Smell-o-vision at last! Domino’s releasing DVDs that smell like pizza

Pizza and a movie go together like love and marriage, a horse and carriage, right? So Domino's Brazil has hit on a genius marketing campaign: DVDs that smell like pizza.

Kabbage expands its loans business, now supports Quickbooks

Kabbage announced today that it will provide loans to both online and offline businesses, and will make a decision in minutes.

PayPal kills the cash register — and offers completely free payment processing for 2013

In other words, PayPal is all in.

Facebook’s coming video ads run the risk of ‘MySpacing’ the world’s most popular social network

Facebook's coming video ads will be disruptive, interrupt people, and run the risk of Facebook becoming the very social network it supplanted, according to at least one online advertising executive.

Meet the 10 startups competing in the HealthBeat ‘Innovation Showdown’

We’re blown away by the quality of the more than 150 applicants to the HealthBeat 2013 “Grand Rounds Innovation Showdown,” one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s inaugural health tech conference (May 20-21 in San Francisco).

We asked startups throughout the …

2M Facebook fans better than Super Bowl ad, celeb endorsement … or Twitter followers

Facebook fans are the holy grail of small business, according to a recent study by Staples.

Lean startups and 4-hour bodies: How Eric Ries and Tim Ferriss tell stories on the web

If you want to highlight a product, build a landing page. If you're an internet marketing guru, make a squeeze page. But if you want to start on online movement -- and maybe sell a few books, speaking events, or other products along the way, create a smart site.

Internet sales tax bill is likely to pass Senate vote later this week

The U.S. Senate voted to once again advance the Marketplace Fairness Act, a bill that would place a mandatory state sales tax on things sold over the Internet.

Angie’s List is killing it: revenue, members, growth — and stock price — all up

"It took us more than 16 years to get to one million paid households but just 18 months to double it."

Sarah Hanson, the 19-year-old teen who auctioned 10% of her income for a $125K startup investment, may not exist

Last week I published the story of Sarah Hanson, the 19-year-old developer who auctioned off 10 percent of her future income in exchange for a $125,000 investment into her startup, Senior Living Map.

Today, I'm wondering if Sarah Hanson really exists.