Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) revealed in a private meeting with the press that the state is backing a new venture fund.
Human powered Q&A search engine ChaCha raises its seventh round of investment.
LinkedIn will shutter its Answers Q&A service at the end of January, a sign that the service wasn’t driving enough engagement on the site. Could Quora use this moment to take the spotlight?
Guest Post And how startups can carve out a major market under Google’s nose.
The most famous robot startup dinosaur on the Internet answers VentureBeat's readers' questions about building critical mass, dealing with demotivated cofounders, and balancing work and life.
Pearl.com raises $25.7M in its second round of funding.
Quora co-founder Charlie Cheever will soon move away from day-to-day operations at the popular Q&A site he helped create back in 2009.
Taking advantage of powerful social media channels, Republican VP nominee Paul Ryan has posted criticisms against President Obama on the popular question-and-answer service Quora.
Frustrated by how difficult it is to collaborate on decision-making over e-mail, AdMob founder Omar Hamoui today launched Maybe, a startup that simplifies the process of making decisions online.
Maybe is like a strange hybrid of Q&A sites like Quora, …
Q&A site Formspring has added a few new features to shift its focus away from pure social media. The site is now asking its users to focus on topics and tags — you know, the monetizable stuff that marketers are …
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As one of the more prominent and vocal opponents of anti-piracy legislation SOPA, social news site Reddit has positioned itself as an organization that deeply cares about tech policy. But sometimes that can work against it.
For instance, last weekend …
You can find the answer to plenty of questions online, but sometimes it’s helpful to chat with a particularly knowledgeable human. New York City-based Wizpert aims to simplify the process of finding and chatting with experts instantly — and in …
Just a few months after the mobile Q&A company Opinionaided rebranded itself as Thumb, it’s already seeing significant engagement gains — so much so that its users are twice as addicted as Pinterest’s.
Thumb is on such a tear that …
The Internet has long been a go-to resource for getting a question answered, but oftentimes the answers you get come from less than stellar “experts”. Beepl, a social Q&A service hopes to solve that problem. The site launched out of …
Mobile question-and-answer company Opinionaided has seen massive growth since it launched last year, but its unwieldy (albeit clever) name has likely hurt the company more than it helped.
So the company has decided to simplify things: Today, it’s rebranding itself …
Everyone’s got an opinion — something that the mobile question and answer company Opinionaided has tapped into with its popular iPhone app. Today, the company is releasing its long-awaited Android app, which will help to spur on Opinionaided’s skyrocketing growth …
Social network giant Facebook has acquired Q&A service Friend.ly, the startup revealed in a blog post today.
Friend.ly is a Facebook application that allows users to ask and answer questions. Because the service has access to a Facebook user’s account …
Steve Jobs is a notoriously private figure, but you can learn more about him in Leander Kahney’s book Inside Steve’s Brain. Kahney, currently the editor and publisher of Cult of Mac, stopped by VentureBeat to chat about the hurdles encountered …
Decision-making app Opinionaided announced today it has helped answer 2 million questions and raised $4.3 million.
The investment will help it continue to answer life’s pressing questions, from “If everything was free, would the world be a better place?” to …
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Jenn Prentice is content manager of technology Q&A site Experts Exchange.
With the rise of Quora, Hipster and other question and answer services, Q&A sites have once more become a hot topic. The resurgence begs the question: What makes a …
