Flurry’s knowledge is power as it raises a whopping $25M for mobile app analytics

Flurry-powered apps collect data from more than 700 million mobile devices a month.

MindBody, a Salesforce for health and beauty, nabs $35M

MindBody provides marketing tools, scheduling, analytics, networking and point of sale services for health and wellness providers.

AutoGrid pulls in $9M to turn ‘big data’ into an energy source

AutoGrid, a Bay Area-based startup founded in 2011, pulled in $9 million to develop its "big data" technology to help utilities and businesses control their energy usage.

6 billion datapoints from 500 million devices reveal differences between smartphones and tablets

Apparently, people like to have fun, and they buy digital devices to assist them in that noble quest. But they use those devices differently ... and therein lies the story.

Hurricane Sandy blows up Weather.com’s traffic (960M pageviews in 3 days)

Forty-one million visitors. Nine hundred sixty million pageviews. Three days.

Grim but real player stats: 85 percent of social gamers do not return after the first day playing

Some of the stats about social gamers are kind of scary.

Claritics and Badgeville team up to gamify the enterprise

Claritics supplies the intelligence, while Badgeville brings the platform.

IO pulls in $90M to bring sustainable data centers to a global market

The 15-year-old firm has poured $50 million into IO, a provider of data center hosting services.

Epic Playground wants to be the Chartbeat for media analytics (exclusive)

If you’re a publisher, musician, or any other creator who wants to know how many people are listening to your song or watching your video right now, Epic Playground wants to recruit you for its real-time media analytics service.

Brands can dive into Tumblr data with new tool from Union Metrics

Avant garde brands using Tumblr can turn to Union Metrics to dive into the activity data of the startup's eclectic audience.

Bottlenose pulls in $1M in funding for social search, Google’s achilles heel (exclusive)

With new investment in the bank, Bottlenose is angling for dominance in the social media monitoring and analytics space.

Bangalore-based enterprise IT startup Appnomic raises a modest $5M

Appnomic has secured its third round of funding from existing investor Norwest Venture Partners for its cloud application monitoring service.

GoodData CEO throws cold water on the ‘big data’ hype, says ‘we’re still data-bankrupt!’

You'll often hear "Big Data" startups promising to help companies unlock the true value of their data, but are they delivering?

Videos ad views soar past 100M in August on Flurry mobile network

Flurry generated more than 100 million video views in August for its video ad network service. And those ads are proving to be effective at getting users to install new apps.

TV is moving online, and blue states are leading the charge

People that live in U.S. states that tend to sway towards blue (democratic) on the elections map watch 26% more online video than those in red states, according to Ooyala's latest global video index report.

WhatRunsWhere acquires Mobile Ad Spy to reveal your competitors’ web and mobile advertising (exclusive details)

WhatRunsWhere, the innovative service that allows you to track your competitors' online advertising, has just acquired U.K.-based startup Mobile Ad Spy, which essentially does the same thing for mobile.

Terms were not publicly announced, but VentureBeat has learned from chief operating officer Max Teitelbaum that the deal was worth north of seven figures ... a significant exit for a start-up launched just last year which is still in beta.

Analyze this: Talent Analytics quantifies you

Talent Analytics measures people, weighing their preferences and motivations and how those characteristics predict job performance. "Our niche is companies who have employees," jokes founder Greta Roberts.

The 25 most popular online tools for freelancers (infographic)

BestVendor is releasing the result of its 2012 Freelancer Survey tomorrow, revealing the most popular tools and apps for freelancers and entrepreneurs.

But the company gave VentureBeat a sneak peek today.

The funds’ll come out tomorrow: App Annie seals a $6M round

App Annie is a gosh-awful name for a really great service (the company provides app store data to developers and others), and it’s just announced a $6 million round of funding.