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April 14 Harrison Weber
300M downloads and $600M in revenue say Google is the ‘loser’s choice’ in mobile games monetization

April 14 John Koetsier
Google Glass sells to the public tomorrow. Here’s how to decide whether or not to buy

April 14 J. O'Dell
All the passwords you should change because of Heartbleed, in one handy graphic

April 12 Harrison Weber
PS4 and Xbox One graphics disparity continues: Trials Fusion runs at 1080p on PS4 and 900p on Xbox

April 11 Jeffrey Grubb

New marketing automation rankings: Enterprise usability still sucks

April 16, 2014 10:06 AM | John Koetsier

Crowdsourcing software review company TrustRadius revealed its latest marketing automation ranking and buyers’ guide today, and here’s the consensus: Software for the enterprise still lacks the appeal of consumer versions.

Instamotor is the closest thing to your car selling itself

April 16, 2014 10:00 AM | Kia Kokalitcheva

“The average person buys or sells about nine or ten cars in a lifetime. They don’t know how to do this — dealers know what they’re doing and can take advantage of that situation.”

Biggest tech IPO filing in history, Alibaba, may happen next week

April 16, 2014 9:11 AM | Eric Blattberg

Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba is widely expected to set the record for biggest tech IPO — and it may file next week.

A look inside Tango: How Google’s 3D-modeling phone will work

April 16, 2014 9:01 AM | Barry Levine

It’s a 3D world out there, and Google’s Project Tango intends to model it in real time with a smartphone.

Bioformix Rebrands Itself as Sirrus

April 16, 2014 8:47 AM | Business Wire

Sponsored Post To better reflect the company’s new mission to revolutionize manufacturing through innovations in chemistry – and provide industrial partners with high-level improvement in process speeds and product performance – Bioformix has changed…

Mt. Gox, unable to rebuild, files for liquidation

April 16, 2014 7:48 AM | Eric Blattberg

Embattled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox continues to crumble.

Apple, Samsung, Google & others back universal anti-theft tools agreement

April 16, 2014 7:30 AM | Tom Cheredar

The world’s biggest smartphones makers all agree on at least one thing: it’s time to find a new way to protect the personal data on your device.

Samsung’s love/hate Android relationship continues: Plans Tizen phone, Android Wear watch for this year

April 16, 2014 6:30 AM | Devindra Hardawar

Just as Samsung is planning a break from Android, its reliance on Google’s mobile OS is also getting deeper.

Pushing into game services, Unity buys predictive analytics startup Playnomics (exclusive)

April 16, 2014 5:00 AM | Dean Takahashi

Unity Technologies is expanding beyond its game engine to services with the acquisition of Playnomics, which provides predictive analytics for game developers, GamesBeat has learned.

One-to-one marketing, global scale: Sitecore lands L’Oréal to personalize beauty

April 16, 2014 4:36 AM | John Koetsier

In the explosion of marketing technology over the past three years that has seen a tripling in startups with cloud, app, and web-based solutions for your marketing department, there’s one company that has been around almost since the original dot-com boom.

Eagle Eye Networks’ Secure Architecture Protected Customers From Heartbleed Bug

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April 16, 2014 4:08 AM | Business Wire

Sponsored Post Eagle Eye Networks today announced that its video security system has been continuously protected from Heartbleed (CVE-2014-010) vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. The Eagle Eye Networks Security Camera Video Management System (VMS) is a cloud…

3 reasons your customers are abandoning their carts

April 16, 2014 4:00 AM |

Sponsored Post Shopping cart abandonment — there’s nothing like those three dreaded words to set an ecommerce business on the defensive.

Spontaneity can be inconvenient, so HotelTonight’s new feature helps you fake it

April 15, 2014 8:45 PM | Kia Kokalitcheva

HotelTonight is using forecasting to help you be spontaneous — just a few days in advance.

You are cordially invited to congratulate Paperless Post on its new $25M funding round

April 15, 2014 7:40 PM | Kia Kokalitcheva

Whoever said manners and courtesy were dead, clearly didn’t know about Paperless Post and its little invitations and cards empire.

User retention for Secret is absurdly high: Up to 90% come back

April 15, 2014 6:00 PM | Jordan Novet

People come back to anonymous information-sharing app Secret much more than other consumer apps. Small wonder the company has picked up $12 million since launching about 75 days ago.

Can we finally call WordPress maker Automattic a billion-dollar company?

April 15, 2014 5:10 PM | Harrison Weber

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, may be raising a new $100 million round of funding, Fortune reports.

Here’s how Google can boost the mobile ad market

April 15, 2014 5:00 PM | Jordan Novet

Better metrics and monitoring tools could make more companies comfortable with buying mobile ads, a Google executive says.

Biz Stone: Twitter must ‘make bold choices to survive with the times’

April 15, 2014 4:04 PM | Harrison Weber

As for his Jelly startup, the entrepreneur didn’t share even an ounce of detail regarding the young app’s usage statistics.

Funding Daily: Tax day edition

April 15, 2014 3:00 PM | Tom Cheredar

Here’s VentureBeat’s round up for all the notable startup investments of the day, which we lovingly call Funding Daily:

We drove BMW’s future electric SUV. Here’s what we thought of it

April 15, 2014 2:31 PM | John Voelcker, Green Car Reports

They’re not here yet, but in less than two years, U.S. buyers will have a choice of at least three plug-in hybrid SUV models to choose from.

uberPOP, Uber’s ride-sharing service, pops up in more EU cities

April 15, 2014 2:15 PM | Felicitas Hackmann, VentureVillage

After Uber launched its peer-to-peer car sharing service uberPOP in Paris, Brussels, and Barcelona, it’s now popped up in Berlin, entering a legal grey area.

AngelList launches Maiden Lane, a new VC fund for syndicated deals

April 15, 2014 2:10 PM | Kia Kokalitcheva

AngelList is taking its syndicated deals to a new level with the launch of Maiden Lane, a fund that invests in “power angels” on AngelList.

You have no idea how you’re going to retire, do you? Check out LearnVest

April 15, 2014 1:45 PM | Harrison Weber

Money management is tough, and expert advice is expensive. That’s the gap investors believe LearnVest can fill.

Khosla’s Keith Rabois: Here are the mobile apps I want to invest in

April 15, 2014 1:16 PM | Jordan Novet

Mobile applications have been making an impact in some industries, but areas like commerce remain wide open.

Twitter’s future is mobile ads, mobile data, says engineering VP

April 15, 2014 1:11 PM | Richard Byrne Reilly

SAUSALITO, Calif. — With 75 percent of its users coming from smartphones and tablets, Twitter is more eager than ever to make its mobile revenue streams count.

Microsoft’s new data platform spans Office, Azure, & SQL

April 15, 2014 1:03 PM | Eric Blattberg

“We want to take an architectural approach that brings together different products to create this notion of ambient intelligence,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

The state of Apple CarPlay (infographic)

April 15, 2014 1:00 PM |

Sponsored Post AppConext Auto has created a new infographic to help give you a better sense for the state of Apple’s connected vehicle strategy and how CarPlay will be utilized within the vehicle.

Roku takes on Amazon’s FireTV with — wait for it — voice controls!

April 15, 2014 12:42 PM | Tom Cheredar

Today the company announced an update for the Roku 3 that brings a new voice search feature to your TV via the official Roku iPhone app.

Watch: Anti-Google anarchists vs. a Google venture capitalist

April 15, 2014 12:21 PM | Gregory Ferenstein

“I’m just trying to create jobs,” Rose said, sitting calmly in front of his home.

The Guardian launches small-run newspaper in U.S. — and it’s machine-curated

April 15, 2014 11:46 AM | Hanqing Chen

The Guardian is working with a London startup to bring an algorithm-curated print edition to the U.S.

Buy Google Glass today if you want, but don’t be surprised when Google contact lenses pop up

April 15, 2014 11:46 AM | Barry Levine

Do you think Googlers really want to be wearing the Glass nerdware for the rest of their lives?

The Currency Cloud gets $10M to shuttle your payments across international borders

April 15, 2014 11:34 AM | Kia Kokalitcheva

“While 85 percent of international payments go through banks, more and more businesses are now turning to us to provide their international payments capabilities.”

In a war of words, ads, & installs, Appia fires back at Supercell

April 15, 2014 11:27 AM | Richard Byrne Reilly

SAUSALITO, Calif. – Appia just snapped back at former partner Supercell in a very public way.

Google Glass: Coming soon to a Lowe’s near you?

April 15, 2014 11:23 AM | Jordan Novet

Everything comes down to providing the best possible user experience for consumers and employees alike, a Lowe’s mobile executive said today.

The evolution (and big secret) of mobile ad targeting

April 15, 2014 10:30 AM | Mahi de Silva/Opera Mediaworks

Guest Post Here’s everything you need to know about mobile ad targeting.

Forrester: Reinvent mobile ads for mobile devices if you want users to pay attention

April 15, 2014 10:06 AM | Barry Levine

There’s advertising, and then there’s mobile advertising. A new report from Forrester Research contradicts much of the prevalent mobile ad optimism and recommends that advertisers reinvent their craft if they hope to do more than annoy mobile users.

Gnip buy-up is a sign that Twitter is getting serious about selling big data

April 15, 2014 9:56 AM | Jordan Novet

Twitter finally realizes that delivering all tweets becomes valuable for big companies establishing big data projects.

Here’s our first look at Amazon’s Android smartphone — plus more details on that 3D interface

April 15, 2014 9:44 AM | Devindra Hardawar

After years of rumors, details about Amazon’s Android smartphone are finally coming into focus.

NY gets new bootcamp for data scientists: It’s free, but harder to get into than Harvard

April 15, 2014 9:02 AM | Eric Blattberg

“The things we teach are not something you pick up in school. We don’t teach deep machine learning theorems, we teach you practical skills that will make you employable.”

ezCater Raises $4M in Growth Capital

April 15, 2014 8:24 AM | Business Wire

Sponsored Post ezCater, Inc, the only national player in online catering ordering for business meetings, is completing a raise of growth capital, for $3M. This follows the $1M in growth capital raised in 2013. Investors include Breton Capital Management…

Pushing into game services, Unity buys predictive analytics startup Playnomics (exclusive)

Biggest tech IPO filing in history, Alibaba, may happen next week

Mt. Gox, unable to rebuild, files for liquidation

A look inside Tango: How Google’s 3D-modeling phone will work

Apple, Samsung, Google & others back universal anti-theft tools agreement

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