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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If youa4ぎa4ёe ever played a game like Angry Birds on the iPhone and the iPad, youa4ぎa4ёe probably been frustrated by the fact that you have to sta... read more »
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Here&'s our roundup of the week&'s top tech business news. First, the five most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Steve Job... read more »
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If cleantech is going to have its &''Netscape moment,&'' as John Doerr put it, it&'s most likely going to come from companies taking a data-oriented a... read more »
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Knewton, a company that provides personalized help to boost scores on tests such as the GMAT, is taking online education to the next level: It will no... read more »
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Microsoft got excited when hackers started coming up with novel uses for its Kinect motion control system which debuted for the Xbox 360 in November. ... read more »
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There&'s a lot of buzz about the innovation renaissance in New York. But the action in Toronto, just 340 miles to the north &8212' and I do mean north... read more »
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Forrester Research just released a new report on mobile augmented reality (AR) that says few companies are delivering &''real&'' augmented reality (AR... read more »
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It&'s no secret that most people are remarkably lax when it comes to online security. They&'ll reuse the same password everywhere, and will connect to... read more »
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It seems Google is willing to wait a little longer toあfulfill CEO Eric Schmidt&'s dream of cars that drive themselves.Google Ventures has instead inv... read more »
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Piracy doesn&'t pay. That&'s a lesson for SAP. Oracle won a $1.3 billion jury verdict against SAP, the world&'s largest maker business software, in a ... read more »
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140Fire, which slaps interactive advertisements like polls on streaming video, announced that it is launching today at the Launch Conference in San Fr... read more »
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It turns out that the cloud is just a bunch of buildings.That&'s what telecommunications provider Verizon is banking on by buying Terremark, which run... read more »
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MySpace and Facebook held a joint online press conference today where they announced a new integration using Facebooka4ぎa4г social data. Prior to th... read more »
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Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Carol Bartz took the stage for a sit down with host John Battelle. While Bartz did have some mildly inte... read more »
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Social bookmarking site Delicious, once one of the shining examples of the Web 2.0 renaissance, will not be shutting down. But it will be looking for ... read more »
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Call of Duty Black Ops is likely to be the biggest video game of the year. Activision Blizzard said so in its earnings call last week. And it got some... read more »
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Online marketplace TeachersPayTeachers offers a fairly direct proposal for educators: You can get paid for your lesson plans and other teaching mat... read more »
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Back in April of this year, I put up a post with a simple question: Why Doesn&'t Facebook Look Like This The post contained screenshots of a Facebook... read more »
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So you went as an Angry Bird for Halloween and your kids are getting Angry Bird plush dolls in their holiday stockings. But that leaves nothing for y... read more »
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