Health care data stumbles on ‘walls’ put up by EMR vendors

Before health care providers can handle "big data," they first need to learn how to deal with small data.

Here are the 3 major places health tech innovators can make money

For Farzad Mostashari, the United States' national coordinator for health information technology, there are three major areas that need a tech touch -- and also provide an opportunity for making major money.

CloudBeat case study: Integrating Salesforce at Axcient isn’t magical

Integrating Salesforce.com isn't magical. Axcient found that it had to create a process for integrating it into the enterprise.

VentureBeat to NYC: We are in you! (launch party gallery)

With a new office and growing staff, VentureBeat is ready to take on New York City's vibrant technology scene with gusto.

Google to begin shutting down Meebo services July 11

Just five days after buying social-messaging and advertising company Meebo for a rumored $100 million, Google is beginning to shut down the company’s various products.

On July 11, Meebo Messenger, Sharing on Meebo, Meebo Me, and all of Meebo’s mobile …

VentureBeat heads to Korea for beLAUNCH conference — in search of great companies

VentureBeat is making its first trip to Korea on June 11-14, where we’re partnering with a local blog site to host the country’s first technology startup event, beLAUNCH.

VentureBeat writer Meghan Kelly and I are participating in the event, judging …

DEMO keynotes & industry sages set to take the stage

We’re getting ready for DEMO! Join the VentureBeat and DEMO teams April 17-19, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency Silicon Valley as more than 70 companies from around the world launch new products and services to an audience of global press, …

Join VentureBeat and Kleiner Perkins at our DEMO meetup party this week (update)

Update: We have reached our capacity for the party. Thanks to everyone who has signed up to attend. 

Come party and network with VentureBeat, Kleiner Perkins, and the DEMO community this week at our DEMO meetup event.

VentureBeat and Kleiner …

Drinks and pitches flowed freely at DEMO and VentureBeat’s first New York City startup party

More than 100 people from New York’s burgeoning tech scene showed up October 25 for a startup party sponsored by VentureBeat and DEMO.

That’s not a bad turnout for an impromptu event organized just a week before. It’s a sign …

VentureBeat takes a “leisure dive” into San Francisco Bay (video)

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 appears to be testing a mobile phonebook app

A Facebook user has accidentally discovered an app called Facebook Phonebook. We’re not sure what it is, but it looks like the social network company is testing the app in Canada before a general rollout.

Facebook has been working on …