Taavet Hinrikus, one of Skype&'s first employees, recently launched a new company called Transferwise, which enables cheap peer to peer currency excha... read more »
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Latin America isn&'t a great place to get social game players to pay for goods with credit cards. But gamers there are avid fans of social games and a... read more »
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A startup called Prefinery launched last year to help other startups manage the beta testing process, where they only let a small number of users play... read more »
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Website discovery engine StumbleUpon had 500 million hits last month and its traffic has doubled in 6 months, the company announced today.StumbleUpon ... read more »
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It&'s been a weird time for wind energy latelyあin the U.S.New wind installations in the U.S. were at a three-year low last quarter, according to the ... read more »
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Yahoo may be tight-lipped about the layoffs that are taking place today within the company, but that&'s not stopping employees who have been handed pi... read more »
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A startup called Affectiva said that it wants to change the way advertisers and researchers judge the effectiveness of an ad. With its upcoming Affdex... read more »
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Updated with analyst comments.Facebook is announcing the next phase in the rollout of its virtual currency, Facebook Credits, which is leaving beta te... read more »
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Social media tracker startupあTynt has launched a new suite of publisher&'s tools to help its clients keep a close eye on what their key audience is f... 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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Bing Gordon accepted one of the video game industry&'s highest honors last night: He became the latest recipient of a lifetime achievement award from... 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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When Google put their faith in Wave, an ambitious new project last year, they knew it was a gamble. But a big part of it was the team behind the proje... read more »
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Wea4ぎa4вe going to be seeing Nvidiaa4ぎa4г dual-core Tegra 2 chip on a slew of devices this year, including Motorolaa4ぎa4г Xoom tablet and LGa4ぎ... read more »
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Enterprise cloud management software company Abiquo has raised around $10 million in a second round of funding. The company is ramping up its global s... read more »
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Here at VentureBeat we receive a considerable number of bad pitches, both from PR firmsあand from entrepreneurs themselves. To make life more tolerabl... read more »
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Advertising startup Media6Degrees has raised $17 million in a second round of venture funding for what it calls a4ぎAsocial targeting.a4ぎ抖he New Yor... read more »
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Nokia, the world&'s largest mobile phone maker, dedicated a new office building in Silicon Valley today, and its leaders promised that good things are... read more »
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SugarCRM, a developer and provider of open-source customer relationship management (CRM) software, is worth somewhere in the range of $350 &8211' $360... read more »
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It&'s been quite a year for energy-related investments and other ventures looking to make some green from green. Here&'s a look back on the biggest su... read more »
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