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Fab.com relaunches, and it buries other social shopping experiencesEditor's Pick Today, Fab.com is launching its third and most ambitious version of the site, and CEO Jason Goldberg said it’s going to remind you of … |
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Nvidia poised to change gaming with cloud graphics chips
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Nvidia announced today that it has created unique features in its Kepler-based graphics chips that could make cloud-based gaming much more practical. The company …
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Startup Clinic: Don’t write too much code before you…
Guest Post This is the first in a series of VentureBeat columns by award-winning author and serial entrepreneur Penelope Trunk. She's going to be our startup critic: She'll review new companies, point out what they're doing right, and give them advice (which she's never shy about anyway) for how they can improve. Her first company is Browsemob.
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World exclusive Diablo III review!!!!
Editor's Pick Almost immediately, it's obvious that Blizzard has put a ton of detail into Diablo III. I don't want to be one of those overly positive game journalists who blurts out "game of the year" at the drop of a hat but...game of the year!
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New CEO Ross Levinsohn, in message to Yahoos, says…
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After an aggressive reign that ended in a sordid résumé scandal, Scott Thompson, just four months into his job as CEO, is out at …
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If Walmart.com’s horrible copy writers were to describe 2012′s…
Editor's Pick A selection of 2012's most anticipated releases, written in the style of Walmart.com's hilarious Diablo III product description.
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With IPO just days away, Facebook faces FTC probe
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Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of photo-app Instagram caused quite the uproar in Silicon Valley, but it apparently also raised the eyebrows of federal regulators.…
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My role in the Groupon story
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Recently, people have questioned my motivations around writing about Groupon. They have tried to insinuate that I’m writing about Groupon for personal financial gain.…
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3D Systems CEO: We want 3D printing to be…
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“3D printing will be the canvas of the 21st century.”
That’s the prediction being made by Abe Reichental, the CEO of 3D Systems and …
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Facebook games don’t have to be stupid, according to…
Editor's Pick Checkpoint Studios unveils its AviNation airline simulation game on Facebook
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Tech materials of the future (and how you can make them yourself)
Flexible screens, wearable computers, conductive ink, wires that move like muscles: These are the materials that will make up the gadgets of the future, and they’re being dreamed up and developed in DIY hacker labs and garages all around the …
Verizon to kill off grandfathered unlimited 3G data plans
Verizon Wireless will soon get rid of its unlimited data plans held by customers who were grandfathered in before the company launched tiered data pricing, according to a report from FierceWireless.
Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reportedly told an audience at …
Facebook is breaking these three records with its IPO
Facebook’s IPO is being heralded in rather vague terms as the biggest tech IPO in history. But this initial public offering actually does break a few records, and not just in the tech sector.
This week, Facebook’s IPO will be …
Pirate Bay is under (DDoS) attack! Torrent site remains down after 24 hours
The Pirate Bay is currently experiencing a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which has caused the site to remain inaccessible for the last 24 hours, reports TorrentFreak.
Members of The Pirate Bay confirmed the news with an update on their …
Whoops! VeriFone’s Sail user agreement ripped off Square’s
VeriFone’s Sail mobile-payments platform was clearly a Square wannabe from the beginning — now it seems that’s more true than we initially thought.
VeriFone apparently lifted significant chunks of its user agreement from Square, GigaOm’s Ryan Kim has discovered. While …
A Windows racket: Microsoft will clean crapware off your PC for $99
The PC crapware problem has finally gotten bad enough that Microsoft is now charging users to fix it.
For $99 Microsoft is now offering to strip consumers’ Windows PCs of all unnecessary software pre-installed by PC makers, AllThingsD reports. Affectionally …
Web typography: create “art from code”
Sponsored Post Thanks to CSS3 web design techniques and font-foundries, the ability to create gorgeous typography and beautiful design for browsers, is more accessible than ever...
Today, Google web search is getting a new, bigger, better brain
Finally, Google’s search algorithm is getting a huge boost from a source we can actually trust.
No, it’s not your dimwit friends and their Facebook shares. It’s Knowledge Base, a semantically structured body of data 500 million items strong and …
Electric Imp unveils cloud-based home automation: now you can burn your toast from Tokyo
Home automation is a hot category that just got even hotter. And possibly, just a bit easier. Today Electric Imp is announcing the Imp, a cloud-based approach to monitoring and managing everything you own.
The venture-backed startup in Los Altos, …
Path CEO Dave Morin to join Eventbrite’s board of directors
Dave Morin, CEO of social-network Path, has joined ticketing startup Eventbrite‘s board of the directors, a move Eventbrite claims will help it continue innovating on the social front.
While Path had a major privacy blowup early this year, the company …
Microsoft Kinect’s NUads is what the TV industry needs to survive the future
What if your ads watched you while you were watching them? Microsoft is set to debut its new motion-sensitive advertising project NUads next month, which the company says will revamp the TV ad industry by doing just that.
The company’s …
iSwifter launches full-featured mobile Facebook app — with social games included — on iPad
The problem with Facebook’s mobile app is that it doesn’t run games. The web-based site is built with Adobe Flash, but that runs poorly on mobile devices. As a result, Facebook can display its news feed and photos on its …
TechStars alum Mocavo grabs $4M to help you find your ancestors
TechStars 2011 alum Mocavo has raised $4 million in its first round of funding in a bid to help people find their ancestors through its search engine, the company announced today.
Mocavo started getting notice when it become part of …
HTC One X, Evo 4G LTE shipments delayed over Apple patent investigation
HTC’s One X and and Evo 4G LTE may have been praised for their decidedly un-iPhone-esque designs, but the differences are apparently not enough for U.S. Customs.
The two devices have fallen victim to a surprising U.S. Customs ability to …
Wave Accounting gets funding to easily keep your company’s books in check
Small business startup Wave Accounting has raised $12 million in its second round of funding, the company announced today.
Wave, which offers free accounting software for small companies, feels that managing “the books” is a complicated and dreaded task that …
iPhone 5 will have at least a 4-inch screen, says WSJ
We’ve heard it before, and we’re going to hear it again. The next version of the iPhone will replace its long-standing 3.5-inch screen with one that measures at least 4 inches.
The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, claims that …
Facebook IPO size increases by 25%, may reach $16B
Facebook’s initial public offering just keeps growing. The social network announced this morning via an amended S-1 filing that it will add around 84 million shares to its IPO, an increase of around 25 percent.
Come Friday, when the company …
Fab.com relaunches, and it buries other social shopping experiences
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Today, Fab.com is launching its third and most ambitious version of the site, and CEO Jason Goldberg said it’s going to remind you of window-shopping with your best friends.
“Imagine you’re shopping with your friends, and one of them picks …
LinkedIn Co-founder joins Berlin-based EarlyBird Ventures
Have cash? Looking for tech talent? Go to Europe. So says Konstantin Geurike, co-founder of LinkedIn and newly minted venture partner in Berlin’s EarlyBird Ventures. EarlyBird recently raised $100 million for its fourth fund, focusing on European, and in particular …
Tech darling Twilio cozies up to Android with new client
Twilio has finally released its Android client with a new native software development kit that will allow Android developers to add VoIP features to any Android app.
The startup’s iOS client has been around since February, and today, Android developers …
