Startup News

Living Social chief technology officer and co-founder Aaron Batalion is leaving the company. LivingSocial says it has not hired a replacement as of yet.

More details are leaking out about Mark Zuckerberg's unannounced activist group, which is adding legit lobbyists to its roster.

Big data and analytics startup Sociocast recently shifted its focus from enterprises to small and medium-sized businesses, but the move has already paid off with it serving more than 700 million calls from its flagship P...

Apple updated its FindMyFriends app to allow you to get alerts when your friends enter or leave a custom-set radius around the location of your choice.

Expect to see short, repeating videos all over the place now.

Guest Post In this month's startup shootout, Keynote Systems looks at how to deliver high quality visual content without sacrificing performance.

Guest Post Mobile gaming apps have been quietly reinventing mobile advertising and out-monetizing even the large, well-established publishers. Here are a few things the mobile games companies have worked out along the�...

The new VW Beetle Convertible offers top down fun for for everyone.

Automattic, the company behind 63 million Wordpress blogs, and Janrain announced a partnership this morning that will bring social login, profile storage, and user analytics to its premium blogging clients.

Fund-of-funds Cendana Capital closes an $88 million fund to invest in seed funds, which then invest in seed startups.

Security systems, cars, homes, appliances: everything modern, seemingly, has a remote control. Even you.

Popular customer relationship management service SugarCRM has raised another $15.1 million in funding, according to a Form D filed with the SEC.

Startups are literally a journey into the unknown and entrepreneurs need to be comfortable with taking on ambiguity, uncertainty and multiple challenges.

Like many things on Capitol Hill, the "chained" Consumer Price Index (CPI) is not sexy enough to grab the public's attention but it involves how billions of dollars are spent.

Celebrate the women in gaming - female founders edition!

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.

by Melissa Llarena

Is your digital health gadget a novelty?

The platonic guardians of retirement advise us to buy long-term care insurance. Protect your family from the devastating costs of nursing homes, they say. You are supposed to start chipping in premiums at a young age lik...

BikeSpike's GPS tracking device works together with your smartphone to prevent theft, detect crashes, and give law enforcement help tracking down stolen bikes.

Guest Post With millions of eyeballs watching the games, social media should be a critical component of every marketing March Madness playbook.

Apple fans, do you feel lucky?