Startup News

Guest Post: The arms race is on to apply technology to proven investment heuristics.

I love it when all my hats fit at the same time.  Last night’s Small Business Week reception at the Chamber of Commerce building (gorgeous) in Washington, D.C. was a smash hit from the entrepreneurship perspective. �...

Launching a business is the dream of many of this year’s college graduates. But the road to success can be fraught with frustrating roadblocks. Some studies show that as many as three out of every four business startup...

Founder of now shuttered music service MOG David Hyman is suing Beats Electronics for upwards of $20 million, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday. Hyman joined Beats after the company purchased the MOG streaming music...

Everyone's favorite plumber is tired of getting nothing but kisses from Peach.

What do Sherlock Holmes and Veronica Mars have in common? Die-hard fandoms who'll do anything for a reboot.

How can big data and smart analytics ignite growth for your company? Find out at DataBeat, May 19-20 in San Francisco, from top data scientists, analysts, investors, and entrepreneurs. There only a few tickets left! More...

Guest Post: 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! Google has shown us that autonomous, driverless...

VentureBeat’s DataBeat event is coming up on Monday and Tuesday in San Francisco, and we’ve got the strongest lineup of data-focused execs, analysts, investors, entrepreneurs, and data scientists ever assembled in on...

The availability of online learning is doing some really strange things to California's community college students: it's dramatically increasing their persistence to a degree but lowering how often they finish with a pas...

Airbnb may soon expand to offer “experiences” (like local tours or classes) in addition to its core shared accommodations business. Airbnb “hosts” would be allowed to market such experiences via the Airbnb app. T...

Reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry releases his first song on BitTorrent and Bob Marley probably approves.

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! Google said Friday that it is scooping up virtual reality t...

Gotu kola, an herb used in Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, may be the next anti-aging skin care breakthrough.

If there’s one big problem with centralized solar power facilities it’s that finding the space to build them is quite difficult. But what if you could take existing infrastructure and put it to other uses? Idaho-base...

The digital healthcare incubator Rock Health today announced its sixth class of digital health startups, which includes app makers, analytics companies and even an insurance plan suggestion site. “We look for health st...

Top 5 fashion games that you can play online. This is my choice, tell me about yours.

Titanfall drops by 40% on the Origin Store as first DLC "Expedition" goes live.

While AT&T is far from the heady, innovative days of Bell Labs in its prime, the telecom giant is still trying to keep that spirit alive.

China tech founders and their venture backers continue to strike it rich with IPOs in the U.S., in a surge of dragon power.

The Federal Trade Commission recently said it would crack down on the sharing of information about children by mobile apps, and now we see indications that it will turn its regulatory gaze toward apps that collect health...

Apple continues treating games differently than books.