The Internet, like soylent green, is made of people. And startups can never get enough.That&'s the insight I&'ve gathered from years of attending Sout... read more »
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We expected Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC to show off plenty of new wares this week at the Mobile World Congress conference in Barcelona, and th... read more »
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You remember RockMelt, right After the social browser launched two weeks ago, talk about it exploded a4a4 then seemed to die down just as quickly... read more »
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It&'s been a really bad day at Yahoo. Today, the company handed out over 500 pink slips to employees, laying off 4% of its workforce less than two wee... read more »
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We grabbed Dave Morin, Path co-founder and CEO, amid his many press interviews and on very little sleep, to ask some of the harder questions that some... read more »
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Does the Internet tend towards natural monoplies Columbia Law professor Tim Wu makes a strong argument that it does in an Op-Ed in this weekend&'s W... read more »
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UpdatedA lot of companies want to help you test your websites. Now a startup called Volta wants to help companies test their phone calls.The problem, ... read more »
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After briefly appearing last week, Google&'s official Latitude iPhone app is now live on the App Store, the company announced this morning.Google laun... read more »
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New York City art world startup Art.sy, which launched at our first TechCrunch Disrupt and won the Rookie Award, is raising $1.25 million from a very... read more »
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The bigger they are, the harder they fall.Apple, BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion and HTC were the only major phone makers to gain ground in... read more »
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Startup NeuAer demonstrated some cool, almost science fictional technology for your smartphone today at the Launch conference in San Francisco.The com... read more »
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Socialwise announced today that it has raised $3.4 million in new funding to market its pre-paid credit cards geared towards teen spenders.Socialwise ... 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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Angry Birds developer Rovio announced today that you will see Angry Birds characters appear in a Super Bowl commercial advertising the Rio animated fi... read more »
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Earlier today, Google launched its eBook store with 3 million books, many of them free. I&'ve been playing around with it on my iPad even though ther... 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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Snaptu, a Sequoia-backed company that offers a suite of smartphone-like applications that can be installed on more basic handsets, has hit another maj... read more »
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Popular mobile check-in application Foursquare today announced that it grew 3400% in 2010. The company now stands at 6 million users.Other interesting... read more »
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Asking attendees to choose who goes on-stage at conferences isna4a4t a new idea &8212' the online panel picker for the South by Southwest Interacti... read more »
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It seems that whenever there&'s a discussion around mobile location services, Google Latitude is treated as an also-ran. Foursquare and Facebook Place... read more »
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