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Brush off those dusty old electronics and broken phones sitting in a drawer. EcoATM has raised $17 million for its electronics recycling “ATM” kiosks, which give you money for handing over old phones, MP3 players, and even laptops.
The other …
Sponsored Post There are misconceptions about how important branding it is to success, how much work it takes, and the best ways to approach it. But every company, from a fresh-faced tech-startup to Apple, knows good branding can make a product or service.
It’s been a long time coming — today we finally got our first glimpse at Research in Motion’s next-generation platform, BlackBerry 10, which aims to breathe new life into the company’s aging smartphones.
New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins hit the …
Community news sharing site Digg is rumored to be in acquisition talks with the Washington Post and possibly others, sources familiar with the matter told VentureBeat.
Serious negotiations with the Washington Post have been going on almost a month, but …
Meet the latest app to help you smartly invest the money you’ve been saving under your mattress, SigFig. Instead of letting your hundreds accumulate dust, SigFig helps you accrue capital gains by giving you investment advice.
The foreign language skills …
SEOmoz, a company that tackles search engine optimization for businesses, has raised $18 million in funding.
Every website that wants attention on Google uses search engine optimization. It’s an ever-evolving set of tactics to get search engines, such as Google …
Delivery and takeout order service GrubHub is testing its OrderHub service in more than 400 restaurants in Chicago. I’ve complimented GrubHub before for adapting to how restaurants do business — by sending orders to them by fax. Now it’s helping …
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It’s big. It’s boxy. And it can power tunes cordlessly for 15 hours.
Jawbone unveiled the Big Jambox today, a large wireless speaker that improves upon its popular and smaller older sibling in practically every way. With the Big Jambox, …
Does it matter whether your fledgling company spends a stint in an incubator? Does it ever! Forbes‘ recent ranking of incubators around the country found that the average Y Combinator company is worth $45.2 million. Just try doing that on …
Microsoft’s research division comes up with some pretty cool stuff, like its Holoflector augmented reality mirror, but its latest project is much more homely.
To be more precise, the company debuted HomeOS today, an operating system designed to make …
There’s a reason 2011 was called the year of the hack. We saw an 81 percent increase in cyber attacks, according to Symantec, which says it stopped 5.5 billion malicious attacks last year alone.
“It’s really the automation and tool-kits …
Flash memory is hot because it runs cooler than other kinds of storage in the data center. It’s also faster and more efficient at storing frequently used data. Violin Memory is one of the companies that is benefiting from this …
At VentureBeat, we come across a lot of funding news every day. In order to bring you the most information possible, we’re rounding up the quick-and-dirty details about the funding deals of the day and serving them up here in …
Taking on World of Warcraft is no small task. Just ask the folks who made TERA, the massively multiplayer online world that launches in North America for the first time tomorrow, May 1.
TERA is in a rare category of …
The Brockton Retirement Board is suing Google co-founder Larry Page and other executives today for its recently proposed stock split.
Google announced it would be splitting its stock in its first quarter 2012 earnings call. Page explained on a conference …
Groupon’s board of directors is playing musical chairs as the downtrodden daily deals company attempts to address fallout from an accounting restatement that sent its stock price plummeting.
The company, now trading at more than 60 percent off its initial …
Job search site Indeed, already a long-standing powerhouse in the U.S., has overtaken TotalJobs to become the top job search site in the U.K. based on unique visitors, the company revealed today.
Indeed overtook Monster in the U.S. in Nov. …
The iPad and other smart devices are becoming an ideal platform for entertaining children. But the problem with content for kids on the App Store is that it is just too hard to find.
So YogiPlay is announcing today it …
Sponsored Post Recent research indicates that by 2014, more than one in three American Internet users will have a tablet device, and that 52 percent of tablet owners prefer to shop online using their tablets.
Verizon Wireless will target prepaid customers with a new 1GB plan that gives you unlimited talk, text, and 1GB of 3G data, the company announced today.
Verizon’s new plan, as much as it seems like a solid all-around deal, does …
