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You can't monetize in China, right? Wrong, apparently.

Social media startups have been vacuuming up the world?s venture capital and media mindshare. But what about all the other startups? You know, the ?uncool? ones?

Yahoo’s 2013 shopping spree earned the company a surprising title: most active buyer of private U.S. tech companies. With 22 acquisitions of private U.S. companies last year, Yahoo proved more acquisitive than companie...

Wine and data storage go together like peanut butter and ladies.

VentureBeat’s DataBeat conference is coming up on May 19-20! Today, we’re excited to announce a new session with three data companies that are rewriting the rules on how much data business users can summon and how fa...

Maxta, a Silicon Valley situated provider of data center software, hauled in $25 million Wednesday.

Get ready for Sex 3.0.

Many entrepreneurs have a favorite slide to show during their pitches. It compares their company to the competitive set and highlights all of the great things they can do that others can’t. This is often the death knel...

When it comes to online sales, Amazon is the undisputed king. The race for second place, however, just got a lot more interesting. Apple now holds the number two spot, according to data from trade publication Internet Re...

"There's something magical about being at a restaurant and saying 'I want a case of this [wine] delivered to my house next week,'" Delectable founder and chief executive Alex Fishman said to VentureBeat in an interview.

For his former company, Alexis Piperides realized that traditional prototyping tools — which rely on wireframes — were terrible for mobile development.

About two months ago, the founders of one of the companies in our portfolio told us of their grand plan of attack. The original thinking of “plan A” was thoughtful, well-articulated, and most importantly, agreed upon...

Even though they're unfinished, DayZ and its post-apocalyptic competitors have racked up millions of sales. How did they get so popular?

As Google gets more serious about the public cloud business, it needs an awesome ecosystem of tools for customers to use. Today, the tech giant made a surprising move that could help that cause: It bought Stackdriver, a ...

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! “Last year was the year we really invested in mobile. We�...

With this data, it's difficult to make the case that the reason girls are underrepresented in computer science is because they just don't have the same logical prowess as boys.

Another year, another set of South by Southwest Win30s champions. In case you’ve been living under a rock that hasn’t been receiving any SxSW signal (is that even possible?!) startups pitched our official Win30s team...

Sponsored Post: As businesses become increasingly reliant on online channels for customer interactions, the need for faster, more functional websites becomes increasingly evident.

Sponsored Post: There's a dire shortage of data scientists in an entrepreneurial landscape drowning in big data. New Relic's Insights platform is here to help solve that problem.

You don't need one cloud to run your applications anymore. It's increasingly a multi-cloud world. And Citrix gets that.

EA announced plans for more "Titanfall experiences" and a new game coming this fall.