The iPad 2 has sold out, and 70 percent of purchasers were new to the iPad, according to a survey by analyst Gene Munster and his team at Piper Jaffra... read more »
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The big brand camera companies are 'committing 'seppuku in front of our eyes. It&'s fascinating. Last week, I bought a brand new Canon S95 ca... read more »
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Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner took the stage to talk with host John Battelle. One question was about why we n... read more »
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Remember back in 2008 when there was a lot of talk about how the iPhone would flop in Japan 91 percent of Japanese would not be buying the device, sai... read more »
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Social media tracker startup Tynt has launched a new application program interface (API) that allows developers to access their content through real-t... read more »
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Tony Bates, the chief executive of Skype, posted a YouTube video today explaining what the company is doing to fix the outage that brought down Skype ... read more »
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Perhaps you read the news late last week or this past weekend that Microsoft is shifting their strategy when it comes to Silverlight. Essentially, the... read more »
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It&'s a strict rule in the venture business that you don&'t fund two direct competitors, for obvious reasons. There&'s a massive difference between th... read more »
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If youa4a4re an entrepreneur or other technology professional, come to our DEMO/VentureBeat holiday party in San Francisco tomorrow, Dec. 7.Wea4a... read more »
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Rumors ofa4s&''the death of stealth mode&'' have beena4sgreatly exaggerated. Ever since angel investor Chris Dixon tweeted, &''New early-stage st... read more »
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This holiday season should be a crazy time for gift-card exchanges, where users can unload unwanted cards. And one of those exchanges, CardPool, just ... read more »
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Despite the hoopla about how everything on the Web is becoming increasingly social, BlipSnips chief executive John Bliss said that online video remain... read more »
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On the other side of the Atlantic, TechCrunch events have been causing all kinds of disruption (yes, lame joke, I know) this year. Back in May, Disrup... read more »
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Back in August, when Google launched Priority Inbox for Gmail, we praised it. And rightfully so. It took many of our nightmare inboxes and turned the... 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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CloudMade, a company that provides mapping data to 16,200 application developers, just announced that it has acquired German startup OneStepAhead.I la... read more »
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In 2005 Accel Partners closed its $440 million Accel 9 Fund. That fund may not go down in history as the most profitable venture fund ever, but it wil... read more »
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Legendary venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield &038' Byers sat out most of the recent social networking craze, but ita4a4s been catching u... read more »
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It&'s been a busy week in the tech world: A new web browser wants to make your entire browsing experience more social. Google and Facebook are doing ... read more »
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Apple said today that its App Store has now crossed 10 billion downloads of both free and paid apps.The 10 billionth app was Paper Glider, downloaded ... read more »
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