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You might think it’d be hard to find a corporate investment that pays back almost a 30 percent return but still doesn’t seem worth the effort. But a new survey we’re running on marketing automation with Ian Cleary ...

Amid a swoon in long-dated corporate bond supply this year, Caterpillar today placed $2 billion of new debt across three long-dated tranches, after adding a rare 50-year issue to the offering over the course of today's...

May is college graduation season, and soon thousands of seniors will stride across the stage in an American ritual.

What's next in mobile? Find out at MobileBeat, VentureBeat's 7th annual event on the future of mobile, on July 8-9 in San Francisco. Register now and save $400! HEY! That robot you wanted is in the store across the stre...

PEAR Sports has taken a $5 million second round of funding to fuel the marketing of it interactive fitness trainer app and white label platform. The PEAR (Android or iPhone) app acts like a human personal trainer, offeri...

As Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe weighed the decision to sell his hot virtual reality startup to Facebook, he asked himself, "Do we want to be [like the] Game Boy? Or do we want to be Android?" Facebook bought Oculus ...

With HBO’s new original comedy series “Silicon Valley” continuing to generate buzz, and multiple cities across the country – from Austin to New York City to Los Angeles – all trying to position themselves as th...

AMD is going with a joint x86-plus-ARM strategy. It's not one or the other; it's heterogenous.

Forget Facebook logins and Google+ omnibus identity management. The feds think they can prove who you really are online -- without the risk of fraud.

DataBeat is coming up on May 19-20, and we’ve got an exciting program update. Note: The room is filling up quickly, and ticket prices shoot up $200 this Friday. Register now and save $200. Seats are very limited. Sessi...

Yes, testing all those websites you've been building is just as important as throwing together the code. As if you needed any proof, here's another data point: Optimizely has just scooped up a new bag of cash.

By Natalie Burg For many businesses, the idea of going viral is akin to winning the business lottery. You release a great video, meme or a heartfelt story; it is seen by millions, and the revenue starts rolling in. That'...

Sydney could be Australia's equivalent to San Francisco's vibrant tech scene with its hub culture, harbor and a budding startup ecosystem, but it's still an IF. Australia needs more entrepreneurial heroes to jumpstart fu...

Following last Friday’s jury verdict on the Apple-Samsung case, the jury has done some reshuffling of the awarded damages, though the final award totals are relatively intact. On Friday, the jury in the patent infringe...

DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine which skyrocketed in size following mass-surveillance reports, will soon be completely redesigned. According to a blog post from DuckDuckGo chief executive Gabriel Weinberg, th...

Oligarchy is baked into the system in all sorts of ways. But Larry Lessig believes there's enough small-donor cash to outmatch the 1% that typically steer political campaigns.

Speakers from SGN, Signia, IDG Ventures, and Lionsgate will join our Sept. 15-16 game conference.

EMC's DSSD acquisition represents the latest attempt to get ahead in flash storage, not with the kind of cold storage Facebook likes, but something with raging-fast reads and writes.

We each receive about 75 non-spam emails a day, and virtually no one reads all of them. Here's how to grab readers and compel them to take action.

France-based car rental startup Drivy has secured a new €6 million ($8.3 million) round of funding that should help the service grow beyond French borders. Unlike other peer-based car startups (Uber, Lyft, etc.), Drivy...

Now growth-stage companies like SpaceX and Foursquare can go to investors at DFJ Growth for cash when they need to get really big.

Denizens of Manhattan and Los Angeles, those new Google trucks aren’t mapping. They’re the fleet for Google Shopping Express, a same-day delivery service that has now expanded into your areas — and which may be poi...