Intel misses slightly on earnings — but PC sales didn’t die in Q1 after all

Both earnings and revenues came in slightly below expectations.

VMware’s new partnership with Canonical is a thumbs-up for OpenStack

Canonical and VMware announced today a partnership that will enable customers to run efficient OpenStack clouds using the two sets of technologies.

Lively’s new platform keeps aging adults active and their children from worry

Lively has created an "activity-sharing platform" that seeks to tighten the connection between senior citizens and their loved ones. Today, the company opened up a Kickstarter campaign to support its product line and generate ore-orders before general availability this summer.

Microsoft releases cheaper cloud service to take on Amazon, Rackspace

Microsoft announced that it is opening up Windows Azure Infrastructure Services to general availability today -- and is offering it cheaper than before.

iTunes turning 10 years old, still owns 63% of music download business

Last year, 44 million Americans bought at least one song or album from iTunes. This month, the digital music store that changed the way we buy music will celebrate its 10th birthday.

OMGPOP founder’s new startup could be ultimate place to store your photos

Picturelife is the latest project by Charles Forman, who sold his last startup, OMGPOP, to Zynga for $180 million last year. It is a service that protects your pictures by backing up and organizing all your photos and videos in the cloud.

Don’t trust your lawyer’s billing? Try Viewabill

If you’ve spent any time working with a lawyer lately, you know how difficult it is to track the hours he or she is billing you.

Can you explain your ‘big data’ tech to a middle schooler? (video)

We invited four enterprise CEO's for an interview at the VentureBeat office. The catch? They had to explain their tricky tech to a panel of kids.

Apple streaming music service one step closer to reality as deal with Universal Music Group ‘imminent’

An Apple entry into the streaming music market is kind of a big deal. Now it looks to be one step closer to reality.

Rackware racks up $1.8M to make enterprise clouds better, faster, stronger (updated)

RackWare is a cloud startup that has raised $18 million in its first round of funding. The RackWare Management Module (RMM) helps businesses scale across private, public, or hybrid cloud environments, without changing applications.

OpenCoin raises seed round so ‘anyone in the world can trade any amount of money in any currency’

OpenCoin is a startup building a simple, global, open currency system. Today, the company announced closing an angel round of funding to expand the Ripple protocol, a virtual currency and payments system that allows "anyone in the world to trade any amount of money in any currency."

The green supercomputer: Adaptive Computing is ensuring fast doesn’t mean wasteful

Today, the race for better, smaller, faster supercomputers includes an adjective that wasn't nearly as common five years ago: greener. In other words, more energy efficient. And, not incidentally, cheaper.

Kim Dotcom: ‘Eat this FBI, leading the Time100 poll with a 93% approval rating’

Kim Dotcom is leading the Time100 poll, which attempts to track the top leaders, artists, and innovators in the world. Being Kim Dotcom, he's not one to be silent about it.

Bypass catches $3.5M to help sports fans drink more beer

Bypass has raised $3.5 millin for its mobile payments solution specifically designed for entertainment venues and sports stadiums.

Google: 10 million Malaysian students, teachers, and parents will now use Google Apps for Education

Millions of Malaysian kids will be writing stories, collecting data, creating presentations, and organizing the future of their education in the cloud -- Google's cloud.

Dropbox adds single sign on & rebrands to promote its new business-friendly features

Dropbox introduces single sign on and rebrands its business-focused service.

Hot web optimization startup Optimizely gets $28M, boasts 400% revenue growth

Founder and CEO Dan Siroker formed the idea for the company while working as an analytics lead on the Obama campaign.

ParElastic pulls in $5.7M for its NoSQL & NewSQL database alternative

ParElastic closed its first round of financing led by General Catalyst.

Former Amazon exec wants to give free e-books ‘to every child on the planet’

Worldreader launches a new mobile program that makes thousands of books available to people in the developing world through their low-end feature phones.

Shift attacks Salesforce, Adobe with ‘open marketing cloud,’ an app store for digital marketing tools

Salesforce says it has the world's only unified social marketing suite. Adobe says its marketing cloud is a single service that includes everything digital marketers need to get ahead.

Shift begs to differ.