The South By Southwest Interactive conference could prove a crucial testing ground for Google&'s ambitions to compete with Facebook.The hot rumor now ... read more »
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Brilig, an advertising data marketplace, has raised $1.8 million in funding.The company provides a platform for individuals and companies to buy and s... read more »
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Hot off the heels of an oft-criticized $700 million acquisition of flight-data provider ITA, search giant Google might now end up purchasing daily-dea... read more »
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The British Prime Minister is expected to announce today that the East of London, which in the last three years has seen a 700% growth in tech compani... read more »
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Here&'s the latest action we&'re following on the GreenBeat today:Offshore wind farm Cape Wind needs buyers for its power &8212' The large, expensive ... read more »
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Some wags have talked for a long time about the &''internet of things.&'' Now that&'s being replaced by the &''intelligence of things,&'' as evidenced... read more »
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Microsoft showed that the next version of its Windows software will run on ARM-based computers, in addition to the traditional Intel-based machines.Ru... read more »
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Here&'s a great example of how a seemingly noble social media donation campaign can go awry: Microsoft tweeted two hours ago on the Bing search engine... read more »
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UpdatedGoogle TV just can&'t catch a break. We reported last week that Google asked a number of hardware manufacturers to delay their Google TV device... read more »
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Qwiki, a new service that delivers information through rich multimedia presentations, is raising an $8 million round of funding, according a filing wi... read more »
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Earlier today, Technorati CEO Richard Jalichandra gave his annual State of The Blogosphere presentation at the ad:tech conference. Technorati will b... read more »
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Chute, which keeps track of photos that are destined for the Web and other sharing photo-services, announced that it is launching today at the Launch ... read more »
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John Doerr, the legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalist, gave high praise to Zynga, the leading social game company, saying it was one of the best... read more »
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The Foundry makes digital visual effects software that has been used in motion pictures like Tron Legacy 3D, Avatar, Harry Potter and many others. Pri... read more »
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City Labs, a long-life Tritium battery manufacturer, has closed its first round of funding from founder of high-end computer hardware company‚ Alienwa... read more »
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Tumblr, the fast-growing, well-funded startup which offers a simple blogging service, stumbled rather badly this weekend. Its site went down for what ... read more »
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It&'s Christmas time for Instapaper fanatics: Developer Marco Arment has finally delivered Instapaper 3.0 for the iPhone and iPad, bringing with it ne... read more »
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Hanvon, Chinaa4‚¬a4„s largest e-book manufacturer, will be debuting the first device to use a color E Ink display on Tuesday, according to a report ... read more »
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TokBox, a provider of streaming video conferencing over the web, announced today that it has raised $12 million in a third round of funding and is lau... read more »
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Nuvvyo, the maker of JetStreamHD, is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm... read more »
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