Microblogging service Twitter is taking on the recent decision by Egyptian authorities to shut off access to the Internet amidst massive unrest in the... read more »
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New rules from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a revised reading on which private fund managers must register as investment advisers w... read more »
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December 17, also known as Free Shipping Day because it&'s the last day you could get free shipping for pre-Christmas online purchases, was the busies... read more »
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Didn&'t manage to snag a ticket to the Crunchies Not in San Francisco Or only going to the after-party Well, you can still follow along here, thanks t... read more »
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Y Combinator, the increasingly famous Silicon Valley incubator, announced two new general partners today &8212' Gmail creator/FriendFeed co-founder Pa... read more »
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A new wave of e-commerce is coming, backed by tends of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley&'s savviest investors, that&'s reinventing more than ju... read more »
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In a bid to simplify music discovery for Twitter users, Twitter today announced a partnership with Apple&'s beleaguered Ping social network.The union ... read more »
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Mayor Gavin Newsom&'s claim that Foursquare is a San Francisco startup just got a little bit more accurate. Foursquare, which has famously worked out ... read more »
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Wea4‚¬a4„ve been hearing that some of AOLa4‚¬a4„s employees are unhappy with the companya4‚¬a4„s growing focus on boosting traffic above all else, but... read more »
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Potentially disrupting the established practices of angel investing, investors Yuri Milner (pictured) and Ron Conway have teamed up to offer a blanket... 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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Verizon Wireless has finally answered the question of how voice calls will be handled for its 4G LTE network. The carrier is planning a new service,... read more »
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Yesterday, after some digging, we were able to confirm that the internal codename for Google&'s upcoming social project is &''Emerald Sea&''. Despite ... read more »
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No you didna4‚¬a4„t misread that title. In a move clearly meant to deflect some attention away from the massive amounts of Verizon iPhone press, T-... read more »
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Groupon barely paused to reject Google&'s $6 billion offer before continuing on its way towards becoming an online local advertising juggernaut. It ... read more »
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A new startup called Yobongo is giving users their first chance today to get their hands on its mobile chat application, which helps you to find stran... read more »
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As we head towards the New Year of 2011, the VentureBeat team has put together a list of things we&'d like to see the tech and startup world improve o... read more »
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Ustream has big plans for live video streaming on Android phones using Verizon&'s 4G network, as well as for viewing video streams on big screens.Yest... read more »
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The WikiLeaks news continued today. First, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was ordered released on bail by a judge in England today. But Assange rema... read more »
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Some of you (hopefully all of you) have been following the UCSF drive to build a children&'t hospital in San Francisco. We are enthusiastically suppor... read more »
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