Google and Microsoft agree to play nicely on a new YouTube Windows Phone app

It's all sunshine and lollipops over in Windows Phone land today.

OK, new Flickr, you got me. I’m back.

Sure, it's Pinterest-ic and Tumblr-y. But if you love images and imagery, the new Flickr displays photos immeasurably better that the previous iteration.

How St. Louis became a tech town

The perception of St. Louis is a nice, conservative Midwest town, possibly waiting for a rebirth of the industrial revolution. But over the past two-plus years the region’s business and entrepreneurial ecosystem has begun to drastically evolve and flourish.

With 50 percent better battery life, Intel’s Haswell will drive laptops that won’t burn your lap

When idle, the new fourth-generation Core chips will use 20 times less power than the predecessor chips.

Want to make money & change the world? An idiot’s guide to ‘social entrepreneurship’

Silicon Valley's tech startups are increasingly using business process to drive positive social or environmental change. But what constitutes a "social entrepreneur?"

Why can we send people to the moon but still can’t predict the weather? (video)

Science has come a long, long way in the past 100 years. So why can't tell which way the wind is going to blow in an hour?

Home automation via your face: Here’s Google Glassware for Nest

Developer James Rundquist has just unveiled Glass Nest, an app for Google Glass that controls your Nest home thermostat directly from your nerdy, nerdy face.

The future is here, and it belongs to white, male dorks. You heard it first …

GamesBeat weekly roundup:Xbox One unveiled, Yahoo acquires a game company

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

WordPress parent company Automattic sees $50M investment from Tiger Global

Blogging service WordPress’s parent company Automattic is getting a $50 million investment from Tiger Global, according to WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg.

The announcement comes from a blog post on Mullenweg’s personal site today, and this comes just days after rival …

Guilty until proven innocent: Judge already siding against Apple in pretrial hearing

Presumption of innocence is a fundamental component of law in many nations, including Canada, France, Russia, and yes, even, yes, the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is not however, enshrined in the constitution of the United States of America.

Source confirms Intel’s big score: Samsung tablet using an Atom chip

Source confirms that Intel has scored a big win for its mobile processor business.

The DeanBeat: Microsoft and Sony should escape binary thinking

As E3 looms, the console makers need to figure out which audiences matter to them and how to embrace the full possibilities of going digital.

Sir Jony Ive’s new iOS7: ‘black, white, and flat’

That's a massive change from the original colorful, shiny, semi-transparent iOS development language, which tries hard to make virtual controls and objects look and feel and act like real controls and objects.

Google is a far better fit for Waze than Facebook

Google is reportedly in talks to acquire Waze -- here's why that deal makes more sense than Waze/Facebook.

Pandora’s 40-hour listening cap translates to a record 700K new paid subscribers

Pandora took some heat after placing a 40-hour listening cap on its power users back in February, but the move seems to have created positive results.

Health care consumers are in the dark. Here’s how data can help

Health care is a completely dysfunctional market where the buyers have little access to price or quality information about the products they're buying. Fortunately, the data we need is out there -- if we can just get to it.

Facebook’s newly acquired mobile tool welcomes all developers, even those who hate Facebook

Just days after landing on Facebook's campus, the founder of Parse says there will be no changes to his business -- and that means Facebook is increasingly a multiplatform development tool.

Loyal3 raises $18M to make buying stock as easy as a Facebook ‘like’

Loyal3 has raised $18 million for its platform that makes it easy for consumers to buy stock in their favorite brands.