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Negativity sucks: PositiveTalk is social app for happy thoughts only
If you don’t have anything nice to say… Just kidding! PositiveTalk is a web-app that attempts to accentuate the positive social chatter in your life. It eliminates the negative with a somewhat messy...
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NetworkClean does give a damn about your bad reputation
NetworkClean, a new tool that scans your Facebook profile and flags anything it finds that could damage your reputation, thinks I should tone it down with the booze talk, aggressive and offensive...
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JockTalk brings pro-athletes and fans closer together
JockTalk is a social network for sports nuts and the professional athletes they love (or perhaps love to hate). The new site, announced today at the DEMO Spring 2012 conference in Santa Clara, Calif.,...
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It’s like fantasy football, but for politics junkies
Fantasy football is a huge and very lucrative multibillion-dollar industry in the United States. Politics are equally competitive and ruthless, and its fans just as passionate, but it lacks the fun as...
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ZBoard unveils special editions of its electric, weight-sensing skateboard
Electric scooters and Segways are both legitimate forms of transportation, but they’re just so dorky looking. A new product called the ZBoard from Intuitive Motion might save the genre, with a...
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Adobe shows off Creative Cloud and CS6 features at launch event
Sept. 9 - 10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale To promote the upcoming release of its Creative Cloud subscription service and the latest version of...
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Planetary Resources officially kicks off its asteroid mining venture
Following a few days of excited build-up, Planetary Resources, a new space startup backed by heavy hitters including Larry Page and James Cameron, officially announced its plans to mine asteroids near...
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iCloud has 125M users, but is it making any money off them?
Sept. 9 - 10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Apple’s iCloud service has 125 million users, the company announced today on its second-quarter...
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Apple and Google potential additions to Dow Jones index
The Dow Jones Industrial Average has featured the same 30, large publicly traded companies since 2009. The stock market landscape has shifted significantly in the past three years, and now big tech...
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Nokia to dump world’s most ridiculous luxury-phone brand, Vertu, for $265M
Troubled phone-maker Nokia is attempting to unload its luxury mobile-phone brand, Vertu, for a reported $265 million (€200 million), the Financial Times is reporting. Nokia is being advised by Goldman...
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Six tips for creating a killer brand for your company
This post is sponsored by Volvo. As always, VentureBeat is adamant about maintaining editorial objectivity. There are misconceptions about how important branding it is to success, how much work it...
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New ‘Action Links’ make third-party Facebook apps more interactive
Following in the steps of its “actions,” Facebook on Wednesday introduced a new Timeline tool for third-party applications called action links. These customizable links will appear below an app’s post...
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A Silicon Valley law firm loosens its tie, opens collaborative space in SOMA
Law offices bring to mind power suits, closed-door corner offices, serious conversations, and clients getting billed for every minute of advice. Collaborative work spaces with lounges, foosball...
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Meet 500 Startups’ new batch of startups
Startup accelerator 500 Startups announced its fourth batch of companies on Wednesday, a fun group that includes a necktie subscription service, a Dropbox-based collaboration tool for creatives, a...
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SoundCloud unveils Next, a completely revamped web app
The audiophiles at SoundCloud, the large sound-sharing platform, unveiled a completely rebuilt web app at its office in San Francisco Wednesday. The new app is only in private beta to start, though ten...
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WeWork Lab’s hip SF pre-incubator space opens its doors
A new type of office space for tech startup-hopefuls is opening its doors in San Francisco today. Falling somewhere between a co-working space and a full startup incubator, WeWork Labs is a...
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Lenddo uses social networks to give loans and improve credit
Lenddo, which helps people build credit with small loans and a social-based Klout-like scoring system, raised an $8 million first round of funding Tuesday. The brains behind Lenddo, co-founders Jeff...
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Adobe adds time-saving and money-making features to tablet publishing suite
Adobe announced a handful of new features for producing, publishing, and promoting tablet publications created with its Digital Publishing Suite on Tuesday, including the ability to publish to the...
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The new Bing is here, start peppering your friends with questions
A week after previewing the revamped Bing, Microsoft has released the latest version of its search engine to people in the U.S. Head over to Bing.com/new to test out the new social features as well as...
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Flipboard turns up the volume and adds audio content, SoundCloud support
The problem with most magazines is that they’re just too quiet. Flipboard, the gorgeous iPad and iPhone reading app, is teaming up with SoundCloud to add audio content to its mix of news, photos, and...
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Google gives Cornell’s NYC tech school free space in its headquarters
Google is donating 22,000 square feet of its New York City office to CornellNYC Tech for classes and other uses, Mayor Bloomberg and Google announced today. The science and engineering school won the...
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Google+ wants to be your new Flickr
Google+ is succeeding in small bursts, feature by feature. As a social network competing with Facebook it’s a flop, but its video-chat tool Hangouts is a winner. Now photo sharing is poised to be the...
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Tour the updated Google Search iPhone app… with bunnies
Google released an update to its Google Search iPhone app today, adding a few small features and tweaks that should make searching faster and more intuitive. Let’s take a visual tour of what’s new in...
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Staying abreast of the latest bra tech at D10
Perhaps misunderstanding what the D in All Things D stands for, online bra-shopping helper True&Co is demoing its product at the annual D10 conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif. today. As seen...
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Powerful new bookmarking tool Clipboard opens to the public
Web-clipping and bookmarking tool Clipboard is dressing up in its best new features and making a grand public debut today. The site, which has been invite-only since it launched in October, is finally...
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Which of these five mobile apps will best help the homeless?
Can a mobile app help the homeless? The U.S. government thinks so, and it has drafted a few good developers to compete on just such a project for a $25,000 grand prize. Today, the VA Innovation...
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We don’t know how to take vacations anymore
Just because you can Skype into a company meeting from a beach in Boracay, doesn’t mean you should. Tourists are increasingly connecting to the Internet while on vacation, according to a recent study...
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Google to begin shutting down Meebo services July 11
Just five days after buying social-messaging and advertising company Meebo for a rumored $100 million, Google is beginning to shut down the company’s various products. On July 11, Meebo Messenger,...
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WWDC predictions: A new iOS, Mountain Lion date, and iCloud updates
Spoiler alert! Apple is going to announce things on Monday morning at a keynote address kicking off the annual Apple World Wide Developer’s Conference (WWDC). Since speculation and rumors are half the...
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WWDC 2012: Apple keynote liveblog
Apple’s annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) kicks off today with a keynote address from CEO Tim Cook and company. This year, Apple is expected to make announcements about iOS 6, Mountain...
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