White House drafts official Open Data Policy of the United States … on GitHub

"Today's news marks the first time a government entity has published law as a living, collaborative document," Balter said. "We're excited to see how the Open Data Policy evolves with the input of the community, and we hope this is just the first of many."

GitHub gets down with the ladies in Passion Project series

The developer company is giving women in the tech community -- especially devs and product designers -- a chance to speak out about what drives them.

Fenwick & West open-sources startup finance docs on GitHub

From a first equity hire to a first round, these documents give startup founders a leg up -- now with more open-source collaboration and nerdy street cred!

Top 15 venture capital deals of 2012

We survey the top venture capital investments into tech companies of the year. To make this elite list, you needed to raise at least $89 million in 2012.

Enterprise is sexy! 80% of tech startups likely to IPO are B2B

Forget about consumer IPOs: The vast majority of companies expected to go to the public markets in 2013 will be business-focused.

GitHub gets Yelp’s old CFO to help manage its new $100M budget

After venturing into heavy financial territory with its recent $100 million Series A of funding, GitHub has taken on some top-shelf help: Vlado Herman, who was formerly the chief finance officer at Yelp.

Herman is GitHub’s first-ever chief finance executive, …

Is the technapolocalypse upon us as investments drop in Q3?

Venture capital investments declined in both dollars and deal volume this quarter, according to the latest TheMoneyTree report.

The White House releases its first open source app on Github

Don't worry, hell has not frozen over. But the White House is very definitely not doing business -- or government, rather -- as usual. The U.S. government has released a repository of open source code for allowing citizens to create and vote on petitions, the same functionality that drives WhiteHouse.gov.

VBWeekly: Digg dumps, Githubs gits, Ouya owns, and Nukotoys … toys?

Yes, folks its another VBWeekly, and our regular VBWeekly host Jolie O’Dell was out on assignment, so VentureBeat’s executive Editor Dylan Tweney has stepped in to take you through the stories of the week. And we have stories; running from …

Funding Daily: It’s like the San Diego firework fiasco of investment

All the news that lay dormant surrounding the July 4th holiday exploded all at once today in the funding world. Sometime amidst the barbecuing and pool parties, major deals were struck involving massive amounts of money. The biggest story, juicier …

Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper’s ship for a $100M Series A

After half a decade of preaching about the virtues of bootstrapping, the GitHub founders are finally getting in bed with a major VC firm to the tune of $100 million — that’s $1 million per employee at the still-small startup.…

GitHub finally releases its Windows app (looking at you, enterprise developers)

GitHub has maintained a long and profitable love affair with all things Apple, but today, the folks behind the most popular code repository site are sullying their allegiance to Cupertino with — get ready to gasp and clutch your pearls …

GitHub now lets devs generate pretty skins for their project pages

Developers, GitHub just gave your code repositories a fresh new coat of sexy.

Today, the startup rolled out the GitHub Page Generator, which will let you select a theme and instantly publish a page for any GitHub project. This makes …