Announcing MobileBeat 2013: How the Mobile Experience raises the stakes for your company

2013 is the year where most everyone you know not only owns a smartphone, but actually starts using it to a fuller extent.

Relive VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit in pictures

If you couldn't make it to this year's Mobile Summit, you can at least live through the experience vicariously through these photos.

VentureBeat’s Mobile Summit kicks off: 180 execs tackle mobile’s biggest problems

VentureBeat's Mobile Summit, our annual get-together with top-level mobile industry executives, is kicking off today at the beautiful Cavallo Point Lodge resort in Sausalito, Calif.

UpTo wants to be the social glue of tomorrow, adds $1.5M, and opens its event stream platform

500,000 shared events and 2000 organizational event streams later, UpTo is pivoting to become the social glue of what's next on an even bigger scale.

Google I/O registration opens March 13, requires Google+ and Google Wallet accounts

Amped for this year's Google I/O conference?

Highlight’s latest update promotes serendipity with new social features

Geo-mobile social app Highlight rolls out its latest update to date, with photosharing and event features.

VentureBeat Mobile Summit: Top 180 mobile players tackle huge elephant in the room

VentureBeat's annual Mobile Summit is back for a third year, and it's shaping up to be our biggest one yet.

Meet 1 Million Cups, the biggest startup event in Kansas City that’s about to hit 18 more cities

1 Million Cups is the most popular weekly startup event in Kansas City, and soon enough it will land in 18 more cities around the country.

Microsoft kicks off Windows 8 in NYC — after 1.24B hours of testing (gallery)

Just one day before Windows 8 comes out in stores, Microsoft has corralled journalists, analysts, and its partners to officially kick off the new operating system.

Apple to stream iPad Mini event online for Mac, iOS, Apple TV

For the first time in two years, Apple will stream one of its events online.

This app may get friends to your party better than you can

Sometimes getting people to respond to an invitation is hard. Maybe they're lazy, maybe they didn't get your text, or maybe you sent your invitation right before the event was going to begin. iSocialite hopes to fix that.

IAC’s Hatch Labs unveils Mob, an app for spontaneously creating and finding events

Hatch Labs, IAC’s semi-accelerator/sandbox for intriguing mobile innovations, is stepping into spontaneous event creation today with the launch of the free iPhone app Mob.

The app is a simple way to gather your friends and people nearby for any sort …

UpTo helps you share tomorrow so you can do more today

If Facebook is about what you did yesterday and Twitter is about what you're doing right now, UpTo is about what you're planning to do tomorrow -- and sharing with those you actually know.

Not to be left out, HTC to hold Windows Phone 8 event Sept. 19

September is turning into one crazily crowded month for mobile, with Nokia, Motorola, Amazon, and Apple holding launch events. Now we can add HTC to the list, with a likely Windows Phone 8 event planned for Sept. 19.