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Sports geeks everywhere now have a new excuse to spend endless hours on YouTube.

Following much speculation about which Twitter user first broke the news about the death of Whitney Houston, the site has unveiled new data tha…

While social media can perplex a single business unit, imagine the challenges and multidimensional complications that can arise when a franchi…

LightSquared, a planned U.S. nationwide cell carrier, has been blocked by the FCC due to the interference its signal causes to GPS devices. The…

Earlier this week Apple announced that the Fair Labor Association would begin inspections of the working conditions at the Chinese factories that make products such as the iPad and the iPhone.

Companies are increasingly looking to tap into the real time nature of the social web and respond directly to customers based on their location and intent. New York’s LocalResponse was one of the the first to turn the check in …

Lockerz, a social commerce site that debuted its a self-expression platform earlier this month, said today that it will guarantee that no other online site will be able to match its prices. Lockerz is similar to popular online pinboard site …

Fan-generated sports commentary site Bleacher Report announced a deal with YouTube today to bring four new sports-themed shows to its branded YouTube channel. The Bleacher Report’s website’s content comes from over a 1,000 columnists and 6,000 contributors that write commentary …

Engagio, a Toronto startup founded by William Mougayar that helps people keep track of the conversations they are having in comment threads across the web, has raised $540,000 led by Rho Canada and New York investor Fred Wilson. The unique …

Influential New York investor Fred Wilson was one of the earliest and loudest opponents of the anti-piracy bill SOPA. He worried that it would threaten sites he considered legitimate, like Reddit, or Tumblr, which is backed by his firm Union …

Taiwanese phone manufacturer HTC is reportedly working on its own music streaming service, a move that would help the company differentiate its Android phones and tablets from its considerable competition. HTC used to be one of the leading makers of …

This post is sponsored by Comcast Business Class. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. It all began with the sounds of a dial-up modem screeching as it connected to the Internet. Then these connections graduated to a …

Even the most exact construction plan lacks many details and design options. The building owner needs imagination to obtain an idea of the constructed building. Now, the 3D video glasses made by the KIT spin-off "inreal Technologies" provide a true representation in virtual reality. With the help of integrated high-resolution motion sensors, the virtual environment adapts to the natural movement of the head in real time. At the CeBIT, the young entrepreneurs will present their new product at the stand of their partner, Carl Zeiss AG.

Buck, the mobile payments company formerly known as Billing Revolution, is launching its new, single-click credit card checkout today, which allows shoppers to pay for goods or services without an account, username or password. Coinciding with the launch is news of where you can actually use the service: the company has lined up several new high-profile customers, including Glamour, SpyderLynk, Papaya Mobile and credit card processor Braintree.

Motorola has already confirmed that the Xooms, Droid Bionic, Razr, Razr Maxx and the Droid 4 will get a hefty helping of Ice Cream Sandwich this year, but the company has added a few more devices to its ICS upgrade schedule. The Photon 4G, Atrix 4G, Atrix 2, and the Electrify will all see Android 4.0 at some point during the course of 2012. Motorola lists most of the devices for a Q3 release, with just a few getting Q2 treatment, so there's still quite a road ahead for you Gingerbread-packing phandroids.

Not yet familiar with digital storytelling platform Cowbird, despite recent glowing coverage from the likes of Wired and The Washington Post? Well, if you like reading, seeing or listening to a good story as much as I do, you will be mighty glad I'm introducing you to the site today.

Tablet publishing platform Onswipe is launching its content recommendation throughout its network of publishers today -- introducing a Outbrain like feature where readers are given choices of articles from its thousands of partners in realtime. (Readers can access the feature by tapping on the Rocketship in the bottom right corner of the page.)

Local Response, a social advertising platform that allows local businesses to respond to the "check-in" with marketing campaigns, is launching a pro version of its analytics and action platform for marketers. LocalResponse's DirectResponse product aggregates real-­time social media check-­‐ins from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Instagram and dozens of other services to provide a simple interface for local businesses to directly respond to their most influential and valuable customers. What makes LocalResponse compelling is that it analyzes massive amounts of data in addition to check-ins from the Twitter firehose, photo sharing sites and more to find other forms of check-ins. These could be posting a picture on Instagram of a dish from a restaurant or Tweeting that you are visiting a particular bar.

You can't call StackMob a "backend service provider for mobile" anymore, because as of now, it's a full end-to-end solution. The cloud-based platform for mobile developers is today launching hosted HTML5 services that tie to StackMob's backend, making it the first platform offering integrated HTML5. Developers can use the new service to host full HTML5 apps for desktop, tablet or mobile, or can use it to host the HTML5 running within their native apps.

Remember when that Samsung product marketing manager Ryan Bidan let slip a few details on the next-gen GalTab and/or Galaxy Note? He mentioned the inclusion of an S-Pen, 3D gestures (courtesy of a front-facing camera), and voice controls. Well, it would seem that further proof of the product he was detailing has trickled out, and just like the last time, it's coming straight from the horse's mouth. According to the Verge, Samsung posted an invitation to its Samsung Developer Day at MWC which just so happened to mention a Galaxy Note 10.1. Presumably, this would be a larger version of the Galaxy Note that excludes a 3G/4G radio but keeps the S-Pen.

Following five months of work, location-based Q&A platform Localmind is launching its biggest release today since its original debut with the arrival of Localmind 2.0. The newly revamped platform represents a shift for the company, which, as you may remember, sits on top of Foursquare, allowing you to pose questions in real-time to those checked in at local venues. Today, the company is expanding its focus by allowing users to ask questions of local "experts," even if they're not currently checked in to a given location. However, answers can still be replied to in real-time, preserving the sense of immediacy found in the original product.

The former CEO of Sun Microsystems has reemerged in the tech world — this time at the helm of a seven-employee startup rather than a 28,00…

The “What People Think I Do/What I Really Do” meme has overtaken the “Sh*t People Say” meme to become the latest sharing fad.…

NPR is stepping its toes once again into the mobile music world with the launch of its new iPad app. The free NPR Music app — now availabl…

Amazon's Kindle Touch. (Credit: Sarah Tew/CNET) Amazon's Kindle Touch is getting handwriting recognition, but it isn't being delivered by the company you think. A new puzzle-focused technology startup, called Puzzazz, has developed a Kindle Touch-exclusive product called, TouchWrite. The technology, which was demoed by GeekWire's Todd Bishop, lets users write numbers and letters in an e-book, and then watch as TouchWrite converts them into digital on-screen versions. For now, Puzzazz's technology is limited to a couple Sudoku e-books available in the Kindle Store. However, the company's founder Roy Leban told GeekWire that he believes TouchWrite is "the future of books." Related stories A Windows 8 tablet offers hope as potent iPad foe Amazon readying 9-inch Kindle Fire for 2012, analyst predicts Amazon fires shot at iPad's screen glare, price in new Kindle ad ... [Read more]

Without a doubt, the Samsung Galaxy Note is the biggest smartphone you’ve ever seen. It’s still nice and thin (just 0.38 inches), so…

It’s that time of the year again, where members of the digital and technology communities come together in Austin, TX for the SXSW Intera…

The U.S. Senate released a comprehensive cybersecurity bill Tuesday after months of closed-to-the-public negotiations. If passed, the bill would…

When you operate a small business, the last thing you want to do is waste precious time. Luckily, mobile apps for Apple and Android devices can…

Early on in The Start-up of You, Reid Hoffman takes on the sacred cow of career advice books, making it clear that the timeworn exhortations of…