


The Geekbox – Episode 98

When going for total completion in games isn’t crazy

Can book retailer Borders survive without its own e-reader?

GM leads Nissan in December electric car sales as supply trickles in

Winklevoss twins on Facebook lawsuit: It’s not about the money

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Everything’s connected: Why all marketing will become social

RunKeeper sprints to the top of the charts with fitness free promotion

MySpace layoffs: 550 fewer friends at the office?

Despite state censorship, China’s Internet population crosses 450 million

Image Space Media raises extra $1M to turn photos into cold, hard cash

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2011 may mark the beginning of a golden era for entrepreneurs

The Cartographer app brings gorgeous custom and offline maps to your iPhone

Where will the location superstars check in this New Year’s?

Will Trion World’s Rift online game kill World of WarCraft? (interview)

My Year of Gaming

Comic books I’d like to see become games

Squashed Like A Bug!

How to lead an adult life and keep playing videogames?

Founder Institute’s Adeo Ressi says you can’t teach entrepreneurship (video)

No more manquisitions: 5 New Year’s resolutions for the tech world

AskGaijin launches crowd tool to help Japanese companies avoid embarrassing Engrish

Call of Duty: Black Ops Multi-player has no reward

VentureBeat on the prowl for DEMO startups in New York, Toronto

Gain Fitness wants to start your gym resolution early

Projects in 2010 took aim at cleantech’s chicken-and-egg dilemma

The Resumator scores $100K to make hiring less of a chore

Xpert Financial offers an SEC-approved way to sell startup shares — and raise funding

Groupon’s non-IPO raises $500 million, with $450 million to go

Amazon turns on Kindle ebook lending

On the GreenBeat: Molycorp stock rises on rare earth scarcity, Verizon launches smart home pilot

VentureBeat’s top 10 VC startup fundings in 2010

Apple to announce Verizon iPhone within next few weeks?

Appconomy raises $1.5M to build enterprise mobile apps

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7 risks worth taking in 2011

Video Game Backlogs: A Critique

War of Wordcraft: An epic song about the trials and tribulations of World of Warcraft

So what is a “framed narrative” anyway?

Skype finally brings video chat to the iPhone, one-ups Apple’s FaceTime
