Here are the startups that presented at the big Turkey start-up-investor event 4ki Istanbul last week.
I saw some great technology, but one consistent weakness was on the marketing side. Many Turkish entrepreneurs are so focused on building their product …
Last week, I visited Turkey, and discovered what a lot of people are saying about this fascinating country: It’s the next developing hotspot for technology startups, especially for e-commerce.
The sector is exploding: The Turkish e-commerce market hit $10.6 billion …
We are thrilled to announce that VentureBeat will be kicking off 2012 by co-hosting a special event in San Francisco on January 5, focused ostensibly on disruption in the enterprise. But one of the real reasons we’re doing this is …
Are you based in the London area and think you may have the next big disruptive tech product?
Well, we’d love to meet you. London is the next city in my global search for great technology products. I’ll be arriving …
Venture firm Accel Partners has carved out a $100 million “big data” fund to invest in companies focused on building new IT infrastructure or on applications than run on that new infrastructure.
Accel, based in Palo Alto, Calif., at the …
I’ll be traveling to Turkey next week to attend 4iX — the 4th Istanbul International Innovation Investors Xchange on November 15 and 16.
It’s the latest stop in VentureBeat’s global search for the coolest new technology. We’re also headed to …
SecondMarket, a company that lets people buy shares in private companies — including in popular pre-IPO companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Groupon — said it has raised $15 million in a third round of financing.
SecondMarket is reportedly now worth …
Google’s announcement Friday of its plan to bring a hundred channels of new Hollywood-produced content to the Web may well be a watershed moment for television.
Here’s why: It’s one more big step toward weaning me from the rip-off that …
The head of HP’s PC division Todd Bradley called a report yesterday that HP has decided to shut down its WebOS devision an “unfounded rumor.”
Bradley, appearing in a Bloomberg West interview last night, said that contrary to the rumors …
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Apple has apparently acquired a company called C3 Technologies that has sophisticated processing technology that can build 3D maps.
Here’s why: If there’s one thing Apple hates, it’s having to rely on technology from a competitor. And when you navigate …
VentureBeat and DEMO will be heading to New York City next week, where we’ll be throwing a party on Tuesday, October 25 at the Katra Lounge (Bowery and Rivington), and we want the best of the NY tech scene to …
Nimbula, a company ties together public and private cloud resources in a way that companies can manage them easily, this week released the latest version of its software.
Nimbula calls itself a cloud operating system — because it helps its …
VentureBeat is excited to announce our inaugural conference on the cloud.
CloudBeat, which is maniacally focused on looking at real and revolutionary instances of enterprise adoption of the cloud, will be held November 30-December 1, 2011 at the Hotel Sofitel …
InMobi, the four-year-old company that is second place globally in mobile advertising, has raised an astonishingly large $200 million round of funding from Softbank Corp.
The company’s goal is overtake Google as the world leader in the category.
InMobi, which …
Barely 24 hours after getting fired from her position as CEO via a phone call from Yahoo’s chairman of the board, Carol Bartz tells Fortune, ”These people fucked me over.”
It’s sad that in her first interview since the firing, …
Ozon.ru, the fast growing online retailer that calls itself the Amazon.com of Russia, has raised $100 million in new equity funding to fund an ambitious expansion that includes recreating the Russian postal service.
And Ozon.ru is experiencing such terrific growth …
[Update: I probably should have specified a timeline for this market reaction. There's short term and long term. The market punished apple immediately in after market trading, as pointed out below. And yes, a week later, Apple's stock is actually …
Chuck Ganapathi, the man who created Salesforce.com‘s Chatter, the company’s largest product development effort ever, has left to join Accel Partners as Entrepreneur in Residence.
Ganapathi said in an interview with VentureBeat Monday evening that he’ll seek to build a …
BT, the UK-based phone giant, has killed the Ribbit web phone and messaging platform it owns and is advising Ribbit customers to head to competitor Twilio.
Twilio is a fast-growing company that sources tell us is “killing it” in terms …
Nokia‘s new superphones will offer a superior user interface and a better, cloud-enabled experience than its chief competitors, the company’s top U.S executive told VentureBeat.
The reliance by Apple and Android phones on the “app” as the central metaphor is …
