Elite Silicon Valley incubator backs its first nonprofit

Prestigious accelerator Y Combinator is expanding its horizons by backing a nonprofit called "Watsi."

The Europas: 6 of the best winners (and losers)

The Europas European startup awards just held in Berlin may not have been an unqualified success (the bone-cracking temperatures didn’t help), but the event did shine a welcome light on tech startups from across the continent and beyond. The full …

Get ‘em while they’re hot: Crunchies tickets on sale now!

Voting for the Crunchies officially closes today and the winners will be determined. Get your tickets for the event while you still can.

jOBS: Steve Jobs biopic to open in theaters April 19 (and now there’s a clip)

Steve Jobs' life will live large once more on the silver screen starting in theaters around the country on April 19. Judging by Apple's stock market performance yesterday, the company he founded could use him back there too.

Yahoo confirms Snip.it acquisition, shuts down the product (Updated)

This acquisition is part of a broader strategy to help Yahoo become the leading destination for news content.

Silicon Valley rallies behind Alchemist, an incubator for B2B startups (exclusive)

The startups that have been selected for the first class are far from sexy -- unless a "software-defined infrastructure platform for heterogeneous computing" does it for you -- but they're all generating revenues. What they have in common is that they target their products at businesses, not consumers.

This 22-day-old open-source Minecraft-cloning game builder runs in Javascript in your browser

Max Ogden has built a tool for creating Minecraft-like 3D games, all within a browser using JavaScript and OpenGL.