We&'ve been eagerly awaiting the day when Google challenges Facebook in social networking, if only because it will be a big fight and will bring compe... read more »
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Music game developer Harmonix might have started the fire for the music game industry. But it&'s stopped burning, leading Viacom to sell the criticall... 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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Herea4ぎa4г our roundup of the weeka4ぎa4г tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Why Goog... read more »
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New York-based PetFlow is aware of the stigma around pet-centered startups, but it believes it can avoid the fate of spectacular flameouts like Pets.c... read more »
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I guess Google really is in a feisty mood tonight. After the Chrome Web Store, Chrome OS, some leaked Google +1 information, and a Google Groups re-la... read more »
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Wi-fi hotspot provider Boingo has filed to go public on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker a4ぎAWIFIa4ぎ and is looking to raise $75 million, accor... read more »
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U.S. State Department cables leaked by WikiLeaks suggest that China&'s leadership was behind the hacker attack on Google back in January.WikiLeaks, an... read more »
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Microsoft said earlier today that its future version of Windows will run on chips based on ARM&'s chip architecture. In front of a huge crowd at the C... read more »
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As promised back in October, Amazon has just introduced the ability to lend Kindle ebooks, opening up a world of opportunity for Kindle users.The feat... read more »
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Lenovo is unveiling its latest computers bit by bit at the Consumer Electronics Show. The first to be unveiled are its new line of ThinkPad laptops, w... read more »
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Consumer device chip giant Broadcom said today it plans to buy Gigle Networks for $75 million plus other considerations.The deal will enable Irvine, C... read more »
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The rumored Sony Ericsson PlayStation phone could hit stores as early as April, according to the news site Pocket-lint.Pictures and videos about the u... read more »
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Score one for social media.A new study has shown it&'s not how much you spend on advertising that gets you more favorable mentions on Twitter, it&'s h... read more »
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UpdatedAs interest in secondary markets for shares in hot private companies like Facebook and Twitter grows (among both investors and regulators), a n... read more »
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The battle of sass between Google and Facebook got a lot hotter today, when Google lobbed another grenade at Facebooka4ぎa4г policies on user data by... 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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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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At Tencent headquarters there are pictures of its cutesy penguin mascot everywhere. Sometimes he&'s winking and smiling, and sometimes he&'s getting a... read more »
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The race between enterprise-focused social networking services Chatter, run by Web-software giant Salesforce.com, and Yammer, a darling of the venture... read more »
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