Behind most great startup success stories is a long list of mistakes! Unfortunately, for every success story you see, there is an even longer list of failure stories with mistakes that you don’t see. But rather than dwell on the failures, I&rsq...

Mahalo CEO (and former Silicon Alley Reporter/Weblogs Inc. founder) Jason Calacanis can't keep himself out of the content business. "Writing is my drug and the send key is my needle--my true aspiration is to be a junkie (aka full-time writer)," Cala...

Here's today's roundup of tech news in case you missed 'em: Facebook doesn't have any current IPO plans and may not ever happen, according to SAI. Google Earth has expanded to include real-time rain and snow. Oracle is accused of overcharging th...

Hulu's business mission to stuff its pro-quality web video full of ads is working: The site's viewers watch significantly more ads per month than other pro-quality web video sites. In June, Hulu watchers saw 24 ads each, on average, as they watched a...

OpenAppMkt is a just-launched, open alternative to Apple's "curated" App Store, gathering the best web-apps into one place. One constant criticism of Apple is the fact that its App Store is too rigid and capricious, keeping out too many apps. Steve J...

Scott Heiferman's company, Meetup, has a new product out called Meetup Everywhere. "It's about making one tweet or one blog post and saying 'Hey, go meet up with each other,' and give them that one link to meetup.com/whatever," explains Heiferman. Pe...

So, a fairly well-known New York new media outfit just sent us a press release saying they've hired a new VP of ad sales. There's nothing wrong with that. We like to write about hires and fires in the industry. Here's the crime: The email came in wit...

Microsoft received more money selling companies than it spent on acquisitions last year, Tech Flash reports. It spent $267 million to buy 5 companies in fiscal 2010, and sold 3 companies for $600 million.Join the conversation about this story »...

As Oscar Wilde once said, “youth is wasted on the young”, but why not learn from younger gen­er­a­tion. Fol­low­ing are XX lessons I’ve relearned by observ­ing how kids interact. Click here to see 5 lessons e...

World of Warcraft has been a veritable gold mine for Blizzard; it's the gift that just keeps on giving. And as much as Activision denies it, CEO Bobby Kotick would love nothing more than to transform the Call of Duty franchise into a similar subs...

AdAge's Michael Learmonth brings the Flipboard craze into reality: There is no way that it is going to help publishers make any money.Join the conversation about this story »

"VC just told me one big impact of internet gambling bill could be creation of startups that help states get their lottery games online." -- PEHub's Dan PrimackJoin the conversation about this story »

Spotify says it still plans to launch in the U.S. this year and that Billboard report saying otherwise is wrong.Join the conversation about this story »

Microsoft is going to try and block the Yahoo Japan - Google partnership, a company rep told us late last night. "We plan to present evidence to the Japanese FTC explaining why we believe that this deal is substantially more harmful to competition th...

A town in the UK is planning a giant Foursquare party.Join the conversation about this story »

Editor's note: This post is part of Mark Suster's This Week in Venture Capital Show, which addresses hot topics in the world of startups and VC. We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through...

At long last, I got my new HTC Droid Incredible yesterday. For the most part, I'm not ready to compare a few hours with the phone to a few years using the iPhone. In fact, I'm not even trying to get too familiar with it until I have Android 2.2 and d...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, which still hasn't come up with a phone that can credibly compete with Apple's iPhone, is preparing a tablet computer to compete with Apple's iPad. This is not surprising -- RIM, stunned by Apple's success, now pr...

Don't hold your breath for big-in-Europe music site Spotify to work in the U.S. any time soon. Negotiations with the music labels are "back to square one," Billboard reports, via MediaMemo.Join the conversation about this story »

Earlier this month, we asked you to send your suggestions for T-shirt tag lines for each section of Business Insider. And hundreds of you did: by comment, email, tweet, and even TXT. We've narrowed them down to the best in each vertical and now we ne...