Here&'s some of the latest action we&'re following today on the GreenBeat:Trina Solar shoots for 10 percent market share &8211' The Chinese company is... read more »
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Popular blogging service Tumblr is finally recovering from its seemingly endless downtime. The final tally: over 24 hours, based on the tweet Tumblr s... read more »
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The 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show, known as CES, was a blow-out success with more than 140,000 attendees, according to preliminary figu... read more »
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This post is brought to you by IBM. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. IBM had no involvement in the content o... read more »
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Just about every evening investor Dave McClure sends me an email pitching one of his startups for a story. Company X just got a user! That sort of thi... read more »
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European streaming music startup Spotify is raising a big round of financing from Russia&'s DST, the investment company that has backed Facebook, Grou... read more »
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Earlier today we gave you the run down on IBMa4‚¬a4„s Watson AI supercomputer, and now we have video of our would-be conquerora4‚¬a4„s test match with... read more »
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Americans exporting renewable energy resources to the Middle East It&'s not opposite day. A Mountainview, Calif. company, SolFocus, announced a deal... read more »
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My guest on Ask A VC this week is Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures. He&'s also a professional kiteboarder. You may ask: Why would a guy who has been... read more »
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Marc Bodnick, the cofounder of Silicon Valley private-equity firm Elevation Partners, is leaving to join Quora, according to multiple reports. (Ventur... read more »
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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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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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CardMunch, a startup that automatically transcribes business cards, just announced that it has been acquired by professional networking site LinkedIn.... read more »
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Apple&'s chief executive Steve Jobs has decided to take a leave of absence from running the company, and his timing couldn&'t be better.Don&'t expect ... read more »
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Perfect Market, a startup aiming to help newspapers make more money from their articles, just raised $9 million in new funding.The Pasadena, Calif. st... read more »
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Biofuels company Gevo raised $107 million in an initial public offering yesterday, pricing 7.1 million shares at $15 each.The company, backed by ventu... read more »
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Mobile marketing company Zoove has been around since 2004, but president and chief executive Joe Gillespie said this is the year the company&'s brand ... read more »
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Neil Young is the chief executive of Ngmoco, the mobile game publisher that was acquired by Japan&'s DeNA for up to $403 million last fall. But Young ... read more »
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Online game company Gazillion Entertainment has named a former Blizzard executive as its president and chief operating officer.San Mateo, Calif.-base... read more »
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Richard Garriott is known as a video-game pioneer, an undersea diver and an astronaut. Now he wants to outdo Zynga, the creator of FarmVille and CItyV... read more »
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