I’m confused by this headline, which first appeared on Bloomberg, made its way to Techmeme, and was re-reported by folks like GigaOm:
Spotify Said Developing Pandora-Like Online Radio Service
It’s not just the odd syntax. It’s the fact that Spotify …
In the first quarter of 2012, investor confidence rose to the highest point it’s been in more than a year. The latest Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index — which measures how much statup investing confidence VCs have — shows …
Smith & Tinker, founded in 2007, was one of the darlings of the new studio startups when it launched its hybrid toy-game Nanovor in 2009. But while it was an ambitious attempt to win over young boys with a cool …
Nintendo reported today that it had a loss in the fourth fiscal quarter ending March 31. This was its first annual operating loss in memory.
This came as a result of the high value of the yen and weaker-than-expected sales …
LinkedIn has just popped its iPad app onto the iTunes App Store, and you’ll be shocked at how slick, pared-down, and beautifully designed it is.
This is the company’s first foray into tablets, and the wait has paid off. The …
Yahoo has lost significant market share, reduced its staff multiple times, and its market cap continues to dive. But chief executive Scott Thompson is trying to rehydrate what is currently his raisin of a company by killing off unnecessary products …
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 …
Life just got a bit rosier for merchants using Square’s mobile credit card reader. Merchants will now have access to cash on sales made before 5 p.m. by the next business day — meaning they won’t have to wait several …
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Box CEO Aaron Levie just can’t stop cracking jokes about Google Drive, even as the new service’s existence threatens Levie’s fast-growing cloud storage business.
At small dinner I attended last night with Levie, CloudOn CEO Milind Gadekar, ZenDesk CEO Mikkel …
Are you attractive but you don’t have the money to travel? That’s the exact problem MissTravel.com is looking to solve with its online dating service.
The site explains its existence as such: “Traveling to exotic new places and experiencing new …
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If you work at a major Silicon Valley tech company and that company isn’t Apple, you’ve got skin in the mobile web game. But advocating for and working on the mobile web is becoming increasingly politicized and divisive.
On the …
Following the example set by philanthropists like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, the venture capitalists at Andreessen Horowitz have made a joint pledge to donate at least half of their substantial incomes to charity.
The firm’s six general partners all …
Facebook’s IPO was scheduled for May 2012, or so every analyst across the country was saying a couple months ago. However, that just ain’t gonna happen, and we’re here to tell you why.
No, it’s not because CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
Weaving together pictures to make them worth more than a 1,000 words, Google has given life to more than 15,000 landmarks across the world with the release of photo tours for Google Maps.
Photo tours, released Wednesday, offers Google Maps …
Application developers may start to lose up to 24 percent of advertising revenue as Apple turns away applications using UDID, or unique device identifier, data.
“The move away from UDIDs threatens advertising revenue that many publishers depend on in order …
We’ve heard a couple of stories in recent weeks about startups that choose celebrity investors over seasoned VCs because they wanted someone with a big online audience who could help attract new users and press to their product.
According to …
After confirming that its unlimited data plan would continue for LTE Android smartphones, Sprint said today it will also offer unlimited data on the next iPhone — even if it runs on LTE.
“I’m not anticipating the unlimited plan would …
Infrastructure-as-a-service startup SingleHop has raised $27.5 million in its first round of funding, cash that will help it quickly accelerate growth, the company announced today.
SingleHop has been slowly making a name for itself in the cloud computing and cloud …
After eight years and 7 billion photos, Yahoo-owned photo sharing community Flickr is giving members a better, faster way to post and share their images on the site.
Flickr is in the processing of rolling out a revamped photo upload …
Influence-tracking startup Klout is making its scores accessible to members on mobile with the release of an iPhone application.
Klout for iPhone, released Wednesday, is an app for the influence tracking-obsessed minimalist who needs to know her score at all …
