Here’s why you need to come to DEMO, the big product launch event set for Oct 1-3.
Whether you’re a company launching a product or an executive wanting to stay on track of the latest big technology trends and conversations, …
[Update: We've corrected our characterization of Jonathan Matus' role at the company. As a manager, he wasn't really an "executive" as some initial stories suggested he was.]
Two Facebook executives and one mobile marketing manager announced Wednesday they are leaving …
Dropbox, the fast-growing private company that lets you share documents easily online, continues to experience significant security breaches in its service, announcing this time that some user usernames and passwords were stolen “from other websites,” and their accounts accessed.
It …
When the social news tool Digg relaunches next week — Wednesday to be exact — it will get help from a new product called Realtime, a search engine that surfaces links being shared the most across the Web.
Realtime is …
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Led by its blundering chief executive Steve Ballmer, software giant Microsoft has “lost a decade” in its competition against rivals; Apple, Facebook, and Google have roared by it with more relevant offerings, leaving Microsoft in the dust suffering from a …
Apple reportedly considered making a significant investment in social media giant Twitter more than a year ago, but backed away, probably because it ultimately realized it didn’t need to make such an investment to get its way.
Details of last …
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Investors have hammered Facebook’s stock price lately, selling it on growing fears about its ability to make money on mobile.
For more concerns about Facebook’s mobile prospects, consider the fate of its chat application on feature phones — those non-smartphones …
VentureBeat is making its first trip to Korea on June 11-14, where we’re partnering with a local blog site to host the country’s first technology startup event, beLAUNCH.
VentureBeat writer Meghan Kelly and I are participating in the event, judging …
Only a dozen or so really big names have led the venture capital industry consistently over the past decade. Jim Breyer of Accel Partners is one of them.
This weekend, Breyer, who sits on Facebook’s board, was the subject of …
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There’s been a ton of coverage about the Facebook IPO disaster, but very little of it looks at the crucial point two weeks ago where things went terribly wrong. It’s becoming increasingly clear that Facebook itself made a strategic blunder …
VentureBeat is quickly approaching a major milestone. By the end of this week, we’ll have reached 100,000 likes on our Facebook page. That’s a testament to you, our awesome community of readers who have joined us along the way.
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Scott Thompson, who resigned this weekend as chief executive of Yahoo, reportedly disclosed to the company’s board of directors and several colleagues last week that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
The news was reported this evening by the …
That little anecdote about Facebook’s roadshow meeting in New York was widely reported this past week, but it’s being picked up as symbolic of Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s indifference to Wall Street.
For those of you who missed the …
Apple has changed the name of the latest generation of its cellular-connecting iPad in some countries, calling it simply “iPad WiFi + Cellular,” after a wave of complaints from people claiming that Apple’s previous branding was wrong and misleading.
The …
TMZ has released photos showing actor Ashton Kutcher wearing a black turtleneck, jeans and New Balance sneakers, as he apparently made his way to the film set of the late Apple CEO’s biopic in L.A. yesterday.
The film is due …
Google is in talks to acquire Meebo for about $100 million, according to a report from AllThingsD. If the deal goes through, it would make a lot of sense, because Meebo still has a lot of talent, and its products …
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EMC said today it has acquired flash-memory storage company XtremIO, following reports two weeks ago that the deal was in the works. VentureBeat confirmed at the time that the value of the deal is around $400 million.
EMC did not …
Design. Rarely has a single force so utterly dominated economic enterprise. Design is literally “everything.”
We’re talking about the mobile industry, of course, where trillions of dollars of market value have been created in the past five years. Smartphones, tablets …
Amazon has quietly made its “Universal Wish List” feature even more powerful and aggressive, VentureBeat has learned from developers. But some people are saying it’s too aggressive.
Now, if you say, find a toy that you like on Walmart’s website, …
EMC Corp is in the final stages of buying flash-memory storage company XtremIO for $400 million, a VentureBeat source has confirmed. The deal is the latest sign that the flash storage market is red hot, and it could spur other …
