Riding high on a bout of good press for its Chevy Volt, GM is putting $7 million into its next big bet on electric cars: cheaper, higher-energy batter... read more »
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Semiconductor sales are expected to grow 32.8 percent in 2010 to $300.5 billion. But next year and the year after will see more moderate growth, the S... read more »
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An even weirder than usual episode of Why Is This News this week ending up with Mike Arrington heckling us through the wall of the studio. But before ... read more »
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About a third of the top grossing apps in the Apple App Store are now making their money through the sale of virtual goods within the application afte... read more »
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The popularity contest between competing smartphone photo manipulation apps Instagram and Picplz has been won by Picplz in one regard today, after ear... read more »
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a4AIta4a4s a little bit like, is the Albanian army going to take over the worlda4sI dona4a4t think so.a4 TimeWarner CEO Jeff Bewk... read more »
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Hackers have penetrated the computer network of the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. Federal... read more »
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Vipshop, a flash sales shopping site based in Beijing, has raised $20 million in a first round of funding, peHUB reports. Menlo Park, Calif.-based inv... read more »
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It&'s round two in the Google versus Kongregate mobile arcade match a4a4and hopefully there will be less drama this time around.Flash game portal... read more »
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Kabbage, which runs a service that helps eBay sellers pick up a quick cash advance, announced today that it has raised $6.65 million in its first roun... read more »
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I just bought a dog sweater from a stranger who lives across the country from me. And I totally blame Yardsellr, a year-old startup backed by a team o... read more »
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Here&'s our roundup of the week&'s top tech business news. First, the five most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Steve Job... read more »
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Everyone has been in that situation a4a4 stuck in a back-and-forth texting war with a friend deciding where to meet for coffee or lunch. It can be ... read more »
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Document sharing hub Scribd has just announced a new feature that will allow publishers on the site to more accurately measure how their content is p... read more »
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It used to be that if a Western game showed up in China, it was pirated. But times have changed, and Blizzard Entertainment and NetEase.com have annou... read more »
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According to a recent Foursquare post on Twitter, the company just had the next version of its iPhone application approved by Apple. (The post thanked... read more »
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The U.S. Department of Argiculture today awarded $405 million in loan guarantees for biofuel refineries.All three recipients, Coskata, Enerkem and Ine... read more »
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This weeka4a4s DEMO meetups in Los Angeles and other parts ofSouthern California were a breath of fresh air across a startup landscape thata4a4... read more »
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We saw the publication of two lengthy articles this week about Larry Page, who is scheduled to take over as Googlea4a4s chief executive on April 4.... read more »
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Twitter said it has reinstated two of several UberMedia apps that it had shut down on Friday because of alleged privacy, monetization and trademark vi... read more »
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