Linden Lab, creator of the Second Life virtual world, has hired Rod Humble as its new chief executive.Humble is a veteran of Electronic Arts, where he... 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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Skype, a provider of voice and video calling services over the Internet, might be poised to release video calling for mobile devices equipped with a f... read more »
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Herea4‚¬a4„s some of the latest action wea4‚¬a4„re following on the GreenBeat today:Tessera scrambles to finance solar projects &8212' Two of the comp... read more »
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Content farm Demand Media has delayed its IPO because of questions about its accounting practices, according to All Things Digital&'s Kara Swisher.Dem... read more »
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EcoMom, a site where moms can shop for healthy and environmentally-friendly goods, just raised $2 million in a first round of funding.The Los Angeles ... read more »
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Moblyng, a developer of games using HTML5 for mobile devices, is looking to raise about $10.9 million and has raised about $7.5 million of that so far... read more »
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Applications purchased on the Android Marketplace for phones running Google&'s Android mobile operating system can now be charged to AT&'T phone ac... read more »
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The 2011 Fisker Karma is still on track to reach U.S. dealers in March or April, according to the company.But there&'s one new piece of info: The pric... read more »
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As 2010 comes to a close, social news aggregator Reddit.com is celebrating another success in what has been a year full of them.A &''secret santa&'' p... read more »
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VocalTec already has a major hit with its magicJack internet phone device, but now the company is ready to step up and offer completely free calls t... read more »
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Today&'s funding announcements include technology to run farms efficiently, monetize videos and monitor theft in stores:Novariant gets $4.5M for GPS t... read more »
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Zumbox, which provides its users with digital copies of their mail based on their home address, has raised an additional $9.7 million, according to a ... read more »
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Atari has named a new chief executive today, promoting Jim Wilson from within to the top job as part of a plan to resuscitate the company&'s strugglin... read more »
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Is your job about to get a lot more addictive Maybe &8212' Sizhao Yang, one of the original team members behind insanely popular Facebook game FarmVil... read more »
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The Osmond Brothers got it wrong. One bad apple CAN spoil the whole darn bunch. And thata4‚¬a4„s especially true in the startup world. A negative and ... read more »
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Earlier this month, Taiwanese company SemiLEDs‚ quietly IPO&'d on the NASDAQ to some nice results, but its success begs the question: Can American cle... read more »
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This post is brought to you by IBM. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. IBM had no involvement in the content o... read more »
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Music game developer Harmonix might have started the fire for the music game industry. But it&'s stopped burning, leading Viacom to sell the criticall... read more »
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When Viacom decided to sell music game developer Harmonix, it was a pretty good indication that it didn&'t think Harmonix was doing a good job spurrin... read more »
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