Fourth Wall Studios has raised $15 million to create a new game studio focused on alternate reality games and other entertainment that combines the di... read more »
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Vipshop, a flash sales shopping site based in Beijing, has raised $20 million in a first round of funding, peHUB reports. Menlo Park, Calif.-based inv... read more »
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Shares of Amazon.com were down almost 10 percent in extended trading after the company posted less-than-stellar earnings for its most recent operating... read more »
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Wea4a4ve been hearing that some of AOLa4a4s employees are unhappy with the companya4a4s growing focus on boosting traffic above all else, but... read more »
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We&'re still awaiting official numbers on Verizon iPhone sales, but according to leaked sales data they didn&'t meet expectations, the mobile news sit... read more »
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Ning, the social networking startup that made some big, painful changes last year, just announced two new features that sound like the first in a wave... read more »
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A team of former MySpace executives is launching a new company on-stage at the Web 2.0 Summit today in San Francisco. Chief executive Amit Kapur said ... 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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Follow the yellow brick road&8230' It&'s no secret that Google is working on a new social project that is thought to be a layer which will be spread o... read more »
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Despite the clear competition from Facebook&'s new commenting service, commenting company Disqus&'s co-founder and CEO Daniel Ha says he is not concer... read more »
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Visage Mobile, an enterprise mobility management company, has raised $3.5 million in new funding from Qualcomm Ventures Worldview Technology Partners... read more »
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I&'ve been writing about how impressed I am with travel site Hipmunk for a while now, and so have other bloggers. Now it sounds like the company has f... read more »
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When I first heard about rental startup Airbnb, I thought it sounded a bit odd &8212' and finding out its founder rents rooms from his customers only ... read more »
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It was inevitable, developer Jesse Stay has built a waya4s&''Like&'' tweets on the Twitter homepage. The winner of Kynetx&'s Facebook App contest, ... read more »
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Google has introduced a new comment stream feature in its online document sharing and editing program, Google Docs, in an effort to promote the servic... read more »
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VentureBeat is bringing our DEMO pre-conference tour to San Diego next Wednesday, Dec. 15.If you&'re a tech entrepreneur with an awesome product idea ... read more »
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While photo sharing has always been a popular feature of social networks like Facebook and Myspace, we&'ve recently seen an explosion of services tha... read more »
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Have you ever wanted to be inside your own presentation It&'s not a crazy as it sounds, as a startup called Nuvixa lets you do just that.It&'s a creat... read more »
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An even weirder than usual episode of Why Is This News this week ending up with Mike Arrington heckling us through the wall of the studio. But before ... read more »
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Everyone is weighing in on AOLa4a4s decision to acquire The Huffington Post for $315 million. Some argue that the deal makes sense, and plenty more... read more »
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