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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, 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, 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...

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...

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...

(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...