Update: Updated at 1:10pm with details from Crittercism
Often an app will crash on my Android phone and I’ll send a crash report when prompted. However, it feels like a useless effort because I get the nagging suspicion that the …
Deal or not, plenty of Groupon insiders are opting to unload shares in their first opportunity since the company’s public debut, and they’re helping to send Groupon’s share price tumbling to new lows Friday.
Groupon, which debuted on the NASDAQ …
Solar company Nanosolar believes that solar panels don’t have to be heavy slabs. That’s why it developed a way to print solar cells as thin as a sheet of aluminum foil.
Nanosolar announced today it has raised $70 million in …
Verizon has agreed to acquire in-car technology company Hughes Telematics for $612 million, the two companies announced Friday.
The deal will make it possible for Verizon to expand its offerings in machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and connected apps that bridge the …
Major VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers has brought on Square product lead Megan Quinn as a partner today, just a week after partner Ellen Pao sued the company for gender discrimination.
Quinn has spent the last year with …
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Two of the biggest companies in the tech industry, Facebook and Google, are interested in grabbing a piece of popular music video site Vevo.
The tech giants are competing for an equity stake in Vevo as well as a lucrative …
Data visualization for huge sets of information can be hard, man. Datahero wants to make it easy, and apparently, some pretty interesting investors do, too.
The product is still in private testing stages, but it’s impressed (to the tune of …
Students in the University of Michigan’s MBA entrepreneurship school have just participated in a huge round — $25 million altogether — for Sonitus, a biomedical devices startup.
The students manage the Wolverine Venture Fund, a $5.5 million fund that generally …
Kevin Rose has joined tech giant Google’s venture capital firm Google Ventures as a partner, a spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat today.
Rose is perhaps best known as the founder of community news sharing site Digg as well as his time …
They say a rising tide can lift all the boats in a harbor. The same logic applies to a sinking tide, and Kayak apparently has no intentions of going down with the ship, so to speak.
Enough of the watery …
Apple is rumored to be in acquisition talks with music-editing startup Redmatica, according to Italian news blog Fanpage.
Italian-based Redmatica produces music editing software for OS X, with four main products that range in scope from casual to professional. The …
Launched in 2011, Buddy.com is a “back-end-as-a-service” startup that provides a place for people to build mobile apps without server-side code. The company announced today it has raised $1.1 million in its seed funding.
Buddy.com has gained popularity for its …
Gone are the days of Hooked on Phonics on cassette tape. Today’s kids are turning to technology and games to learn before they ever get to kindergarten. One company operating in this space is Mindshapes, which offers several educational kids …
Brands have embraced “gamification,” or using game-like behavior in non-game applications, as a way to engage their audiences. That is why gamification vendor Badgeville has more than 165 customers and is announcing today that it has raised $25 million in …
Construction-focused startup PlanGrid, fresh from the Y Combinator incubator, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding.
Plangrid brings blueprints to iPads, eliminating the need for large paper blueprints. The company graduated from Y Combinator in April of this year and …
Restaurant and hospitality point of sale startup Breadcrumb has joined the Groupon family. The Chicago-based online couponing firm has acquired the New York-based startup, Groupon reported Tuesday in a blog post.
Unsurprisingly, the amount of the deal was not disclosed. …
Sequoia Capital, a Silicon Valley venture firm, is raising new money for a number of different funds in the U.S. and China, that in aggregate would be around $1 billion.
Fortune is reporting these new funds may be used for …
Cloud enterprise powerhouse Salesforce is in talks to buy social media and brand management business Buddy Media for more than $800 million, according to an AllThingsD report.
Buddy Media helps many major brands manage their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Google+ …
BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion temporarily halted stock trading 15 minutes after the market closed today, and issued a “business update” where it admitted it will “likely have an operating loss” for its fiscal first quarter.
“RIM is going through a …
