The web wasn't built for the complex web apps we're using today -- Instart Logic hopes to fix that.
After hacktivists groups like Anonymous and Lulzsec set out to hack well-known institutions, it seems like everyone is interested in security. That's a good thing for Whitehat Security, which raised its fourth round of funding to keep up with demand.
Streaming music startup Spotify will begin rolling out a beta of its first web-based app today.
It seems like birds don't fly the nest at Twitter, they just keep making the nest bigger. The social network acquired Cabana today hoping the team will serve its third party developers.
Want an app but can't code? This may help.
Shortly after getting its Android app kicked out of the Google Play store, Grooveshark is rolling out the full version of its HTML5 web app today.
Tracelytics announced Monday it has closed its first round of funding for $5.2 million. The company helps track the performance of web applications.
Its software helps uncover problems and gather insights from web apps that run on multiple servers. With …
Streaming music service Grooveshark has launched an HTML5 web application that can stream music through iOS and Android mobile web browsers, the company announced today.
Grooveshark has been in legal hot water with the major music labels because it doesn’t …
Multi-platform note-taking startup Evernote has now reached more than 20 million users, CEO Phil Libin said at the LeWeb conference this morning in Paris.
Evernote made our list of “10 disruptive cloud companies we’re excited about” because the company has …
Google is set to add plug-and-play gamepad support to its Chrome web browser early next year, Develop reports. Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan also announced the search behemoth will be adding open source video and voice chat application WebRTC to …
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Ever wonder what business applications people really love, versus those they just tolerate?
Take QuickBooks for example: Millions of business people use it, but what percent really love it?
On the BestVendor beta site, we ask people to share three …
App search service Quixey has just sealed a deal for $3.8 million to power its growth and develop new partnerships.
Quixey aims to do something new: It lets users search for mobile, desktop and web apps based on what the …
Cloud PHP platform provider AppFog on Thursday announced it has raised $8 million to expand its offerings to PHP app developers and hire more staff to bolster what the platform can do.
“We’re going to use this funding to take …
Many hoped that Apple’s iCloud web apps would offer a fully functional version of iWork, but it doesn’t seem likely for the service’s initial launch, according to a demo video recorded by a iOS developer today.
True to its description, …
Accounting software company Intuit on Tuesday announced a set of widgets and a service for integrating its QuickBooks software into web and mobile apps.
The new service, Intuit Anywhere, lets developers connect their apps to Intuit’s Partner Platform, giving them …
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Editor’s note: This discussion about enterprise mobility is one of the five themes we will be focusing on at the VentureBeat Mobile Summit, on April 25-26. We’ve carefully invited the top executives in mobile to discuss the biggest challenges of …
Zurb, interaction design and strategy firm that specializes in online and mobile applications, has gone back to the drawing board for its Web-design collaboration tool Notable. By stripping away unnecessary features, lowering its pricing, and removing storage and user limits, …
Disney has acquired gaming startup Rocket Pack, a specialist in games which use HTML5, the latest version of the Web’s lingua franca. The deal signals a move in the game-development community towards HTML5 games, which can be played across almost …
ApSynth is one of 53 companies chosen by VentureBeat to launch at the DEMO Spring 2011 event taking place this week in Palm Desert, Calif. After our selection, the companies pay a fee to present. Our coverage of them remains …
The number of exploitable options in computer programs grew by 36 percent in 2010, largely a result of the increased prevalence of Web apps and looming cloud-computing security threats, according to IBM’s X-force security report released Thursday.
IBM researchers said …
