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Looking for cash for your startup? Fundable just announced that it has surpassed $100 million in commitments from backers and investors. That means, communications chief Laura Moller said, that it’s now the biggest cro...

Apple may be gearing up to build its own proprietary mobile payment system. That’s according to a study titled “Mobile Payments — Blue Paper Revisit, EMV in Focus” from Morgan Stanley’s Research group in Europe...

We've got the details on the Airbnb funding and a few others in today's edition of Funding Daily.

Congress, in its wisdom, has seen fit to create more than a dozen different tax-advantaged retirement savings accounts, each with its own rules on contributions, loans, and when you can take money out without paying a 10...

How can big data and smart analytics tools ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. Register now and save $200! A...

RockYou finds a new business in operating older social games when they otherwise might die.

When you're planning out your next customer service initiative, your next move to improve your customer experience, think about the arrival of the millennial generation, says customer service speaker and consultant Micah...

Sponsored Post: The Game Marketing Summit (GMS) is the must-attend event for marketing professionals in the interactive game business. GMS offers numerous opportunities to expand your professional network, and learn from...

Before we set our sights on VB’s next conference, DataBeat, we’re taking a moment to look back on Mobile Summit 2014. This week, everyone from Twitter cofounder Biz Stone to Facebook marketing head Jane Schachtel too...

Is Edward Snowden a gullible pawn for Russia’s security state or a savvy anti-surveillance activist? The former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor penned his own answer today. In an op-ed in the Guardian newspap...

Scroll. Swipe. Tap. Read. Facebook’s clever news app Paper turns 10 weeks old today. And the Menlo Park-based social network giants have announced an upgrade to Paper, called version 1.1, designed (of course) to keep u...

Major music companies are suing online radio service Pandora for what they claim is a major case of copyright infringement. Typically, Pandora pays a licensing fee every time a copyrighted song is played by one of its us...

Home-sharing company Airbnb apparently just closed a funding round that could let it do many more interesting things.

A long time ago in a land far away... ok it wasn't all that long ago nor was the land that far away, but a few years back someone said something that struck a chord with me and  I have never forgotten it.  That somethi...

Guest Post: Jason Baptiste is the CMO and co-founder of Onswipe. The 2014 Venturebeat Mobile Summit was awesome and a great meeting of the minds in mobile. I was fortunate enough to chair the ad formats session with Nafi...

By Cheryl Roberto

How are you going to control all those connected things in your house? A new German startup is crowdsourcing funds to make control as easy as turning over a small cube. Called m!Qbe and pronounced em-cube, the product fr...

"There's no tool currently available that would do what we want to do using secure, free software. With a system like this in place, EFF's efficacy in advocating for your rights can increase dramatically."

What are the differences, if any, between assigning VP-level titles vs. CxO titles in a startup? This question was originally answered on Quora by Sean Byrnes.

Guest Post: In areas of the U.S. underserved by broadband networks, adults and youth without Internet access at home or at school are in danger of never catching up.

With baseball season gearing up, it's easy to see how building a tech startup is a lot like the road to the World Series.

Guest Post: Data analytics will one day help to improve health care and crime detection, design better products, and improve traffic patterns and agricultural yields. It will also uncover a lot of skeletons.