Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 23:49

After launching voice calls for Canadian iPhone users earlier this month, Facebook today began rolling out the feature for those in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 22:53

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Silicon photonics! The phrase itself rings of the future -- the Star Trek, Iron Man future of cool-sounding technobabble and powerful gadgets. But it's actually more reality than technobabble, as I...
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 22:50

Cloud computing giant Rackspace has announced plans to partner up with the leading providers of open source data centers.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 22:22

Are you smarter than a fourth grader? Probably not, now that Pranav Kalyan has passed the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist exam.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 22:14

AT&T has finally opened the gates so iPhone 4S users and owners of other non-LTE smartphones can video chat using cellular data.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 22:01

Our next GamesBeat 2013 conference will take place on Oct. 29-30 at the Sofitel Hotel in Redwood City, Calif.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 21:52

Google.org, the search giant's philanthropic arm, will make a $3.7 million donation to cultivate civic participation and engagement through technology. The organization will dole out $2.1 million to the Sunlight Foundati...
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 21:17

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- This morning, Facebook and a slew of big names in cloud computing and data center hardware unleashed a whole boatload of news -- new hardware designs, new jobs, and new partnerships, all around the...
Forbes - 16 Jan 2013 21:14

What happens when a software-coding marathon meets the biggest sporting event of the year? In case you're waiting for a witty punch line, this is not the opening to an inappropriate joke. But, let me push up my glasses a...
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 21:04

Redpoint Ventures announced the closing of its fifth fund, $400 million dedicated to supporting early stage entrepreneurs, startups, and the technology they create.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 21:01

Guest Post In my opinion, the future of social software isn't as a standalone service, which simply becomes a fire hose of irrelevant conversations for workers.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 20:43

Amazon needs to make only $3/month on apps or content from each Kindle Fire it sells in order to generate a 20 percent profit, according to new estimates from ABI Research.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 20:33

Herrod will lead the firm's investment focus in "next generation infrastructure technologies."
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 20:00

Advanced Micro Devices is announcing today that it has designed its standard server motherboard to be more modular and open under the AMD Open 3.0 platform. That platform, previously code-named Roadrunner," is a rethinki...
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 19:50

Cloud management software startup OnApp has raised $20 million in its second round of funding, cash it hopes will help expand its product offerings and expand into more countries.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 19:49

Only one day after Oracle fixed a highly-publicized hole in Java, a new zero-day attack surfaced on online hacker forums. The zero-day owner says the exploit will be released to the highest bidder.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 19:36

The White House has raised its requirements to make it more difficult to get a response on user-generated petitions today.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 19:33

A leaked image of HTC's next major Android phone has hit the web, and it looks a little familiar.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 19:28

Zettaset, a company that helps its customers deploy Hadoop, the open source computing framework that can process large data-sets, has closed a $10 million funding round.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 19:08

Obama announced numerous actions the executive branch of government will take to combat gun violence.
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 19:00

Apparently a lot of people miss having the Start menu in Microsoft's Windows 8. SweetLabs' Pokki app, which adds a Start menu and app launcher to Windows 8, has attracted 1.5 million downloads to date. Pokki for Windows ...
Venture Beat - 16 Jan 2013 18:48

New agencies seem to understand the concept of copyright fairly well, especially when it's their copyrights that are being violated. That's especially true for French papers -- which have threatened legal action against ...