Morality in Media is calling for a nation-wide boycott of daily deal site Groupon.com for what it claims are tours of a “torture porn” facility.
“Employees lead 90-minute tours for guests aged 18 & older through five floors of historic …
A lovable touchscreen gadget with beanbag mystique called Chumby, very much the precursor to today’s tablets, has long been a relic of simpler times. Now, the San Diego company behind the device, which eventually pivoted to focus entirely on software …
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Facebook’s $1 billion purchase of Instagram was the topic on everyone’s lips at Mega Startup Weekend last Saturday and Sunday. The world’s most expensive “Like” has clearly gotten tech entrepreneurs buzzing about who will be next. While there’s no way …
WeVideo, a cloud-based collaborative video editor, just raised $19.1 million in its first round of funding. The service lets you edit videos in a browser, instead of using pricey software like Final Cut Pro.
WeVideo launched at the fall 2011 …
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Technology teaches us to forget the past. Last year’s tech news seems like it has no use whatsoever. Thankfully, historians beg to differ, and they have begun to preserve the history of the tech industry as it becomes more and …
Titanic 3D wasn’t the only thing that went down in Q1 2012. Startup funding, both the number of deals and the total amount raised, experienced a significant slouch in the beginning of the year.
Altogether, U.S. startups took $6.3 billion …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
Professional social startup BranchOut has raised a $25 million third round of funding, the company announced today.
BranchOut is a professional network that operates as a Facebook application that lets users organize business connections, search for jobs, and view data …
When was the last time you were 100 percent confident that the price you paid for a hotel stay was a steal? Just-launched hotel search-engine and aggregator DealAngel eliminates the guesswork with an at-a-glance look at the quality of the …
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David Lawee is Google’s vice president of corporate development, the latest in his string of high-profile positions at the search giant. As the company’s M&A leader over the past several years, he has been responsible for some of the company’s …
Enterprise data software company Splunk ended its first day on the stock market with an amazing 108.7 percent bump in price from its $17-per-share IPO.
The San Francisco-based company offers businesses software to better analyze and interpret “big data.” The …
Note-taking startup Evernote has raised a massive new $100 million round at a $1 billion valuation, according to a report by Business Insider.
The new round was reportedly led by Meritech Capital Partners. A contrary report from TechCrunch says the …
Vroom, vroom. Neato Robotics has just snagged $12.2 million in fourth round funding for its robot vacuum cleaner.
We all thought the future would be full of robots doing our house work for us. Well in the case of vacuuming, …
Cisco has invested $100 million in a networking startup called Insieme that was started by three Cisco employees. Interestingly enough, the company also has the option to pony up $750 million more to buy the company, according to a memo …
NComputing, a desktop virtualization and thin-client computing firm that is driving the costs of operating computers toward zero, has raised $20 million in a new round of funding.
In February, the maker of thin-client shared computers announced a system that …
Smurks, an iPhone and iPad app for non-verbal expression by way of malleable emoticons, has quietly become a powerful communication-aid in the autism community. Today, its makers are ready to transform the app into the next great tool for …
Social events startup Lifecrowd has raised $5 million in its first round of funding, with a goal to expand its evolving marketplace that connects like-minded users connect at nearby events, the company announced Thursday.
The service has come a long …
Forget Apple’s Facetime. If there’s one app that shows the potential in the mobile video chat market, it’s Tango.
Almost one year since its last round of $42 million, the cross-platform video chat company Tango announced that it has raised …
Social network giant Facebook is allegedly targeting May 17 as the potential date for its initial public offering, according to a TechCrunch report that cites unnamed sources familiar with the company.
The IPO date might be off depending on how …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
