Startup News

At Hardware 2.0, entrepreneurs, investors, and hardware innovators came together to discuss the growing opportunities for hardware startups.

When your servers go down, so might your productivity, sales, and -- oh yeah -- your cash.

How a tough decision turned into a billion dollar idea.

YouTube is rolling out a brand new look on its website that emphasizes its growing channel-based ecosystem of content creators.

Richard Stallman, the grand old man of open source software and president of the Free Software Foundation, is calling Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux “spyware” and calling on the open source community to unin...

Google corporate development VP David Lawee will soon move from leading Google’s mergers and acquisitions over to leading a new Google-backed late-stage venture group, according to a report.

LinkedIn is catering to the entrepreneurially minded people on its team with a new program designed to advance great ideas dreamt up in the workplace.

Dropbox has hired Google executive and programming guru Guido van Rossum.

In a move that's just short of waving a big blue flag with an "F" on it, social photo sharing service made a decision to de-emphasize its relationship with Twitter recently.

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By this point next year T-Mobile will have the iPhone, and, potentially, many more customers.

Getting that check from a Venture Capitalist is really hard – there’s no doubt about that. We’re a tough group and there are a lot of reasons why we’ll hate your idea right out of the gate. If...

If you're making some of these mistakes, you're not alone.

If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.

Time to brush up on your shorthand, because come February, you're going to have two less characters to tweet with when you share links on Twitter.

On Tuesday, Enish will make its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. In U.S. markets, such an IPO would be laughable; mobile games are apps or even features here, not legitimate, sustainable businesses.

In 2008 a French engineer in Silicon Valley started a newsletter about a fascinating new slice of the technology market: mobile apps. Today, his company regularly drives 250,000 downloads for featured apps … and so...

SmartThings CEO Jeff Hagin turned on the Christmas lights in Paris, but the Christmas tree was in Minnesota. When one of his developers hit the liquor cabinet, he got an sms. SmartThings raised 1.1 million on Kickstarter...

Biometric company Validity Sensors raises $10 million to bring fingerprint scanning to mobile devices

Udemy, the online learning platform that offers videos and live lectures from hundreds of expert instructors, has closed its second round of venture capital funding.

Sony quietly launched a web-based version of its PlayStation digital media store today, although the company has yet to make an official announcement about it.

It's true: The American economy hasn't reached complete recovery from the Great Recession. Though the national unemployment rate recently dropped, many are still looking for work, or trying to get by while underemployed....