With its new features, the online tutoring startup is moving into the realm of personalized learning.
Fab is loving mobile. The company released updates to its app today, saying it's releasing updates every few weeks.
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As more details come to light in the much-publicized Megaupload case, other file-sharing sites around the web are shutting their doors in fear that they could be targeted next by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Over the weekend, popular Megaupload …
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The International Consumer Electronics Show is a huge festival of gadgetry, but there’s no better place to get a bead on where technology is going in the coming year.
Among the 153,000 attendees at the show in Las Vegas last …
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It seems like every week a must-have smartphone is either announced or released. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to track which phones are actually worth paying attention to and which will be swiftly thrown into the scrap heap of devices nobody …
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What is Foursquare? The answer is far more complex than it should be. The startup’s purpose in life is so muddled that it now finds itself in the midst of a self-imposed identity crisis that could cause it to fall …
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Northern Five Entertainment and Airsoft GI recently released their joint Left 4 Dead short film to the world.
Sporting Hollywood-level production values but produced on a shoestring, the video quickly surpassed half a million views on YouTube, and the teaser …
Facebook’s much-ballyhooed Timeline feature, which gives you a look at your entire history on the popular social service, has gone live for everyone in the world who wants it, the company announced this morning.
Timeline was announced in September on …
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If you’re reading this blog, chances are you are the type of person who thinks a gadget can make for a mind-blowing gift.
Here’s a handy compendium for blowing minds on the (relatively) cheap. These gifts range in price from …
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Update: This article is now available as a 63-page e-book on Amazon’s Kindle bookstore.
Zynga has turned the video game world upside down in its short five-year history. As it’s poised on the verge of a massive initial public offering, …
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While it may not seem like it at first, Nokia’s Lumia 800 is one of the most significant smartphones on the horizon. It may lack the absurdly high-end specs of current Android superphones, and it doesn’t have the hype of …
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To mark the 10th anniversary of Microsoft’s Xbox, VentureBeat’s lead games writer Dean Takahashi wrote an epic two-part story on the history of the video game console. The articles were a huge hit with VentureBeat readers, but we thought the …
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There is so much happening right now in emerging cloud computing — the entire economy is being disrupted by the trend.
With publicly-traded giants like Amazon, Google, VMWare, Microsoft, Cisco and Salesforce lurching around with new and improved services that …
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“I had a model girlfriend and a BMW. I wore a Rolex. But I was really miserable,” says Scott Harrison, founder of charity:water, on the period leading up to its genesis.
charity:water has already brought clean drinking water to 2 …
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Update: Don’t like page breaks? This two-part series is now available as an e-book for the Amazon Kindle.
Editor’s note: This story is the second of two pieces on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox video game …
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Update: This two-part series is now available as an e-book for the Amazon Kindle for your reading comfort.
Editor’s note: This story is the first of two articles on the 10th anniversary of the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox video game …
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Anyone who who follows technology trends has undoubtedly heard the term “cloud service” thrown around a few gazillion times over the past few months. But if you don’t know the difference between terms such as PaaS, IaaS and SaaS, don’t …
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“Forget being in love with the open web and all that touchy-feely stuff.”
Jay Sullivan is Mozilla’s vice president of products, and for a spokesperson of one of the open web’s dearest darlings, he’s on a tear.
“If you want …
Earlier this morning, we published statements from Google chairman Eric Schmidt in which the executive said an acquisition of Motorola Mobility would not constitute an unfair advantage for the phone manufacturer.
Being journalists and generally rational people, we were skeptical, …
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Over the past couple of weeks, the Internet’s frothy enthusiasm over Google+ has dried into proclamations of its imminent death.
Social media experts and bloggers who were one month ago hailing the fledgling service as the second coming of Christ …
