Bloggers know what I’m talkin’ about: It’s that sticky legal and moral quagmire you encounter when you need an image for a post or page.
You could use Google Images and just grab something from anywhere on the web, sans …
Are you bursting with big-think ideas that could change the world? Can you take those ideas and actually, you know, build something tangible? If so, there’s a new matchmaker in Silicon Valley that wants to fund you, mentor you, and …
Zynga reported first quarter earnings of 6 cents a share, beating analyst estimates for the social game company’s second-ever earnings announcement.
The publisher of social games such as FarmVille reported non-GAAP net income of $47 million on revenues of $321 …
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The secret details of the $1 billion deal between Facebook and Instagram are more convoluted than anyone thought. VentureBeat has learned that Instagram chief executive and co-founder Kevin Systrom first got an offer and a term sheet from Twitter, then …
Customer support software in the cloud provider Freshdesk helped itself grab a $5 million in funding, the company reported Thursday.
Freshdesk gets that you’d rather be liking your friend’s drunk vacation photos on Facebook than sitting on the phone with …
Other than the restaurants surrounding Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Silicon Valley has to be one of the best places to eavesdrop. Which is exactly why Apple is building a private, off-campus eatery.
The Cupertino Planning Commission granted Apple permission …
Big data and analysis startup Sociocast has launched two new Software-as-a-Service tools aimed at helping advertising and media companies better understand their customers, the company revealed today.
Sociocast’s software analyzes “big data” sets and delivers predictive real-time audience data to …
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VentureBeat has teamed up with Citrix Startup Accelerator to lead a discussion on May 9 at Startup.Synergy about the massive opportunities for startups in the enterprise sector.
First, if you’re an emerging startup focused on cloud, mobile, desktop, or collaboration, …
Shares of Electronic Arts rose today on a rumor that Japan’s Nexon has made a bid to purchase EA. The odd thing is that Nexon doesn’t appear to have enough cash or stock to do that, unless it borrows a …
Providence Equity Partners, the only one of Hulu’s four owners that isn’t a media company, has sold its 10 percent stake in the premium TV streaming video site for $200 million, reports Bloomberg .
Providence was nearing a deadline on …
Redux is aiming to move beyond the realm of web video aggregation with its new video distribution platform, which will allow artists to directly sell video on the web. The company has teamed up with Humble Bundle, the folks behind …
SMS messages sent for practical, group communication rather than just LOLs is serious enough business that investors have handed SendHub a $2 million check.
Recent Y Combinator graduate SendHub, which bills itself as SMS for organizations, is in the business …
There were two pretty incredible tech events in New York this Tuesday. I only managed to score an invite to one of them, the Lerer Ventures CEO summit at Citi Field. The other was Union Square Ventures more exclusive Hacking …
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These days, particularly in the wake of Facebook’s $5 billion S-1 filing, few will argue the explosive impact that social media is having on the way we live.
We see it in the way relationships build, the way messages spread, …
White House advisers yesterday said they’ll recommend that President Barack Obama veto the controversial cyber security bill CISPA if it passes a congressional vote in its current form.
CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (PDF), intends to …
Big data analytics company MetaMarkets has raised $15 million in a new funding round, the company announced today.
MetaMarkets originally analyzed prices for online ads on mobile and regular websites for media companies in real-time. Now the company has expanded …
After Google Drive finally launched Tuesday, it was only took a day for people to begin prodding Google about just how private stored files would be using the service. However, Google’s policy is quite similar to already established rivals Dropbox, …
Zynga’s stock price has been falling in recent days in advance of the company’s first quarter earnings report today. The shares are trading at $9.15 each right now — up slightly but down significantly from a recent high of $15.91 …
Video editing startup Magisto has upgraded its young Facebook Timeline app with more social features in hopes to attract a flood of new users, the company announced today.
After launching its own Facebook Timeline app, social video sharing startup Viddy …
With the rising popularity of mobile banking — reaching 17 percent of U.S. consumers by the end of last year, a figure that’s grown 4X in the past five year — the research firm Forrester has developed a “Mobile Banking …
