Now how's this for sweet: The folks at downLOADED invited VentureBeat's own Dylan Tweney down to the studio to talk with much sass and opinion about the tech topics of the day.
This week was a barrage of Microsoft news. Oh look, a tablet! Hey, what’s that over there? A new Windows Phone operating system! Did you see that super secret document with the new Xbox and Kinect specs?
It’s like they …
The past week was packed with big news, thanks in part to the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin. Jolie O’Dell was there interviewing movers and shakers, so executive editor Dylan Tweney filled in as host of VBWeekly.
In …
It’s time for a sudden-death-style lightning round on the week’s news.
Day in and day out, we write fairly neutral coverage of these hot-button topics, but we’re real people, man, with feelings. And sometimes, we just gotta let our freak …
And now, it’s time for a few tasteful jokes (and at least one tasteless one) about the week’s tech headlines.
Here are the stories we highlighted this week:
Former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz launched a startup focused on caregivers. Microsoft
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Skyrim is awesome; Pinterest users need to calm the hell down; and Facebook users need to stay away from the gun cabinet.
In this week’s episode of VB Weekly, the VentureBeat writing staff takes a front seat, with a range …
This week we talk about the IPO heard ’round the world, that of Dutch antivirus outfit AVG.
Wait, that’s the IPO y’all were talking about, right?
Of course, we get into some of the nitty gritty gossip around the Facebook …
You like technology, blogging, or social media — or maybe all three. We need interns. See where we’re going with this?
We’re looking for two new interns for our editorial team. If you’re a star writer with a love of …
You’ve heard of planking. You might have heard about owling or hockern (aka extreme sitting). Now get ready for the next weird internet photography craze: leisure diving.
Leisure diving is like planking, only instead of lying face down on random …
Facebook was the talk of the day with chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s f8 conference keynote speech and the announcement of many new features being added to the Facebook platform.
Those features included the new Timeline, a history of your activity …
It’s the weekly video show so new it doesn’t have a name!
Welcome to the first installment of… whatever we end up calling it, our new weekly video clip where two members of the editorial staff do a rapid-fire fight …
At VentureBeat, our humble newsroom is known around the office as the Writers’ Lounge.
In this den of cynicism, we rant, opine, pronounce judgments, challenge one another to duels “to the pain” and eventually decide what stories will make it …
After a month of speculation, Skype for iPad finally launched today. I whipped out my iPad 2 and decided to spend a little hands-on time with the app to see how it fared overall and how it compared with Apple’s …
Big changes are afoot here at VentureBeat, and we’re looking to staff up with more full-time writers, freelancers, and reporting interns.
To wit, we’re extremely delighted to announce that Dylan Tweney, long senior editor of Wired, has joined VentureBeat as …
