Apple planning iBooks and publishing NYC event for January (updated)

Apple apparently has a big event in store for New York City this month — though it’s not the announcement of the iPad 3, or the rumored Apple television set.

Most likely, the event will center on a media-related announcement …

Ebay-owned StubHub acquires Zvents for event listings

Ticketing giant StubHub, owned by eBay, has acquired local event-discovery and promotion service Zvents, according to eBay’s internal employee blog eBayInk. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Zvents, founded in 2005, lets users to find out what events …

CloudBeat 2011: the final agenda and speaker list

We’ve been making a lot of noise about CloudBeat 2011, our new cloud event coming up next Wednesday and Thursday just south of San Francisco in Redwood City. And with good reason.

Both days are packed with customer-centric case studies, …

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 …

Demo expands its portfolio with new Brazil event

Demo, the VentureBeat-affiliated conference series that acts as a launchpad for emerging technology, is adding a new Brazil event to its portfolio.

Scheduled for June 2012, Demo Brazil will be produced by IDG Brazil. The event will showcase products and …

Demo: Lifecrowd brings curated meetups and activities to the West Coast

Social activities website Lifecrowd, which debuted its service today at the DEMO Fall 2011 conference, wants to be the go-to site when you’re looking online for a fun real-life event.

Lifecrowd wants to differentiate itself from sites like Meetup by …

Here’s what you missed at MobileBeat 2011

We just wrapped our MobileBeat 2011 conference yesterday, which featured many notable speakers including Square’s Keith Rabois, Yelp’s Jeremy Stoppelman, and PayPal’s Laura Chambers.

We initially intended to focus the show on “4G Nirvana,” although, as VentureBeat editor-in-chief Matt Marshall …

Twitter vs. White House Journalists: Who asked the most questions about marijuana?

Wondering what the difference between mainstream media and Joe Sixpack is? Take a look at the types of questions directed at President Barack Obama by Twitter users compared to those asked by White House journalists, in an outstanding visualization by …