Voice communications company Voxeo announced this evening that it will launch a developer platform for SMS, IM, and voice called SMSified at the end of the week. Developers can create apps for free and will be charged 1 cent per …
Clearspring Technologies, the creator of the AddThis social content sharing platform, can now add this to its list of accomplishments: $20 million in series D funding in a round led by Institutional Venture Partners (IVP).Clearspring’s existing investors also participated in …
Remember the golden age of journalism when getting a scoop required a rendezvous in a parking garage with a shady character named after a porno? Well those days are over, my friends. The journalists of today rely on the Interwebs …
Slowly but surely, theories are emerging about why the Amazon cloud crashed. CNN Money cites Amazon’s weird explanation that an unnamed “networking event” created a domino effect that filled up the servers and caused them to go haywire. Unless the …
Like the kid who beat you up at the bus stop because he felt bad about being obese, AT&T is a bully because it hates itself. At least that’s how the mobile giant appears in its enormous and unintentionally hilarious …
Here’s one from the rumor mill: Facebook may be acquiring a San Francisco-based social media company in the type of “talent acquisition” transaction that has become the trademark of the social web giant.
This rumor falls under the same category …
Today’s Groupon deal is a 47-year-old Chicago-based Google executive who runs global sales planning and technology for the search engine giant. For an undisclosed salary, she’ll be your chief operating officer!
Sound good? It did to Groupon, who will bring …
Hey, you know how you don’t pay anything for checking out the news stories your friends share on Twitter? Well, the New York Times and Betaworks’ Bitly would like to change that with News.me, a social news aggregator for the …
Why is Apple tracking the locations of iPhone and iPad users? The reason is probably less Big Brother and more Big Glitch, according to blogger John Gruber.
Gruber’s source told him that the much-maligned tracking file is just a cache …
Forbes’ 2011 Midas List of the top 100 tech investors includes only two women, Deborah Farrington of StarVest and Theresia Gouw Ranzetta of Accel Partners.
The Midas List ranks the top venture capitalists as measured by, among other criteria, “his …
A day before space exploration technology company SpaceX makes its much-hyped “big announcement”– the follow-up to a teaser video that looks oddly like a Mountain Dew commercial — another space-oriented company is creating buzz.
Moon Express, which is developing autonomous …
Quick: what words are Silicon Valley singles more likely to use than other Americans when describing themselves on Internet dating sites?
Try these: queer, decadent, robot, raiding, wacky and telepathic, to name a few.
Musician and exerimental media dude R. …
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dined at a Mexican restaurant in Palo Alto this evening in what may have been a $5 billion deal-making session.
Or not.
A patron of Palo Alto Sol on California Avenue told VentureBeat that Zuckerberg sat …
In the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster, several media outlets have speculated that the fears surrounding nuclear power may lead to a boom in the demand for natural gas. Some of these reports minimize the dangers of natural gas and …
Who’s in a position to make some green while taking care of Mother Nature? Not many women, it turns out.
Dozens of top global brands — including some leading cleantech companies — have no female board directors. A recent article …
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., have found a way to assemble nanoparticles into larger structures, a technique that could accelerate the development of battery and bioenergy-based technologies.
Argonne biophysicist John Bahns said in …
Back to the Future may have been right: The cars of tomorrow will be powered by capacitors (they will not, presumably, be able to time-travel).
At least, that’s what Tesla CEO Elon Musk said at yesterday’s Cleantech Forum in San …
Google Ventures, the venture-capital arm of the search engine giant, has invested an unknown sum in CoolPlanetBiofuels, a company developing alternative fuels with byproducts that help remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
Google would not release the specific details of …
That green stuff in your koi pond could power the world for less than $40 a gallon, if Australian biofuels company Algae.Tec has its way.
Pilot plant studies show that the firm could produce energy-rich materials from algae at the …
Does your car have an app for that? If Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has his way, it will.
The electric-car maker’s CEO said at a conference today in San Francisco that the much-hyped Model S electric sedan will support …
