Last spring, we did a preview post on Offermatic, a new deals site that we described as the &''freak love child Of Mint, Groupon and Blippy&''. Seven... read more »
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Last November, Google announced that it had acquired leading mobile ad network AdMob for a whopping $750 million. Today, less than a year after the d... 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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Several Nokia executives may soon be sacked as part of CEO Stephen Elop&'s grand strategy revamp for the company, Reuters reports.The news, which w... read more »
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Advanced Micro Devices said today that chief executive Dirk Meyer has resigned in a &''mutual agreement with the board of directors.&''The Sunnyvale, ... read more »
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In September About.me started letting people reserve names for its personal profile page. They guaranteed your name (I&'m about.me/mike, for example) ... read more »
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No, Google hasn&'t acquired Groupon (yet). But it does have a smaller, though very interesting acquisition to announce: it&'s just acquired Phonetic ... read more »
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How important were technology issues in last week‚a4‚¬‚a4„s Congressional election Not very ‚a4‚¬‚a4œ at least according to Bruce Mehlman, the former ... read more »
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Here&'s the latest action we&'re following today on the GreenBeat:BrightSource to power up Crete &8212' The Greek island of Crete will install a 38-me... read more »
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In the peak of the Internet bubble, a company&'s valuation&8211' and press attention&8211' would soar simply by whispering the words &''John Doerr is ... read more »
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Nokia, the world&'s largest mobile phone maker, dedicated a new office building in Silicon Valley today, and its leaders promised that good things are... read more »
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Biofuels and biochemicals company LS9 recently got a new CEO, and now it has a fresh pool of cash too.The money raised will go to products &''ready&''... read more »
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It seems that all is not lost for Motorola&'s slick new Xoom Android tablet, which we previously said would suffer because of its $800 retail price. M... read more »
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The founders of Groupon and Foursquare took the stage at the Digital Life Design conference in Munich today and said they didn&'t sell their companies... read more »
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Lost or stolen laptops cost corporations $2.1 billion a year, according to a study of 329 companies. The loss per company is $6.4 million per year.Sec... read more »
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SINGAPORE&8211' On the eve of my trip to Indonesia last May, I was having dinner in Cape Town with someone from an investment firm that has been killi... read more »
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In some impeccably bad timing, we&'re hearing reports that both Gmail and Google Apps mail websites are down as well as Google Calendar, just hours a... read more »
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Back in July, I wrote about a nifty new startup called Standing Cloud that makes it easy to set up hosted installs of dozens of cloud-based applicatio... read more »
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Robin Li, the chief executive of Chinese search engine Baidu, made a rare US appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit today, where he answered questions about... read more »
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Ia4‚¬a4„ve got a really hot tip for all you folks out there on the Interwebs. Ita4‚¬a4„s amazing. And no one knows about it.You see, the latest red... read more »
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