Slideshark adds new tools for enterprise adoption of iPads

June 11, 2012 5:30 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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 expert Danny Sullivan asks FTC to review Google’s new paid ads policies

June 10, 2012 8:31 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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 …

LinkedIn says zero accounts have been compromised as a result of the password leaks

June 10, 2012 6:09 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

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.…

GamesBeat’s E3 2012 Game of the Show…plus staff picks

June 10, 2012 4:33 PM Dan "Shoe" Hsu
Dan "Shoe" Hsu

Editor's Pick Here is our Game of the Show for E3 2012, the industry trade show, along with individual staff picks.

Microsoft apologizes for attempt at making cloud-based Azure ‘exciting’

June 10, 2012 1:25 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

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.)…

How to hire and get hired by video

June 10, 2012 1:18 PM Josh Tolan

Guest Post

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 …

Verizon and AT&T Galaxy S III customers are getting screwed out of 50GB Dropbox promo

June 10, 2012 11:29 AM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

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 …

The coolest technologies we saw at E3 2012

June 10, 2012 9:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

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.

WWDC predictions: A new iOS, Mountain Lion date, and iCloud updates

June 10, 2012 8:00 AM Heather Kelly
Heather Kelly

Editor's Pick

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 …

From MIT’s blackjack team to the quantified self: Jeff Ma’s new startup TenXer

June 10, 2012 6:13 AM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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 …

Solve a puzzle, get a job: Quixey gamifies the hiring process

June 9, 2012 4:42 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

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 …

Google to begin shutting down Meebo services July 11

June 9, 2012 3:51 PM Heather Kelly
Heather Kelly

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 …

We don’t know how to take vacations anymore

June 9, 2012 2:36 PM Heather Kelly
Heather Kelly

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 …

Here’s what Apple’s new app tracking tool could look like

June 8, 2012 9:57 PM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

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 …

Stunning NASA fan video highlights why we need to fund the space program

June 8, 2012 4:24 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Editor's Pick

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 …

Would it be a mistake for E3 to move out of LA?

June 8, 2012 4:23 PM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

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 …

Security company Qualys files to go public

June 8, 2012 3:50 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

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 …

Looks like Hotmail is about to go Metro

June 8, 2012 2:48 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Microsoft’s popular Hotmail client appears to be getting a Windows 8-style Metro makeover, according to screenshots leaked to Microsoft-focused site Liveside.

Hotmail is the largest webmail client by users in the world with about 350 million accounts, far above Yahoo’s …