Guest Post
The thinking is this: If your organization relents and lets employees use their own mobile devices for work, then there will be immediate cost savings, with the added benefit that people generally take better care of devices for which they …
Guest Post
I just wrote a book called Fitness for Geeks, so as you can imagine, I get a lot of health and exercise questions from people who want highly technical answers. For example, I was recently asked, “What’s the best …
We’re guessing the pricetag on this deal was slightly less than the $1 billion it paid for Instagram, but Facebook has indeed bought up Italian startup Glancee.
Glancee is an iPhone and Android app that “helps you discover and connect …
What a week is has been. Here’s what we’re covering in the weekly roundup:
Facebook shares were given their starting price range; we go into detail about how much we’d each pay for a single share — and when we’d
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The Federal Trade Commission may levy its first multimillion dollar fine against Google over a security breach initially uncovered by a Stanford student, a sign that the agency is stepping up its efforts to safeguard consumers' online rights.
George Orwell was an optimist.
After seeing the privacy-shattering updates that the FBI wants top websites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google to implement, I’m wondering if his dystopic 1984 didn’t go far enough. After all, in mythical Oceania, it was …
What if any object in the world, not just smartphones and tablets, could know when and how you were touching them? If a team working at Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University continues to make progress, soon we may have …
Wicked Lasers has created arguably the most dangerous Star Wars toy you will ever own: The LaserSaber.
The company has released its version of the space-age weapon, called the LaserSaber for obvious copyright reasons. It sports a 32-inch “polycarbonate blade,” …
We’ve got three funding news stories for this Friday afternoon. Check out the quick-and-dirty details of which companies received investments today.
Tidepool judges your personality with $1.5M in funding
Tidepool has raised a $1.5 million seed round to determine personality …
In an effort to eradicate some of the challenges associated with text-based communication, Facebook has today updated the iOS and Android versions of Messenger, the social network’s cross-platform messaging-only app.
Version 1.7 of Facebook Messenger for iPhone and Android, out …
Editor's Pick
As one of the more prominent and vocal opponents of anti-piracy legislation SOPA, social news site Reddit has positioned itself as an organization that deeply cares about tech policy. But sometimes that can work against it.
For instance, last weekend …
Oracle has asked Judge William Alsup to throw out the entire testimony of Jonathan Schwartz (pictured) in its ongoing (and drama-filled) trial with Google over Android.
Schwartz was Sun’s CEO. Sun owned the Java programming language, which is used heavily …
Ravenshire Castle is launching today on Facebook. It is the final chapter in the Raven World series created by a team of developers at Lolapps, which was once on the top charts of Facebook gaming. The fact that Ravenshire Castle …
Regrets? We’ve all had a few. But AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said his big whoopsie was offering an unlimited data package for AT&T customers.
“My only regret was how we introduced pricing … Thirty dollars, and you get all you …
Some companies cater lunch on Fridays. Some throw in gym memberships or childcare or chair massages. Not Ford.
These guys are going big: They’re giving invention-focused employees TechShop memberships so they can tinker and make to their hearts’ delight.
TechShop …
Nearly 60 percent of iOS developers don’t break even with the apps that they create and market, according to a recent study by App Promo.
While we hear a lot about blockbuster hits like Draw Something or Angry Birds Space, …
Rovio released Angry Birds for Facebook on February 14, but now it’s done one better: You can play the game right in your Timeline.
Rovio announced the news today on its blog.
The way it works is this: When you’re …
Verizon is working on the U.S.’s first-ever emergency texting service.
Text-to-911 will be incredibly useful for a wide range of mobile customers, from the young-and-hip to the hard-of-hearing. It’s also more useful than voice communication in uniquely mobile scenarios, such …
Checking in to the power of nostalgia, Foursquare is bringing members’ past location moments back to life with a reworked history page that doubles as a check-in time machine.
Friday, Foursquare has remodeled the web-based version of the history page …
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
