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stories by Dylan Tweney

When marketing goes horribly, horribly wrong

We receive a lot of odd, unsolicited mail at the VentureBeat offices. But this piece of art that arrived in the mail this week might take the cake.

Hulu adds Windows Phone 8 app

Hulu's new Windows Phone 8 app integrates with your Hulu Plus account and looks pretty slick, besides.

New Gmail app for iOS keeps you in Google’s world, longer

Google's new Gmail app for iOS opens video links in YouTube, map links in Google Maps, and other URLs in Chrome.

Senate passes e-commerce bill; heads to House next

More ubiquitous taxes are coming, as the U.S. Senate voted today to require large online retailers to collect state and local sales taxes for their customers.

Big data company GoodData boasts that its revenue has tripled

GoodData wants you to know that it has tripled revenues in the most recent quarter, and it now boasts 10,000 customers.

BlackBerry CEO makes bold claim he’ll sell ‘tens of millions’ of Q10 phones

Just a few days of sales data are all that BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins needed to predict that his company would sell huge quantities of its newest, keyboard-equipped smartphone.

Dylan’s Desk: How apps are chipping away at the open Web

Corporations have found a way to roll back the web's decades-long openness. One of of the most successful? Apple, whose quarterly earnings report lands later today.

CA Technologies confirms it has acquired Layer7

CA Technologies confirmed today via a press release that it would be acquiring Layer7, a provider of API management technologies.

E-commerce sales tax bill moves forward in Senate

A bill aimed at simplifying the U.S. states' requirements for collecting sales tax on online transactions moved closer to passage Monday.

Electronics recycling rises sharply, survey finds

People are recycling electronics at a much higher rate than they were just three years ago, a new survey finds.

Tech world wrestles with how to respond to tragedy

For the tech industry, it's hard to know how to respond to a tragedy like the Boston Marathon bombings. Here are some suggestions from our readers.

Google releases specs for Google Glass, begins shipping first units

Google has announced some of the specifications for its upcoming eyewear, Google Glass: It has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but lacks cellular connectivity.

Netflix plans first steps to move from Silverlight to HTML5

With Microsoft planning to end support for its Silverlight video plugin by 2021, Netflix has begun to shift towards using HTML5 for video playback.

Red Hat to repurchase another $300M of its own stock

Pioneering open-source solution vendor Red Hat (RHT) announced today that its board had authorized a $300 million stock buyback program.