OMGPOP chief revenue officer talks turkey on numbers and scaling [exclusive video]

At South By Southwest Interactive, we got to sit down for an interview with OMGPOP chief revenue officer Wilson Kriegel. We talked at length about the small game studio’s meteoric rise to blockbuster success with Draw Something — and about …

Get Satisfaction founders want you to get lucky [video]

Thor Muller and Lane Becker have had a fair amount of luck in their time. The Get Satisfaction co-founders chalk their company’s founding to serendipity, in fact.

Turns out, they want the rest of us to get lucky too. And …

Ford plugs cars as the next big connected devices [video]

We caught up with Ford at South By Southwest last week to chat about the connected car phenomenon.

After all, at CES earlier this year, high-tech car tech was the talk of the show. Currently, Ford’s in-car computer system, called …

Why everyone’s buzzing about startups in Singapore, part 3 [video]

At South By Southwest Interactive, we caught up with three entrepreneurs who have chosen Singapore as the geographical launch pad for their startups.

The tech community stateside has been buzzing about this Asian tech hub, and VentureBeat wanted to get …

Why everyone’s buzzing about startups in Singapore, part 2 [video]

Singapore has been said to be Asia’s next new, big tech hub, and at South By Southwest Interactive, we decided to investigate that claim for ourselves.

VentureBeat caught up up with a few Singapore-based entrepreneurs and get the story straight …

Why everyone’s buzzing about startups in Singapore, part 1 [video]

Word on the street is Singapore’s the next new big tech hub in Asia.

Not being the type to take anyone’s word for it, VentureBeat decided to catch up with a few Singapore-based entrepreneurs and get the story straight from …

Design for hackers guru Kadavy talks white space, typography, & more [video]

David Kadavy is the acknowledged guru of design for web and mobile hackers, and (lucky us) he took some time to chat with VentureBeat about those topics during South By Southwest Interactive.

In this clip, Kadavy talks about white space, …

Universal Music exec: music & tech are still friends after SOPA

At South By Southwest, we got a chance to talk with Jon Vanhala, Universal Music Group’s senior vice president of digital.

While some of us on the technology side see post-SOPA relations between our industry and the entertainment industry as …

Buddy Media CEO explains the new-new Facebook marketing

Hot off an acquisition, Buddy Media CEO Mike Lazerow took some time during South By Southwest interactive to chat about how Facebook’s changes to branded Pages are having a huge impact on social media marketing.

With a recent overhaul to …

PayPal VP justifies the company’s new digital wallet [video]

PayPal’s announcements have been all over the news lately, and at South By Southwest, vice president of global product and experience, Sam Shrauger, took some time to explain the company’s new approach to consumers and their money: the Paypal digital …

Rdio product chief dishes on Rdio’s latest, greatest app

Malthe Sigurdsson is Rdio’s product chief, and at South By Southwest Interactive, he took some time to talk with VentureBeat about the company’s newly relaunched app, which comes with new features and an overhauled interface.

Sigurdsson also talked about mobile …

Mozilla CEO gets realistic about Boot2Gecko [video]

Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs has some interesting ideas about optimism and technology.

In this interview with VentureBeat at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Kovacs took some time to chat about Mozilla’s next steps into the world of …

TODAY brings food trucks and more to digerati at SXSW [video]

The TODAY Show is something of an American institution, but TODAY digital director Jen Brown told VentureBeat at SXSW that the team behind the show is just  getting started. It is just beginning its makeover as a 24/7 content brand, …

Google talks about App Engine at SXSW [video]

Googler Iein Valdez sat down at South By Southwest Interactive to talk with VentureBeat about the company’s App Engine.

App Engine hasn’t been out of its beta period long, and it has a slew of heavyweight contenders in the web …

GE taps maker movement, brings hardware hacking to SXSW [video]

General Electric set up a hands-on “garage” area at SXSW Interactive this year to get technophiles up to their elbows in hardware, including laser cutters, 3D printers, injection molders, and more.

Linda Boff, the company’s executive director of global digital …

Why Path will never be a mobile web app [video]

Dave Morin and the rest of the Path team are staunchly on the native side of the mobile-web-apps-versus-native-apps debate, and in this interview, he explains why.

Morin took a few minutes to chat with VentureBeat at South By Southwest; we …

Bing talks about Twitter search deal at SXSW [video]

Aya Zook, a Microsoftie focused on Bing, sat down with VentureBeat at South By Southwest today for a brief interview.

We got to chat about why the Bing team is scouring Austin for people and ideas, how Bing measures search …

Stop freaking out about turning the homeless into hotspots at SxSW

A marketing firm is catching heat from the tech community for a project that temporarily turned the city of Austin, Texas’ homeless population into mobile 4G hotspots during the South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive event this weekend.

Essentially, BBH Labs …

Super Size Me’s Morgan Spurlock dishes on partnering with Hulu [video]

Director Morgan Spurlock and Hulu SVP Andy Forssell took a few minutes to chat with VentureBeat today at South By Southwest in Austin.

Topics of conversation included how the Super Size Me creator’s new series, A Day in the Life, …