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Nintendo once again dominate the holiday games market
Nintendo games once again dominate the Christmas holiday market in U.S. The New Super Mario Bros Wii sold 2.82 million units in December, raise the total sales to 400 million units in the U.S. market.Following with Wii Sports Resort at number ... Read More
New startup Joincube joins social software fray — targets small businesses
Social software — software that gives companies and individuals ways to interact and share information — has quickly been winning the interest of companies looking to track progress and share knowledge better among their employees. A number of software offerings ... Read More
Panasonic brings more than 100,000 new users to LotusLive
Here comes another blow against skeptics who question whether large, enterprise-scale companies will ever use web-based (or, to use the more trendy term, cloud-based) applications: Electronics maker Panasonic just announced that it’s switching over from Microsoft Exchange and other on-premise ... Read More
Battery maker Ener1’s stock drops after Fisker deal falls apart
Advanced battery maker Ener1 saw its stock price drop 16 percent today to close at $5.18. The loss could be attributed to talks between the company and possible battery buyer Fisker Automotive that were supposed to lead to a supply ... Read More
NeoPhotonics spots $8.9M for photonic integrated circuitry components
NeoPhotonics, maker of circuitry components that use photonics for optical communications networks, has raised $8.9 million of a targeted $18.65 million round of equity. Based in San Jose, Calif., the company is backed by Oak Investment Partners, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, ... Read More
Avega gets louder with $2.5M for home audio networking
Avega Systems, maker of home media networks that allow playback of music or video in any room of your house from a central hub, has brought in $2.5 million in equity, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in ... Read More
VirtualLogix nabs $1.3M to provide real-time virtualization technology
VirtualLogix, provider of virtualization software that allows systems to run across different operating systems and applications, has raised $1.3 million of a $2.14 million round of equity, according to a regulatory filing with the SEC. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., the ... Read More
ReputationDefender takes $8.7M to help people keep tabs on their online identities
ReputationDefender, provider of tools that allow people to manage and monitor what is being published about them on the internet, has raised $8.7 million in a second round of funding, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Redwood ... Read More
Bridgelux bags $50M for energy-efficient LEDs
Bridgelux, maker of the chip that is the light-emitting part of LEDs, has raised $50 million in a fourth round of venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., the company is backed by VantagePoint ... Read More
Thank China: Google moves to make Gmail more secure by default
Google has decided to make its Gmail service more secure by using more expensive encryption technology, according to a blog post today.
You can probably thank China for that. Yesterday, Google threatened to pull out of China after witnessing a concerted ... Read More
New Assassin’s Creed announced, features multiplayer
As currently being reported by Gamasutra, Ubisoft has confirmed that the third installment in its Assassin's Creed series will be released in the developer's next fiscal year; Ubisoft's fiscal year begins in April 2010 and ends in March 2011. ... Read More
Activison: Modern Warfare 2 makes $1 billion since launch
Speaking in a press release, Activision has announced that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has grossed over $1 billion since its launch back in November. "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has exceeded our expectations and shattered theatrical ... Read More
[US] Netflix confirmed for Wii this spring
The New York Times is reporting Netflix and Nintendo will today announce a spring release for the movie-streaming service on the Wii. The deal will mark Netflix's expansion onto all current-generation gaming hardware including Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation ... Read More
Microsoft: There is no need to push the Xbox 720 game consoles
Microsoft's director of Xbox product management David Hufford recently said that there is no need for the new generation Xbox game console.
Hufford said: "At the beginning of the design, Xbox 360 is a long-lived products. Furthermore, we can update through software ... Read More
CVG: Call of Duty 7 to be released November, set in Vietnam
Speaking to CVG exclusively, an industry insider has confirmed the existence of Call of Duty 7, as well as a few key facts. Set during the Vietnam War, the game is influenced by films such as Apocalypse Now and ... Read More
EC Roundup: Your legal questions answered –- and more startup therapy
Here’s the latest from VentureBeat’s Entrepreneur Corner:
Ask the attorney: Founder vesting — Attorney Scott Walker kicks off this regular Entrepreneur Corner series, answering the burning legal questions of startup owners. This week: Should you split company stock equally among founding ... Read More
CES attendance is up, and so is its optimism about technology
Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Electronics Association, said tonight that the tech industry’s biggest trade show in North America has grown its attendance in spite of the ongoing economic uncertainty.
At a leadership dinner at the Consumer Electronics Show, ... Read More
Skype’s CEO says companies (like Comcast) are squelching innovation
Josh Silverman, chief executive of Internet phone company Skype, said today that innovation is threatened by large companies who want to protect their current businesses.
Skype’s free voice and video calling on the Internet is threatening incumbent companies who charge for that now. ... Read More
Crunchies: Google Voice is coming to the iPhone “one way or the other”
Google’s vice president of engineering Vic Gundotra said the Google Voice application, which is still in limbo after Apple declined to give it the greenlight for the app store, will come to the iPhone “one way or the other.” He ... Read More
Crunchies: Zynga’s Mark Pincus sees a future for socially-conscious virtual goods
Although best-known for sucking in about 70 million people to become online farmers and crop-growers in its Farmville game, Zynga has also started using virtual goods to raise money for different social causes. The company launched a “Sweet Seeds” initiative ... Read More









