Starting at 9 a.m. EST on Tuesday, June 26, Kathleen Henkel will attempt something few people half her age would even consider: Playing a video game for 30 hours straight with no sleep.
Waltham, MA based Brainshark announced today that the company has updated their signature Slideshark service for iPad, providing even more tools for enterprise use of iPads.
The announcement comes just a week after Google announced its acquisition of Quickoffice, demonstrating …
Search engine marketing guru Danny Sullivan has asked the FTC to review Google’s treatment of paid results within, next to, or near organic search results.
Remember this? It’s from Google’s 2004 founders’ IPO letter:
Our search results are the best …
Professional social network LinkedIn wants you to know that its taking the recent password security breach to heart — despite lacking greater measures to prevent such hacks and a chief information security officer charged with keeping track of privacy flaws.…
Editor's Pick Here is our Game of the Show for E3 2012, the industry trade show, along with individual staff picks.
In a world full of motion-sensing Kinect technology, iPhones, and smart thermostats, it’s hard to make something like a cloud-computing platform exciting. (VentureBeat’s very own cloud beat reporter Sean Ludwig can attest to this, having tried repeatedly with Azure-related headlines.)…
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Video might have “killed the radio star” with the birth of MTV in 1981, but now video is an expanding part of our everyday lives. Online video especially has grown and developed since the birth of YouTube in 2005, making …
If you are planning to preorder a new Samsung Galaxy S III from top two U.S. cellphone carriers, you should know that you won’t be able to take advantage of some third-party promotional opportunities.
Such is the case with Verizon …
Editor's Pick E3 was once again like Disneyland for tech geeks. Here's the top 10 cool technologies at the video game industry's biggest trade show.
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Spoiler alert! Apple is going to announce things on Monday morning at a keynote address kicking off the annual Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). Since speculation and rumors are half the fun (and annoyance) of reporting on Apple, we’ve …
Editor's Pick Japan's Gree flexed its muscle by showing off 21 mobile social games at E3.
What do a team of card-counting MIT students making millions in Vegas casinos and a personal productivity startup have in common? Not much, perhaps, at first glance. But there are common threads between Jeffery Ma’s high-roller blackjack days and his …
Quixey is an app discovery engine with a problem, and it’s not just the odd name.
Like many startups, Quixey’s key issue is finding talent — great talent. The Palo Alto-based company, founded in 2009, has to compete with the …
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 …
Just because you can Skype into a company meeting from a beach in Boracay, doesn’t mean you should.
Tourists are increasingly connecting to the Internet while on vacation, according to a recent study from Michigan State University. The walls between …
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It takes money to make money. Deciding where to find the first funds to get a startup off the ground is one of the most important decisions an entrepreneur has to make. We asked 12 startup founders what advice they …
Apple has sent developers flurrying to find tracking alternatives since it began rejecting some apps that take advantage of your device’s UDID, or unique device identifier, to track your behavior. But now it seems Apple is gearing up to offer …
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If you ever needed a reason to justify government spending on the space program, then I implore you to watch the fan video embedded below.
The video features a speech given by American astrophysicist, frequent Colbert Report guest, and all-around …
For years, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) has been associated with the city of Los Angeles and its sprawling downtown convention center. But the game industry trade group is considering moving out because of construction issues.
The city of Los …
Cloud security company Qualys just filed for an initial public offering, making it the latest security company to jump into the public market.
Qualys helps enterprise IT departments remain compliant with any policies or regulations associated with their industries, and …
