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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “VentureBeat”

• 11 things I didn’t know about app development

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Wednesday’s DiscoveryBeat 2009 conference, an afternoon event about app development monetization put 0n by VentureBeat, was like all our events: High on how-to wonkery, low on self-promotion pitches, and as one person put it, “no douchebags.” Yet each of the speakers who gave a prepared presentation to the ...
  4 hours ago

• Mobile ad company Placecast: Augmented reality will take off, sort of

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  1020 Placecast , a San Francisco location-based advertising company, has released a list of seven predictions for mobile advertising in 2010. Among them: Augmented reality will begin (but only begin) to take off, while Apple will solve the battery issues that put a hamper on location-based advertising on the iPhone. ...
  5 hours ago

• How Gowalla landed $8.4M in funding with a free app

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Social network startup Gowalla has defied the conventional wisdom that there’s no venture capital available, and that businesses today need to prove a profitable revenue model to attract investors. The 11-person Austin-based company, which makes a free iPhone app that lets users share their location and identify ...
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• Le Web: Q & A with Google VP Marissa Mayer on the future of search

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Marissa Mayer, Google’s vice president of search and user experience is on-stage at the Le Web conference in Paris. I’m live-blogging as we go: Michael Arrington asks about the search announcements earlier this week (namely Google Goggles, local search and real-time search). Mayer: We think of it as four main ...
  7 hours ago

• Facebook rolls out long-awaited privacy overhaul today

  
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• Facebook rolls out long-awaited privacy overhaul today

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Facebook is revamping its privacy settings today, giving users more control over who sees what they publish every single time they share. The social network, now the world’s largest at 350 million users, announced these changes back in July. They include a couple main points: Regional networks are being ...
  8 hours ago

• Real Networks launches multi-platform game Collapse!

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Real Networks is launching Collapse! , the latest version of one of its flagship games, for a host of devices today. The game from Real Networks’ GameHouse division is available today on the PC, Mac, Facebook, BlackBerry, iPhone, Android and a variety of other mobile platforms. As such, the game represents the ...
  9 hours ago

• Social investment startup Covestor opens its arms to more aspiring portfolio managers

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Covestor, a startup that lets people mimic other investors’ moves, is opening its doors and allowing anyone to become a portfolio manager on its investment management service. It will create many more investment options on the site for Covestor members because before, there were only 25 models that users could ...
  9 hours ago

• DisplayLink hires new CEO, raises $8M for multiple-display technology

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  DisplayLink , a startup that came up with an innovative way for users to use multiple monitors with one computer, is announcing today it has hired a new chief executive and has raised $8 million  in funding from its existing investors. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company’s new CEO is Craig Ensley, a semiconductor ...
  9 hours ago

• World Golf Tour needs to turn golfers into gamers

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Three years ago, YuChiang Cheng and Chad Nelson launched a company to create an online version of golf. If you can’t get to the real courses, the next best thing would be virtual golf links, they figured. Now, World Golf Tour has the makings of a real business. Its success doesn’t depend on beating out a ...
  10 hours ago

• Symbaloo brings its icon Web interface from Amsterdam to America

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Symbaloo , a privately funded startup founded in the Netherlands in 2007, is based on a simple idea: Instead of typing URLs or poring through a list of bookmarks, Symbaloo users visually scan a wall of icons that contains links to their favorite sites. Clicking an icon goes to a preset URL. More important, Symbaloo ...
  10 hours ago

• Le Web: Twitter opens up its data firehose to everyone, now has 50,000 apps

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Twitter said it’s opening up its data stream of tweets to all developers, not just Bing and Google. Ryan Sarver, who is on the platform team at Twitter, said details will be hashed out later next year. Sarver said Twitter’s business model will be to drive and split revenue with its ecosystem of developers that ...
  12 hours ago

• Le Web: MySpace opens up its real-time stream of data to developers

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  MySpace launched a real-time stream application programming interface, letting other developers mine its public status updates and shared links for trends and viral content. That means when MySpace users share links or music videos, that data can show up in other places like on search engine OneRiot, which is a ...
  12 hours ago

• Le Web: Facebook Connect now reaches 60 million people on 80,000 sites

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Facebook just updated stats on Connect — its effort to bring social functionality to sites and apps across the web. Facebook Connect now reaches 60 million users and 80,000 sites (that’s up from the 15,000 announced earlier this fall.) “We don’t aspire to be only a web site,” said Ethan Beard, director of ...
  12 hours ago

• Google’s real-time search now live in the U.K.

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Google’s newly announced real-time search is now not just limited to the Trends page. It’s now live across searches on Google.co.uk. (I just tried it with “Ethan Beard”, who is director of the Facebook Developer Network and is speaking on stage at Le Web right now.) The search giant announced the new feature ...
  12 hours ago

• Le Web: Jack Dorsey says he’ll give away Square devices for free

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Jack Dorsey, the creator of Twitter and co-founder of a new payments startup called Square, said the company will give away its credit card-swiping devices for free. It’s a move that should help overcome the biggest hurdle for the startup, and probably help make its money back if it can take a small share of all ...
  13 hours ago

• Le Web: Q & A with Twitter, Square creator Jack Dorsey

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter who just launched a new payments startup called Square, is on-stage at the Le Web conference in Paris today. I’m live-blogging as we go: Loic Le Meur : How did you get the idea of Twitter Jack Dorsey: It took a long, long time. When I turned 15 years old, I became ...
  14 hours ago

• MySpace Music buys, crushes Imeem

  
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• Updated: MySpace Music buys, crushes Imeem

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  In a display of anti-social behavior, News Corp .-owned MySpace Music bought its competitor Imeem today and tore it down. Imeem.com, imeem content embedded in other sites and the Imeem plug-in itself have all been, for lack of a better word, killed. Imeem was bought for an undisclosed sum, although sources have ...
  16 hours ago

• Google beefs up Groups for large businesses

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 776
  Google is unveiling a new version of its  Google Groups service, one that’s designed specifically for business use. For those of you who haven’t tried them, a Google Group is basically an email list. The existing service is meant for casual users, though it’s also included as part of Google Apps , the ...
  18 hours ago

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