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How were these Silicon Valley VCs so wrong about…Editor's Pick Before Friday, almost every Silicon Valley insider was saying Facebook stock would finish its first day between $50 and $60 per share. In reality, … |
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Can Facebook stay cool now that it’s an enormous…
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“A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars,” Sean Parker says in the famous line from “The Social Network.”
Trite …
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Who’s buying Facebook stock? Experts put their money where…
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We’ve spent hours talking to and corresponding with analysts and VCs about the Facebook IPO over the past few days, and we couldn’t resist …
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Status update: Mark Zuckerberg listed a company on NASDAQ
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What were you doing at 9:30 a.m. Eastern? You certainly weren’t ringing the NASDAQ’s opening bell as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was doing. But …
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Why Facebook’s GM ad drama won’t impact this IPO
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The timing couldn’t have been worse. On the week of its IPO, Facebook saw one of its largest advertisers, General Motors, get up and …
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Confirmed: Facebook sets $38 share price for largest tech…
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Status update: Facebook has priced its shares at $38 apiece and will raise $16 billion (up to $18.4 billion with its over-allotment option) tomorrow …
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Today, Google web search is getting a new, bigger,…
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Verizon’s Viewdini lets you watch Netflix, Comcast, & Hulu videos from a single app
Verizon is launching a new video search platform called Viewdini that will aggregate videos from a variety of different services for use on mobile devices, the company’s CEO Dan Mead said during a panel today at The Cable Show event.…
SpaceX rocket blasts off, ‘new era’ of private spaceflight begins
After a failed launch Saturday, SpaceX successfully launched a private unmanned spaceship early this morning on a mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX hopes replace now-retired American Space Shuttles with missions to space. Eventually the private company hopes to …
iPhone 5 may get a taller (but not wider) 3.95-inch display
How exactly will Apple fit a larger screen into its next iPhone? If the latest rumor is true, it’s by making the display (and resolution) taller.
Apple is reportedly testing prototype phones with 3.95-inch displays, which are taller, but remain …
Google finally closes Motorola deal, picks Dennis Woodside to run company
Google has finally closed its much-talked-about $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Google CEO Larry Page announced today on the company’s blog.
“I’m excited to announce today that our Motorola Mobility deal has closed,” Page wrote. “Motorola is a great …
Olympic athletes pepper Foursquare with special tips and a new badge
Building up to the summer games in London, the Olympics has partnered with Foursquare to bring fans and athletes closer together, almost literally.
The partnership means that fans will start to see a new badge connected to Olympics venues, as …
Watch out GoPro: The Ion Air Pro is a lighter, more versatile action cam
A new competitor has entered the action camera arena, and it just may dethrone the king of that market, GoPro’s Hero2 camera.
Ion Worldwide is today launching the Ion Air Pro, a camera for adrenaline junkies that’s lighter than the …
Trion’s Defiance is one story told in an online game and SyFy TV show (hands-on preview)
Trion Worlds’ Defiance is one of the most ambitious transmedia projects, a story that stretches across multiple media, ever made. Debuting in April 2013, the online game world is being jointly developed in tandem with a science fiction TV show …
YoYo Games unveils GameMaker: Studio for cross-platform development
YoYo Games has retrofitted an existing game engine to create GameMaker: Studio, a cross-platform development tool. It allows developers to create games easily and cheaply with a single programming code base. And they can publish the games to the web, …
Google enters the content business: Machinima closes $35M round
Machinima has raised a fat $35 round of funding led by search engine giant Google, the company confirmed yesterday.
News of Machinima’s new funding first surfaced earlier this month. Google’s involvement marks the first time the company has spent money …
RocketFrog wants to revolutionize online gambling with real-world prizes
Online game company RocketFrog wants to revitalize virtual gambling by offering real-world prizes to players.
Plant a money tree in Farmville as Zynga and American Express launch new rewards program
Social gaming giant Zynga has connected with credit company American Express to provide a rewards program where users can receive virtual game rewards for using their real-life American Express card.
Salesforce goes real-time with IM and screensharing for the enterprise
Today, Salesforce is further beefing up its line of enterprise products with a new IM client and screensharing software.
The instant messaging comes via Chatter, Salesforce’s Facebook-like, Yammer-esque collaboration and task-management app. The IM client is cloud-based (so no need …
Vidyo scores strategic partner in Juniper Networks, raises fifth round
Video conferencing and telepresence company Vidyo has raised a new round of funding, the company’s fifth.
Vidyo enables video conferencing at 1080p HD quality and 60 frames per second, supporting up to nine people at once. People can access these …
Larry Page on Charlie Rose: “We’re still waiting” for Facebook to unlock user data
Google chief executive Larry Page appears on PBS show “Charlie Rose” this evening at 11 p.m. local time.
In the show, Page addresses a wide range of topics, starting with today’s surprising news that Chrome is now the most popular …
Inventor of Google Voice now reinventing conference calls
Craig Walker, the inventor of both Google Voice and DialPad, is now reinventing conference calls with his latest venture, UberConference. Teleconferences notoriously suck, but UberConference thinks it’s fixed that, claiming to have created “the best conference calling service ever.”
The …
Motorola’s DreamGallery aims to eliminate crappy TV user interfaces
Sadly, a great number of television sets are currently suffering from bad user interfaces, which is something Motorola plans to change.
At The Cable Show industry event in Boston today, the company showed off its DreamGallery media concept that’s powered …
Funding daily: Safely use a Wi-Fi hotspot to buy your house something pretty
Happy Monday funding news, aficionados! Check out who got funded today — and don’t forget to click the links in each paragraph for more details.
Note: This is just an end-of-day roundup of the funding news. For more up-to-date deal …
Entrepreneur “student fair on steroids” brings heavy hitter VCs to Stanford
Silicon Valley’s brightest young minds will vie for $150,000 in rewards as part of a full-day entrepreneurial challenge at Stanford University this Tuesday.
The Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES), the student-run organization behind the event, has birthed a …
Stephen Colbert helps Reddit organize gift exchange for U.S. troops
Community news sharing site Reddit has decided to turn its attentions to the men and women of the armed forces by kicking off a brand new gift exchange today.
Ever the patriot, The Colbert Report’s Stephen Colbert (pictured) was …
Stitch Labs integrates with BigCommerce to help small sellers track their stuff
Inventory management is a boring term for what is actually the central question of any small business: How much stuff do I have left to sell, and where the @$%& is it?
Stitch Labs, an inventory management tool for small …
