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Here’s a knee-slapper to kick off your weekend: Fujitsu is marketing a new line of smartphones for the elderly. Snark aside, some of the features might be just what the 65-and-better market needs — noise ca...

MTA Subway Time, a new app, can tell subway riders in New York when their train is arriving in real-time. A similar service already exists in cities worldwide, including San Francisco and Washington D.C. This is a leap f...

It was definitely the year of the game on Kickstarter.

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.

While 2012 saw some spectacularly large IPOs like Facebook and Workday, it also had its share of major mergers and acquisitions. Here are the biggest buys of the year.

A look at the most viewed articles on Wikipedia in 2012, broken down by language.

China is taking steps to abolish online anonymity by passing a law which requires citizens to identify themselves when signing up for internet and telecommunications services.

Design in 2013 will be marked by an emphasis on the Internet of Things, context, and the second screen.

The United States Senate extended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA, today, a bill many are calling a “warrantless wiretapping bill.” The law, originally passed in 2008 under the Bush admi...

We survey the top venture capital investments into tech companies of the year. To make this elite list, you needed to raise at least $89 million in 2012.

What does the future hold for 3D printing? Integration, disruption, and expansion, says Sculpteo.

Instagram has lost about 25 percent of its daily active users since people started revolting over a questionable terms of service change.

Before I make predictions on the new year, I’ll take a look at how I did on my predictions last year, with letter grades on them. In a separate post, I’ll let fly the predictions for 2013. If you have â...

The Wikimedia Foundation completes its ninth annual fundraising campaign in just 9 days.

Snapchat, the photo and video self-destructing app, has a hole in it that allows people to save and store that embarrassing content you're hoping gets deleted.

Education publisher Pearson has purchased a major stake in Nook Media, the company announced today.

We finally have a price tag attached to RIM's first patent payout to Nokia: $65 million.

This year, the mobile industry showed us what lies ahead for computing. We saw surprising new devices that gave us a glimpse at what personal computers could look like several years from now. We got an operating system t...

Devices launched, Maps killed it, and Mayer left the building! Here are Google's highlights from 2012.

Satellite television provider DirecTV said its subscription prices would rise in the following year, according to a message the company released today via a customer support page.

Apple’s online store slid out of the top five in customer satisfaction while Amazon.com remains tops, according to an online retailer study by Foresee. In fact, Apple had its lowest score in four years, achievi...

With the entire genre in flux, five games stand out for either their disruptive models or overall excellence.