Startup News

Partners Sherif ElRakabawy and Mohamed Ewis were deep in negotiations with a venture capital firm for funding for their startup, Egyptian online shopping portal Yaoota, when suddenly: Radio silence.

Sprint may be preparing to make some major cuts, including layoffs, as it struggles to rebuild its network and gain ground on rival carriers. A Dow Jones report this afternoon says the carrier will cut between $2 billion...

EXCLUSIVE: Cloud service desk software provider Freshdesk is announcing today that it has acquired Frilp, a small startup with an app that lets users seek and receive expert help from friends. All 19 employees of Frilp �...

One of the “big three” credit bureaus, Experian, says data on 15 million T-Mobile customers, and would-be customers, were lifted from its servers. Experian said in a blog post that the data was stolen when hackers at...

At an event in New York, LG showed off its recently announced V10 smartphone, its latest phablet. Though the phone features a lot of bells and whistles, the major points of interest are its multiple cameras and something...

You may run into some trouble playing games on an Xbox device today. Big gaming stories Xbox One holiday bundle Minecraft: Story mode trailer Pokémon re-created in Minecraft Xbox Live is down for a number of gamers, acc...

Ephemeral messaging app Snapchat is reportedly working on a new advertising unit that will let brands insert marketing messages into your selfies. Sources tell The Financial Times that the company is working with adverti...

Public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services today announced the launch of a managed version of the open-source Elasticsearch software that developers can incorporate into their apps. That way, they don’t need to wor...

Google today announced a slew of new content providers for its Android TV, including Showtime, HBO Now, CBS All Access, EPIX, WWE, UFC, and Disney Movies Anywhere. “So, as the nights get longer and colder, you now have...

Many business executives these days are talking about corporate social responsibility. Generally few of them are actually doing much about it. That, however, is not the case with Tampa Bay Lightning owner Jeff Vinik.

Today's content marketers have to analyze subjective situations and adapt to new technologies at a faster rate than ever before, but it's only going to get more complex from here. Content marketing is going to go through...

Online mega-retailer Amazon is using its market power to slow the sales of competing media streaming products from Google and Apple. The Seattle-based company sent an email to marketplace resellers that they cannot post ...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month kicks off today, and much like pumpkin-flavored treats this time of year, it is time to brace yourself for #pinktober everywhere. While it is great that so many organizations use this opport...

Carbon nanotubes are the leading candidate to replace silicon in semiconductor chips after the decades-long run of silicon electronics runs out. And IBM is hoping to usher along that transition with a new breakthrough be...

Microsoft now holds the Guinness World Record for having the quietest place on the planet. It’s an anechoic chamber — a room that doesn’t allow for echoes — inside Building 87 on the sprawling Microsoft campus in...

Blytz lets you choose Football plays instead of players.

VB WEBINAR: Join us for this live webinar on Thursday, October 15 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free. With consumers constantly searching to satisfy their technological hunger, the pace of the tec...

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Japan’s SoftBank leads whopping $1B funding into U.S. fintech startup SoFi SoFi, a U.S.-based stud...

A quiet argument about the ethics of the Dublin-based Web Summit, one of tech’s fastest-growing events, has finally broken into full view thanks to a blistering response from the conference’s founder. In a blog post ...

Volkswagen is doomed to remain a mediocre company by global standards because of its weak management ultimately controlled by unions.

Online real estate transaction management solution Reesio has been acquired by Move, Inc. in a (ahem) move that gives real estate professionals better access to buying and selling tools. Terms of the deal were not disclo...

Smartphones are set to disrupt the healthcare industry as entrepreneurs integrate diagnostic capabilities into apps and make it easier than ever to track wellbeing.