Startup News

Minecraft is an excellent way to lose dozens of hours engineering virtual buildings and machines, but now an interesting new company has devised a way to bridge those digital creations into our physical world. LittleBits...

A job is a job, right? Those whom we employ should be grateful to have a paycheck. Maybe that’s how it was when we were in the midst of the recession, but life on the outside (and the inside) has changed dramatically. ...

Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company was considering an online poll for choosing how the next version of Android will be branded, according to NDTV (via XDA-Developers). The comment was made at a student fo...

Songkick, the company behind the eponymous cross-platform app that lets you track when and where all your favorite bands are playing live, has raised an additional $10 million in funding from Access Industries. Founded i...

When it comes to gathering data to help you better serve your customers, prospects, and community members, there are two alternate approaches: qualitative research and quantitative research. Quantitative research is the ...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are relatively new concepts in the U.K., but it would seem that the Brits have taken them to heart. These two retail-frenzy behemoths were imported thanks to the strength, and will, of the l...

People are having troubles getting their Xbox One to function. Xbox Live is experiencing an intermittent outage, according to a number of complaints on social media. People are reporting issues connecting to online multi...

VB WEBINAR: Join this live webinar and learn how to break down borders for coveted global expansion. It’s your chance to learn from and ask questions of those who have been there before: 99Designs CMO Pam Webber, Talen...

Star Citizen is a game that isn’t out yet, but it has raised more than $100 million from crowdfunding. It turns out that money doesn’t make watching someone struggle to get their computer working any less awkward. St...

Microsoft today announced that it will now ship Windows 10 phones, such as the Lumia 950, with Office Mobile apps preinstalled. The announcement gives phones Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and Skype for Busin...

In a world where audience favor constantly changes, Nick Cicero makes sure that his company keeps pace. Cicero, CEO of Delmondo, a multi-platform creator network and technology company, saw that marketers were struggling...

Mozilla today announced that Firefox for Windows now works with Netflix’s HTML5 video player. At the same time, Netflix promised the functionality would come to Firefox for Mac users “next year.” In May, Mozilla re...

By Julia Hanna

Twilio has opened up its video calling capability to more people. The company announced that Twilio Video is now available to everyone as a public beta. Both its iOS and Javascript SDKs can be accessed via the account po...

Google today announced that it has allocated $1 million for grants to give out for security vulnerability research, even when the research doesn’t directly lead to the discovery of bugs. This initiative, which was firs...

VB WEBINAR: DeltaDNA CEO Mark Robinson and VentureBeat’s own Dean Takahashi discuss what kind of F2P ad monetization works — and, as importantly, what doesn’t. This interactive web-based presentation is available f...

So how is a Venus Flytrap like a golf course sand trap? You can find them both in a recent Tax Court decision about conservation easements. The owners of the Members Club and the Reserve Club negotiated with the North Am...

In Lebanon, a unique catering service called Soufra features Palestinian specialities prepared by the residents of the Burj el Burajneh refugee camp in Beirut. The women who run this social enterprise are looking forward...

Two (relatively) quiet news stories from the past few months give us an indication of where we’re heading in 2016.

If you haven't created or shared many images or videos, it can be difficult knowing where to start. This article will outline five easy strategies to start introducing visual content into your marketing campaign.

EXCLUSIVE: Yahoo is announcing today that it has open-sourced algorithms for doing very quick and efficient computations on streams of data. The Java-based Data Sketches algorithms are now available for download on GitHu...

Pinterest has launched a new notification feature that will let users know when there’s a price drop for a Buyable Pin. If you follow one of these pins and the advertiser or brand that established it reduces the price ...