Every year, my family looks forward to Maker Faire, a family-friendly celebration of DIY mayhem, with eager anticipation. But when venture capitalists get involved in the maker movement, you know something new is afoot.
One such VC is Brad Feld, …
BioWare Austin, a division of Electronic Arts (EA), is cutting staff.
Two of the more interesting companies on the mobile-development landscape are announcing a new deal for developers today, and will be making great tools for location-based apps available for free.
If you’re into mobile development, Appcelerator and Geoloqi are probably …
As the rise in texting-related car accidents has shown, there’s a big demand for technology that allows drivers to be connected without distracting them from the road.
Nuance, makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking, may just have that solution. Its new …
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Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph has a thing for rental startups. Today he is joining the board of Getable — a company making tablet payments a reality for rentals.
“I do a fair amount of angel investing. It’s natural that I …
Verizon is launching a new video search platform called Viewdini that will aggregate videos from a variety of different services for use on mobile devices, the company’s CEO Dan Mead said during a panel today at The Cable Show event.…
After a failed launch Saturday, SpaceX successfully launched a private unmanned spaceship early this morning on a mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX hopes replace now-retired American Space Shuttles with missions to space. Eventually the private company hopes to …
How exactly will Apple fit a larger screen into its next iPhone? If the latest rumor is true, it’s by making the display (and resolution) taller.
Apple is reportedly testing prototype phones with 3.95-inch displays, which are taller, but remain …
Google has finally closed its much-talked-about $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, Google CEO Larry Page announced today on the company’s blog.
“Motorola is a great American tech company that has driven the mobile revolution, with a track record of …
Building up to the summer games in London, the Olympics has partnered with Foursquare to bring fans and athletes closer together, almost literally.
The partnership means that fans will start to see a new badge connected to Olympics venues, as …
A new competitor has entered the action camera arena, and it just may dethrone the king of that market, GoPro’s Hero2 camera.
Ion Worldwide is today launching the Ion Air Pro, a camera for adrenaline junkies that’s lighter than the …
Trion Worlds’ Defiance is one of the most ambitious transmedia projects, a story that stretches across multiple media, ever made. Debuting in April 2013, the online game world is being jointly developed in tandem with a science fiction TV show …
YoYo Games has retrofitted an existing game engine to create GameMaker: Studio, a cross-platform development tool. It allows developers to create games easily and cheaply with a single programming code base. And they can publish the games to the web, …
Machinima has raised a fat $35 round of funding led by search engine giant Google, the company confirmed yesterday.
News of Machinima’s new funding first surfaced earlier this month. Google’s involvement marks the first time the company has spent money …
Online game company RocketFrog wants to revitalize virtual gambling by offering real-world prizes to players.
Social gaming giant Zynga has connected with credit company American Express to provide a rewards program where users can receive virtual game rewards for using their real-life American Express card.
Buying a house involves a slow process of sharing a lot of physical documents between several different people. Frustrated by this process, Austin Allison founded DotLoop, a startup that invites people to digital documents instead of sending them via email …
Today, Salesforce is further beefing up its line of enterprise products with a new IM client and screensharing software.
The instant messaging comes via Chatter, Salesforce’s Facebook-like, Yammer-esque collaboration and task-management app. The IM client is cloud-based (so no need …
Updated 5/22/2012: This funding is not Vidyo’s fifth round, but rather an extension of its fourth round. A few details about the company’s technology have also been corrected in the story below.
Video conferencing and telepresence company Vidyo has raised …
Google chief executive Larry Page appears on PBS show “Charlie Rose” this evening at 11 p.m. local time.
In the show, Page addresses a wide range of topics, starting with today’s surprising news that Chrome is now the most popular …
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