Here’s our roundup of the week’s tech business news. First, the most popular stories published by VentureBeat in the last seven days:
Hit the deck: LulzSec and Anonymous start trading blows — Hacker group LulzSec has begun publicly attacking hacker …
Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists are reportedly making a big bet on streaming music service Spotify. There have been reports for months that Spotify was raising a big round of funding, and now it has closed a $100 million round, …
True Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm founded by some big names in the startup world, is raising a $200 million third fund, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The firm is headquartered in San Francisco’s …
Palo Alto startup Cooliris’ mobile and Web photo-sharing application LiveShare hasn’t attracted as much publicity as some of its competition, like Instagram or Color, but it looks like the app has built a substantial audience nonetheless.
Co-founder and chief executive …
Pulse, which created the popular Pulse news reading app, has raised $9 million in its first round of institutional venture funding.
The app aggregates news stories from RSS feeds and social networks and presents them in a design that was …
Accel Partners, the firm whose recent successes have put it in the top tier of the venture capital industry, just announced that it has raised two new funds — $475 million for its eleventh venture fund and $875 million for …
If you buy that shiny gadget now, you may be paying a lot more money than necessary. At least, that’s the message of a new startup called Shopobot.
The San Francisco company leaves private beta testing today, and it also …
“Discovery” is one of the most common complaints about the ever-growing number of smartphone apps: With hundreds of thousands of apps, how can people find the best one for whatever they’re looking for? Now Yahoo is making an effort to …
It looks like mobile photo- and video-sharing startup Color has lost one of its seven co-founders: Peter Pham, the company’s president.
Along with its massive, $41 million round of funding, the Palo Alto, Calif. company’s long lineup of founders was …
Build-your-own social networking startup Ning says it has finally found a business model that works by requiring all of its customers to pay for the service. Now it’s expanding that initiative, by allowing those social networks to charge their members …
It looks like investors still have a healthy appetite for consumer Web companies. Online music service Pandora started trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning, and as of 10:35am Eastern time, it was trading at $20.75 per share.…
It looks like influence measurement startup Klout has completed the social networking trifecta. The San Francisco company announced Tuesday it now incorporates LinkedIn data into your Klout score, as well as Twitter and Facebook.
As the name suggests, a person’s …
Google unveiled a number of improvements to its search products today at its Inside Search event in San Francisco. One of the big changes involves bringing technology that Google has used to improve mobile search to the desktop.
Now people …
In the months before its launch, Mountain View, Calif. startup RockMelt was sometimes called the “Facebook browser.” That phrase still isn’t literally true, but it’s getting closer now that the company is releasing a version that was developed in partnership …
Shervin Pishevar, the entrepreneur and investor who founded the Social Gaming Network, has joined Menlo Ventures as a managing partner.
The move was first reported in The New York Times and was then confirmed on Twitter by Pishevar himself.
He’s …
Mobile photo startup Instagram is still growing like crazy, according to TechCrunch. The San Francisco-based company says that it now has more than 5 million registered users, that those users add 896,000 photos per day, and that the service will …
Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator is bringing some of its most notable alumni back into the fold — as partners.
In a blog post today, partner Paul Graham announced that Loopt founder Sam Altman (pictured), Justin.tv founders Emmett Shear and …
Everloop, a social networking service aimed at children 8-13 years old (who are too young to use Facebook), just announced that it has raised $3.1 million in funding.
There has been a lot of talk about a possible tech startup …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories that we published in the last seven days:
Forget piracy, U.S. government is going after Bitcoin — Two U.S. senators want to crack down on …
CafePress, a site where people can design and sell custom goods like T-shirts, just filed for its initial public offering.
This follows a number of high-profile Web IPOs and IPO filings, including Groupon’s filing last week. CafePress is a bit …
