Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded \”Journalist of the Year\” by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.

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Electric car company Better Place shuts down after burning through $850M

Better Place, the electric car company that hoped to change the world with its ambitious battery-swapping stations, said today it is shutting down. The closure brings to an end the most audacious "clean tech" company ever attempted.

Arrested Development Season 4 starts today, may hog more than 5% of Netflix usage

Popular sitcom Arrested Development's fourth season started streaming this morning at 3 a.m. Eastern, and is expected to become one of Netflix's most-watched original series ever.

Big data hits the big time: Datameer triples revenues in a year

a number of enterprising startups that sell big data analysis tools to large companies are seeing explosive revenue growth -- the latest sign the big data gold rush is fully on.

Facebook Home opens to poor reviews

User reviews of Facebook Home, the social network’s new home screen feature for Android phones, are coming in pretty weak.

A day after Facebook released the software on Google Play, the app has garnered 2,219 reviews, with an average rating …

DataBeat 2013: The conference about putting data to work

DataBeat 2103 digs deep into the promise and potential of data. We're determined to cut through the hype around the term "big data" to discuss the real ways in which smart use of data is driving change.

Tibco is ‘the fastest growing enterprise software company,’ CEO says — despite sales missteps

Imagine this: You’re a founder of a Silicon Valley enterprise software company. It’s only 15 years old, but it’s already worth $3.5 billion. You’ve never lost money, and you’ve left your initial competition in the dust.

The companies you’re now …

Are you getting overcharged by your hospital? Time to become a Smart patient

An article by Steve Brill in Time magazine has provoked debate about whether some patients — specifically the uninsured — are getting overcharged by hospitals.

This comes at a good time, because the nation is in the middle of making …

HealthBeat’s Grand Rounds Innovation Showdown — we’re taking applications!

Technology advancement is disrupting the $3 trillion health care market, and VentureBeat's upcoming HealthBeat event will showcase the most interesting health care IT startups and companies that are driving this change.

Cloud-based health record company CareCloud reports tripling revenues

CareCloud, a company that offers a cloud-based electronic health record company, says it tripled its growth last year -- helped by the U.S. government mandate that doctors be fully transiitoned to electronic records by 2014. It's the latest example of the tech revolution hitting health care....

Box CEO Aaron Levie: ‘We’d be fine to lose’ IPO race with Dropbox

Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie talks about his company's IPO plans, its competitive standing versus Dropbox, and several upcoming new features.

HealthBeat: A summit to discuss disruptive technologies in health care (May 20-21)

This is the first event to have a singular focus on how information technology (IT) is driving out inefficiencies in health care.

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[Exclusive] Video curation platform Magnify gets backing from former Facebooker Chris Kelly

Magnify, a New York start-up, is betting online publishers will want to help viewers find the “best” videos, and it has built a platform to let them do that.