VentureBeat:
In addition to Tesla Motors‘ potential IPO, there’s two more big pieces of news coming out of the electric vehicle world. Nissan is opening talks about electric cars in China, and the Electrification Coalition has started lob (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Next Island is the latest company to launch an ambitious virtual world. But this sci-fi adventure paradise comes with an interesting twist: time travel. The company is announcing today that it is building a world in the Entro (Read More)
Gridskipper:
You don't have to be rich to eat at one of New York's most expensive restaurants, just willing to spend the better part of the rent money on a dinner you might remember for the rest of your life. There are a dozen or so resta (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Although the door-as-desk option is often seen as a workspace solution for broke college kids and startup companies, it's a great way to get a lot of space cheaply and doesn't have to be drab or cheap looking. If you've been (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writ (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Being attached at the hip to your smartphone doesn't mean you're productive, just attached. The I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog showcases how three workers put a real fence around their work time and ended up more free. Writ (Read More)
VentureBeat:
The winners of the inaugural GreenBeat Innovation Competition — a survey of the most promising technologies and companies working toward a cleaner, more efficient grid — were just announced following four-minute presentations (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Last year, e-commerce retailers spend $21 billion, or 15 percent of their revenues, in online marketing to drive traffic to their websites. The end result — a dismal 2-3 percent conversion rate between visitors and sales.Moun (Read More)
Lifehacker:
You've always wanted to learn how to build software yourself—or just whip up an occasional script—but never knew where to start. Luckily, the web is full of free resources that can turn you into a programmer in no time. Sinc (Read More)
VentureBeat:
(Editor’s note: Jason Cohen is an angel investor and the founder of Smart Bear Software. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.)As someone who has both sought venture capital and distributed it, I’m lucky to have a pretty (Read More)
Lifehacker:
With the vast number of choices available to the modern consumer it's amazing more of us aren't paralyzed by the multitude of choice before us. Having trouble choosing? It's time to artificially limit your choices. Photo by D (Read More)
VentureBeat:
In hopes of creating a new kind of mobile business, Funambol is announcing today that it has acquired Zapatec, a maker of web-based application technology. The combined companies hope to launch what they call a new generation (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Futuremark made a name for itself by creating benchmarks that measured exactly how fast a personal computer could run a game with rich 3-D graphics. Its benchmarks were the gold standard that helped game fanatics buy the comp (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Silicon Valley is known the world over for its acceptance of failure as a rite of passage. Technology legends from Netscape founder Marc Andreessen to Apple founder Steve Jobs have all experience failured, revived their caree (Read More)
Lifehacker:
Windows only: Free portable application FolderSize quickly analyzes the contents of any hard drive or specific folder on your computer to help you hunt down your hard drive hogs and free up space. (Click the image above for a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.Several bedrock assumptions in modern computing are crumbling. Individual processor cores no longer double in speed every two year (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Jeremy Allaire, who behind the success of Flash as CTO of Macromedia, started Brightcove five years ago to offer media companies an online video publishing platform. While YouTube was a consumer play, Brightcove focused on a (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This post is sponsored by Greentech Media.On November 4, 2009, visionaries from the power, communications and IT industries will converge at the PG&E Auditorium in San Francisco to discuss the future of the sma (Read More)
Lifehacker:
You likely spend at least as much time in your apartment every day as you do at your workplace, so when it comes time to apply for a new apartment, personal finance blog Get Rich Slowly recommends treating it like a job inter (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Editor’s note: This story is part of our Microsoft-sponsored series on cutting-edge innovation.As Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools have changed the way companies reach out to customers, some are using it interna (Read More)