Mikkel Svane, CEO of help desk ticketing provider Zendesk, said that his company&'s most recent round of funding worth $19 million might be his compan... read more »
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An executive at Japanese entertainment conglomerate Sony said its PlayStation Network online service has more than 70 million users now, 70 percent of... read more »
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The Crunchies, the annual awards that honor the coolest startups and entrepreneurs, will be back on Jan. 21, and VentureBeat will be hosting again wit... read more »
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About a week ago, we noted that social mapping company Waze was getting big. Actually, with over 2 million drivers helping them map the planet, and ov... read more »
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Netflix has confirmed a deal to air an original television series starring Kevin Spacey on its internet streaming service in a deal that changes the g... read more »
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Solar system designer and installer Borrego announced today it has secured its second funding round to finance six new solar projects worth about $36 ... read more »
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There is something about exchanging information by bumping fists that is deeply satisfying. What I like most about the iPhone app Bump is that it&'s... read more »
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The news about natural gas just keeps coming. Today, boutique investment bank Cascadia Capital predicted that oil will hit $100 per barrel next year,... read more »
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eBaya4a4s chief executive John Donahoe has a plan to turn his company around a4a4 and it looks like ita4a4s working.eBaya4a4s revenue rose... read more »
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As we first reported late last week, Lars Rasmussen, the father of both Google Maps and Google Wave, has left Google is heading to Facebook. As we sus... read more »
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We often get asked by readers just how much it will cost to run an electric vehicle (EV). And while wea4a4re able to say that an EV costs less to r... read more »
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For some gamers, competing in a darkened living room gets old. That&'s what fuels the growth of Major League Gaming, a tournament gaming company that ... read more »
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Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone, is going Hollywood in a marketing deal with Universal Pictures, which plans to cr0ss-promote th... read more »
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Flash back to just about two months ago. Larry Ellison, Oracle&'s CEO, walked on stage on the first evening of Oracle OpenWorld 2010 and unveiled the ... read more »
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&''Apple, Inc. (AAPL) in negotiations to acquire Spotify,&'' read the tip that came in yesterday via email from an anonymous source. Most tips are ju... read more »
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Twitter has just released an update to their Android app into the Market. So what&'s new Well, it&'s faster for one thing. But perhaps more significan... read more »
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Life is good for the reigning Android hardware king Samsung. The company released its record-breaking earnings report (PDF link) for the fourth quar... 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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Q&'A site Answers.com announced yesterday that ita4a4s going to be acquired by private equity firm Summit Partners. But the decision still needs... read more »
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Here at VentureBeat we receive a considerable number of bad pitches, both from PR firmsand from entrepreneurs themselves. To make life more tolerabl... read more »
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