Startup News

It's good to be able to surface game tickets available from many secondary sites. But now TiqIQ is going further, by selling raw data about those tickets to teams. And investors are nodding their heads.     

BlueTalon's technology lets admins set policies about which data each business analyst can access. Data Collective likes the idea and has given the startup $1.5 million.     

Guest Post: The Silicon Valley wealth divide is increasing. In a region famous of innovation and entrepreneurship, huge swaths of our population are being left behind.     

If Struq CEO Sam Barnett gets his way, no ad anywhere would ever be delivered if it was not personalized. And every ad would be tailored to you, your likes, your previous purchases, your location, your device, and precis...

Fitbit’s Force, a health-tracking wristband that’s truly difficult to talk about without the occasional Star Wars pun, is being taken off the market. Following complaints about skin irritation from some users, Fitbit...

Will we all be dissatisfied with our current definition of success after the WhatsApp acquisition?

Guest Post: Why mobile advertisers have it all wrong.     

Check out our entire week's worth of coverage on VentureBeat's channel for video games, GamesBeat.     

Paul Graham, a founder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator, is stepping down from his position as head of the program. The startup ecosystem luminary announced the news today in a blog post, in which he named Sam Alt...

Guest Post: If you want to see the best deals, you have to be ine emerging markets.     

Chuck Baker, an entrepreneur and former music executive, saw a need for tools to help artists and professional manage their online identity and content.     

I caught up with three tech companies -- Salesforce.com, Change.org and NerdWallet -- to assess the impact of "Lean In" on their company culture.     

Tech accelerator DreamIt Ventures, best known for housing startups such as SeatGeek and LevelUp, today announced major leadership changes in New York. Mark Wachen, the founding managing director of DreamIt Ventures New Y...

It's 2014 Mr. and Mrs. Brand, do you know where your customers are? Do you know what they want? Do you know what they don't want? Do you even know where they are? Needless to say if the word marketing, advertising, brand...

European streaming video service LoveFlim is getting rebranded as Prime Instant Video in the U.K. and Germany, the service’s owner Amazon announced today. LoveFilm provides people with unlimited access to a large libra...

Google has built its empire on clickable ads, but its hidden vulnerability is that those clicks may not come from humans. It's latest acquisition will help lessen that vulnerability.     

In an interview, Indiegogo's Danae Ringelmann described how she built a gatekeeper-free way for any small business to access capital.     

Amazon’s rumored set-top box for streaming media may finally arrive next month. Citing anonymous industry sources, a report from Re/code asserts that Amazon is readying a box competitive with Apple TV and Roku’s prod...

From funder to founder back to funder, Paul Singh sees opportunity in the "post seed" stage.

Meanwhile, in one of many alternate futures...

Many business owners don't realize that their success is driven by a small subset of their products, services, and customers. Actual profit drivers may be hidden in a mass of data and unknown opportunity costs, making it...

"I'm wary of any government initiative to create any technology standard in the private sector," said analyst Rajeed Chand of Franken's letter-writing campaign to American banks and card issuers.