800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December 2013, study says

By the end of this current year, 1.4 billion smartphones will be in use. 798 million of them will run Android, 294 million will run Apple's iOS, and 45 million will run Windows Phone.

NASDAQ is killing it mostly because tech is killing it

The NASDAQ has reached levels not seen since 2000 at the tail end of dot-com bubble. And tech has had a lot to do with it.

Sub-$100 Android phones contributing to USA losing smartphone sales lead to China in 2012

China will account for 26.5 percent of all smartphones sales in 2012, compared to 17.8 percent for the USA, according to a new study released today by the IDC.

Mobile marketplace Grabio aims to be a better Craigslist

With online bulletin-board Craigslist seemingly ignoring mobile entirely, the race is on for someone to offer the first great mobile marketplace. One contender is Grabio, which initially started out as a consumer to consumer marketplace, but is now seeking out …

The iPad is losing market share. Can the new iPad stop the bleeding? (infographic)

Apple is expected to release the latest and greatest iPad  today. Apple has a lot riding on this device, because while the iPad still wears the pants in the tablet family, Android devices are growing up fast.

The chart above, …

Market hits enterprise companies, but their prospects remain good

On a damaging day for the U.S. stock market, enterprise-focused stocks got hammered just like everything else. But their prospects during a downturn are better than most, according to analysts contacted by VentureBeat.

At the end of trading Monday, the …

The next solar hotspot is … India?

Which country will emerge as the next best market for solar energy? Surprisingly, the answer is India, with its abundant sunlight, exploding demand, and gigantic, mostly off-grid population.

That’s according to a new report by a new report by Lux …