How a fake developer attracted hundreds of emails, bribes, and job offers

Meebo founder Elaine Wherry created a fake JavaScript engineer named Pete London to attract the best recruiters in Silicon Valley.

The 20 biggest private exits of 2012 (for the top 20 VC firms of the year)

Private company research firm Privco has ranked the top 20 merger and acquisitions of the top 20 technology VC firms of 2012, including Ancestry.com's $1.6 billion sale to private equity firm Permira and other top tech acquisitions such as Yammer, Meebo, Instagram, and NextG networks.

Google to begin shutting down Meebo services July 11

Just five days after buying social-messaging and advertising company Meebo for a rumored $100 million, Google is beginning to shut down the company’s various products.

On July 11, Meebo Messenger, Sharing on Meebo, Meebo Me, and all of Meebo’s mobile …

Google agrees to acquire Meebo to expand its Google+ team

As expected, Google has agreed to buy social-messaging and advertising company Meebo, a move that will help the search giant fill out its growing Google+ team.

“For more than seven years we’ve been helping publishers find deeper relationships with their …

If Google gobbles Meebo for $100M, this time I won’t eat my hat

Google is in talks to acquire Meebo for about $100 million, according to a report from AllThingsD. If the deal goes through, it would make a lot of sense, because Meebo still has a lot of talent, and its products …

Why grown women, not just girls, need more tech role models

This week, we had Meebo CTO and co-founder Sandy Jen come into the VentureBeat studio to talk about women and tech.

We’ve featured a few strong and opinionated women CEOs and CTOs in our videos lately, because we think it’s …