Marie C. Baca

Marie C. Baca is the managing editor of VentureBeat. Follow her on Twitter at @mariecbaca.

stories by Marie C. Baca

AddThis creator closes $20M in series D

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 …

URLs are the new Deep Throat

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 …

The semantic web shoots the Moon

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 …