Foursquare is in a bit of a bind. The location-based social networking service is looking to raise a reported $20 million to $40 million for its next investment round, based…
How many doomsayers does it take to kill a party? Last week, as reports poured in showing major first-quarter growth for the venture capital industry and valuations for startup companies…
It’s been a big day for daily-deal site Groupon. On Thursday morning, General Mills announced the launch of Groupon offers in Minneapolis and San Francisco, marking Groupon’s first partnership with…
The U.S. State Department is set to announce $28 million in grants to help Internet activists in countries where governments have blocked social networking sites or used those sites to…
Last November, Fred Wilson had the privilege of sharing a stage with John Doerr, the wealthiest venture capitalist in the world, a man Amazon’s Jeff Bezos once called the "center…
The second annual NYC Startup Job Fair packed AOL’s offices in downtown Manhattan on Friday. Young engineers, salespeople, programmers and others—all of whom came bearing résumés—filled the place to the…
Let’s say you and your friends are among the 1.8 million people in this country who watch the MTV reality series America’s Best Dance Crew. And let’s say that during…
Group messaging—which, for all intents and purposes, amounts to texting with multiple people at once—has been the big story of this year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival.Hoping to witness some…
The day the Sendai earthquake hit Japan, Cameron Sinclair was up until 3 a.m. Sinclair is the CEO (chief eternal optimist) of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit architectural design firm…
The revolution will be Broadcastd. At least, that’s the way Andy Hunter and Scott Lindenbaum, co-founders of the audio file-sharing service Broadcastr, see it. “Hopefully it doesn’t sound insane,” Hunter…
