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This post on crowdfunding success tips answers the following questions for people or businesses thinking about using crowdfunding to raise funding:

Raising money can be helpful, but it's not a measure of success.

Free things are great, and they’re even better when they save you, your startup, and your investors a boatload of money and drama. And lucky for you, startup accelerator program 500 Startups is releasing one of those m...

Because wasn't founding the United States of America the ultimate startup endeavor?

Despite being the go-to search engine for all kinds of sexual content, Google has decided to disallow sexually explicit material from ads created by the porn industry.

Americans Thinking of Leaving the U.S. For a Tax Haven Should Eye Puerto Rico, Which Doesn't Involve Expatriating But Has Many Tax Benefits.

Guest Post: New domains are beginning to roll out to the general public. And Google, which applied for ownership of 101 of these new domains such as .car, .eat, and .google, is getting into the domain registration busine...

Runa Capital, a Moscow-based global tech-focused venture capital firm, announced yesterday the first closing of its new fund, Runa Capital II. With a target size of $200 million, the firm will continue investing in tech-...

The man known for the chainsaw bayonet teams up with Guerrilla Games cofounder.

Check out our entire week's worth of coverage on VentureBeat's channel for video games, GamesBeat.

Some games go on so long that the strong narrative turns into a dramatic fizzle.

Cash outflows for bank loan funds increased to $457 million in the week ended July 2, from $424 million last week, but were well below the $1.2 billion three weeks ago, according to Lipper.

Guest Post: 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. There are only a few ticke...

The contest entries for do-it-yourself hardware projects are pretty zany.

Google has decided to stop censoring the Guardian in European search results. After censoring stories from the Guardian, the BBC and the Daily Mail in its search engine yesterday, Google has partially reversed its decisi...

In an effort to protect young adults from mature content, U.K. Internet service providers now block approximately one-fifth of all websites, according to a study conducted by Open Rights Group. Occasionally, an ISP block...

In an episode cut-out for a Dynasty kind of television series, the Peugeot car family kicked out one of its more vociferous members of the company he had long tried to keep both independent and in family hands.

Walmart has sought to revolutionize the in-store experience by adding navigation, voice commands, shopping lists, price comparisons, and other useful tools to its mobile applications. At next week’s MobileBeat -- July ...

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. There are only a few tickets left! Fac...

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. There are only a few tickets left! One...

Sponsored Post: Calling all VentureBeat readers and MobileBeat attendees: We would like to invite you to participate in the "Custom App Challenge" hosted by AppMachine at MobileBeat next week, July 8-9 in San Francisco.

You can't expect many startups in the United States to make news about fresh funding on the eve of the July Fourth three-day weekend. But then again, sometimes startups are surprising.