Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon.com, goes on and on about how much he loves his customers. But he’d like you to up your commitment level.
That’s the rationale behind the apparently planned expansion of AmazonTote, a weekly free delivery …
He’s barely dipped his toes in the TV waters. But already, outgoing Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting laughed off the airwaves.
The rumor, courtesy of the New York Post, is that Schmidt is pursuing a post-Google career as a …
One of the longest, most successful runs as chief executive of an Internet company has come to an end: Come April 4, Eric Schmidt will step down as Google’s CEO, and cofounder Larry Page will resume the position.
Yes, resume. …
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Since VentureBeat first reported that Amazon.com was jumping into the group-buying frenzy with its $175 million investment in LivingSocial, we’ve been wondering how the companies will collaborate. Wonder no more: LivingSocial is offering $20 Amazon.com gift certificates for $10.
On …
For the third time in seven years, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has temporarily stepped away from the iconic tech company to tend to his health.
In a brief, terse media advisory, the company quoted from an email Jobs sent to …
The weather was forbiddingly cold, but the vibe was hot as the DEMO Innovation Tour rolled through New York last night at the Taj II lounge, where VentureBeat editor-in-chief Matt Marshall, the executive producer of the event, invited a host …
At Tuesday’s launch event for the Verizon iPhone, Verizon Wireless displayed an inadvertently ironic slogan: “Rule the air.”
What the actual news revealed was that Verizon — and other wireless carriers — can no longer make that claim. The Verizon …
According to the weatherman, New York is set to get another coat of white soon. Could a Verizon version of the iPhone, which is universally expected to launch today in New York, also get a snowy look?
When the iPhone …
As my Facebook friends and coworkers are tired of hearing, I’ve been on a serious fitness kick over the past year and a half, having lost 83 pounds. But I now have a new problem, and I admit it’s a …
Welcome to the age of the stealth IPO.
Groupon, the fast-growing purveyor of online discounts from local businesses, has confirmed through a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that it has authorized a new $950 million financing round. (Groupon’s …
Some investors are about to get a deal.
Groupon, the fast-growing Chicago startup that dominates the daily-deal category, has filed revised articles of incorporation that give it the right to issue $950 million in shares, according to VC Experts, a …
When is an acquisition not an acquisition? When Twitter’s involved, apparently.
The microblogging company announced today that it had “acquired the team at Fluther, Inc.” Fluther makes a question-and-answer site, a popular category of Web startup as of late. (See …
When I last checked in with Andy Dunn, the CEO of online menswear retailer Bonobos, he was in the middle of raising $2 million from angel investors.
Make that $18.5 million instead, in a venture-capital round led by two of …
Congratulations, Mark Zuckerberg: You’ve joined a long line of dictators, miscreants, and troublemakers!
The conventional groupthink on Time’s naming of the youthful Facebook CEO as Person of the Year for 2010 is a sort of geek coronation, a celebration of …
Usually, Facebook’s public-relations officials can be relied on for a good old-fashioned “no comment” on truly sensitive matters. That makes the company’s response to a recent wave of reporting about ongoing litigation with Harvard classmates of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Jon Rubinstein, the former CEO of Palm who now runs the business as a unit of computing giant Hewlett-Packard, has gotten endless ribbing for his claim that he’s never touched an iPhone.
Rubinstein, before joining Palm, was a longtime Apple …
I could write a long post about all the things that Microsoft executive Joe Belfiore, director of the Windows Phone program at the software giant, said at the D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco today.
But it’s mostly …
Updated with additional comments from Flipboard’s Mike McCue.
Flipboard is an iPad app that republishes articles your friends link to on Twitter and Facebook in pretty, magazine-like templates. It does this by violating publishers’ copyrights and hoping they’ll forgive it, …
Daniel Ek, CEO and cofounder of online music-streaming service Spotify, has 750,000 paying subscribers, up from 320,000 in March. It now has more subscribers than any other similar service in the world, he said.
What he doesn’t have: A firm …
