Pardot on Wednesday announced that it is adding new social networking features into its already strong marketing automation service.
VentureBeat took a little heat last week when it came to the topic of marketing automation after a seemingly innocuous guest …
Best Buy has more than 240,000 unsold units of the HP TouchPad in its inventory, indicating that consumers aren’t responding well to the product.
Both HP and Best Buy declined to provide an official comment on this story.
Specifically, Best …
The Humble Indie Bundle, a flash-sale for independently-developed video games run by Y Combinator backed Humble Bundle, has racked up more than $1 million in sales in less than a week.
The company’s last indie game flash sale generated around …
Samsung announced today that sales of its new flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S II, have reached 5 million units just 85 days after launching in Asia and Europe in April.
Last year’s Galaxy S phones, smashing successes in their …
Y Combinator-backed Humble Bundle, which bundles together independently-developed games into a single sale that runs for less than a month, has launched its third bundle of games for sale and already made $286,188 in revenue — and it increases about …
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(Editor’s note: Jackie Bassett is CEO of BT Industrials. She submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Entrepreneurs, whether they’re visionary or trying to stake a claim in an existing industry, have always faced the same challenge – commercialization. Before you can …
Bankrupt telecom company Nortel Networks announced on Friday that it had sold its juggernaut patent portfolio to a consortium made up of the likes of Apple, Microsoft, and RIM for a hefty sum of $4.5 billion cash.
“The size and …
The U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust authorities have approved Google’s $900 million bid for 6,000 Nortel patents, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday. The auction will take place June 20 and will likely change the legal landscape for …
The biggest loser in Apple’s powerhouse second quarter was by far the iPad, which managed to ship just 4.69 million units when analysts expected somewhere between 6 and 8 million.
During its earnings call today, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer made …
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(Editor’s note: Adam Blitzer is co-founder and COO of Pardot. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)
Let’s face it: marketing and sales usually don’t play nice. Like siblings, they behave for the neighbors (clients and partners), but behind closed doors …
Forget the sales estimates of 600,000, Apple’s iPad 2 may have sold closer to 1 million units in its launch weekend, Reuters reports.
The figure comes from Scott Sutherland, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. To offer a comparison, the original …
We’re still awaiting official numbers on Verizon iPhone sales, but according to leaked sales data they didn’t meet expectations, the mobile news site Boy Genius Report reveals.
BGR was given sales totals from five Apple stores (including “two very, very …
Last week we reported that Samsung had sold 2 million units of its Galaxy Tab Android tablet, but now it looks like that may not be the case, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The 2 million figure apparently refers to …
A day before its quarterly earnings report, Microsoft finally let loose with some Windows Phone 7 details. The biggest takeaway: it shipped 2 million Windows Phone 7 devices last quarter, Bloomberg reports.
The news is a good sign for Microsoft’s …
Even though we’re seeing a slew of Android tablets on the horizon, Apple’s iPad is expected to maintain its leading place in the tablet market into 2012, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz.
This, of course, should surprise no …
Common wisdom is that Verizon Wireless is kicking butt and taking names with its Android phones, but recent sales data reveals that even a myriad of successful high-end Android phones isn’t enough to take on AT&T’s success with the iPhone.…
In lieu of actual first day US sales numbers from Microsoft, everyone seems to be predicting doom and gloom for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Microsoft may have sold as few as 40,000 phones on Monday, a “market research source” …
In its fourth quarter earning results today, Apple announced that iPhone sales rose 91 percent year-over-year to 14.1 million units sold.
The iPhone’s strong sales led Apple to beat out Research in Motion’s 12.1 million BlackBerry phones sold in its …
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(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
I had coffee with an ex student earlier in the week that reminded me how startups …
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(Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. This story originally appeared on his blog.)
You probably think of “tech support” as the bottom of the food chain.
After all, the people …
