PTTOW is the Dalai Lama + Coca Cola + Will.i.am + GE + Elon Musk

That vision has produced events where Activision and the State Department, QuikSilver and the Gates Foundation rub shoulders with music industry giants. And where beauty and fashion -- Diane von Furstenberg -- meet brains and technology: Google Glass.

‘Jobs’ and ‘Woz’ to visit MacWorld 2013, along with will.i.am and NASA’s Curiosity team

Steve Jobs can't be at MacWorld this year. But Ashton Kutcher, who plays Steve in the upcoming film JOBS, will be. And so will his co-star, Josh Gad, who plays the other half of the dynamic duo that founded Apple in 1976, Steve Wozniak.

Will.i.am & Simon Cowell to debut TV show to find the next Steve Jobs

Television all-star Simon Cowell and popular musician Will.i.am will team up to create a TV show focused on finding the next big tech entrepreneur to follow in the path of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg.

Music from Mars: Curiosity rover radios Will.I.Am song to earth

The Mars Curiosity rover isn't just a bad-ass robot scientist roaming the badlands of Mars. It's also a jukebox. The rover transmitted Black Eyed Peas singer Will.I.Am's latest song "Reach for the Stars." Tacky? Maybe, but it's a song from Mars.

Lance Armstrong joins Mobli’s board of directors

Mobli, a video sharing website, can add Lance Armstrong to its list of celebrity endorsers today. The famed cyclist is joining the company’s board and starting his own Mobli channel.

Mobli’s goal is to show you life through another person’s …

The coolest technology and moments from CES 2012 (slideshow)

Last week, four VentureBeat reporters and our videographer braved the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They covered 1.861 million square feet of show floor, visited many of the 3,100 exhibitors, and sorted through the 20,000 new products that …

Will.i.am touts making music on his Intel Ultrabook, calls it “the new ghetto-blaster”

Musician Will.i.am took the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday during Intel chief executive Paul Otellini’s keynote speech to talk about how technology is changing the way he makes and distributes his music.

Will.i.am, who is the director of …

No joke: Google promotes Will.i.Am’s Google+ profile on its search page

In an attempt to promote its new social network, Google has placed a link to musical artist Will.i.Am’s Google+ profile on its search engine homepage.

In July, Google launched a new strategy to get more celebrities to join Google+ in …

Black Eyed Peas star Will.i.am says he’s hooked on Intel creative role (video)

Will.i.am, star of the pop music group the Black Eyed Peas, said yesterday that his creative role at Intel has changed his life. The musician opened the tech showcase for the Intel Developer Forum and said it was like looking …