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MinoMonsters is a mobile gaming startup that released major updates to the game today and shared some news surrounding the company's progress.

Over 500,000 magazines have been created since Flipboard debuted their new edition two weeks ago.

Interest in the virtual currency Bitcoin has surged in recent months, but Mt. Gox -- the largest exchange -- is (for now) holding back Bitcoin from stability and legitimacy.

Honey has secured angel funding fot its technology that surfs the web for discounts, so you can benefit from coupons without doing any of the work to find them.

Virginia announced a new cyber-security accelerator that is based on the same model as Silicon Valley's Y Combinator.

Stepping even further into the media fray, LinkedIn announced today that it has acquired the popular news reader app Pulse.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT just released its budget plan for 2014, which would increase its funding. But it's a little-reported line item that's causing a stir among entrepreneurs -- a proposal ...

An Iranian scientist has invented a cheap time machine, but won't release it to the world, he says. And the Chinese are to blame.

Join Venturebeat this Sunday to find out who will be crowned the king or queen of New York ping-pong at the Big Apple Smackdown.

Dark Souls 2 director Yui Tanmura on the importance of challenge and surprise in the sequel to the cult-classic.

Brand new in-game screenshots from Dark Souls 2.

Members of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Marketing and Advertising joined CMOs from Emerson, Neiman Marcus, Polycom and others around one table during this year's SXSW Interactive to discuss the future of advertising--and th...

The potential bad news for Apple just keeps getting worse. PC shipments are down, Foxconn's iPhone builds slipped this past quarter, iPad sales are shifting to the cheaper iPad mini, and now the next big Apple hit produc...

Ellen Pao has found a new home at Reddit.

Mat Honan got owned last year and it sucked, but you can still learn his lesson.

The Tynker Learning Platform, which uses its own visual programming language, is focused on bringing better STEM education tools into classrooms

GE has just announced a new technology for hospitals. The AgilTrac Real-Time Location System will allow hospitals to make sure doctors, nurses, and other workers are washing their hands enough. As patients, Americans con...

Nvidia's new Kepler Mobile graphics chip will be able to run circles around the iPad.

Prollie is a social search platform that tracks how "well" people use social media platforms and makes connections with others who share the same interests and passions.

OpenCoin is a startup building a simple, global, open currency system. Today, the company announced closing an angel round of funding to expand the Ripple protocol, a virtual currency and payments system that allows "any...

Venture firm New Enterprise Associates hopes to find new cures for rare diseases with its latest investment.

Thalmic Labs has already sold a lot of its muscle-sensing gesture-control product, and is getting ready to announce a round of funding.