Kaazing! ‘Living web’ startup pulls $15M from investor hats

Kaazing has raised $15 million to enable the "living web," which it describes as the "dynamic, interactive online world populated by applications that are always on, always connected, and always real time."

Amazon flexes its cloud muscle: Now storing 2 trillion objects in S3

Last June, Amazon announced that S3 had hit one trillion objects stored. That was a big milestone at the time. And now it has doubled that amount in less than a year.

Here are 5 mobile startups that build businesses, not apps

During the mobile platforms session at Demo Mobile, 5 startups pitched their technology to "build your mobile business on."

Mashery CEO: Intel’s buyout will expand its horizons

Chip maker Intel has agreed to purchase API management startup Mashery. The startup's CEO says it's a perfect pairing.

Bringing sanity to sales, Tylr Mobile promises to unify Salesforce with your inbox

Launching today, Tylr Mobile is a San Francisco-based startup that aims to improve how we work on a smartphone or tablet.

Space Monkey takes on Dropbox with clever $10/month 1TB backup hardware

Space Monkey is a young startup that wants to put a “mini data center” in your home that costs you $10 a month and gives you a massive 1TB of backup storage.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff reveals his latest investment: Brandcast

Benioff led the seed and first round of financing in Brandcast, a startup that helps brands maintain a web presence.

Booker gets $27.5M to brings its cloud tools to Main Street

Booker, the cloud-based service management startup formerly known as GramercyOne, has closed a $27.5 million funding round.

Intel addressing broader markets, but smartphone chips still not moving the needle

Intel chief executive Paul Otellini said in a conference call that the outlook for the second half is good, but he's muted on cellphone chips.

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.

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.

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.