Popular location check-in application Foursquare just launched a new &''Foursquare for Business&'' page to encourage businesses and brands to claim ve... read more »
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After getting pummeled by the recession the last couple of years, the Consumer Electronics Show coming in January looks like it&'s going to be bigger ... read more »
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Fourth Wall Studios has raised $15 million to create a new game studio focused on alternate reality games and other entertainment that combines the di... 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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Nvidia reported a strong fiscal fourth quarter and said it was upbeat about the potential for its Tegra 2 mobile phone chips to be used in a raft of n... read more »
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For about a year and a half Zynga has experimented with occasionally selling virtual goods for charity. But they&'ve been criticized in the past for ... read more »
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VentureBeat held its big cleantech conference this week, GreenBeat 2010, at Stanford University. Our lead green writer, Iris Kuo, has already reviewed... read more »
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Well, Steve Ballmer certainly had a productive week. Over the past three days, the Microsoft CEO has sold 49.3 million shares of his company stock, Re... read more »
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Silicon Valley and Wall Street both bash Yahoo a lot these days, but if there&'s one place the company has excelled it&'s in Asia. Its Alibaba investm... read more »
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Today&'s funding announcements include two companies focused on the customers:Five9 brings in $8.6M for its virtual call centers: The company has rais... read more »
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StorkBrokers, an online marketplace for child-oriented goods like toys and car seats, announced that it is launching today at the Launch conference in... read more »
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By all measurements, the new picture sharing service, 'Instagram, is exploding. A week after their launch, they had 100,000 users. A week later: 2... read more »
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As expected, the combination of Nokiaa4a4s hardware expertise and Microsofta4a4s Windows Phone 7 software looks promising.The concept picture, w... read more »
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For a while, the makers of hardcore games belittled social game developers. While the hardcore game designers commanded budgets of $30 million, the so... read more »
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Apple advertises its products as magical. They&'re at the intersection of &''technology and the liberal arts,&'' Steve Jobs said today. Something that... read more »
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The internet&'s governing body has approved the new .xxx domain for porn web sites.After a decade-long review process, the board of the Internet Corpo... read more »
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Infochimps, an Austin-based marketplace for lists and other data sets, has raised $1.2 million in its first round of institutional funding.The idea of... read more »
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Ask a child if there is a shortage of ice cream in the world, and no doubt, the response will be an emphatic yesa4a4there certainly is. And ask a... read more »
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Take-Two Interactive Software reported a strong profit for the fiscal year and quarter ended Oct. 31, the first time it has reported a sizable profit ... read more »
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Jawbone, the maker of smart wireless headsets, said today it has raised $49 million from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.The amount is one of... read more »
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