Social news site Gather has raised another $2.4 million in funding this week, in order to pivot its core business and focus on being a content on dema... read more »
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Prestigious startup incubator Y Combinator has just announced that it&'s adding two new partners: Paul Buchheit, who created Gmail and founded Friend... read more »
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 ' Last year, Google Checkout debuted a holiday savings promotion in time for Cyber Monday, the monday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It lo... read more »
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Zynga said moments ago that it has acquired Texas-based mobile game company Newtoy, the maker of games such as Words with Friends on the iPhone.The pr... read more »
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Path, a startup with an unusual take on mobile photo sharing, just announced that it has raised $8.65 million in its first round of institutional fund... read more »
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Perhaps you missed Apple&'s Back to the Mac event at their headquarters in Cupertino, CA last week. You know, the one where they showed off iLife &'11... read more »
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Well, that was quick.‚ AOL announced today that it is going to buy About.me, a service that helps people create a profile page, just four days after t... read more »
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Virtualization software provider VMware posted strong fourth quarter and yearly results, but a trimmed outlook from the company indicates that enterpr... read more »
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And there was much rejoicing. Video game sales rose a healthy 8 percent for the month of November compared to a year ago, according to market research... read more »
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The East Coast vs. West Coast VCfight got a platform today in one of the most hilarious talks at Web 2.0 Summit, an intense debate between Fred Wilson... 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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Activision Blizzard is starting its slow strip tease leading up to the launch of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, which is expected to debut this fall.T... read more »
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Gamification &8212' using game-like features in non-game applications &8212' is paying off for brands.NBC Universal&'s USA Network found that it could... read more »
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For the last few days we&'ve been getting a series of increasingly loopy emails from a startup in Sweden asking us to write about their launch. (See p... read more »
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Microsoft announced it now has 15,000 developers creating applications for its mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, with around 3,000 application... 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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In a bid to find new markets for its blockbuster social game, Zynga is announcing a localized version of its FarmVille game in Japan today.Called Farm... read more »
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Two weeks ago the Google eBookstore finally launched, and the world was briefly amazed. Google Editions, as it was known until launch, was the book w... read more »
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Most web-based startups go through testing to make sure their sites appeal to their target audience.Website testing services like Optimizely usually t... read more »
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Two months ago, when they first unveiled Google Instant, Google let everyone know that it would be coming to mobile devices this fall. Sure enough, it... read more »
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