For the third time in seven years, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has temporarily stepped away from the iconic tech company to tend to his health.In a brief, te... read more »
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Online marketplace TeachersPayTeachers offers a fairly direct proposal for educators: You can get paid for your lesson plans and other teaching mat... read more »
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Bryan Hansel, chief executive of Smith Electric Vehicles U.S., headquartered in Kansas City, Mo., almost disdains the word &''green.&'' His company m... read more »
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Wi-fi hotspot provider Boingo has filed to go public on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker a4‚¬AWIFIa4‚¬¯ and is looking to raise $75 million, accor... read more »
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Some wags have talked for a long time about the &''internet of things.&'' Now that&'s being replaced by the &''intelligence of things,&'' as evidenced... read more »
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The Angry Birds juggernaut continues. The mobile game has been downloaded tens of millions of times in the past year and it has broken into the collec... read more »
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Support for Netflix streaming video has finally made its way to Boxee&'s set-top box, the company announced today in a blog post.Netflix support was t... read more »
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We grabbed Dave Morin, Path co-founder and CEO, amid his many press interviews and on very little sleep, to ask some of the harder questions that some... read more »
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RadiumOne said it has raised $21 million for a new digital ad network that leverages the social web.That a lot of capital for an ad-based startup, but... read more »
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It was just a few months ago that Digg dropped 10% of its staff. Now the company is making much deeper cuts &8211' 25 employees will be laid off, a li... read more »
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A document sent to potential Facebook investors suggest that the social networking company intends hold its initial public offering by mid-2012, accor... read more »
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Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected valuation was in the $3 billion range. T... read more »
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Research in Motion&'s business-focused BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will retail for under $500, the company&'s co-CEO Jim Balsillie revealed in an inter... read more »
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New financial regulations proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will fall most heavily on super angels, a lawyer who specializes in ... 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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One Kings Lane chief executive Doug Mack took to the DEMO stage to try to explain the social commerce boom.Private-sale startups like One Kings Lane a... read more »
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Since VentureBeat first reported that Amazon.com was jumping into the group-buying frenzy with its $175 million investment in LivingSocial, we&'ve bee... read more »
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Turn, one of the a4‚¬Ademand-side platformsa4‚¬¯ (DSPs) that are becoming increasingly important to online advertising, just raised $20 million in new... read more »
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Yammer founder and CEO David Sacks came all the way from his office upstairs from us to talk about his new $25 million round of funding. We discuss a ... read more »
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I hate being on hold on the phone. I always feel obligated to keep my hand on my phone, and I have a chronic fear that I&'ll finally make it off hold ... read more »
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