A few lucky people got a peek at the future of online advertising recently, thanks to a Y Combinator event.
Close to 200 entrepreneurs, marketers, publishers, and venture capitalists packed Y Combinator headquarters in Mountain View on Sept. 14 for …
We’re back with another episode of VentureBeat’s (still nameless) weekly show. I sat down with VentureBeat executive editor Dylan Tweney to talk about this week’s absolute conference mayhem.
Four shows happened to fall on the same three days this week: …
San Jose, Calif. — At the IBM Almaden Research Center, a team of researchers is creating the artificial brains of the future. Within the walls of Almaden is the Cognitive Computing Lab, whose staff is working on one of the …
Bill Maris, managing partner at Google Ventures, sat down with VentureBeat yesterday to discuss what Google looks for in investment opportunities.
Google Ventures is the search giant’s venture capital arm, investing in technology companies such as HomeAway, EchoEcho, RelayRides, HubSpot, …
Just in time for the iPhone 5 launch, the electronics reseller Gazelle has launched a new iOS app that will make it dead simple for you to sell your existing iPhone.
Gadget resellers typically receive a flood of used iPhones …
InMobi, the four-year-old company that is second place globally in mobile advertising, has raised an astonishingly large $200 million round of funding from Softbank Corp.
The company’s goal is overtake Google as the world leader in the category.
InMobi, which …
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LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman might be one of the most successful entrepreneurs to emerge from the post-dot-com era, and today he shared some of the secrets to his success.
Hoffman started LinkedIn on May 5, 2003 and took the company …
Microsoft’s new Window 8 operating system brags a short eight-second boot time, according to the Windows 8 blog.
The company has put out a video demonstrating the quick boot time of a full-sized Windows 8 machine, which we’ve embedded below.…
The most interesting stories we get to tell are stories about people. And this week, we had a glut of those kinds of stories.
Between Mike Arrington’s CrunchFund antics, Carol Bartz’s emotionally charged anti-Yahoo tirade and Nikki Sixx’s fit of …
100 different channels and nothing on? Microsoft has just licensed semantic video discovery technology from Israeli startup Jinni to help you find the perfect movie.
At the heart of Jinni is a movie genome comparable to Pandora’s music genome, which …
Ozon.ru, the fast growing online retailer that calls itself the Amazon.com of Russia, has raised $100 million in new equity funding to fund an ambitious expansion that includes recreating the Russian postal service.
And Ozon.ru is experiencing such terrific growth …
Dave Stohl is one of the guys who decides how many developers Activision Blizzard puts to work on its Call of Duty games. With Call of Duty bringing in a monster share of Activision’s revenues, that’s a big responsibility. We …
Call of Duty fans were greeted to a “life imitates art” moment at the Call of Duty XP event this week in Los Angeles. Activision Blizzard recreated the Scrapyard multiplayer battlefield from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 as a …
Eric Hirshberg, the president and chief executive of Activision Publishing ( a division of Activision Blizzard), is treating 6,000 Call of Duty fans to a celebration of the game series at a huge aircraft hangar in Los Angeles.
At the …
The fans that showed up at the Call of Duty XP in Los Angeles are a pretty dedicated lot. Many flew to the event from around the world and paid $150 to get on the 6,000 tickets for the exclusive …
It’s the weekly video show so new it doesn’t have a name!
Welcome to the first installment of… whatever we end up calling it, our new weekly video clip where two members of the editorial staff do a rapid-fire fight …
Jay Elliot has a unique insight into what makes Apple so successful. He worked closely with Steve Jobs in the 1980s, setting up the company’s operational and managerial structure. Based on those years, he’s written a book: The Steve Jobs …
Call of Duty: Black Ops set new records for sales at its debut last November, making it the world’s most popular video game. Can Call of Duty keep growing as a franchise?
That’s a big question, as Activision Blizzard hopes …
Activision Blizzard announced today it would charge $49 a year for its premium subscription to the Call of Duty Elite social network.
Call of Duty Elite debuts November 8 simultaneously with the launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, …
Robert Bowling, creative strategist at Activision Blizzard‘s Infinity Ward studio, says the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 coming on November 8 has better balanced multiplayer combat than ever before.
The new tweaks for multiplayer could make or break …
