaptiveBlue to Zazzle, everyone has startups they go fangirl and fanboy over (hi Quora). To save you the trouble of obsessively scanning your RS... read more »
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The Gillmor Gang almost didn&'t happen today, as technical problems tormented the hastily assembled pre-holiday hoedown. Will Kinect save Microsoft N... read more »
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To quote Dwight Hansen, I do know a thing or two about a thing or two and as such I&'m allowed, sometimes, to prognosticate. Even as we thrust our fi... read more »
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A much craved-for feature by mobile users, microblogging platform Twitter has finally taken notice and added push notifications for mentions to your u... read more »
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Like many game startups, Meteor Games has been through a strategic pivot. It started in hardcore online games and has now shifted to where the users... read more »
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Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said today during an earnings call that he is skeptical that ARM chip vendors will be able to muscle in on Intel&'... read more »
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The Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions, set off by social media, have inspired protests in Bahrain, Libya, Iran, Algeria, Morocco, Yemen, Jordan and ev... read more »
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Social networking titan Facebook is investing around $450 million to open a second standalone data center out in the evergreen hills of Forest City, N... read more »
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