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Stealthy EV maker Aurica moves to save Bay Area auto plant, 4,700 jobs

11 March 2010, 3:11 pm by: Camille Ricketts
Fremont, Calif.’s NUMMI automotive plant has been facing a death sentence for a while now. Slated to shutter on April 1, leaving upwards of 4,700 locals jobless, the facility was one of the biggest industrial employers in the southern Bay Ar...

Visualize your business plan with Plancruncher

11 March 2010, 2:35 pm by: Ciara Byrne
A good business plan is like the trailer for a movie; it should be eye-catching enough to make an investor want to see more. After wading through too many long-winded business plans, Dutch investment firm Lunatech Ventures has built a web tool called...

JooJoo tablet gets a new interface and features

11 March 2010, 2:22 pm by: Devindra Hardawar
In the not-so-long running saga of Fusion Garage’s JooJoo tablet, the company has excelled at talking up the product, but not so much at delivering. Here’s more talk: The tablet is sporting a new interface, gestures, and the ability to pl...

GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 4

11 March 2010, 1:59 pm by: JP Manninen
An exciting part of GamesBeat 2010 was the ‘Who’s Got Game?’ contest. Five selected finalists presented their company onstage while the all-star panel of judges evaluated them. [9 photos; photos by JP Manninen] At GamesBeat 2010, i...

GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 3

11 March 2010, 1:23 pm by: JP Manninen
GamesBeat 2010 was all about networking and bringing people together. Some of the conversations spilled from the stage out into the hallways of Moscone Center. [6 photos; photos by JP Manninen] Brian Reynolds from Zynga having a hallway conversation...

iPhone may finally receive multitasking in OS 4.0 update this summer

11 March 2010, 1:17 pm by: Devindra Hardawar
Apple is working on implementing multitasking support — the ability to run more than one app at once — for the iPhone’s operating system this summer, according to AppleInsider. It’s said to be a major new feature in the next v...

GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 2

11 March 2010, 12:39 pm by: JP Manninen
The audience attended GamesBeat 2010 in large numbers. Some of the sessions were really popular, so much so that people had to squeeze in to get seats. [15 photos; photos by JP Manninen] The audience paid close attention to things onstage. GamesBeat...

Nintendo’s creator of Metroid Other M explains how he creates both serious and comic games

11 March 2010, 11:21 am by: Dean Takahashi
It’s a little funny that the producer of the serious game Metroid Other M is also behind the comic expression of Nintendo’s WarioWare series of handheld games. In a talk before hundreds of game developers today at the Game Developers C...

GamesBeat 2010 in pictures – Part 1

11 March 2010, 10:57 am by: JP Manninen
The 2010 edition of our GamesBeat@GDC conference was a roaring success! Here’s another look at the March 10 event in San Francisco. GamesBeat 2010 kicked off to a packed house on March 10. VentureBeat's Matt Marshall set the theme of Disrup...

Forrester Research dresses up analyst blog platform

11 March 2010, 10:35 am by: Cody Barbierri
Well-known technology and market research firm Forrester Research today unveiled an upgraded blog platform for its various industry category teams and individual analysts. Forrester claims the new platform will make engagement with readers easier t...

Evri acquires Twine for a semantic search team-up

11 March 2010, 10:11 am by: Anthony Ha
Evri, a company using semantic technology to deliver real-time search results around news, just announced that it has acquired another semantic-focused startup, Radar Networks, and its flagship product Twine. Evri chief executive Will Hunsinger said...

Google Blogger gives itself a touch-up with template designer

11 March 2010, 10:00 am by: Kim-Mai Cutler
Google Blogger, a venerable player in the space after celebrating its 10th birthday last fall, is giving itself a touchup. The company has launched Blogger Template Designer, which gives users a lot more freedom to design the look and feel of their G...

Mobile application social network Appboy launches new iPhone app and site features

11 March 2010, 9:51 am by: Devindra Hardawar
Appboy — the social network for mobile application users and developers — has launched a new iPhone app, and a revamped website with more robust social features. In addition to simply discussing mobile apps, Appboy enables users to pitch...

Chomp raises $2M for iPhone app recommendations; launches new site at Chomp.com

11 March 2010, 6:00 am by: Devindra Hardawar
iPhone application recommendation site Chomp has raised another $2 million in funding, after showing strong growth since its launch eight weeks ago. Thus far the site has gathered 300,000 users, who have left 1.5 million reviews. The company has also...

Need sales leads? Think like an editor.

11 March 2010, 6:00 am by: Scott Olson
(Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Scott Olson is president of MindLink Marketing. He contributed this column to VentureBeat.) I had an interesting conversation the other day with a colleague about the challenges he was having with his company’s...

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