Startup News

Guest Post: Silicon Valley may be the center of the startup universe, but that doesn't mean the CEO, or anyone else, has to be physically present there.

The health sensors of the (near) future may learn so much about you that they can show something like "empathy" toward you.

Let's say that you were fortunate enough to build some business, and at 50 years of age you have a balance sheet showing a net value of $20 million. You know that you have an estate tax problem, you are concerned that yo...

Relationship Science, the company that sells access to its contacts database for upwards of $3,000, is giving you a way to network on the cheap with its new app, Mine. Mine wants to alert you about the news articles, soc...

EBay and fashion label Rebecca Minkoff have brought to life the enviable computerized closet from Clueless – only this time you can make over your closet from your phone. This morning, eBay debuted a new type of dressi...

Mobile users usually must install an app and opt in to notifications before in-store beacons can detect and send marketing content to their device.

GetSocial has signed up Mag Interactive to help boost sharing of its Ruzzle Adventure game.

Reddit today announced that its long-time CEO Yishan Wong is stepping down as leader of the company. Wong first joined the company way back in 2012, when Reddit was in dire need of some business savvy leadership. Althoug...

Stacey Bishop, a partner at investment firm Scale Venture Partners, told VentureBeat that the new Age of the Customer, where buyers are educating themselves and making purchases later in the sales cycle, now means that m...

An entertainment network, chip company, data visualization, and others are getting some serious money.

Google's Jason Spero says mobile marketers are too focused on getting customers to download and install apps, and not focused enough helping them actually do stuff.

Amazon Web Services isn’t only announcing new services at its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. Of course, it’s adding new low-level instances — slices of physical servers — in its market-leading publi...

According to some estimates, the number of people worldwide studying English will top 2 billion by 2020. And wherever there’s a market that equals nearly one-third of the planet, you can wager that players will rush to...

The company names Allen Alley as its executive chairman and relocates to Oregon.

The industry reached nearly $1 billion in digital spending in October.

You’ve been using Lyft (or Uber, Sidecar) to get to and from work meetings for the longest time and expensing it, so your employer might as well start paying for rides directly, right? Well, now it can, thanks to the n...

Amazon Web Services today announced a major feature for launching, managing, and deleting containers to hold developers’ application code, the EC2 Container Service. It’s a major acknowledgment of an increasingly pop...

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" As a teenager, I would quickly answer, "Fashion designer." The truth is I also wanted to be a ballerina. But I was bound to this strange myth that I could only be one thing. Wha...

In an effort to continue serving its corporate users, BlackBerry announced today that it’s releasing BBM Meetings, an audio and video conferencing service. For now, BBM Meetings is available for BBM users on Android an...

There's a new fund in Silicon Valley with a potentially big idea for tapping a new crop of startup founders who might be hesitant to strike out on their own today. In a time of billion-dollar funds, the fund is tiny--a�...

Today BlackBerry announced it has secured a deal with Samsung to bring its new BES12 enterprise mobility management (EMM) platform to Android users. BlackBerry shares that the service will be made available to companies ...

EA's new game is based on dramatic cops-and-robbers TV shows, and that's a good thing.