Every time I’m faced with a big problem in my business, I’ve found a way to get past it by asking myself, “W.W.C.N.D.?” (That’s “What would Chuck Norris do?”) Think abou...
After spending the better part of 2011 fighting regulators, the wholesale wireless company Lightsquared suffered a killer blow from the FCC today that could squash its 4G LTE network plans. We’...
Two years ago (almost to the day), then-Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced his departure from the company. On Twitter, in a haiku. Today, Schwartz, a serial entrepreneur of sorts, is unwrapping his ...
Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out new graphics chips today that will bring screaming performance to the mid-range of the gamer PC market. The new AMD Radeon HD 7700 series (code-named Cape Verde)...
Defenders of Yelp’s $600 CPM rate for small business advertising often justify the rate by saying Yelp’s narrow focus means consumers are highly likely to convert. After researching some ...
Amazon may have far fewer customers signed up for its Amazon Prime membership than analysts previously estimated. The Prime membership costs $79 annually for Amazon customers, who in return get free ...
Path got caught red-handed uploading users’ address books to its servers and had to apologize. But the relatively obscure journaling app is not alone. In fact, Path was crucified for a practice...
What, you thought Microsoft was the only one throwing out V-Day goodies? Playa, please. Google has rolled out a lovey-dovey Easter egg (don’t get confused; they’re just holidays) just for...
Netflix is in talks to launch a second original series, titled Orange is the New Black, which is a comedy about life in a women’s prison from Weeds creator Jenji Kohan, according to a Bloomberg...
Apple has the best kind of problem: A sizable $90 billion in cash burning a hole in its pocket. At the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked why the c...
Zynga chief executive Mark Pincus said that the social game company has hit more than 15 million daily active users for its mobile games, compared to 10 million during the fall. He made the announcem...
Zynga announced its first-ever quarterly reported as a public company today. Here are the relevant numbers: Q4 GAAP net loss: $435.0 million loss vs $42.9 million profit a year ago. Q4 GAAP revenue $...
An update to Google Maps is putting an end to the annoying process of searching and re-searching for directions online. This happens to me all the time: I look up a new place I want to go on Google M...
Slowly, but surely, the Google+ iPhone app is catching up to its more well-equipped Android sibling. Today Google released a new version of the iPhone app that can instantly upload your photos and vi...
It’s that time of year again for the big SXSW tech and entertainment event in Austin, Texas – and VentureBeat has planned ahead to cover it all. SXSW is a monster. Some 20,000 attendees r...
Tim Cook, Apple’s new chief executive officer, gave a small “State of the Apple” address today, touching on the recent accusations of poor working conditions in the factories that m...
Zynga reported a modest profit for the fourth-quarter in its first-ever quarter financial report today. The non-GAAP earnings per share were five cents, or $37.1 million, for the quarter. The largest...
Brazilian social gaming firm Vostu confirmed that it laid off an unspecified number of employees. The company confirmed the layoffs but declined to say how many or the reason. It shows that even in f...
Perhaps it’s time to start calling it Words With Friends With Benefits. Fans of Zynga‘s Words With Friends social game on Facebook are making love connections. For Valentine’s Day, ...
At a big event in Las Vegas today, Hewlett-Packard unveiled the world’s first all-in-one workstation with a 27-inch diagonal display. The new HP Z1 Workstation finally brings the convenience an...
Influential media businessman Barry Diller was on hand today for the debut of new startup Aereo TV, a streaming video service that aims to steal consumers away from the expensive cable and satellite ...
If you want to send a nerdy Valentine’s Day e-card with cool HTML5 effects and a porny soundtrack, have we got a treat for you. This morning, Microsoft is showing off Love Is in the Air, a brow...
Due to deal talks breaking down, Yahoo may be losing $17 billion worth of Asian asset sales. Yahoo, which owns significant stakes in Chinese powerhouse Alibaba and Japan’s SoftBank (as well as ...
Design-centric e-commerce startup Fab.com just keeps rolling out the goodies. Today, the company is announcing a new kind of shop on the site. Five permanent vertical-specific shops are opening, one ...
Email is a ball and chain. We’re locked to it, and it sucks. So anything that makes it easier to deal with, well, we’re going to try it out, right? ZigMail is a nifty new email service th...
The rise of the machines is upon us. A new report from Cisco predicts that mobile Internet devices will outnumber people on Earth for the first time by the end of 2012 — a sign of ever-growing ...
Leila Janah, cofounder of Samasource Muhammed Yunus, a 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Grameen Bank, sparked a movement with the simple question: “If you are a socially conscious person,...
For those of us who’ve always dreamed of traveling more but need a bit of inspiration, Afar’s new iPhone app may be just the ticket. Afar, which began as a travel magazine before hitting ...
One way to find out what skills will be in highest demand this year is to look at job posts. I decided to analyze recent Craigslist San Francisco Bay Area job ads. It’s a good proxy for the local dem...
Apple is in the process of testing a smaller version of its iPad tablet, a product that could help it steal away market share from smaller tablets like the Kindle Fire and Samsung Galaxy Tab, accordi...
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