Potentially disrupting the established practices of angel investing, investors Yuri Milner (pictured) and Ron Conway have teamed up to offer a blanket... read more »
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News Corp mogul Rupert Murdoch is making a big bet on the iPad by hiring big-name (read: expensive) reporters for a new a4AiPad newspapera4 calle... read more »
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The world&'s largest social consultancy, Dachis Group, got a late Christmas present today, receiving $30 million in second round fundingfrom previou... read more »
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EcoFactor wants to make your home climate system smarter. The company demonstrated its product at VentureBeat&'s GreenBeat conference today, where it ... read more »
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Herea4a4s our roundup of the weeka4a4s tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:Content-... read more »
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Zynga announced today that it has added another shiny object to its collection with the acquisition of the team at Floodgate Entertainment, an indepen... read more »
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Given the large number of photo websites and applications around, it&'s kind of surprising how little you can actually do with the photos stored on an... read more »
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ModCloth, the hot e-commerce startup backed by Accel Partners, First Round Capital, and the Floodgate Fund, laid off just over a dozen of its 248 empl... read more »
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Professional networking site LinkedIn just filed for its initial public offering, and that filing includes an interesting overview of the company&'s &... read more »
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It&'s Black Friday, which means that many of you woke up this morning at the crack of dawn, shrugged off your Thanksgiving food comas, and made your ... read more »
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Shortages and price spikes are likely to occur for certain kinds of electronic components in the aftermath of Japan&'s earthquake, according to market... read more »
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Kony Solutions, the application tool for creating mobile apps that can run on any mobile system, today announced it secured a first round of funding f... read more »
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It&'s a bad month to be Foursquare or Gowalla. Ten days ago, 900-pound gorilla Facebook announced Facebook Deals for Facebook Places (i,e., location-... read more »
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It&'s official: Elevation Partners has announced the resignation of Marc Bodnick from the high-profile private-equity firm, just a couple days after V... read more »
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Does your car have an app for that If Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has his way, it will.The electric-car maker&'s CEO said at a conference today in San ... read more »
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Here are the top cleantech stories we&'re following today on the GreenBeat:Kleiner Perkins appears to be refocusing its portfolio back on the Internet... read more »
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Anonymous, a group of online hackers that frequently take up politically charged causes such as bringing down the websites for Visa and other credit c... read more »
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In the past few months, Twitter appears to have finally found a business model, and that model is advertising &8212' chief executive Dick Costolo said... read more »
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Common wisdom is that Verizon Wireless is kicking butt and taking names with its Android phones, but recent sales data reveals that even a myriad of... read more »
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Back in August, Gmail launched what is perhaps my favorite new feature ever: integration with Google Voice, which lets you make and receive calls dire... read more »
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