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Israeli startup Parko successfully raised $1.1 million in seed funding for its API, which uses crowdsourced data to help drivers find available parking spots in real time. SparkLabs, Global Ventures, OurCrowd, and Europe...

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? 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 $200! Can a hand...

We like you, Larry and Sergey. We believe you don't want to be evil. But you are absolutely everywhere around us these days.

How can you leverage mobile to increase profitability for your company? 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 $200! Brace your...

Alternative, or non-bank financing for small business has been in the news a lot lately. Talking about this the other day with Charles Green of the industry newsletter Coleman Report, he suggested that neither bankers no...

In the battle for online sales and marketing, Yahoo provided advertisers with a potent weapon today in the form of Yahoo Prime View. Yahoo Prime View is a new way for advertisers to reach audiences and see a return on ....

Sponsored Post: A deal with a Fortune 500 brand can denote credibility and help validate a startup's solution. However, courting these deals can become like finding water in a desert: The mirages are more frequent than t...

IN its third round of institutional financing, mobile sensor-maker mCube has announced that it has raised $37 million. The company's existing investors, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, MediaTek, iD Ventures America and...

These are nervous times for some entrepreneurs in the United States. As founders of businesses seek, find and hold fast to benefits, incentives and loopholes that allow them to save money and maximize profit, they often ...

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A powerful trend in mobile is taking shape: Smaller, faster, less expensive, and more intelligent connected devices are everywhere. Backing them up is increasingly powerful cloud software that leverages machine learning ...

Ten-year-old Vivienne Harr is working with 79-year-old Olga Murray to end child slavery in Nepal.

In-between protestors’ exclamations, Google’s top brass unleashed a boatload of news at the company’s annual developer conference, Google I/O 2014. Here’s everything the company announced. Google launches a devel...

With Google Fit, the search giant joins Apple, Samsung, and others in the business of aggregating consumer health data.

Google claims its Play Games network is the fastest growing mobile gaming platform ever.

Google made its fledgling Google Cloud Platform for making and running apps more developer-friendly today.

Google today announced that it has acquired Appurify, an app testing service for developers which raised $4.5 million from Google Ventures last year. Appurify’s service enables developers to remotely test both native a...

SAN FRANCISCO — Google made a big contribution to the big data world 10 years ago, when it released a paper on MapReduce, a programming model for doing big computing jobs on hefty data sets. But it turns out that, ...

The new Google Cloud Monitoring service combines Stackdriver's stuff with Google's existing technology.

SAN FRANCISCO — Today, Google announced news things in Google Drive: Google Slides, native Microsoft Office editing, and Drive for Work. With Google Slides, people can now create presentations right from their Android ...

Google announced some new gaming initiatives at its annual Google I/O developer event.