Daniel Burka, Kevin Rose’s longtime co-conspirator from Digg and ill-fated mobile shop Milk, has just joined the team at Google… Continue reading ⟩

“I want to find the next Facebook when it’s just Mark Zuckerberg.” That statement from Kevin Rose pretty much sums… Continue reading ⟩

At VentureBeat HQ, we’re twiddling our thumbs as we wait for official confirmation from Google that the search behemoth did,… Continue reading ⟩

Do you really need another way to chat with your friends? The founders of a new startup called Convore think… Continue reading ⟩

Leah Culver, co-founder of microblogging startup Pownce, announced today that she’s joining Plancast, a startup that lets users share their… Continue reading ⟩

Six Apart said today that it’s ready to expand its TypePad hosting service beyond blogs — now it wants to… Continue reading ⟩

Browser-maker Opera announced a new service today that it says will “reinvent the web” — Opera Unite, which basically turns… Continue reading ⟩

Blog search tool Twingly’s new microblog search, as a concept, makes a lot of sense. You enter a keyword in… Continue reading ⟩

Mac computer sales slow — While overall PC sales rose by two percent last month, Mac sales fell by one… Continue reading ⟩

Tumblr, a service that lets users publish short, simple blog posts, has raised $4.5 million in a second round of… Continue reading ⟩