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- DEMO Announces New Executive Producer, Forges Long-Term Partnership with VentureBeat
- After 13 Years as Executive Producer, Chris Shipley Will Pass the Torch to VentureBeat's Matt Marshall in 2010 FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- IDG's DEMO conference, the world-renowned launch platform for some of the most notable emerging technologies introduced over the past two decades, announced today that...
- Research articles 2009-02-19
- THQ and Massive sign in-game ad deal
- THQ is hoping to increase poor game revenues after securing the services of Microsoft's Massive division to provide in-game ads for THQ's Xbox 360 and PC titles. The companies did not list all the games where the ads will be...
- Articles 2008-11-24
- PC Virtual World Habbo Hotel Has Nearly 1 Million Mobile Users
- A mobile version of Habbo Hotel, the virtual game aimed at teenagers, has registered almost a million users with almost no marketing, VentureBeat reports. Mini Friday, the mobile counterpart to Habbo Hotel, is an example of a site that's been able to crossover to mobile, without being held back...
- External links 2008-11-25
- PlaySpan Amps Up The Social Network Payment Wars
- We've recently seen an influx of fundings and acquisitions in the online payment space—particularly related to social gaming—and with good reason. As more people get comfortable with the idea of paying for virtual goods or other merchandise on their social networks, there's a definite opportunity for a third-party to...
- External links 2009-08-04
- VentureBeat Buys TradeVibes To Launch Startup Database
- Venture capital industry news site VentureBeat has purchased TradeVibes, a wiki info site on startups, which it is relaunching as its own startup directory site. The new site—VentureBeat Profiles—features capsule profiles on startups. Readers and the companies themselves can update basic information, submit press releases, and also explain why...
- External links 2009-09-22
- If at First You Don’t Succeed -- Reorganize
- In the face of overwhelming competitive odds, hostile investors, and key employees jumping ship faster than a microprocessor can count, Yahoo management is taking the tried and true way to face adversity: reorganization -- its fourth in 18 months. VentureBeat is finding the situation predictable because so...
- Blog posts 2008-06-26
- Money Will Out: Venture Capital Stronger Then It Might Seem
- Venture capital is one of the pulses of the industry, and so a headline that VC investments are dropping by double digits is enough to catch the eye of anyone involved in the high tech ecosphere. But when you look at more data, things don't look bleak. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Virtual Goods: Entertainment, Fad, or Both?
- Virtual goods in gaming is an area that seems to be heating up on Facebook. But is the activity sustainable, or a collection of fads? by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
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- Palm May Sell Pre For $149 (PALM)
- The blogosphere is breathless with speculation about how newly undead Palm PALM will price the device that wowed this year's wilted CES. Palm CEO Ed Colligan originally hallucinated that he could charge more for the handset than Apple and RIM charge for theirs, Venturebeat says, but thankfully, he has since...
- News items 2009-08-07
- New York Times Reaches Out to Blogs to Enhance MSM Coverage
- Mathew Ingram submits: As part of a relaunch of its technology news hub, the New York Times NYT has announced syndication deals with several blogs, including VentureBeat, Read/Write Web and the GigaOm network. Deputy NYT tech editor Vindu Goel has a rundown on some of the changes at his...
- External links 2008-09-24
- Onexim Group Buys Forbes Russia: Report
- Moscow-based PE firm Onexim Group has bought Forbes Russia, says Venturebeat, citing a translation of reports on Quintura's blog. Terms were not disclosed. In Russia, Forbes is published by Germany's Axel Springer, which uses visual search site Quintura. Forbes representatives didn't respond to our requests for comment.The purchase comes...
- External links 2008-11-24
- O2 UK Opens Up New App Store To Limited Subscriber Base
- The UK carrier O2 UK has opened up a new mobile application storefront today that allows developers to upload their apps to a small community of users that review, rate and provide feedback to the developers. The open platform serves as a testing ground for O2, by being able...
- External links 2008-12-12
- Game Graphics Company Image Metrics Gets $6.5 Million
- U.K.-based game graphics company Image Metrics has picked up $6.5 million in funding from Saffron Hill Ventures, VentureBeat reports. Image Metrics focuses on making the faces within video games look and move realistically, which has become increasingly important given the advanced graphics capabilities of consoles like the Xbox 360...
- External links 2008-12-16
- Great Web Resources for Startups
- Starting a new business? Perhaps you haven't heard about a little thing called the financial apocalypse. So perhaps you need a little help. Lifehack has rounded up 8 websites you need to check out if you're starting your own business. You can skip...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- All-Sports Directory Fanbase Launches With $5 Million In Funding
- With sports sites continuing to grow in popularity, Fanbase, a new community site that has the ambitious aim of covering all teams and players from the pro to college player and everything in between, has launched with $5 million, the NYT and Venturebeat reported. The site has been the...
- External links 2009-08-24
- ReadWriteWeb Events Guide, 10 October 2009
- We've added a bunch of great events to our guide this week. The one we're most excited about of course is our own ReadWrite Read-Time Web Summit, which takes place this coming Thursday in Mountain View. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or...
- News items 2009-10-10
- LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Heads To Greylock Partners; Fund Raises $575 Million More
- LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman has joined Greylock Partners as an investing partner, and the VC firm—which currently backs Pandora and Israeli ad content-creator The Box, among others—has raised $575 million more for new investments. Greylock partner David Sze told VentureBeat that the firm had no trouble raising the new...
- External links 2009-11-02
- 2007: The Year of Enterprise M&A
-    +   First week of the new year, and we have a nice-sized ($830M) acquisition of IronPort Systems by Cisco. Heres a link to the press release.All Hail The Return Of The Enterprise M&A Market!OK. So, maybe Im a bit premature with my celebration& But, I dont think so.IronPort got...
- Blog posts 2007-01-04
- What Is Private Equity?
- The term private equity encompasses a range of techniques used to finance commercial ventures in ways that do not involve the use of publicly tradable assets such as corporate stock or bonds. Typical forms of private equity include venture capital, growth and mezzanine capital, angel investing, and private equity funds....
- Articles 2007-03-05
- MLB.TV: How Not to Handle Video Online
- Take a look at next-generation video sites like Hulu and Joost. It's encouraging to see engineers raising the bar for the experience of watching television online. Then there is that tireless standard bearer for lowering the bar: MLB.TV. The good news for MLB.com's streaming coverage of games...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
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