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11:35 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Wolfram Research Acquires Modeling And Simulation Software Developer MathCore
Wolfram Research, the parent company behind computational search engine Wolfram Alpha, is acquiring MathCore Engineering AB, the developer of the MathModelica modeling and simulation software system. ...
11:28 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Something Is Technically Wrong With Twitter
Hey Erick, I have a question for Jack Dorsey. What's up with Twitter?As I'm sure you've noticed, Twitter is down (for some users), so in true TechCrunch tradition we need to celebrate the downtime...
11:01 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch White-Label App Marketplace Platform Appia Raises $10M At $100M Valuation
White-label mobile app platform Appia (formerly PocketGear), is announcing that it has secured $10 million in new funding from Venrock. According to sources familiar with the matter, the startup was v...
10:30 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Flickr Dips Its Toes Into Social With Twitter And Facebook "~Share This' Features
Photo-sharing site Flickr, which has limitless potential in terms of the sheer number of photos stored on the service (over 5 billion at last count),has made it easier for users to share their photos ...
09:43 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Help Me Interview Jack Dorsey Tonight
Jack Dorsey is in demand these days. The inventor of Twitter is now back as head of product, while still acting as CEO of his other startup, Square. Tonight, Dorsey and I will guest lecture together...
09:42 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch This Is What Skype 5 For Mac Should Look Like
Skype users with any sense of aesthetic justice are pretty much in unanimous agreement that the user interface for Skype 5 for Mac is a disaster. Between the useless coverflow way of scrolling through...
09:36 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch With +1, Google Search Goes Truly Social ""  As Do Google Ads
Back in early December of last year, we first reported that Google was toying around with the name "+1" for an upcoming social product. At the time, we were told it was sort of like Google's vers...
09:15 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch 5 Reasons To Buy A Nintendo 3DS" And 5 Reasons Not To
With the hoopla over the Nintendo 3DS dying down and the hard reality of the thing clear, it's time to take stock and assess if the 3DS is right for you and/or your family. First off, I'll say I'm a f...
08:56 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2011: Get Your Applications In Soon
TechCrunch Disrupt is back and in a big way. The conference we launched last year in New York andSan Francisco and is coming back this year and this time we are going global by adding another destinat...
08:34 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Twitter's Biz Stone Talks About Awkward Acquisition Meeting With Zuck On Howard Stern
After talking to Conan a few weeks ago, and CNN's Piers Morgan last night, Biz Stone made an appearance on another mainstream media show today: Howard Stern. You can access the interview here.Unlike m...
08:31 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Google Chooses Its Fiber-Networked City Of The Future: Kansas City
Back in February 2010, Google announced its plans to build out a fiber-optic network for a city in the United States, promising connection speeds around 1Gb/s "  100 times faster than the br...
07:55 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Cook And Patzer On Intuit's Growth, The Payment Graph, And Product Focus
Last night I caught up with Intuit founder Scott Cook and Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint who know runs Intuit's personal finance group. I whipped out my iPhone and did an impromptu interview. Coo...
07:50 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Fuze Meeting Brings Multi-Party HD Video Conferencing To The iPad 2 And Android Devices
FuzeBox, the developer of an online meeting software, is launching its multi-party HD video conferencing technology for the iPad 2 and Android devices. Previously released in private beta, the softwar...
07:41 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Microsoft's Chief Marketer Steps Down After 22 Years
Microsoft has had its share of executive departures lately. The latest one to exit the software giant is Mich Mathews, senior vice president for Microsoft's Central Marketing Group and one out of only...
07:40 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Japan's SoftBank To Offer Free Phones, Waive All Communication Fees For Quake Orphans
Japan's telecommunications juggernaut SoftBank, the third largest mobile carrier of the country, had to register quite a lot of damage after the big earthquake that hit Japan on March 11. 3,800 of Sof...
07:21 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch The History Of Internet Usage And Speeds (Infographic)
Not a fan of infographics? Be gone! For I felt compelled to share with you this infographic made by the folks over at Webhostingbuzz, visually showing how fast the Internet has made its way to the...
07:20 pm GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch 9 Women Can't Make a Baby in a Month
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableI'm a very big proponent of the "lean startup movem...
04:46 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Android Market's In-App Billing Now Live
One of the biggest gripes Android developers have about the ecosystem has been Android Market "  it was slow to add support for paid apps internationally, and it's taken ages for it to suppo...
04:44 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch The Second Cluster Of Startups Ascend From AngelPad
Last August, we broke the news that a new startup incubator was about to launch that was run by seven ex-Googlers, AngelPad. By November, the initial class of eight startups were ready to launch. Toda...
04:28 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Google's Value To US Users And Advertisers Is Over $119B Per Year, According To Google
Google's chief economist Hal Varian took the stage today to break down the value of Google to users. He spoke about two elements of value: The value of Google to users and the value of Google to adver...
04:20 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Ev Williams States The Obvious: He's No Longer Fully Committed To Twitter; Thinking About What's Next
As we confirmed yesterday, Evan WIlliams is taking a step back from his day to day duties at Twitter. Williams just published a post, titled 'An Obvious Next Step' on his personal blog explaining the ...
03:49 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch The 6 Verbs For The Next 20 Years Of The Connected World
Today at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly gave the first keynote of the day. His topic? The six trends he believes are most important for the connected world we live...
03:26 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Google Brings Back The ChatBot: Google Talk Guru
Remember back in the early days on instant messaging when people figured out that they could set up chatbots that users would interact with? Yeah, they were fun for like 20 minutes. But don't tell...
02:40 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Gmail To Roll Out Ads That Learn From Your Inbox
Gmail is in the process of rolling out a new ad system that could prove to be quite powerful: ads that learn what you're interested in based on your email habits.The feature first showed up in my Gmai...
02:30 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch City Tax Battle Isn't About a Two-Year Break. It's About Repealing the Payroll Tax Completely
Not only is the San Francisco Chronicle lacking the professional courtesy to link to TechCrunch for first reporting the tech industry's fears about San Francisco taxing stock options-- the paper is al...
02:10 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Demonstrators Protest Tax Exemptions Outside Of Twitter HQ
Protesters holding hash-tagged decorated signs like "Shame On Twitter" and "Respect Our Communities" gathered outside of Twitter headquarters this morning at 10am to protest what they see as an unfai...
02:10 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch How Aol Spends Its Money: Episode 40,000 "" The Great Scratch Card Hoax
One of the great things about working for Aol is the company's dedication to making its 5,860 5000 remaining employees happy and motivated.Only this morning, for example, a package arrived at TCHQ pac...
02:01 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Giveaway: Element Case Joule Chroma iPad 2 Stand
We've always been impressed with Element Case; the build quality on their products is always outstanding. Sure, they're expensive, but you've heard the phrase, "You get what you pay for." Element Case...
01:58 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Sundrop Mobile Raises $900K, Offers Mobile Loyalty Solution To Daily Deal Merchants
In a recent post about Groupon's multi-billion dollar valuation and revenue estimates, colleague Erick Schonfeld talked about how creating repeat, loyal customers (and not just deal-happy coupon clipp...
01:24 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch CrunchBoard Jobs: Work At TechCrunch
We are still hiring. You could be our next Sales Marketing Manager, or our new Conference Program Chair. We have a beautiful office in San Francisco, we are dog friendly, and are currently looking for...
12:08 am GMT - Wed, March 30, 2011
Techcrunch Founders Of MP3.com, mSpot On Amazon's Music Locker: All Eyes On The Labels
I penned a blog post earlier today covering the potential impact that Amazon's new digital music locker will have on startups that have been letting people upload their music to the cloud for years (b...
11:26 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Meg Whitman Hooks Part-Time Gig With Kleiner Perkins Post-Campaign
After working at Disney, Proctor and Gamble, being CEO of eBay, running for Governor of California and losing, Fortune is reporting that Meg Whitmanwill now be joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & B...
10:54 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch SoundTracking Is A Hit! Reaches 100K Downloads In Two Weeks
If you haven't noticed by the amount of follower notifications you're suddenly receiving, music snippet sharing app SoundTracking has a had an impressive 14 full days since its SXSW launch, clocking i...
10:52 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch PapayaMobile Integrates Android In-App Billing
As we heard last week, Google is finally rolling out its much awaited in-app payment and billing system. Papaya Mobile, the developer of a plug and play technology that incorporates social gaming ele...
10:35 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch The 4 Boxee Box Issues That Must Be Addressed ASAP
I've thrown big props towards the Boxee Box lately calling it the best media streamer for cutting the cord. It's a solid device that provides a memorable user experience. That's rare these days but th...
09:37 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Bob Metcalfe: Yes, There Is a Social Networking Bubble (TCTV)
When Bob Metcalfe says that there's a social networking bubble, we should take notice. Inventor of the Ethernet, coiner of Metcalfe's Law, founder of 3Com, a technology pundit and publisher at InfoWor...
08:20 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $8 Million
Startup incubator TechStars has raised $8 million in new funding for its programs in Boston, Boulder, New York, and Seattle. The new funding comes from more than fifty venture funds and over 25 indivi...
08:12 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Estimates Point To 3 Million Nooks Color Sold
Digitimes "sources" are stating that 3 million Nooks Color have rolled off the assembly line and into stores over the past year, giving the Nook Color firmly at 50% of the "iPad-like" tablet market. T...
08:10 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Message Bus: The Start Project's First Graduate Launches, Pulls In A Cool $3 Million
In late 2009, a group of seasoned entrepreneurs and investors came together to form The Start Project, a Silicon Valley-based incubator focused on idea generation, software development, product vision...
08:09 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Hotmail Adds LivingSocial, Posterous, And More To Active Views Platform
Microsoft Hotmail doesn't get much love in Silicon Valley these days, but the service has been steadily making improvements to the product, particularly over the last 18 months or so. And today it's g...
07:55 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Pick Or Skip Is Chatroulette, With Pants
For the small percentage of our readers who do not enjoy a random penis sighting, comes Pick or Skip, a cleaned-up version of Chatroulette.The idea behind the new site was to build a safe and more str...
07:19 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Mobile Firefox Skips Flash In Favor Of HTML5
A week after launching the official release of Firefox 4, Mozilla is following up today with Mobile Firefox for Android and Maemo phones (for all twelve of you Maemo fans out there). For Android, the...
05:33 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Behold The World's Largest Photo Ever Taken Indoors: 40 Gigapixels Of Awesome
We interrupt our live coverage of breaking news about Internet companies from around the world to point you to this phenomenal 360-degrees photo (okay, actually it's 2,947 pictures stitched together)....
04:43 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Inspiring: Kik Founder Donates $1M To Kickstart University of Waterloo Seed Fund
The founder of messaging app Kik, 23-year-old entrepreneur Ted Livingston, has donated $1 million to The University of Waterloo's VeloCity Residence, a residence-based mobile and digital startups incu...
04:35 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch These Robot Quadrocopter Jugglers Perform For Your Amusement" For Now
If you've watched some of our previous robotic quadrocopter coverage you'll have seen these little choppers fly through hoops and interact with humans in fairly mundane ways. Now I'd like you to watch...
04:24 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Apperian Raises $9.5M For Enterprise Mobile App Deployment Platform
Enterprise mobility company Apperian has raised $9.5 million in new funding from North Bridge Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' iFund, CommonAngels and...
04:14 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Cisco Buys Cloud Automation And Management Software Company newScale
Cisco this morning announced its intent to acquire newScale, a global provider of self-service and lifecycle management software for enterprise IT and private/hybrid cloud computing. Terms of the deal...
04:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Glassdoor Puts Numbers on Our Schizophrenic Job Market
Glassdooris reporting an Employment Confidence Survey today that shows robust and increasing confidence in the job market-- never mind most of the nation remains gripped in 9% unemployment with only a...
03:57 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Limos.com Scores $10 Million For Online Limo And Car Services Marketplace
Founded by former employees of travel booking site Hotwire.com, Limos.com, an online marketplace for limo and car services, this morning announced that they've secured $10 million in financing from Au...
03:42 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Cheapflights Invests In Travel Meta-Search Site Momondo
Cheapflights Media has made a strategic investment in travel meta-search site Momondo.com and its parent company Skygate International, the company announced this morning.Both Skygate and Momondo will...
03:17 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch GE Buys Electrical Engineering Company Converteam For Up To $3.7 Billion
GE Energy this morning announced that it has acquired a stake of approximately 90 percent of Converteam, a France-based provider of electrification and automation equipment and systems, for approximat...
02:22 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Will Amazon Drive Music Lockers Like MP3Tunes And mSpot Beyond Oblivion?
Make no mistake about it: the digital music space will be turned upside down this year, courtesy of giants like Apple, Google, HP, Sony and now, Amazon. Earlier today, the latter announced that it was...
02:14 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Mark Cuban And Kevin O'Leary Invest In Online Toy Rental Service Toygaroo
Just in case you missed it: Mark Cuban's most recent investment took place in what is a fairly unusual setting for early-stage startup seed funding -- a shark tank. That's right, the controversial bil...
12:12 pm GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch StockTwits Continues To Expand, Steals VP David Putnam From Yahoo Finance
StockTwits, a realtime platform for stock traders to share information, has been undergoing a rapid growth spurt of late. According to Quantcast, 465,000 people are now visiting the site per month, wh...
11:22 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Acer Releases Dual-Screen Iconia "Touchbook" 
It is rare to find a device that is both baffling and compelling. We've been talking about the Acer Iconia for a while now and this dual-screened tablet or "Touchbook" is now available and shipping in...
10:59 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Is This The Greatest VC Pitch Prank Ever Pulled?
ust like that fake Color.xxx slide deck, this fake VC pitch video has been making the rounds across Silicon Valley lately, portraying the saga of a probably fake Rachel Sequoia (heh) and her fake star...
09:36 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Amazon Cloud Player Doesn't Work On iOS ""  But It's Not A Flash Issue
As you may have read by now, earlier tonight, Amazon dropped a bomb on their rivals in the online music space: a fully working cloud storage and playback system. And it's not just working on desktop w...
08:37 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Amazon Beats Apple And Google To Cloud-Based Music StorageStreaming
Well, the rumors were true. Not only is Amazon entering the "music locker" space, they're doing it before both Google and Apple "  as their "Cloud Drive" and "Cloud Player" have just gone li...
07:30 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch PrepMe's Coursification Offers A Personalized Online Learning Platform
Online test prep company PrepMe is taking on the likes of online course platform Blackboard with the launch of Coursification, a web-based application for personalized online learning courses. What di...
06:26 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch "Crazy Bob"  Gets A Big Promotion: Square's First CTO
It was just about a year ago that we wrote about Square nabbing engineer Bob Lee. As we noted at the time, the man affectionately known on Twitter and elsewhere as "Crazy Bob" was quite the catch &quo...
06:01 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch TC Cribs: From Frenchmen To Randy Raccoons, An Inside Look At Seesmic
We're back with a new episode of TC Cribs, the show that takes you inside the hopping offices of tech startups. This week we check out Seesmic, the multi-protocol client that lets you monitor you Twit...
05:43 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Minno Hopes There's A Place In This World For A Small, Simple E-Wallet
We're entering another round of testing in the paywall/microtransactions world, but it doesn't look to be turning out any better than the last one. I argued that until payment methods are improved, ev...
05:08 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Stealth Payment Startup Stripe Backed By PayPal Founders
There isn't much information out there about Stripe, a new payments startup cofounded by brothers Patrick Collison and John Collison (last seen selling their startup Auctomatic to Live Current Media f...
04:57 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch WITN: Jakarta? No, She Came Back Of Her Own Accord [TCTV]
Hurrah! After a short hiatus while Sarah travelled around Indonesia at the behest of the State Department, Why Is This News is back!And what better way to mark our triumphant return to your screens th...
02:29 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Passion Capital Emerges In London With $60 million To Seed Startups
A new early stage investment firm is de-cloaking in London today. Three prominent Angel investors on the tech scene in London - Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero - have been operatin...
02:18 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Video Advertising Company Adap.tv Raises $20 Million
Video advertising company Adap.tv has raised $20 million in funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners with Gemini Israel Funds, Redpoint Ventures and Spark Capital also participating in the round. Thi...
02:00 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch SimpleGeo Launching "~Storage': A Distributed Hosted Database For Location Data
The story of SimpleGeo is a familiar one: two founders " Matt Galligan and Joe Stump "  set off to create location-based games, only to find that the tools they wanted to use to bu...
01:37 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Twitter Piggybacks On Lady Gaga's Birthday To Announce 24 New Hires
Jack Dorsey isn't the only one announcing a new role at Twitter ... Twitter HR Manager Cheryl Palarca tweeted that the company has hired another batch of people today, "in honor of Lady Gaga's birthda...
01:01 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Legends Of The Fall, Apple Style
This past weekend, we broke the news that iOS 5, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, was likely being released in the fall. This would break the tradition of a summer release. And w...
12:38 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch It's Official: Ev Became "Less Involved"  At Twitter Months Ago
Today's return of Twitter inventor Jack Dorsey to the company he created to once again head up its product efforts raises the question of what will co-founder Evan Williams be doing now. When he hand...
12:33 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Newsy Raises $1.5 Million in Series B Funding For Mobile News
Newsy, a multisource video news service that analyzes the world's news coverage, announced today that it has closed a $1.5 million series B round led by a St. Louis-based private equity firm. The seco...
12:22 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch Kindle Subscribers Will Be Able To Access NYTimes.com For Free
Amazon has just announced that Kindle users who subscribe to The New York Times on their device will receiving access to news site for free. The date in which this access will hit has not been determi...
12:05 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch When LOLs Collide: Cheezburger Network Buys Know Your Meme
Meme catalogue website Know Your Meme has been swallowed by Ben Huh's The Cheezburger Network this morning in a seven figure deal, Tubefilter's Marc Hustvedt reports. The site, which has 3 million uni...
12:01 am GMT - Tue, March 29, 2011
Techcrunch London's Tech Investors Start Moving East To "Silicon Roundabout" 
The areas around Old Street tube station, Shoreditch and Hoxton, just North of London's Square Mile and on the border of East London, have come to be known, lightheartedly, as Silicon Roundabout, give...
11:53 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch The Right Way To Work At Yahoo
"6:30a and I am on my way into the office for the first time since November. Man, time flies," tweets Yahoo front end engineer Dav Glass. Dropping by the office once every 4-5 months and still getting...
11:09 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Roundup: Rugged Flash Drives
Flash drives are a dime a dozen these days, so if you're going to actually spend money on one, it may as well be one that can take a little abuse. After all, if you plan on having it with you everywhe...
10:29 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Bob Metcalfe: No, Bob, The Internet Isn't About to Collapse (TCTV)
In 2000, Internet pioneer Bob Metcalfe published a book entitled Internet Collapses and Other InfoWorld Punditry. Eleven years later, you can buy used copies of Internet Collapses for $0.01 on Amazon....
09:53 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Exclusive: Flashy Website Creator Wix Raises $40 Million
Israeli startup Wix, which allows users to build flash websites, has just raised $40 million in Series D funding led by Insight Venture Partners and DAG ventures, with Benchmark Capital, Bessemer Vent...
09:16 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch LinkedIn Uses Food Trucks And Free Coffee To Advertise Social News Platform
LinkedIn is using the food truck phenomenon to publicize the launch of its new social news product, LinkedIn Today. In San Francisco and New York, LinkedIn has hired food trucks to give away coffee at...
08:45 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch An Incubator From Down Under: Meet StartMate's First Batch of Aussie Startups
Last year, a group of Australian startup veterans and executives created Startmate, a seed fund and incubator designed to provide small, early-stage investment and hands-on mentoring to local startups...
08:36 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Jack Dorsey Takes Over Product Again At Twitter As Executive Chairman
Jack Dorsey is back at Twitter in a big way. He just tweeted that he is now taking on the lead product role at Twitter, the company he co-founded and where he's remained as chairman. To reflect his ...
08:31 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Zapd Creates Themed Websites Right From Your Phone
Tumblr and Posterous showed the world that making blogging simpler makes it more accessible. Both make also make it really easy to publish from your phone. Now Zapd, a new service from Seattle start...
08:25 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Some Day 1 Verizon iPad 2 Orders Still MIA Despite Immediate Payment Withdraw, Overnight Shipping Promises
Hell hath no fury like an Apple fanboy scorned. Verizon is just now starting to feel the rage previously directed at just AT&T. That's what happens when iPad 2 orders fail to ship on time. Fanboys...
07:59 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Shoparatti: Another Daily Deal Aggregator (But Curated By Melissa Rivers!)
Exclusive - There's a ton of daily deal sites out there, and we've seen a bunch of daily deal aggregators pop up in the past few months, too. Today sees the launch of yet another one of those, dubbed ...
06:51 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch McAfee: Change In Corporate Culture Leaves Businesses Vulnerable To Hackers
McAfee, the computer security company, has issued a fresh warning to the world's corporations and other large organizations. The firm has warned that hackers now have these bodies fully in their sight...
06:12 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch eBay Acquires GSI Commerce For $2.4 Billion In Cash And Debt
eBay has just announced that it has agreed to buy GSI Commerce, a provider of ecommerce and interactive marketing services, for $29.25 a share, or total consideration of approximately $2.4 billion. Th...
06:07 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Lady Gaga Donates $750K To Zynga's Japan Earthquake Relief Campaign
As we wrote a few weeks ago, Zynga launched a campaign with Save The Children to raise money via in-game donations in Zynga games like FrontierVille, FarmVille and CityVille for the relief efforts in ...
06:07 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Lady Gaga Donates $1.5M To Zynga's Japan Earthquake Relief Campaign
As we wrote a few weeks ago, Zynga launched a campaign with Save The Children to raise money via in-game donations in Zynga games like FrontierVille, FarmVille and CityVille for the relief efforts in ...
06:02 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Excelsior! Students Build Fruit Ninja Simulator
Since our rise from the primordial ooze, mankind has wanted one thing and one thing only: the ability to play Fruit Ninja inside of a little white room while using our hands as swords. That goal, frie...
05:58 pm GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Upstream Commerce Helps E-Retailers Price Their Products, Raises $1.25 Million
Exclusive - Upstream Commerce, a provider of a cloud-based, automated competitive pricing and product analytics solution for online retailers not to be confused with mobile marketing solutions company...
06:27 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch An App By Any Other Name "
"One of the deep mysteries to me is our logo, the symbol of lust and knowledge, bitten into, all crossed with the colors of the rainbow in the wrong order. You couldn't dream of a more appropriate log...
05:51 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch OMGJK: The Color Of Controversy
We're back with a new episode of OMG/JK, and it's a good one.This last week has been full of controversy "  from the launch of Color, the photo-swapping app that raised $41 million pre-launc...
05:00 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch Glam Media Furthers International Presence With South Korean Vertical
Glam Media, one of the largest publishing and advertising networks on the Web, is continuing to expand its international presence with the launch of Glam Media South Korea. The women-focused vertical ...
12:36 am GMT - Mon, March 28, 2011
Techcrunch A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Points: Topguest Hooks Up With Instagram
Everyone loves loyalty points. But it's often a pain to get them because different companies all have their own programs that require you to remember numbers. Topguest's goal is to unify that experien...
10:49 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch Strangers in Paradise
Much has been made of the iPad's role as a laptop replacement, but for me that war is over. The phone is increasingly a remote controller for the larger screen "  I use its Personal Hotspot ...
10:30 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Lauren Leto: Texts From Last Night Was A Million Dollar Idea, Bnter Is Next
As a law student, Lauren Leto and her friends started Texts From Last Night, a site where they could anonymously posts real text messages about their exploits going out at night. It turns out a lot o...
08:34 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch Goodnight, Swoopo: The Pay-Per-Bid Auction Site Is Dead
When I first wrote about Swoopo back in 2008 I found it abhorrent. It was, in short, a form of gambling masquerading as an auction site. You paid for bids - the more bids you bought the better the cha...
08:00 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch Mobile Messaging March Madness
On Thursday, I usedYobongo all day, which helped me find a newlunch spot, run into an old friend, and meet a Yobongoco-founder. That afternoon, I thought it would be a good time to write about the new...
07:15 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about ")
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC atGRP Partners. Read more about Suster atBothsidesofthetableBlogs. We all read them to get a sense of what is g...
05:15 pm GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch What Bill Gates Could Learn from Chris Rock
In his recent article on TechCrunch, "Engineering vs. Liberal Arts: Who's Right" Bill or Steve?,"  Vivek Wadhwa sparked a national debate about education that raises impor...
09:52 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch NSFW: Colo(u)r Me Done "" I'm Going To Vegas, For Starters
"Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard to Las Vegas..." - Hunter S. Thomps...
05:59 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch iOS 5 Likely Pushed To The Fall After A Cloud Unveiling At WWDC
Many people (including myself) were a bit disappointed that Apple didn't devote any time during the iPad 2 unveiling to talking about iOS 5, the next major revamp of the software. But there may be a v...
05:01 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang 3.26.11 (TCTV)
This week's Gillmor Gang started off with a bunch of no-shows from Mike Arrington and Robert Scoble. Don't know what happened to Mike, but @scobleizer was sandbagged by a rehearsal request for Ted X, ...
04:44 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch Google Doing Some Profile Unification Leading Up To" Well, Something.
Google is still hard at work on their social strategy. You know it, I know it, we all know it. What it will actually be, remains to be seen. But there are clues related to it that have started to appe...
03:15 am GMT - Sun, March 27, 2011
Techcrunch "Open" 
Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Open. Closed.I've never liked Google's use of the word "open" to describe the Android operating system. On one hand, the "openness" has led to situations where carr...
08:05 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Friends Don't Let Friends Get Into Finance
After having been a tech executive for many years, I needed to take a break, and I wanted to give back to society. Duke University engineering dean Kristina Johnson gave me a great spiel about how the...
07:27 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Five Things Facebook Should Fix Immediately
Let me start with two questions. Why is it that such a successful company as Facebook feels like it needs to change and reinvent its interface constantly? And why are we so complacent with these ...
05:30 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Google's Robotic Recipe Search Favors SEO Over Good Food
Editor's note: Guest writer Amanda Hesser is a cookbook author, co-founder of cooking community site Food52, and a food columnist for the New York Times.The entity with the greatest influence on what ...
05:27 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Review: The Nintendo 3DS, The Next Step In Portable Gaming Evolution
Nintendo has long defined the rules of childhood. In Nintendo's world, logic and whimsy are intermixed and there is always a bigger boss and another castle. We learned from Nintendo that you can alway...
05:25 pm GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch RIM Buys Developer Of HTML5 Mobile App Testing Platform TinyHippos
Research In Motion has made another acquisition-mobile development company TinyHippos. In an announcement on both RIM's development blog and TinyHippos blog, the BlackBerry manufacturer said that it b...
08:08 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch First Look: With Disco, Google Also Joins The Group Messaging Dance (Care Of Slide)
As we just broke the news on, Google has a secret group messaging project that was built from within their confines: Disco. Slide, which Google bought last year, are the ones responsible for the app. ...
07:39 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Meet "~Disco', The Group Texting App Built Secretly Inside Google
It seems like Google has made a foray into the group messaging space today with Disco, a new iPhone app and website. Well, they sort of have.The service utilizes the Disco.com domain that Google bough...
06:21 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Dwolla's FiSync Lets You Instantly Access Cash, Eliminates ACH Wait Times For Banks
Innovative web and mobile payments platform Dwolla is announcing today its FiSync integration for financial institutions, a technology which lets users of participating banks integrate with with the D...
05:30 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch OS X Lion Already Nearing "Golden Master"  ""  Release Around WWDC?
It has been one month since Apple unveiled a developer preview of their latest operating system, OS X Lion. And while the initial deployment was a bit rocky, Apple appears to have worked through their...
03:34 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Color's Totally Public Photo Swapping Service Has A Public Office To Match
Stroll through downtown Palo Alto right now, and there's a chance you'll pass by one of the most buzzed-about startups in the Valley: Color, the new photo-swapping service that raised $41 million pre-...
01:27 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch The Color Of Envy And Rooting Against Goliath
We're now two days into to the life of Color, and it's still the tech story that everyone in the blogosphere wants to talk about. Yesterday, I detailed why so much of that talk is directly related to ...
01:02 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Internet's Influence On Language Reinforced By OED Changes, Google In Cherokee
"Technology has been one of the biggest drivers of new vocabulary for centuries" -- Jesse Sheidlower,editor at large for the O.E.D.The Internet's importance as a preserver and driver of language use h...
12:41 am GMT - Sat, March 26, 2011
Techcrunch Gary Vaynerchuk, Thank You For Ignoring My Calls
Gary Vaynerchuk is a busy guy. I don't expect him to pick up the phone every time I call. After all, he's on a book tour or something, and busy tweeting, and drinking wine. But then I saw the pictu...
09:52 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Groupon's "Real"  U.S. Revenue Numbers For February
Two days ago, I published the chart below with monthly estimates of Groupon's U.S. revenues. The chart shows a startling 30 percent falloff in February from the month before. As I noted in the post:...
09:43 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch NYT Updates Its iPhone App With Push Alerts For Breaking News, New Subscription Plan
The New York Times, struggling to find its place digitally, has just released an iPhone update today, three days before its paywall plan is put into action. Well what's new?In addition to an inter...
09:35 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch A Look At The Uptime Of 50 Popular APIs
APIs are like websites: they are available most of the time, but unfortunately not all the time.Website and application performance monitoring startup WatchMouse monitored the uptime of 50 of the most...
09:30 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman Personally Thanks First Million Members For Being Early Adopters
As you may have heard, professional social network LinkedIn passed 100 million members this past week. Amid an upcoming IPO, this was a pretty significant milestone for the social network. And today, ...
09:27 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch TechCrunch Giveaway: Xbox Kinect Package #TechCrunch
For today's giveaway, we are giving a Xbox Kinect package away to one lucky reader. This package comes with the Xbox 360, a Kinect, and a game. Microsoft broke records by selling 8 million Kinects in ...
08:33 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Gives Seedcamp Startups Similar VIP Access As Y Combinator's
Last year Facebook announced that it will be working to help Y Combinator companies create "transformative social experiences" , giving them preferential treatment and access to company...
07:44 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Pulse Updates iPhone And Android Apps With Social Feeds, Improved Sharing, More Sources
Pulse, an innovative news reading app for mobile devices, has updated its iPhone and Android apps with a number of new features including new content sources and improved sharing with social feeds and...
07:20 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch #REDALLOVER: Nike Leans On Twitter To Design New USA Men's Soccer Kit
Team USA play Argentina tomorrow at the New Meadowlands Stadium in New Jersey, and while we're all excited to see Messi & Co. pretty much run circles around the team, at least our boys will look g...
07:15 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Now You Can Shop For Shoes From Anywhere With The Zappos Android App
There is no doubt that mobile commerce is heating up. The market is expected to be a multi-billion dollar sector in 2011 and eBay, Amazon and many other online retailers are launching designated apps ...
06:51 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Search Is Google's Castle, Everything Else Is A Moat
Google is moving in many directions" mobile, browsers, productivity apps, operating systems, social. At first glance, it may seem like it is trying ever so hard to move beyond its giant one...
06:07 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Twimal: Super-Cute Twitter Toy Pet Reads Tweets For You
Japan is crazy about Twitter, and today local toy maker Takara Tomy has announced Twimal (short for "Twitter Animal") [JP], a super-cute toy "pet" that can reads out tweets loud for you. The white ver...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Flurry Launches Support Program For Game Developers, Nabs Director From Playfish
It appears there's an arms race taking place in the mobile gaming world, and as is often the case in Silicon Valley, it starts with engineering and development talent. Google, for one, took some serio...
05:54 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Hybrid Cloud Hosting Startup Voxel Raises $5.5 Million
Cloud and managed hosting startup Voxel has raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by Seaport Capital. As part of the transaction, Jim Collis of Seaport Capital will join Voxel's Board of Directo...
05:44 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Encoding.com Opens Vid.ly "" A Single URL For Videos You Can Watch Anywhere
Video encoding service provider Encoding.com this morning announced that it is opening the beta version of its Vid.ly video URL service to the public.In a world littered with an enormous variety of sm...
05:40 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Nuclear WatchDawg App Reveals Nuclear Plants, Safety Issues Within Fifty Mile Radius
A newly released Android app, Nuclear WatchDawg, reveals where nuclear power plants and associated safety and environmental concerns are within a fifty mile radius anywhere in the U.S. NuclearWatchDa...
05:24 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Sorry Mike, No Sonos Controller For Android Until Next Month
Finally! Sonos To Release Android Controller App In March, exclaimed an understandably excited Michael Arrington back in February. Alas, bad news has just come in for my boss and many other Android ha...
04:29 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Is Apple Too Quick To Shut Down Potentially Hacked Accounts?
A reader, Mike, sent in a tale of woe so odd and draconian that I'm not even sure what to think of it. On one hand, Apple is protecting its interests when it comes to fake gift cards and other potenti...
04:11 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Spotify Turns Off Third-Party Display Ads Following Malware Attacks
Some users of the free, ad-supported version of digital music service Spotify are getting hit by malware-based attacks, reported The Register earlier today, echoing a report from Netcraft.Netcraft exp...
03:52 pm GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Yellow Media Sells Vertical Media Publishing Subsidiary For $745 Million In Cash
Canadian Internet conglomerate Yellow Media is selling its vertical media publishing business Trader Corporation to funds advised by Apax Partners for a total purchase price consideration of $745 mill...
10:17 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Take A Deep Breath Google, Facebook Isn't Doing Search Just Yet
I can imagine this post, titled "Facebook Testing Web Search Box At Top Of Site" was flying around Google's cubicles today. Probably with a few expletives attached as commentary.This certainly wouldn'...
09:58 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Seattle Startup Thinkfuse Scores $500k By Hanging Around During Y Combinator Demo Day
Angel investors gorged on one of their twice-a-year feeding frenzies at Y Combinator's demo day earlier this week. Among other things, SV Angel and Yuri Milner finally got to see what they invested in...
07:00 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Podio Is Like A Yammer With Its Own App Store And App Builder
Like a souped up Yammer with its own App store attached,Danishonline workspace Podio launches to the public today after two years of being in beta. In the same space as Box.net and 37Signals, Podio ai...
05:07 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch In Amazon's Android Appstore, Fat-Fingering Will Cost You ""  Literally
A couple days ago, in writing up some thoughts on Amazon's new Android Appstore, I noted that the app buying process may be a little too easy. You see, just scrolling through the feed of apps, I accid...
04:01 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch AT&T Broadband Metering Is Shoddy And They Know It
The question of broadband metering is becoming more important by the day. And while there's much to be discussed about the cost of bandwidth, the trends of consumption, the public money involved in th...
03:38 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Video: ShopSquad's CEO Explains Their Personal Shopper Network
Yesterday we wrote about ShopSquad, a new startup that looks to use the web to connect shoppers with expert shopping assistants. The company just closed $1.25 million in seed funding, with participant...
03:12 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Digital Polling Utility CivicScience Scores $1.2 Million In Seed Funding
Pittsburgh-based startup CivicScience, an intelligent polling utility that offers a host of audience measurement and analytics tools for publishers and advertisers, has raised $1.2 million in seed f...
02:00 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Easy Cash!? Google Beats "~Google Money' Scammers, Is Awarded $1.6 Million
As an intelligent, tech-savvy reader of TechCrunch, you're probably pretty good at spotting online scams " from Nigerian Princes to friends "stuck" in London, many of us have trained oursel...
01:59 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Record Industry: Limewire Could Owe $75 Trillion "" Judge: "Absurd" 
So we're all pretty desensitized by now to the mind-blowing stupidity on display by the record industry in its foolhardy attempts at assigning damages in piracy cases — was anyone surprised when...
01:41 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Marketing Intelligence Service Motista Raises $4.5 Million in Series A
Motista, an on-demand consumer intelligence solution for marketers, has raised $4.5 million in series A financing led by El Dorado Ventures. El Dorado Partner Tom Peterson will be joining Motista's bo...
01:12 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Find The Best Stuff Around You With Village Voice Media's "Best Of ""  App
In the era of crowd-sourced recommendation services it's hard to remember that people actually recommend stuff for a living. My old employer Village Voice Media, which built the foundation of its 14 p...
12:57 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Google Goes After Big Media Ad Dollars With New Video Search Ads
Google is launching a new "~Media Ads' format for video ads on Google.com. The ads will appear as small thumbnails with a play button, and when a user clicks on the thumbnail, the video ad...
12:42 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Google Begins Testing Android In-App Billing ""  Full Launch Next Week
Finally.For quite some time now, Android developers have been waiting for the arrival of an in-app payment and billing system. Originally, Google said this was coming last year, but it was delayed by ...
12:06 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch Audible.com Audiobooks Now Available (For Real) On Kindle
You can now download more than 50,000 Audible.com audiobooks on your Kindle via your Wi-Fi connection. You've always been able to download Audible audiobooks from the site itself, then transfer them t...
12:04 am GMT - Fri, March 25, 2011
Techcrunch RT: Twitter En Route To Floor Of UK Parliament
Anti-Twitter people should probably click elsewhere for a few minutes, for it looks like the micro-blogging service is one step closer to making its way to the floor of the British House of Commons. I...
11:46 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Tries To Squash 21 Squatted Domain Names
Facebook is trying to gain ownership over 21 domain names that include the term 'facebook', including KillFacebook.com, FacebookStuff.com and FacebookSafety.com.The domain names are all currently owne...
11:11 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch The Color Of Money
People. Colors. Apps. Cats. Bacon. Organic. Bieber. Mobile. Social. Local. Pivot.That's the key slide in a faux-deck making the rounds this morning on the web. The subject of the ridicule? Color, ...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Relaunches Questions: No Threat To Quora, More Emphasis On Friends
Last July, after months of rumors and leaked screenshots, Facebook launched a Q&A product called Questions. At the time, I said it had the potential to be "massive": with 500 million (now 600 mill...
10:44 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Forrst Gets Seeded With $200,000
Coders hang out on Stack Overflow. Designers hang out on Forrst. The invite-only site for Web developers and designers just raised a $205,000 seed round from Dave McClure's 500Startups, Nate Westhei...
10:43 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Color.xxx Pitch Slides Lampoon Tech Bubble Absurdity
If you're like most people in the tight-knit incestuous family we'd like to call the tech industry, all of the headlines in this Techmeme cluster on mobile social photo-sharing app Color nabbing $41 m...
09:15 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Ford Announces Partnership With AT&T To Connect Focus Electric To The Cloud
Today, Ford announced their partnership with AT&T to provide wireless service for the upcoming Ford Focus Electric. AT&T transmits vehicle data -- much like Audi and T-Mobile -- to Ford's clou...
08:59 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch DST's Yuri Milner Buys $70 Million Home In Silicon Valley
Yuri Milner, founder of Moscow-based venture firm DST, has purchased quite a home in Silicon Valley, say multiple sources. The 25,000 square foot home, built just a few years ago, sits on a tidy 11 ac...
08:29 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Jack Dorsey & The Golden Gate Bridge (Exclusive Video)
A recent Vanity Fair profile of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey ends with an anecdote about an inspiring speech he gave to the assembled staff at his new mobile payments startup, Square. The internal "To...
07:11 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Color.com Was Acquired For $350,000 (The Domain Name, That Is)
By now, everyone and their dog have been able to form and voice their opinions about the $41 million in early-stage funding raised by mobile photo sharing app developer Color.In the interest of feedin...
06:17 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch How The Mainstream Media Is Failing Us With Its Nuclear Hysteria
The news from Japan is both awful and appalling. Awful: 23,000 confirmed dead or missing, and counting. Appalling: pretty much anything to do with the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant. Nuclear meltdown...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch InsideView Raises $12M To Give Businesses Social Sales Intelligence
InsideView, a service that mashes up social data for enterprises to increase sales productivity, has raised $12 million in Series C funding led by Foundation Capital with Emergence Capital Partners, R...
04:05 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Boom! Walgreens Buys Online Retailer Drugstore.com For $409 Million
Drugstore juggernaut Walgreens this morning announced that it will acquire online retailer Drugstore.com in a transaction with a total enterprise value of approximately $409 million.As a result of the...
03:48 pm GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Steve Jobs To Tawkon: "No Interest"  In Your Phone Radiation Measurement App
I see you driving 'round town with an app that measures cellular radiation, and I'm like, "no interest". Apple head honcho Steve Jobs has made it abundantly clear that Tawkon's phone radiation measure...
06:21 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch That Was Fast: The Speak-To-Search Extension For Chrome
It seems like just yesterday that I was writing about Chrome 11's awesome new ability to let you speak to the browser by way of HTML5. In fact, it was just yesterday. But that hasn't stopped a team fr...
04:56 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Google TV PM Brittany Bohnet Leaves Google To Found A Startup
Google TV Product Lead Brittany Bohnet has just announced that she's leaving Google after four years to try her luck as an entrepreneur, presumably as a co-founder of an as of yet un-named startup.At ...
04:38 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Views.fm Makes Dropbox Look Sexy
The Web is a medium for sharing. Whether it be photos, videos, music, links, code, we share the content we produce and consume all the time. The rise of the social graph has only brought more attenti...
04:29 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Dorsey Is Back In Action At Twitter, And That May Be Formalized Soon
While everyone is going gaga over Lady Gaga at Twitter, it's the gradual return of another creative genius to 795 Folsom Streetthat's got die hard Twitter fans all hot and bothered. Twitter and Square...
04:02 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Color Looks To Reinvent Social Interaction With Its Mobile Photo App (And $41 Million In Funding)
$41 million. From Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Pre-launch.That's how much a brand new startup called Color has to work with. Your eyebrows should already be raised, and here...
03:35 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch YouTube Now Helps You Make Movies"Without A Camera
By now you're undoubtedly familiar with the incredible amount of footage that's uploaded to YouTube "  the current count is 35 hours of video uploaded every minute. And with video cameras i...
03:19 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Serlet Transition Out Appears As Natural As OS X Transition Towards iOS
Back in October of last year, the day before it was formally unveiled, I wondered if OS X Lion would be the last of its kind. There were two main arguments: the big cat name choice and the colossal ri...
02:05 am GMT - Thu, March 24, 2011
Techcrunch Google's Algorithmic Cat And Mouse Game [Infographic]
The search wars have officially arrived! That's right folks, Google's ongoing quest to make its search results more impervious to spammers has become an infographic, which basically is a badge of hono...
10:31 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Exclusive Data On Groupon's U.S. Revenues And February Falloff
By most accounts, Groupon is growing like gangbusters. It's taking market share around the world, hiring left and right, and priming for a $25 billion IPO. But how much of the group-buying site's re...
10:25 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch AOL HuffPost To Freelancers: We Want You On Staff, But Real Journalists Only Need Apply
In the reorganization of AOL and the Huffington Post into the Huffington Post Media Group, the company succumbed to layoffs and consolidated AOL news sites into the Huffington Post, folding or shutti...
10:25 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Why Google Is Making Us Fat and Lazy [TCTV]
Nicholas Carr once argued that Google is making us stupid. Googlization of Everything author Siva Vaidhyanathan goes one step further than Carr. Google, Vaidhyanathan says, is like junk food. It indul...
10:10 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Offline Labs Goes Online With $1 Million Seed Round. Enter The Project Dragn: Ssh
A year ago, Rod Begbie, Rishi Mandal, and Vivek Patel were all working at Slide. Then the Google deal happened. Shortly thereafter, each of them left "  but they weren't ready to stop workin...
10:01 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch I, For One, Welcome Our New Dancing Android Overlords
Little known (and completely false) fact: once upon a time, the Android Robot (the platform's lovable lil' green logo) entered a dance contest. First place was a lucrative dance contract with one of t...
09:31 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Amazingly, MySpace's Decline Is Accelerating
Between January and February 2011, says Comscore, worldwide unique visitors to MySpace declined by a staggering 14.4% from 73 million visitors to 63 million visitors. It's about half of the audience t...
09:31 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch CMP.LY Raises $750,000 To Keep Companies Honest Online
More and more businesses are using social media "  from Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, to Tumblr and Foursquare, more recently "  to manage customer relationships, market, sell o...
09:26 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Yahoo Launches Its Answer To Google Instant: "~Search Direct'
Yes, Yahoo is launching a new product today that you might actually be interested in. It's derivative, but it looks useful.Today at a press event in San Francisco, the company announced the launch of ...
07:59 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Software Development And IT Outsourcing Powerhouse Globant Raises $15 Million
Globant, an Argentinian software development, IT services and maintenance outsourcing giant has landed $15 million in financing from PE firm Riverwood Capital and FTV Capital.The funding is meant to f...
07:54 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Review: Olympus E-PL2 Micro 43s Camera
Short VersionTo be sure, Olympus' micro 4/3s cameras, the E-PL1 and the E-PL2, are changing the way we think about removable lens cameras. However, I worry that high price coupled with potentially lim...
07:23 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Study Shows AT&T iPhone Owners Rely On WiFi More Than Verizon iPhone Users
Mobile ad exchange Mobclix is releasing a survey this morning which examines the usage of the Verizon iPhone vs. the AT&T iPhone in the U.S. The Verizon iPhone was released to the public over a mo...
07:10 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch How Do You Talk To An Angel? Use Yobongo, They're All Investing.
"We spoke to investors in October but many people doubted that Yobongo would work. So we went and kept working on the product,"Yobongo co-founder Caleb Elston says. "A few weeks ago we got the product...
07:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Social Shopping Startup ShopSquad Lands $1.25M In Funding From Heavy Hitters
Exclusive - Social commerce startup ShopSquad has secured $1.25 million in early-stage funding, TechCrunch has learned. The seed financing round was led by a consortium of individual investors with a ...
06:29 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Gilt Groupe Acquires Interior Design Community Decorati
Flash sales giant Gilt Groupe has acquired home decor site Decorati. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded by interior designer Shane Reilly, Decorati launched in 2009 as an online platform fo...
05:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch App Distributor Tapjoy Launches Publishing Platform For Game Developers
App monetization and distribution platform Tapjoy is rolling out a publishing platform to support game developers, Tapjoy Publishing. Tapjoy, which used to be Offerpal, allows developers of mobile and...
04:54 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Loses Executive Bertrand Serlet After 22 Years Of Working With Jobs
In a press release issued earlier this morning, Apple has announced that Bertrand Serlet, SVP of Mac Software Engineering, will be leaving the company. Craig Federighi, Apple's VP of Mac Software Engi...
04:16 pm GMT - Wed, March 23, 2011
Techcrunch Intel's McAfee Acquires Sentrigo To Boost Database Security Offerings
Intel-owned McAfee is announcing an acquisition this morning" database security company Sentrigo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Sentrigo, which has raised $19 million in venture fund...
06:10 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011
Techcrunch CrunchGear Interview: "Gadget-Talk"  With Cody Votolato From The Band TELEKINESIS
While the SXSW Interactive Conference concluded days ago and is likely only a faint, buzzed memory in the minds of its tech-savvy attendees, the Music side of SXSW just closed shop today. I made it al...
05:30 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011
Techcrunch Rebecca Black Means The (Internet) Fame Game Has Changed
The video for Rebecca Black's "Friday" now has more YouTube views than Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" at around 26 million versus 22 million for Gaga. For those of you that haven't been playing along wit...
01:51 am GMT - Mon, March 21, 2011
Techcrunch Fast Break: As Of Last Week, Many At Sprint Thought They Were Merging With T-Mobile
This morning's bombshell news that AT&T would be buying T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion has left a lot of questions. T-Mobile customers want to know what it means for them? ...
11:11 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Push notification
When technology and media intersect with the emotional underpinnings of our lives, the result is the kind of tsunami we're experiencing with the iPad. It may seem petty to many to cheerlead a company ...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Adult Websites Will Soon Get Their Own .XXX Brothels, But Not All Are Excited
This is a guest post from Andrew Allemann, author of Domain Name Wire, a blog covering the business and policy of domain names. He has been active in the domain name industry as a buyer, seller, and c...
10:34 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch In The Race For More Spectrum, AT&T Is Acquiring T-Mobile For $39 Billion
As anyone who has read a tech blog in the past few years will know, AT&T has been under attack for not being able to match the network capacity of larger rival Verizon. And when they won the major...
09:30 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Beetailer Helps Online Retailers Set Up Shop On Facebook
With Facebook's massive userbase of over 600 million consumers across the globe, retailers are actively flocking to the network. Especially considering the rise of the social e-commerce, the idea of a...
08:30 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Big Data Needs To Think Bigger
Spend enough time in Silicon Valley, and of all the buzz words you'll hear neatly tucked in with "graph,"  "serendipity,"  and "personalization"  is one of...
08:10 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Is Late Stage the New Early? Behind the Staggering Return of the $1B Venture Fund
In Silicon Valley it's not just who you invest in that matters-- it's also when you invest in them. The earlier the investment, the riskier the bet. But the more jawdropping the returns if the compan...
06:26 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Why Women Rule The Internet
Editor's note: This guest post is written by Aileen Lee, Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Aileen focuses on investing in early stage consumer internet ventures and previously worked at...
02:44 pm GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Confirmed: Facebook Acquires Snaptu (For An Estimated $60 "" $70 Million)
According to several Israeli business newspapers (TheMarker, Calcalist) Facebook has acquired Snaptu for an estimated $60 - $70 million, although some reports peg the price lower, at around $40 millio...
05:38 am GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang 3.19.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang "  John Taschek, Danny Sullivan, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  or at lest 4/5ths of them were decked out with iPad 2s. That didn't prevent the u...
05:00 am GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Wanita Power: What Women in the US Could Learn from Indonesians
JAKARTA-- I'm mid-way through a trip to Indonesia at the request of the State Department, and I'm finding a hard time putting the experience into words. You'd think after two years of writing about ot...
02:54 am GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch OMGJK: Storming The Paywall
It's time for a new episode of OMG/JK, the weekly show where my colleague MG Siegler and I talk about the latest news in tech.We both just got back from South By Southwest, and we have plenty to say a...
01:48 am GMT - Sun, March 20, 2011
Techcrunch Another Netflix Content Idea: Saving Cancelled Cult Hits
Yesterday, I laid out why the new Netflix original content plan could be a game-changer in terms of television content and the ultimate disruption of cable. But it still all depends on if the show(s) ...
11:30 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Fly or Die: The Nintendo 3DS, Rockmelt, And Mobile Wallets
s the new Nintendo 3DS all that? Does Rockmelt have a chance? Will mobile wallets ever be adopted by real people in real stores? CrunchGear editor John Biggs and I tackle these question...
10:20 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Yearly Leaf: "It's A Coffee Table Book Meets A Moleskine For The Facebook Set!" 
I swear I'm not just being a lazy blogger because it's Saturday and it's a beautiful, sunny day here in Belgium (okay, maybe a little). I mostly just dig the way Mark here explained his new project in...
08:30 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch RIP Digg.
Startups in Silicon Valley are like old generals. They don't die anymore, buoyed on life-rafts of lingering venture capital and modest revenues. They just fade away, eventually purchased for assets th...
08:00 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch PayPal And eBay Users Raise $1M Towards Japan Earthquake And Tsunami Relief
Similar to the relief efforts surrounding the Haiti earthquake last year, technology companies are actively encouraging their users to donate to campaigns coordinating relief efforts in Japan, which s...
07:31 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Listen Closely: Broadcastr Brings You An Audio Guide To The Whole Wide World
I'm a huge William Gibson fan, not least for the ideas with which his books overflow. One such in Spook Country was location-based virtual art: VR images that can only be seen at specific real-world p...
06:00 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Foodspotting's Soraya Darabi On Women In Tech
Let's face it, the tech industry is dominated by male geeks and alpha dog VCs. It's not easy being a female founder in that environment. But as Foodspotting co-founder Soraya Darabi tells Chris Dixo...
05:33 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch "~Beatbox' Bill Gates Takes On "~Sinista' Steve Jobs In A Rap Battle (Video)
You can debate if there is still that much of an epic battle between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - or Microsoft and Apple in other words - at all these days. As much as pundits like to keep drawing comp...
05:00 pm GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Don't Bet Big. Little Bets Are The Ones That Turn Into Billion-Dollar Ideas
When I was in business school, one of the most common things I would hear people say was that they wanted to do something new" like start a company or take an unconventional career path"...
06:41 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Reddit, Social News Frontrunner, Is Down To One Developer
Two out of the three remaining Reddit programmers quietly left the social news community last week, Mike Schiraldi going to Google and David King going to Hipmunk where he joins Reddit co-founder Alex...
06:28 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch The Pedants' Revolt: Does The AP's Killing Of E-Mail Mark A Worrying Escalation?
PHOENIX (TC) -- Solemnly they filed into the briefing room at Arizona State University's Cronkite School of Journalism: the journalists, the bloggers and those who tweet on behalf of celebrities. Only...
06:06 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch $700,000 Donated To Japan Relief Efforts Via Causes, Salesforce Pledges $25K Matching Grant
As Japan works to recover from the horrendous earthquake and tsunami that struck last week, many companies and citizens are donating what they can to help. One of the easiest ways to help is to send a...
05:24 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Google Ventures Launches $10,000 Startup Referral Program For Employees
If you're a Google employee and you know about a stealth startup that wants funding, you can pocket a cool $10,000. The Google Ventures team announced the new program at Google's weekly all-hands "TGI...
04:26 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Wow, Google Has Ported My Ten Thousand Button Nightmare To The iPhone!
Back in October of last year, I got my first glance at the Sony Google TV remote. I immediately broke out into a cold sweat and hives. I mean, just look at the thing. Our collective living rooms ...
03:17 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch CrunchBoard Jobs: We're Hiring
TechCrunch is hiring. Come work with us! The positions we have available right now are:Executive Support:Executive Assistant - San Francisco, CAProduct and Engineering:Web Developer - Ruby on Rail...
02:14 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Netflix Original Content Is Much More Than A Strategy Shift ""  It Could Shift An Industry
Three years ago, if you had asked people to choose between cable television and Netflix, the vast majority would have laughed at you. A DVD-by-mail service versus thousands of pieces of content always...
01:49 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Kevin Rose Resigns From Digg, Closing Round On New Startup
Wow, when I wrote last night that Kevin Rose doesn't really use Digg anymore, I had no idea how perfect the timing was. It turns out Rose really has tuned out. Because, say multiple sources, he's alre...
01:43 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch With A New Name In Tow, MyPad's "~Facebook For iPad' App Hits 3 Million Downloads
Back in January I wrote about an iPad application called Facepad, which drew heavy inspiration from Twitter's iPad application to create a similar 'swipable' experience for Facebook that lets you jump...
01:24 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Right Media Founder Michael Walrath Becomes Chairman of Yext
Local advertising startup Yext has a new chairman, Michael Walrath. Walrath was the founder and CEO of Right Media, an online advertising exchange which he sold to Yahoo for $850 million in 2007. Si...
01:16 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch The Sun Will Set For Yahoo's AlltheWeb On April 4
As we heard in late December, Yahoo was planning to "sunset" a number of its products, including Delicious, AltaVista, MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Picks, and AlltheWeb. While we all assumed su...
12:35 am GMT - Sat, March 19, 2011
Techcrunch Hitler Weighs In On SXSW Jumping The Shark
To save all 15 of you the effort of writing a response to MG's "Saying 'SXSW Is Over' Is Over" post right now, the "Has SXSW Interactive jumped the shark" discussion has hit Godwin's Law. That's right...
11:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Ask a VC: Peter Barris on Scaling the VC Business and Snagging the First Stake in Groupon (TCTV)
My guest this week on Ask a VC is Peter Barris of NEA. NEA is one of the oldest venture firms in the country, one of the first to be bicoastal and one that unabashedly sticks to the same mega-fund str...
10:55 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Songkick Poaches A Big Hitter CTO Out Of Google
Live bands site Songkick has achieved something fairly rare for a European startup. Rare enough to be worth a mention, at least. In common with what appears to be a trend of Google people escaping to ...
10:29 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Seeing Interactive Changes Name To OwnLocal, Launches Hyper-Local Deals Network
YCombinator-backed Seeing Interactive, which helps small publishers maintain market share against national competitors like AOL's Patch, has changed its name to OwnLocal today, expanding beyond provid...
10:20 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Bruce Sterling: What Comes After the Future? (TCTV)
So what comes after the future? I asked Bruce Sterling at SXSW.But, for Bruce, the future is really the past. "I like narratives,"  he told me, while explaining why the most "e...
10:01 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Zynga Buys Mobile And Video Game Developer Floodgate Entertainment
In Zynga's 10th acquisition in ten months, the social gaming giant is announcing the acquisition of Massachusetts game developer Floodgate Entertainment. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Floodga...
10:01 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Zynga Adds Team From Mobile And Video Game Developer Floodgate Entertainment
In Zynga's 10th acquisition in ten months, the social gaming giant is announcing the acquisition of the team from Massachusetts game developer Floodgate Entertainment. Terms of the deal were not disc...
09:21 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch TechCrunch Giveaway: A Motorola Xoom #TechCrunch
For today's giveaway, we are giving away a Motorola Xoom. The Motorola Xoom is the world's first tablet with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). We've written numerous posts on whether or not we think this is be...
08:46 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Xobni Is Coming To Gmail, Android, And iPhone (100 Beta Invites)
Ever since Xobni launched at the first TechCrunch 40, it's been about Outlook and then Blackberry. But those of us who use Gmail also want to make our inboxes smarter. Today, Xobni is launching apri...
08:44 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Bit.ly Unveils New Mobile Site To Shorten, Share And Track Links On The Go
Bitly has just rolled out a brand new mobile site, to allow tablet and smartphone users to shorten, share and track links on the go. The HTML5 optimized version of Bitly's webite is cross-platform so ...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Can HighGear Media Turn Lousy Blog Economics into a Huge Exit? (TCTV)
Earlier today, we posted an interview with Matt Heist, CEO of HighGear Media, an auto blog that hit four million uniques last month. That may not sound too jaw-dropping but gearheads are a surprisingl...
07:37 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Opt-Out Cookie Error Earns Chitika A Whopping 55 Cents And An FTC Inquiry
Search-targeted advertising network Chitika reached a settlement this week with the Federal Trade Commission over illegally tracking consumers behavior online. According to the FTC, Chitika allowed us...
07:36 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Footbo Raises $2.5 Million, Swings For The Fences With New Fantasy Baseball Game
Exclusive - Footbo, a provider of interactive sports sites and applications, has raised an additional $2.5 million from Pitango, the Israeli VC firm who has now invested about $4.5 million in the star...
06:44 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Foodspotting's Soraya Darabi: "Most Social Networks Were Inspired By East Asian Tech Trends" 
People love to take pictures of their food, especially with their mobile phones. And like all things mobile, apparently this activity started in Japan. "Most social networks have been inspired by Ea...
06:17 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Nokia CEO Stephen Elop: Work On First Windows Nokia Phones Has Begun
Nokia CEO (and former Microsoft executive) Stephen Elop has told Reuters that the mobile phone giant has begun work on the first smartphones based on Microsoft's software.The tidbit of news comes abou...
06:02 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Official PayPal App Quietly Published On Nokia's Ovi Store
PayPal has quietly released a mobile application for Nokia devices on the Finnish mobile phone maker's Ovi Store marketplace, a tipster points out. Indeed, while I can't find the app from where I'm se...
05:33 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Nursery Rhymes Storytime Reminds You Of The Blasted, Lunar Hellscape That Is Your Life
As a modern man whose dreams and ambitions have been charred to a cinder by the vagaries of time and circumstance and whose life has been reduced to hours of overtime interspersed with a few moments o...
05:21 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch AT&T Shutting Down Unauthorized Tetherers
An app called MyWi allows you to tether your iPhone or iPhone 2 without AT&T's explicit permission, a situation that has led the carrier to send a stern letter to tetherers requiring that they sto...
05:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Want to Get Paid to Drive and Write about Cars? (Fanboys Need Not Apply)
A while ago I wrote about how neglected the sports vertical was online, given the largest properties are mostly the same portals or online versions of old media sites that were launched in the late 19...
01:38 pm GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Millennial: Android Continues To Account For Over Half Of Mobile Ad Impression Share
Millennial Media's monthly mobile report is out today, giving us a view into how each OS and manufacturer is performing on the mobile ad network. Millennial, whose ads reach 90.3 million users monthly...
10:35 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch SXSW: Sights and Sounds (TCTV)
The SXSW interactive and technology programming has just ended and the music festival is getting underway. The interactive portion featured hundreds of panels inside the convention center. But much ...
07:46 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch StumbleUpon's Garrett Camp On What It's Like To Buy Back Your Company
There aren't many startup founders that have done what Garrett Camp has done. After selling content discovery service StumbleUpon to eBay for $75 million in 2007, Camp and investors decided to buy it ...
07:00 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch CoolPlanetBiofuels Draws Google Ventures Investment To Make Gas From Grass
CoolPlanetBiofuels "  a company that converts grass, woodchips, and other non-food crops and farm residue into high-grade fuel "  attracted a series B investment From Google Ventu...
06:47 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Not Even Kevin Rose Really Uses Digg Anymore
How bad are things at the once-mighty Digg these days? Not so good. It's been months since Digg relaunched in August in a quest for relevance. They had 18 million unique worldwide visitors that mo...
06:39 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch "Save Japan"  Initiative At SXSW 2011 (And How You Can Help Without Being There)
I am currently in Austin at SXSW 2011, but mentally absent: I was at Tokyo airport on Friday to fly off to Texas, on my way to the gate, when the earthquake hit Japan (where I am based). As everybody ...
06:10 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch After A Series Of Big Time News Events, Ustream Hits 10M Broadcasters, 60M Monthly Unique Viewers
Video service Ustream has seen an interesting six months, between broadcasting the Chilean miner rescue, the newsfeeds of revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, the debut of the Charlie Sheen show and the ...
06:00 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch The SXSWi Trade Show, Up Close, With Penguin
Watch me and my three chins walk through the SXSWi trade show talking to all sorts of exciting people including GroundLink, Animoto, and Volusion. Fast forward to 5:15 to see me talking to a giant, mu...
05:17 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Saying "SXSW Is Over"  Is Over
A lot of the talk surrounding SXSW this year has reminded me of one of my favorite skits from IFC's show Portlandia. It starts off with a guy peering into the window of a bar and telling the locals in...
04:46 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch On Nuclear Power: Regulating Our Reaction
As a result of the ongoing tragedy in Japan, in particular the threat of meltdown or catastrophic radiation release from the Fukushima nuclear power plants, there has been a renewal of the discussion ...
04:15 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Gobbler Puts The Fun Back Into Collaborative Media Projects
If you've ever worked on a big music or video project you'll probably love Gobbler immediately. Just don't get too excited - it's still in early beta and for now all they've released is their audio pr...
04:09 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Is Groupon Worth $25 Billion? Revenue Now "Multiple Billions Of Dollars" 
As Groupon pursues its plans for an IPO, it's proposed valuation keeps on going up. First it was $15 billion, now it's $25 billion, according to a report by Bloomberg. Remember, it was only in Janua...
03:56 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Print "" And Burn "" After Reading: It's Time To Fight Back Against The Footer Fascists
You've seen them, I've seen them. We've all seen them. Those screamingly pompous email footers that IT departments append to millions - billions? - of emails every day, urging us to "Consider the ...
03:51 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch First Impressions Of The Nintendo 3DS: 3D Done Right
I'll be the first to admit that I thought the 3DS would be a gimmicky also-ran. I followed the handheld console from E3 to a hands-on at CES and now with the device in my hands I can report that Ninte...
03:40 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Youngest Y Combinator Founders Launch MinoMonsters, The Pokemon Of Social Games
At age 15, most normal people are going to high school, learning to drive, not listening to their parents, and doing things that they'll later tell their kids not to do. Josh Buckley is not a normal t...
03:19 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Pixelate 2.0 For iPhone Shows You How Colors Will Look On Your Clothes, Walls
While it's not magic, it's close to it -- Pixelate 2.0 landed in the iTunes store today. The app, which is yet another step towards the future, allows you to try out colors of paint on your walls, or ...
03:00 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch The UK Beats The US To A Startup Visa "" But Will It Make A Real Difference? [TCTV]
Earlier today, Mike Butcher over on TechCrunch Europe gleefully reported that the UK had beaten the US in creating an entrepreneur/startup visa.One of the organizations credited with helping the Briti...
02:00 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch As My Future Self Feels Good About HuffPo, My Past Self Is Determined To Get Me Fired
I love book publishing. It's my favourite industry in the world, staffed by some of my favourite people and producing content that, more than in any other medium, is capable of changing the world. Bei...
12:14 am GMT - Fri, March 18, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Bruce Sterling: "Network Society Isn't Compatible With Democracy"  (TCTV)
Appropriately, Bruce Sterling closed SXSW this year. It's appropriate because after Bruce, there really isn't much to say. He's just about the smartest and funniest historical science fictional writer...
11:27 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch SXSW By The Numbers: iOS, Foursquare And GroupMe Emerge Victorious
SXSW Interactive is no longer about the panels or keynotes, having become a five day experiment in the ability of technology to withstand the load of over 20,000 influencers congregated in the same lo...
11:06 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Moki.TV Is The Ultimate, Personalized Guide To What's Streaming On The Web
As more services like Netflix, Amazon and others stream television and movie content on the web, consumers are able to basically watch whatever they want, whenever they want. But TV shows and movies a...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Scribd's HTML5-Based Document Viewer Is Now Portable, Retroactively Upgrades 20M+ Embeds
Last May, document sharing hub Scribd launched one of its biggest features yet: a document reader based entirely in HTML5. Up until then Scribd had presented its documents using a Flash-based viewer c...
10:31 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch The Google Loophole Has Become The FacebookTwitter Loophole
There are a lot of interesting angles to the news this morning about The New York Times' new paywall. Top news will remain free, a set number of articles for all users will remain free, there will be ...
10:11 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Zero Motorcycles Raises Another $17 Million To Make More Electric Bikes Domestically
Zero Motorcycles in Santa Cruz, Calif. today revealed that Invus, LP, the company's earliest financial backers, have invested another $17 million in the business, with potential to add $9 million mor...
09:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Online Subscription Billing Is Still A Hassle, SaaSy Aims To Change That
Small business owners have about a gazillion things to worry about when it comes to running their company. It's enough just to manage and execute their business model, let alone having to worry about ...
08:47 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Dumb, Da, Dumb, Dumb . . . The NYT's Digital Pricing Plan Discriminates By Device
More details emerged today about the New York Times' digital paywall, which will go up at the end of March. As far as paywalls go, it's not terrible. Subscribers to the print edition don't have to p...
07:44 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch comScore: 170 Million U.S. Internet Users Watched Online Video Last Month
ComScore has just released data from its Video Metrix service, showing that 170 million Internet users in the United States watched online video content in February for an average of 13.6 hours per vi...
07:20 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Whom Should You Hire at a Startup? (Attitude over Aptitude)
Startups. We know the mantra: Team matters. Is this philosophy exaggerated? Overrated? Clich? No. Team is the only thing that matters. Whatever you're working on now it's irrelevant unles...
07:04 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch All You Need To Know About The NYTimes.com Paywall
The New York Times has just put up more information about its much awaited paywall. The digital subscription model was initially announced in January 2010 as an effort to create a second revenue strea...
06:59 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Exclusive: Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Leads $6.5M Round For Jumio
Jumio is still gearing up for the launch of its online and mobile payments solution, due for release in 6 to 8 weeks, but the company has lined up an investor that is sure to draw even more attention ...
06:28 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch SMS On Steroids "" eBuddy Debuts Realtime, Cross-Platform Messaging App
eBuddy, the Dutch company that enables millions of people worldwide to communicate with each other on the Web and a wide range of mobile phones, is today introducing a brand new application for iPhone...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Zong Expands Mobile Payments Platform To TVs, Gaming Consoles, Tablets And More
Zong has been one of the pioneers in the mobile payments space, adding a compelling new way for consumers to pay for items online. Simply put, it lets you pay for things, particularly virtual goods on...
05:36 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Hydrovolts Wins Imagine H2O Prize, Harnesses Energy From Canal Water
A competition designed to accelerate innovation in water technology, Imagine H2O, chose a winner last night in San Francisco for its Water-Energy Nexus Prize: Hydrovolts. The Seattle startup makes sm...
05:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Startup Veterans Launch Imagine K12, A "Y Combinator For Education Startups" 
Startup veterans Geoff Ralston, Tim Brady and Alan Louie are launching Imagine K12 today, an education focused startup accelerator/investor that is modeled closely after Y Combinator. The goal of the ...
04:42 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch FriendFinder Revisits Plans To Go Public
More than a year after cancelling its IPO, citing terrible market conditions, FriendFinder this morning announced that it has filed an amendment to the Registration Statement on Form S-1 with the SEC ...
04:38 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch 10-Year Google Ad Vet To Lead Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center
Great news for Chicago entrepreneurship. Google exec Kevin Willer has been named CEO of the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center (CEC). An affiliate of the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the CEC ident...
03:13 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Tinychat Lets Anyone Put A Group Video Chat Toolbar On Their Website
Video-based communication startup Tinychat is attracting a lot of interest of late, not just from professional investors but also from celebrities from around the world. The company just raised a $1.5...
02:08 pm GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch U.K. Beats The U.S. To A Tech-Friendly Startup Visa
Right now the UK media is making a lot of noise about new Visa rules which mean "super-investors" willing to put 5m into a UK bank account will get the right to stay indefinitely in Britain after only...
10:58 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch GroupMe Won The SXSW Group Messaging Wars, Says Infographic
Group messaging was absolutely not as useful as we thought it would be this year at SXSW. Whether you were using Beluga, GroupMe, Kik, Yobongo or Fast Society or others, everyone had high hopes for a ...
08:11 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Danny Sullivan On How Viable It Is To Build Your Business On Google, Among Other Things
The search engine wars have been heightened since January, when TechCrunch contributor Vivek Wadhwa wrote about why we need a better system of search, because his college students could no longer find...
07:24 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch HeyZap Goes After Social Discovery, Launches Check-in For Mobile Games
Heyzap, a monetization and distribution platform for online casual games, announced today that it's going mobile. Launching a social discovery application for mobile games on Android, the startup will...
05:15 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch San Francisco Pledges Support For Life-Saving "~Fire Department' Mobile App
Back in January I wrote about an ambitious new mobile application that has a very good chance of saving lives (perhaps even many lives). And it's just gotten support from the City of San Francisco, wh...
04:41 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch At SXSW, Advertising Was This Year's Twitter, iPad 2 Was This Year's Foursquare
Now that the interactive portion of the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas is over, the key question is already rolling in: who won?What this really means, of course, is: what service was the breako...
04:21 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Sony To Subpoena Two Years Of PS3 Hacker's PayPal Records
Query: If I donated $10 to Geohot's legal defense fund, does that make me liable for his actions, and do I have no right to keeping that donation private? It was, after all (if I made it), a perfe...
03:57 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Pinger's Textfree Exchanging 1 Billion SMS Messages A Month, 1 Million Voice Minutes A Day
Pinger's free texting and phone application Textfree is continuing to see booming growth. The app, which has been downloaded over 14 million times for iOS and Android devices, uses an ad-supported mod...
03:01 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Gamestaq's Peer-To-Peer Game Sales Are The Love Child Of GameStop And Craigslist
The biggest business in the world right now is cutting out the middle man. One way or another, that's what many of the most promising start-ups and services are providing. It's not so good for the mid...
02:59 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Jawbone Raises $49 Million from Andreessen Horowitz to Dominate Your Mobile Accessory World
Jawbone, the company most known for its headsets seen on the terminally hip kid to your left, has raised $49 million from Andreessen Horowitz to continue to build new devices to take advantage of the ...
02:23 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Would You Buy A Wetsuit On eBay From A Bear At A Urinal?
I don't even surf, but after reading this eBay UK listing for a slightly worn wetsuit I almost want to buy it. The seller, Dan Morgan, manages to work in "an old man's testicle," his own hygiene hab...
01:52 am GMT - Thu, March 17, 2011
Techcrunch Google Upgrades Program To Help U.S. Nonprofits Use AdWords, Apps And More
Google has had a one-stop shop for nonprofits to learn more about and leverage Google services for some time, but today, the search giant is launching a new version that enables these organizations to...
09:36 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Former Flickr Product Chief Lands At Bitly
Flickr's recently departed product chief Matthew Rothenberg is landing in a new job in New York City. He was just hired by bitly to become its new VP of Product. He will be moving from California. ...
08:59 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch As Facebook Eyes Online Deals Space, Groupon Plots Facebook Ad Blitz
As I'm sure you've heard by now, Facebook is looking to shake up the social ecommerce industry with yesterday's expansion of Deals, its location-aware rewards program. The company is expected to turn ...
08:19 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch The Five Best Cord Cutting Devices (Plus One Bonus!)
I hit a nerve. I seriously believe cord cutting is all about alternative services and not the hardware. Clearly others think different. My last post concerning the movement focused on three main areas...
08:17 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Harvest Power Raises $51.7 Million To Turn Yard Scraps, Food Waste Into Energy
Harvest Power, a producer of renewable energy from organic waste, attained $51.7 million series B financing, in a round led by Generation Investment Management, the companies announced today. The Lon...
08:15 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Felicia Day, From SXSW Volunteer To Keynote Speaker
SXSW Keynoter Felicia Day is a post-modern day success story. After feeling frustrated with mainstream media's lack of enthusiasm for stories about gamers, she took her idea for as series based around...
07:53 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch The Ever-Elusive Mobile Wallet: Why NFC Chips Are Overhyped And Will Underdeliver
The idea of turning your mobile phone into a digital wallet has a long and fruitless history. People are getting excited again about the prospect of mobile wallets replacing those in your pocket over...
07:15 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch KIT digital Buys Polymedia For $34.4 Million, Teases Big Upcoming Acquisition
KIT digital, provider of video asset management software and related services, has acquired Italy-based Polymedia for a net consideration of $34.4 million plus performance-based earnouts. Polymedia is...
06:45 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Techonomy3 Is Go! See You In Tel Aviv And At Kinnernet
A few weeks ago I had the privilege of visiting Tel Aviv for the first time and meeting some local mobile companies ahead of Mobile World Congress. What I found was an incredible entrepreneurial envir...
06:35 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Doximity Raises $10.8M, Helps Physicians Connect On The Web "" And On The Go
One of the founders of NASDAQ-listed mobile health software applications maker Epocrates is back with a new startup called Doximity. The young health technology company this morning announced that it ...
06:03 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch BLiNQ Media Buys Ruby on Rails Shop Calculated Combustion, Names CTO
Facebook ad management media and technology company BLiNQ Media has acquired Ruby on Rails software development firm Calculated Combustion for an undisclosed sum. In addition, the company has promoted...
06:03 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch The Android Kill Switch: Mea Culpa
Over the weekend I wrote a piece which argued that walled gardens were conquering the Internet, and Google's ability to to remotely delete apps from Android devices effectively turned Android into a "...
06:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Google Docs Makes Commenting More Collaborative With Structured Discussions
Google Docs has always been an easy way to collaborate over a documents because many users can access the documents at the same time. But today, Google is stepping up the collaboration factor with mor...
05:26 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Motorola Xoom WiFi Hitting Seven Retailers March 27th For $599
The wait is nearly over, Android fans. The WiFi-only flavor of the Xoom is set to hit a bunch of retailers in just over two weeks on March 27th. Amazon, Best Buy, Costco, RadioShack, Staples, Walmart,...
05:22 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Intermec Acquires Mobile Lifecycle Services Company Enterprise Mobile
Voice and data solutions company Intermec today announced the acquisition of Enterprise Mobile, a provider of lifecycle services for mobile devices. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed....
04:58 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Plaxo Goes Back To Being A Smart Address Book, Launches Virtual Assistant
Plaxo has had its fair share of ups and downs. Back in 2006, the company famously wrestled with spamming allegations and was later the subject of controversy over the screen scraping techniques it use...
04:40 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Genius.com Raises Series E Funding "" Misspells "~Genius'
Genius.com this morning announced that it has closed its fifth round of venture capital funding, led by Emergence Capital. Existing investors Mohr Davidow Ventures, Accel Partners and Deep Fork Capita...
04:35 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch David Letterman Runs Down The Top 10 Reasons To Buy An iPad 2
"SO THIN YOU CAN USE IT TO CHOP VEGETABLES."You know a product has official hit the public's consciousness when the late night shows get in on the fun. That's just what happened last night as Letterma...
04:21 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Visa Unveils PayPal-Like Personal Payments Service For U.S. Consumers
Giant retail electronic payments network operator Visa is giving PayPal a run for its money today, announcing a new service that will allows U.S. consumers to receive and send funds to any eligible Vi...
01:18 pm GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Just-Eat Closes $48 million Funding To Scale Globally
London based Just-Eat, an online take-out ordering service, has closed a financing round of $48m co-led by two leading VCs, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures, with existing investor Index Ventur...
11:55 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch San Francisco Controller Publishes Candid Report On How Badly They Need Twitter
San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos hates the idea of businesses not paying a 1.5% tax on payroll and employee stock option gains (see his brilliantly stupid quote here). The fact that San Francisco ...
11:38 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Actually, AOL Didn't Ask Us To "~Tone It Down' "" Moviefone Did. And Their Editor-In-Chief Should Be Fired
"AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down" screamed Alexia Tsotsis' headline on TechCrunch earlier today. And, as someone who has been just waiting for our new corporate paymasters to pull a stupid stunt...
09:23 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch San Francisco Doing Everything It Can To Drive Zynga And Twitter Away
San Francisco, unlike most other cities in Silicon Valley, has a 1.5% payroll tax. And even more stunning is that they consider gains on stock options part of payroll, meaning that any San Francisco b...
07:07 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Netflix Gets Into The Original Content Game, Buys Upcoming Show For A Rumored $100m
Netflix got its start as the red-envelope movie rental service, later turning into the video streaming authority (bankrupting Blockbuster in the process), and now may be making yet another major move:...
06:36 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch In Preparation For Its "Social Buying"  Launch, "~Facebook Deals' Get A New Landing Page
On the tail of the news that Facebook will be testing a new deals service, Facebook has removed its old Deals locator landing page and put up a new Facebook Deals subscription page which allows intere...
03:04 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch SoundTracking Sings The Praises Of "Mobile-First"  And "From-The-Ground-Up Social" 
Late last week, we first wrote about SoundTracking, a new iPhone application from Schematic Labs that allows you to easily share not only the music you're listening to, but the music you're listening ...
03:00 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Study: Mobile Ad-Tracking Systems Are "Blind"  To 80 Percent Of Apple iOS Devices
Apple mobile iOS devices (iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches) are used by 130 million people, but they present a huge blindspot to advertisers. All Apple mobile devices use the Safari browser, as do mi...
01:57 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Google's Revamped iPhone App Now Worth Using; Could Be Better Still
Google's flagship native app for the iPhone has always been a little odd. First of all, it was called "Google Mobile App", which seemed a bit redundant. More importantly, it just wasn't really worth u...
01:49 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch T-Mobile, Sprint Waive Japan Calling And Texting Fees
As we reported yesterday, U.S. carriers AT&T and Verizon both announced that they would be waiving calling and texting fees for their users who were calling Japan, in the wake of the devasting ear...
01:28 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Twitter Enables "Always Use HTTPS"  Setting
So did Ashton Kutcher complain after he got Twitter hacked at TED? As of today, Firesheep weary Twitter users can check the "Always Use HTTPS" setting at the bottom of Settings on their profiles. ...
01:16 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Mobile App Users Are Both Fickle And Loyal: Study
A study released by Massachusetts-based application analytics firm Localytics today confirms my suspicion that we both love -- and are quickly bored by -- our mobile applications. And, perhaps, that s...
01:15 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Keeps Right On Approving Amazon And Netflix Updates Without In-App Purchases
Remember when everyone was freaking out over the Apple in-app subscription changes? You should. It was just a month ago. And while some of the fears that arose do appear to be very real, the two t...
12:55 am GMT - Wed, March 16, 2011
Techcrunch YouTube Continues To Amp Up Its Content Quality, Buys Green Parrot Pictures
YouTube seems laser-focused on amping up its overall content quality as of late, with the acquisition of original video site Next New Networks just last week and today's news that it has acquired digi...
11:25 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Adobe Just Made Medialets Its Mobile Ad Server
For all the angst about the lack of Flash on Apple's iPads and iPhones, most of the discussion seems to center around video. But a bigger impact by far is on display advertising, which tends to be do...
11:05 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Bans Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure
MIC Gadget can't get a break. After being C&Ded for selling Steve Jobs action figures, now they can't even sell these goofy little "Poke" figures of Mark Zuckerberg. The figures went for $69 bucks...
10:21 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down
Earlier this week interviewed Duncan Jones and Jake Gyllenhaal at SXSW, at the press junket for their movie The Source Code. While the film doesn't have a huge tech angle other than the title, I thoug...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Google's AdMob Adds Windows Phone 7 SDK; HTML5 And Tablet Support For iOS And Android Ads
Google-owned mobile ad network AdMob is announcing a number of new products and features today for developers and advertisers. This includes the launch of the beta SDK for Windows Phone 7, which will ...
09:40 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch AutoTech Video Review: Infiniti QX56
The Infiniti QX56 is the motoring equivalent of a scrumptious wedding cake: big and tall, classy, and oh so delicious. As the embedded video explores, the QX56 is a massive vehicle that knows how to h...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch LinkedIn Teams Up With Snaptu To Launch Smartphone-Like App For Feature Phones
Professional social network LinkedIn has a rapidly growing userbase outside of the U.S., and increasingly users want to access the network from their mobile phone. But until now, the company has only ...
08:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Google Apps Users Can Now Choose If They Want Immediate or Scheduled New Feature Releases
Google's development strategy is more agile, and products are consistently updated with new features and improvements. For example, in 2010, Google implemented 130 feature releases for its Google Apps...
07:48 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Vidyo's HD Video Conferencing Platform Now Supports iPad 2, XOOM And Atrix
Video conferencing technology company Vidyo is enhancing its platform with support for Apple's just released iPad 2, Motorola's XOOM tablet and Atrix smartphone. The platform utilizes the company's Vi...
07:25 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch 2tor Raises $32.5 Million Series C To Make Online Education Great
"One reason online education isn't that good is I don't think it is trying to be that good," says John Katzman, the CEO of 2tor, an online education startup that is trying to break that mold. The com...
07:13 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch eBay Kills Upfront Costs For Auctions Of Up To 50 Items Per Month
Ecommerce juggernaut eBay this morning announced that it is making it free to list up to 50 items per month in auctions at any start price, and free to add the "Buy it Now"  option to t...
07:09 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Report: Use Of Third-Party Twitter Clients Dwindles To 42 Percent
As we heard last week, Twitter made a bold move regarding its ecosystem, stating that third-party developers should no longer try to compete with Twitter on native clients; instead they should focus o...
07:06 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch How Much Can You Get For Your Old iPad?
Like any self-respecting gadget hound, I found myself at an impasse: I have an iPad first gen but I want an iPad 2 . I also have limited funds and a family to feed. So, then, do I keep both iPads and...
05:59 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch SignNow Raises $500,000 For Upcoming E-Signature Service
SignNow, which is readying the launch of a brand new e-signing service, due next month, has raised $500,000 in financing from unnamed angel investors, the startup has announced yesterday.SignNow's lof...
05:46 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Sponto Lands $200,000 For Realtime Party Sharing Service For Students
Sponto, maker of a mobile party discovery application for college students, has scored $200,000 in initial equity financing from Amplifier Ventures. As part of the investment, Sponto has joined the in...
05:22 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Pricelock Raises $12 Million To Protect Companies From Increasing Fuel Prices
Timely announcement from Pricelock.com as fuel prices continue to rise: the company, which offers online fuel hedging and price protection for businesses that rely on fuel to stay in business, has rai...
04:59 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch AdGent Digital Acquires Video Ad Technology Startup ShortTail Media
Social media and technology company AdGent Digital has acquired ShortTail Media, a tech company with a proprietary platform that allows publishers to deliver video ads in a stand-alone full screen for...
04:43 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Warburg Pincus Invests Another $10M In Idea Management Platform Spigit
Exclusive - Spigit, maker of collaborative innovation management software for enterprises, will announce this morning that it has received an equity investment of $10 million from Warburg Pincus. The ...
04:27 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch IAC Elects Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner To Expanded Board
IAC has expanded its board of directors with a thirteenth seat and elected well-known businessman Michael Eisner, who served as chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005, to joi...
04:20 pm GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Amazon Web Services Upgrades Virtual Private Cloud With Internet Access
In 2009, Amazon launched the Virtual Private Cloud (also known as Amazon VPC), which makes it possible for customers to create their own isolated set of Amazon EC2 instances to connect to their existi...
08:00 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Jobfox Rolls Out Social Private Networks For Online Recruiting
Former CareerBuilder founder and CEO Rob McGovern launched Jobfox in 2004 as a job profile site in which individuals could search through job openings displayed on the site's boards. But the site was ...
07:13 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch DRAMA IN TWITTERLAND: Featuring Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr And A Dentist
"Kleiner Perkins Already Selling Its Twitter Stock" reads one headline on SAI from Friday, alleging that venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers has been selling Twitter stock that they boug...
03:28 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Flickr Burning As Yahoo Fiddles: Head Of Service Walks Away
When you ask Yahoo who is in charge of Flickr, they always point to one man: Matthew Rothenberg. Well, technically, there are people at Yahoo above him in charge of the group of products that Flickr i...
02:15 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Former Myspacers Build Link Curator "~Tagging Robot'
Former VP of Product at Myspace Todd Leeloy and Myspace Product Manager Joe Munoz have launched a semantic tagging network and link curation service today called Tagging Robot. Tagging Robot currently...
02:02 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Zynga Gamers Raise $1 Million For Tsunami Relief
On Friday, social gaming giant Zynga joined tsunami relief efforts by enabling in-game donations through virtual goods in Zynga games like FrontierVille, FarmVille and CityVille. Today, the company an...
01:41 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch R.I.P. Microsoft Zune, 2006-2011
Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft has finally decided to put an official end to its Zune media player line. "A person familiar with the decision" has informed them that Microsoft will not be putti...
01:10 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch UpNext Scores $500,000 From Chris Sacca And Others For 3D Mobile Mapping
Mapping is a big boy's game, with Google Maps, Bing Maps, and MapQuest dominating maps on both the Web and mobile. But sometimes it takes a startup to push things forward. 3D mobile mapping startup ...
01:01 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch RewardVille Lets You Earn Points Across Zynga's Social Games
Zynga is debuting its previously announced points program, RewardVille, today which adds a rewards layer across all of the social gaming giant's games. Now, Zynga's 250 million players can earn "zCoin...
12:16 am GMT - Tue, March 15, 2011
Techcrunch Charlie Sheen Tweets Generated Over 1M Uniques For Internships.com
The dust has finally settled on the Sheen media hurricane from the past couple of weeks and bloggers have pretty much moved on in expectation of the next easy content fustercluck. Internships.com howe...
11:45 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Finally, a Startup Visa That Works
In my last post about the Startup Visa, I was very critical of the Kerry""Lugar legislation. That's because it required immigrant entrepreneurs to raise at least $250,000 in financing for th...
11:31 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Video Demo Of Spin Play, The Magazine App That Comes With Music
Now that iTunes allows for subscriptions, more and more magazines are putting out iPad apps. The best ones offer new experiences beyond what amounts to turning the iPad into a fancy PDF viewer. This...
11:01 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch New Twitter Stats: 140M Tweets Sent Per Day, 460K Accounts Created Per Day
Twitter is celebrating its fifth birthday and to commemorate the occasion, is revealing a number of stats showing its growth over the past five years. It took 3 years, 2 months and 1 day from the fir...
10:58 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch TechCrunch Interview: Senator Al Franken Talks Net Neutrality (And His Morning Workout Routine)
If you care about the well-being of the Internet, you care about net neutrality. You just might not realize it yet.This morning, Senator Al Franken took to the stage at SXSW Interactive to talk about ...
10:48 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch The Demand Media of Search Engine Marketing, BoostCTR, Raises $1.6 Million
San Francisco-based ad platform, BoostCTR, announced today that it has closed a $1.64 million seed funding round led by a group of institutional investors and angels, including Javelin Venture Partner...
10:26 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Wikio Groupe Closing Huge Round To Become The Long-Awaited European Internet Star
Yeah, this round of funding is huger than huge. Well, at least for Europe. And while it may be nowhere near Groupon's, like,billion-dollar-round, it is definitely amongst the bigger deals on this side...
10:24 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang 3.14.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang "  Robert Scoble, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor "  spent a rare Sunday session raking Twitter over the coals. Well, some of the Gang, that is. Scobl...
10:04 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch SXSW: Keen On" Press, Pause, Play (TCTV)
One of the most eagerly awaited movies debuting at SXSW this year is the Swedish production Press, Pause, Play. It's an examination of both the benefits and the downside of the democratizing power of ...
09:47 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Apples To Apples: Apple Inc. Files For Apple Corps' Old Apple Logo Trademark
The legal dispute between Apple Corps and Apple Inc. for the rights to the Apple logo are far reaching. Since the first case back in 1978, Apple Inc. has slowly whittled away at Apple Corp's initial l...
09:41 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch LivingSocial Gains Wealth Of Ruby on Rails Expertise With InfoEther Acquisition
In what appears to be mostly about the talent of its founding team, LivingSocial has moved to acquire Ruby on Rails consultancy outfit InfoEther.The social ecommerce giant, which has raised $232 milli...
09:29 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Digg Hires Vast And Coremetrics Alum Ben Folk-Williams As New VP Of Engineering
As we wrote in late November, Digg's longtime VP of Engineering John Quinn joined flash sales giant Gilt Groupe. Today, Digg is announcing his replacement" Ben Folk-Williams.Folk-Williams wa...
09:13 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Hires Amin Zoufonoun, Google's No. 2 Corp Dev Exec
Facebook has hired Google Corporate Development exec Amin Zoufonoun, we've heard from multiple sources. Zoufonoun has been with Google since 2003 and is the second most senior corp dev exec after Davi...
09:08 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch In The Midst Of A Massively Successful SXSW, Foursquare Tackles Venue Harmonization
In the location space, there's something that has long been the missing link: a unified places database. The problem, of course, is that all the major players, Foursquare, Facebook, Google, Gowalla, L...
08:59 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Video: Another Group Messaging App At SXSW 2011 "" Grouped{in}
Group Text/Messaging is all the rage at SXSW 2011. One app in the genre that's making its debut this week is Appconomy's Grouped{in}. Just getting its app store approval on Friday, it surfaces with ma...
08:46 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Half A Billion Blog Posts Later, Google To Give Blogger A Revamp
Google's blogging service Blogger has been used for over half a billion blog posts (with over half a trillion words in total) to date, writes product manager Chang Kim on the Blogger Buzz blog. Those ...
07:37 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Following AT&T, Verizon Makes Japan Calls Free Until April
We heard earlier that AT&T was making calls to Japan free until between March 11 and March 31, in the wake of the devasting earthquake and tsunami in the region. Verizon is also joining in this ef...
07:08 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch LoveThis Launches As A "~Black Book' Of Your Friends' Recommendations
Who do you trust most when it comes to recommendations: an algorithm or your friends? Or perhaps a mixture of machine learning and your social graph. That's something that a lot of startups are tr...
06:56 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch eBay's Barcode Scanning App RedLaser Nearing Nine Million Downloads
RedLaser, the barcode scanning mobile app that eBay acquired from Occipital in June 2010, is nearing a significant milestone" nine million total downloads of its iPhone and Android apps. Tha...
06:34 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Neomobile Acquires Mobile Payments Startup Onebip
Mobile media company Neomobile has acquired Onebip, a company that provides mobile payment solutions to online game publishers, social networks and ecommerce companies. The Italian group says the acqu...
05:50 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Investors Put Their Money On StarStreet As They Open Two New Sports Stock Markets
Betting on sports is one of the most popular forms of gambling in the world. And for good reason. Unlike more traditional gambling, people often have feelings about the teams and stars they're betting...
05:11 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Kayak Partners With Travelocity To Take Direct Hotel Reservations
Travel search engine Kayak is making an interesting move today. The site is now allowing users to make hotel bookings directly through the company's website. Kayak is partnering with Travelocity to po...
05:03 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Atop A Landfill, U.S. Marine Corps Installs 1.4 Megawatt Solar System
Today, the United States Marine Corps completed its largest solar installation to date "  a 1.4 megawatt ground-mounted system "  that will generate electricity for Base Camp...
04:42 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Intel Buys Egypt-Based SySDSoft To Boost Its 4G LTE Efforts
Intel, through stand-alone subsidiary Intel Mobile Communications, today announced that it has acquired most of the assets of SySDSoft, a Cairo, Egypt-based software company to accelerate its 4G LTE e...
04:13 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Animoto's Partner Platform Embeds Video Slideshow Creation Tool On Any Site
It's no secret that we're big fans of Animoto, a website that lets you easily create photo and video slideshows matched to music. The startup basically allows you to take your images, video and your ...
04:09 pm GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch SuccessFactors Acquires Enterprise Social Learning Startup Jambok
SuccessFactors has acquired Jambok, a SaaS social learning company founded by former Sun Chief Learning Officer Karie Willyerd and former Sun Chief Technology officer Charles Beckham. Terms of the dea...
10:58 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch The City By The Meh: Thoughts On Falling Out Of Love With The Valley
Three short years ago, almost to the day, I arrived in San Francisco and instantly fell in love.As a former technology columnist for the Guardian (and, unbeknownst to me, about to become one again),...
10:13 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch Social Is Too Important For Google To Screw Up With A Big Launch Circus
Google will launch a "major new social network" imminently at the SXSW conference, said Read/Write Web early this morning. They were stupendously wrong on timing - Google told us and others that there...
09:59 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch John Montorio Joins HuffPo: Journalism vs Churnalism Battle Rages On
TechCrunch has learned that John Montorio has been named Culture and Entertainment Editor for Aol's Huffington Post Media Group content division.Montorio is a 30-year veteran of two of the country's b...
07:59 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch StumbleUpon Unveils Paid Discovery, Its New "No Click"  Ad Platform
Content discovery engine StumbleUpon, which most recently received 17 million in Series B funding, is unveiling a new ad platform today, StumbleUpon Paid Discovery. Whereas the old Stumble ad model wa...
05:25 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch LaunchRock And Vencorps Want To Give $30K To The "Best"  Startups #SXSW
LaunchRock, the startup that wants to help companies launch by setting them up with viral launch pages, is also launching a "Battle of the Startups" contest during SXSW. Companies that use LaunchRock ...
02:49 am GMT - Mon, March 14, 2011
Techcrunch 5 Years Later, Jack Dorsey Tweets About Twitter's Beginning
Did you know it was exactly five years ago today that Jack Dorsey and a few other team members working at Odeo first started to work on what would become Twitter? How do I know? Dorsey is twee...
10:14 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Swimming in the Appstream
Moving from iPad 1 to iPad 2 has been an exercise in confusion followed by fear followed by despair and now acceptance. I have no idea what I'll be left with, given that I've attempted to move from on...
09:35 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Hungover At SXSW? Use Zaarly To Get Your Gatorade And Advil
If you're like most people at SXSW the time change today and the drinking last night has hit you like a iron hammer. Well luckily Zaarly, the much buzzed about HTML 5 mobile app that connects buyers a...
08:20 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Grilled Cheese, Beer, And Other Awesome Stuff: An Interview With GroupMe At SXSW
There are few things better than free beer. Mix that with melted cheese and toasted bread, and you have a combination that satisfies even the deepest of human desires. And they're available just outsi...
08:19 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Following Earthquake, Japanese Officials Fear Partial Nuclear Meltdown Underway
A massive earthquake that struck off Japan's northeastern coast on Friday"  taking 1,200 lives, with thousands still unaccounted for and ten thousand feared dead by police "  also...
07:46 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Joel Spolsky On Startups: "Have A Co-Founder Otherwise You'll Go Insane" 
All this week on Founder Stories, we've shown segments from Chris Dixon's interview with Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky, who also writes the Joel on Software blog. In the final rapid-fire Q&A vi...
07:45 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Video: Foursquare's Naveen Selvadurai Gives "One Year Update"  At SXSW 2011
At last year's SXSW I caught a moment of Foursquare co-founder Naveen Selvadurai's time to briefly chat about the company and their plans for the upcoming year. We were able to speak again this year a...
04:25 pm GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Join Us For The TechCrunchTUAW Reader Meet-Up At SXSW Sponsored By Peel
It's that time again: time to revel in Web 2.0! We're teaming up with TUAW and Peel for our first annual SXSW Interactive reader meet-up in Austin. Meet the TC crew. Enjoy some TC chew (quantities lim...
04:21 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Lightbox Photos Wants To Be Your New Android Camera App (SXSW)
Although Android adoption is growing at a huge clip compared to the iPhone (not hard, since there are so many more devices and plans), iPhone apps still remain the benchmark for the smartphone app exp...
04:12 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch From "Businesses"  To "Tools" : The Twitter API ToS Changes
Yesterday, Twitter made a swift and sweeping move to alter their ecosystem. In an email to developers, Twitter laid out the new rules. Essentially, third-party developers should no longer try to compe...
03:17 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch SCVNGR CEO Seth Priebatsch: The Game Layer Is Coming (SXSW)
Today's SXSW keynote speaker is Seth Priebatsch, founder and CEO of location-based gaming startup SCVNGR.SCVNGR has had a big week " on Thursday the site launched a spinoff service called Le...
02:38 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Ask a VC: Mike Maples Defends Digg's Honor and the Kno (TCTV)
Mike Maples, my guest on Ask a VC this week, is known for backing some of the best Web 2.0 entrepreneurs early on and hunting down "Thunder Lizards" or the 15 truly disruptive companies that hatch eac...
02:34 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch Jake Gyllenhaal Movie "~The Source Code' Markets Itself To Techies
Between movies being funded on Kickstarter, a critically acclaimed movie about Facebook, and Twitter basically serving as a backchannel for the Oscars, Hollywood increasingly has to reconcile itself w...
02:11 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch There Is No SXSW. The Perfect Extension For Those Not Here.
By now, even if you're not at SXSW, you're likely sick of SXSW. Why? Because every other damn tweet is about SXSW. I'm here, and tweeting about it, and I'm sick of it. But luckily Lanyrd has creat...
12:36 am GMT - Sun, March 13, 2011
Techcrunch How To "Win"  SXSW: Hint "" It's The Same Answer Every Year
Speculation as to which app will be the most used at SXSW this year is already well under way. No doubt, this is a question that is dominating any number of conversations among reporters, investors an...
11:38 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch This Post Has Nothing to do with #SXSW
For the next four days if you're in the tech industry you're going to hear a non-stop stream of information about SXSW. It's the time of year when many new startups are struggling to rise above all th...
10:40 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch The Walled Garden Has Won
Ten days ago Google discovered that apparently innocuous Android apps were in fact infested with "DroidDream" malware that included an Android rootkit, with the apparent intent of creating a smartphon...
08:10 pm GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Stack Exchange CEO: "Nobody Wants To Find Yahoo Answers In Their Search Results" 
There sure are a lot of Q&A sites on the Internet, but not all Q&A sites are the same. In the Founder Stories video above, Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky talks about the origins of Q&A s...
09:47 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch DIY Music Management Platform Nimbit Raises $1.25 million
Nimbit, a direct-to-fan marketing, sales and distribution platform for musicians, announced today that it has closed a $1.25 million series A investment round. The round was led by Common Angels and H...
09:41 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Zynga Enables Donations To Tsunami Relief Through In-Game Purchases
Social gaming giant Zynga has joined the Internet's efforts at donating to Japanese Tsunami relief tonight, by enabling in-game donations through virtual good buying in Zynga games like FrontierVille...
09:34 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Meet The Guy Who Bought The First iPad 2 At The SXSW Apple Pop-Up Store
Because the iPad 2 launch had the fortitude to coincide with SXSW, Apple did well by the thousands of fanboys and fanladies that have descended upon the city and built a pop up shop at 6th and Congres...
08:32 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Flickr Confirms Taking Down Egyptian Blogger's Photos, Cites Community Guidelines Violation
Last weekend Egyptian protestors broke into Amn al Dowla, the Cairo headquarters for the Egyptian security agency, and removed a "treasure trove" of video disks, hard disks and CDs with government doc...
07:18 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch A Group Messaging Roundup To Help You Stay In Touch At SXSW
By now you've doubtless heard of the many group messaging startups looking to help multiple people keep in touch with each other " there's been endless buzz about how these will likely be so...
07:06 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch LinkedIn Posts $243M In 2010 Revenue, $15.4 Million In Net Income
Professional social network LinkedIn, which originally submitted its S-1 filing with the SEC in January, has just posted an amendment to its filing that includes 2010 revenue numbers (previously the f...
06:34 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch CrunchBoard Jobs: TechCrunch Is Hiring!
Would you like to come work with us at TechCrunch? We have positions open and are currently looking for qualified applicants. Maybe you could be our next Executive Assistant, our new CrunchBase Ma...
04:59 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch New Facebook Valuation Record As Shares Surge 5% To $31.50
A little over $8 million changed hands in this week's SecondMarket Facebook shares auction. And the price surged $1.50 per share, or about 5%, over last week's record price of $30/share. 257,422 share...
04:42 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Vacation Home Rental Service HomeAway Files For $230 Million IPO
Vacation home rental service HomeAway has just submitted its S-1 filing with the SEC, indicating that it will file for a public offering in the next few months. The maximum proposed total offering pr...
03:09 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Marissa Mayer: 40% Of Google Maps Usage Is Mobile (And There Are 150 Million Mobile Users)
Today at a SXSW talk, Google VP Marissa Mayer took the stage to talk about location " mobile location, in particular. The theme isn't a surprise since Mayer recently shifted her role from le...
02:59 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Stack Exchange's Spolsky On How SEO Makes The Internet Worse
Content farms and SEO are the bane of the Internet. Google is fighting it, but somehow spam results keep slipping through. In this second installment of our Founder Stories interview with Stack Exch...
02:59 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Stack Exchange's Joel Spolsky On How SEO Makes The Internet Worse
Content farms and SEO are the bane of the Internet. Google is fighting it, but somehow spam results keep slipping through. In this second installment of our Founder Stories interview with Stack Exch...
02:54 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch JDate Slaps Zoosk, OkCupid, And 2RedBeans With Patent Lawsuit Over Secret Admiring
It appears that Jewish dating site JDate has filed a patent lawsuit against dating sites 2RedBeans, Zoosk, and OKCupid. According to the complaint, JDate alleges that all three companies are infringin...
01:54 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Twitter Drops The Ecosystem Hammer: Don't Try To Compete With Us On Clients, Focus On Data And Verticals
For much of the past year, the Twitter ecosystem has been in a state of flux. Ever since Twitter bought Tweetie and turned it into their own native iPhone app, third-party developers have been wonderi...
12:40 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Chris Sacca Tweets Out A Fake #SXSW Beta Invite, Follower Swarm Ensues
Last night many of us returned from grabbing drinks with friends here in Austin, opened our computers, and, because of a 9.0 earthquake in Northern Japan, became witness to some of the most horrific i...
12:04 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch Path Fully Embraces Facebook And Busts Out Lenses For Pictures And Video ""  Including Premium Ones
Don't sleep on the mini mobile photo sharing battle that is going to take place at SXSW this year "  the companies involved aren't. Following updates to PicPlz and Instagram, Path has just r...
12:02 am GMT - Sat, March 12, 2011
Techcrunch The Four Big Steps To Cutting The Cord
Do it! Cut the cord and free yourself from the tyranny of the cable mafia. The movement is slowly gaining traction but the whole task is daunting. What do you do next? Where does your TV content c...
11:42 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Jane McGonigal: Is Gaming the Opium of the People? (TCTV)
Is gaming like religion "" a way of taking our minds off reality and indulging in unrealizable fantasies?Not according to Jane McGonigal, one of electronic gaming's most articulate evang...
11:20 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Hopskoch, A Photo Challenge App That Changes Every Day
In mobile, the big debate is apps versus mobile websites and so far it looks like apps are winning. The mobile web is still too hard to navigate for many people. Apps are self-contained and are gene...
11:04 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Arianna Huffington: SEO Is Just A Tool, Not A Way To Produce Great Journalism [TCTV]
Yesterday afternoon, our new editorial overlord, Arianna Huffington, stopped by the TechCrunch office for a meeting. Before she had a chance to leave, I dragged her into the TCTV studio to grill her a...
10:55 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch TechCrunch Giveaway: An iPad 2 #TechCrunch
Today's the big day. We know you want one. It seems like everyone wants one. MG Siegler wrote a review on it and Greg Kumparak went to the unveiling of it. So without further ado, for today's giveaway...
10:29 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Search Your Cloud From Your Browser: Greplin Adds a Chrome Extension
In February, we covered the social search service's public launch and, mere days later, wrote about its closing a $4 million venture round backed by Sequoia.Since then, Greplin has been rapidly expand...
09:59 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Zynga's FarmVille Will Allow You To Sow Seeds At Farms In The English Countryside
With the success of Zynga's newest game CityVille, the gaming giant's first game, FarmVille, has taken a backseat in terms of buzz. But despite the competition from its sister games, FarmVille is stil...
09:30 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch With Tilt-Shift And A News Feed, Instagram Is Ready To Rock SXSW
For all the talk of group messaging apps being the breakout hits at SXSW this year, most people are overlooking another genre: mobile photo-sharing apps. But that's probably because a few of those app...
09:30 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Social Music Startup Rdio Pushes Play Button For API, Affiliate Program
Rdio, the social music startup founded by Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, is expanding its platform today with the launch of its API and an affiliate program.Rdio launched last year a...
08:44 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: Can Ditto Get You Laid? Plus, TurboTax for the iPad
Sex and taxes" usually you don't see those two words in the same sentence, but on today's episode of Fly or Die we cover apps that will help you with both. Well, sort of. This week, we tak...
07:46 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch RoundPegg, The eHarmony For Jobs, Not So Harmonious With eHarmony (Humor)
When we recently wrote about a round of funding raised by RoundPegg, we dubbed it the 'eHarmony for jobs' in the article headline. eHarmony was none too pleased and actually wrote an email to us sayin...
06:57 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch They Grow Up So Fast "" Foursquare Hit With Its First Patent Infringement Suit
It's part of the ritual for tech companies who achieve a certain status in the world this day and age, whether riding solely on the waves of hype or by making a ton of money, to get targeted by trigge...
06:30 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch SoundTracking Sets Out To Share Your Music Moments In A Postcard-Like Manner
Twitter allows you to share a short message at any given time. Foursquare allows you to share your location at any given time. Instagram allows you to share your photos at any given time. IntoNow allo...
06:24 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch "~SUPER 8" Movie Trailer Launches Exclusively On Twitter, TwitVid
A couple of hours ago, Paramount Pictures launched the trailer for SUPER 8, the new film from director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg, in partnership with Twitter. Notably, the trailer is b...
06:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch AOL's Mobile-First Group Steps To The Stage With Play, An Instagram For Music
As you know, we're now owned by AOL. And while it's a big company, you'd think we'd be able to find out some tidbits of information about secret projects they're working on. Nope. Sometimes it seems a...
05:46 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Need Some Cash? Buy Apple Stock Instead Of Apple Gear
If you had bought Apple stock instead of an iPod back in 2001, you'd be about $10,000 richer. According to an assessment by Kyle Conroy, you'd be a few times richer if you bought Apple stock instead o...
03:20 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Radian6 Acquires Social Media Firm 6Consulting
Radian6, which has been making waves in social media monitoring space for the past few years, has extended its global reach with the acquisition of UK-based social media firm 6Consulting. Terms of the...
02:50 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch You Can Order An iPad 2 Right Now. Are You Buying?
Slightly ahead of the announced 1 AM PST launch time, Apple's iPad 2, which was introduced earlier this month, is now up for sale at the company's US online store.Estimated shipping date for iPads are...
01:59 pm GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch After Amazon, Masterobjects Takes Google To Court Over Instant Search Patent
Yesterday, I broke the story of a small search software outlet named Masterobjects taking on Amazon.com in a notable patent infringement lawsuit. The patent-in-suit, US patent no. 7,752,326, describes...
08:47 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Posterous Joins The SXSW Pile On With Posterous Events For iPhone
Because you ain't nobody unless you have a special version of your app for SXSW, Posterous has today released its own effort with Posterous Events, a which allows people at a massive event like SXSW o...
07:50 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Loosecubes Wants To Change The Way You Co-Work, Launches SXSW Micro App
Seed funded by Accel and Battery Ventures, Loosecubes is a workplace sharing community with a focus on co-working. Unlike Liquidspaces, which primarily matches people with work spaces, Loosecubes foun...
07:25 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Aol To Journalists: You Be The Rock Star, We'll Be Mark Chapman
"You be the rock star, we'll be your stage." - Aol billboard outside TCHQ"Hey, what's going on? - Russell just got electrocuted." - Almost FamousThe re-invigoration of Aol continues apace today wi...
06:51 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Instapaper Goes Social With Sharing, Likes, And Friends
I remember when I first fell in love with Instapaper. It was a few years ago, and most people were still using Delicious or worse, their browsers, to bookmark things on the web. Delicious was still so...
04:58 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Social Retargeting Ad Network RadiumOne Raises $21M At A $200M Valuation
RadiumOne, an online ad network that aims to combine social and intent data to serve ads, has raised $21 million in Series B funding led by Crosslink Capital, with DFJ Esprit, Adams Street Partners an...
04:57 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch VigLink Raises Another $5.4 Million To Help Publishers Monetize Outbound Clicks
VigLink, a startup that helps publishers and bloggers monetize their outbound traffic, has closed a $5.4 million Series B funding round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from existing inves...
04:42 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch UberGenius: Uber Is Taking Control of SXSW Pedicabs
San Francisco is a ghost town right now. It seems as if the entire city has packed up and headed to Austin, Texas for SXSW. The conference was too big two years ago. Then it got bigger last year. And ...
03:52 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Google May Face Antitrust Hearings In Senate
Google is constantly under antitrust scrutiny these days, whether it's for large acquisitions into new markets such as its proposed ITA deal or for its general dominance in search. The company has fa...
03:04 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Picplz Adds Photo Collections And Borders
Social photo sharing app picplz is preparing to roll out an update to both its Android and iPhone apps that will add the ability to create collections of photos. The feature is already live on its We...
02:16 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Analyst: Non-iPad Tablets Will Be Collecting Dust On Store Shelves
The immense popularity of the iPad, and now the iPad 2, has Apple's competitors, in the words of Steve Jobs, flummoxed. What to do? According to a J.P. Morgan Research analyst, it may well be that...
01:44 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Social Analytics Platform BackType Raises a Cool Million in Funding
Today, San Francisco-based marketing intelligence company, BackType, announced that it has closed a seed funding round of just over $1 million, led by a group of Silicon Valley investors, including le...
12:29 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch Wanna Be A Movie Producer? Just Give $250 To Jon Heder & Nick Peterson On Kickstarter
A couple weeks ago, we noted an interesting new project that had popped up on Kickstarter: an animated short film by Nick Peterson and Jon Heder. Heder, of course, is an actor known for his roles in B...
12:20 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch AdMob Founder Partners With Sequoia Capital On Next Venture: Churn Labs
In December I wrote about how some successful entrepreneurs are starting incubators in a post called The Rise Of The Gentleman Hacker - "I'm hearing more and more about people who are simply setting u...
12:05 am GMT - Fri, March 11, 2011
Techcrunch How Much Money Does It Take To Kill Net Neutrality?
We now know that Net Neutrality, even if what actually passed wasn't all that special, faces an uphill struggle to remain on the books, having been voted down at a House subcommittee yesterday. What c...
11:30 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Snapgoods Goes 2.0, Rolls Out "Classified Ads"  For Gear Rental
Snapgoods.com has just rolled out a 2.0 version of their website, improving the usability and interaction. If you recall, Snapgoods is an "acquaintance rental" or "Collaborative Consumption" service, ...
11:21 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Jane McGonigal: Is Reality Broken? (TCTV)
Yes, it is. At least according to gaming guru, Jane McGonigal, the author of the hit new book Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World. For McGonigal, who began ga...
11:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch SocialShield Fights CyberBullying With New Features
SocialShield, a startup that helps parents monitor their kids' online behavior without violating kids' privacy, is unveiling a new version of its platform today. SocialShield, which recently raised $1...
10:56 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch LinkedIn Today Is Live: A Walkthrough
It's nice to see a big web company put out a compelling new product instead of just sitting on its laurels while its waiting for its IPO. Today, LinkedIn did that with LinkedIn Today, its social news...
10:12 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch DOMO Lets You Share Your Interests And Connect With New People Around You
Tokyo-based Tonchidot, legendary TechCrunch50 finalist and maker of the popular Sekai Camera augmented reality service, has released a new (free) app for iPhone and Android. But DOMO (Japanese for "ni...
09:54 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch LinkedIn Today: A Social News Product For Professionals
Professional social network LinkedIn is holding a press event today to talk about the company's new product strategy. We're liveblogging the announcement. As we heard from Mrinal Desai, LinkedIn is e...
09:37 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Now You Can Actually Use Q&A Site Hipster, If You're At SXSW That Is
Hipster, the oddly named local Q&A site that was up for three months in Boulder, CO, shut down in order to relaunch, went viral despite being in "stealth" a month ago, almost got bought by Google ...
09:37 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch New Energy Star Standards Require 40 Percent More Efficient TVs, Cable and Satellite Boxes
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday announced an upgrade to its Energy Star requirements for televisions, and cable and satellite boxes. According to a press statement from t...
09:18 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Video: Hands-On With The Quirky Switch Modular Pocketknife
We've been dreaming of the Quirky Switch for months now, ever since it was first announced back in April, 2010 and now that dream is a reality. The Quirky Switch is basically a modular pocket knife th...
09:15 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Net Neutrality Suffers Congressional Setback
Back to the drawing board. The House of Representatives struck a mighty blow against Net Neutrality yesterday, with the communications and technology subcommittee voting against the recently adopted N...
09:02 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Realtime Search Platform Topsy Raises $15 Million
Realtime search startup Topsy Labs has raised $15 million in Series C funding today from BlueRun Ventures, Western Technology Investments, Ignition Partners, Founders Fund and Scott Banister. This bri...
08:58 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch BrightEdge: 25 Percent Of Companies Audited Had Illegitimate Backlinks To Their Sites
In the wake of JC Penney's link farming issue on Google, SEO firm BrightEdge released to a free auditing tool that tells brands about the quality of the backlinks to their sites and whether they may ...
08:16 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Bain Capital Ventures Believes In "~Loyalty 2.0", Invests $8.3 Million In Clovr Media
Clovr Media, which bills itself as a provider of 'loyalty 2.0' solutions, has raised $8.3 million in a round of funding led by Jeffrey Glass of Bain Capital Ventures. Clovr Media's seed round investor...
08:04 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch SCVNGR Launches Spinoff "~LevelUp': Daily Deals Meet Location-Based Gaming
Location-based gaming startup SCVNGR, which recently closed a $15 million funding round, is entering new territory today: it's launching a spinoff service called LevelUp, which goes live today in pilo...
08:04 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch SCVNGR Launches Spinoff LevelUp: Daily Deals Meet Location-Based Gaming
Location-based gaming startup SCVNGR, which recently closed a $15 million funding round, is entering new territory: it's launching a spinoff service called LevelUp, which goes live today in pilot citi...
07:40 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Video: Hands-on with IK Multimedia's iRig Mic and VocaLive App
IK Multimedia's VocaLive app for recording live audio hits the iTunes App Store sometime today. Coupled with the soon-to-ship iRig Mic, the two make a formidable pair for creating many kinds of audio ...
07:31 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Confirmed: AOL Gives Over 200 U.S. Employees Pink Slips
As we've heard over the past few days, AOL has started implementing layoffs across its properties in the wake of the Huffington Post acquisition. The deal, which amounted to $315 million, closed on Mo...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Meebo Packs Up Your Favorite Websites And Takes Check-Ins Mobile
Last November, Meebo took a step into a new territory for them: check-ins. But instead of checking into physical locations in the real world, they decided they were going to allow users to check-in to...
06:55 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch SnagAJob.com Snags $27 Million Series C From August Capital, Others
SnagAJob.com, an online community of hourly workers and provider of hourly workforce management solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $27 million in Series C funding in a round led by ...
06:50 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch AT&T and Verizon Stores Getting iPad 2 On March 11
AT&T and Verizon are getting ready for an iPad 2 fight. Both carriers will sell the iPad 2 - running on their own networks - at the same time on March 11. Interestingly, Verizon's version will run...
06:33 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Amazon.com Slammed With Lawsuit Over Instant Search Patent
When you go to Amazon.com and start typing in the top search box, you will automatically see a number of search suggestions for items on sale before you finish typing your query. The company also offe...
06:31 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Untappd: I Will Curate My Nascent Alcoholism With This Social Drinking App
Untappd is a beer-sharing system. You note which beer you drank where and then watch as said beer rises or falls in the ranks of beerdom. You can also find out where odd brews have popped up in your v...
06:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Angry Birds Maker Rovio Raises $42 Million From Accel, Atomico And Felicis
Rovio, the Finnish entertainment media company who famously operates the Angry Birds franchise, has raised $42 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Accel Partners and Atomico Ventures,...
05:50 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Opening Pop-Up Store In Austin For SXSW
Apple is setting up a pop-up store at West Sixth Street and Congress, a few blocks from SXSW proper, in order to abate the fears of the hordes of hipsters who will arrive in the city this week and fin...
05:30 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Sony Radically Reorganizes Company, Promotes PlayStation Business Head Hirai
Big news from Sony: big S announced a radical internal reorganization of the entire company today, essentially "dividing" Sony into two different groups as early as April 1. At the same time, Kazuo Hi...
05:22 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Bandwidth.com Raises $20.5M On The Heels Of Dash Carrier Services Purchase
Bandwidth.com, a North Carolina-based provider of Internet and VoIP services to small and medium sized businesses, has raised just south of $20.5 million in equity funding according to this regulatory...
04:27 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Opera Teams Up With Telling To Develop A Mobile Browser For The Chinese Market
Browser developer Opera Software has established a joint venture with Telling Telecom, a major mobile phone distributor in China. The goal is to develop a customized mobile browser for the Chinese mar...
03:22 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Before It Even Begins, Apple Wins SXSW
Over the past week, there's been a major dilemma in Geekland: what do we do on March 11?You see, we've known for months that it's the first day of the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas. But last We...
03:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Instagram Now Adding 130,000 Users Per Week: An Analysis
Since launching just six months ago, Instagram has quickly become one of the web's top photo sharing services. The company recently passed the two million user mark and announced the launch of their ...
12:04 pm GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch LinkedIn Is About To Make Headlines
A lot has been written about social news and how Twitter and Facebook are in the running for defining and dominating it. There's also a lot of hand-wringing about how journalism will be disrupted by s...
11:21 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Square's Jack Dorsey: VeriFone's Security Hole Allegation "Is Not A Fair Or Accurate Claim" 
As we heard this morning, VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron wrote an open letter to consumers and the industry, warning users of a "gaping security hole" in mobile payments startup (and competitor) Square's ...
07:35 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch YC-Funded Earbits Brings A Twist To Music Startups: Online Radio That Lets Bands Pay For Playtime
It's no secret that online music startups are incredibly challenging. It's tough to build an audience, and even when you do, the licensing fees associated with streaming premium content are often dead...
07:06 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch The iPad 2: Yeah, You're Gonna Want One.
In January 2010, shortly after its unveiling, I first got my hands on an iPad. My initial reaction? "The iPad is like holding the future." And that's funny because here we are, just a little over ...
07:06 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch TechCrunch Review ""  The iPad 2: Yeah, You're Gonna Want One.
In January 2010, shortly after its unveiling, I first got my hands on an iPad. My initial reaction? "The iPad is like holding the future." And that's funny because here we are, just a little over ...
06:58 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Blekko Bans 1.1 Million Spammy Domains Via New Algorithm
Search engine Blekko says they've banned some 1.1 million spammy domain names from their search results. The banned domains are the result of a new algorithm the company has developed that looks at bo...
06:33 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Pawsley Aims to Become the Facebook, And Groupon, For Dogs
Dog lovers, this one's for you. According to the Humane Society, there are 77.5 million owned dogs in the United States, and nearly 40 percent of households own at least one dog. And all of them are T...
05:35 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch China Switches To Homegrown CPUs For Supercomputers, Cites "Dependence On Foreign Technology" 
We've had a few editorials here lately regarding China. I wrote about our moral hypocrisy in disapproving of factory conditions there, and John wrote how the lowest-price-possible culture still extant...
05:18 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch RockMelt Browser Opens Up To All, More Quietly This Time
When RockMelt launched its new browser in private beta last November, it was greeted with an avalanche of press. RockMelt is a new social browser built around Facebook, realtime feeds, and faster sea...
05:02 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Want Someone To Bring You A Beer? Get That And Anything Else From Zaarly
Zaarly was little more than an idea when it won a LA Startup Weekend competition three weeks ago. But there's been so much buzz about the startup that they've now gathered thousands of beta requests. ...
04:50 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch SolidPunch Allows You To Reward Your Facebook Friends For Favors
Startup PunchTab is debuting a an iPhone app, SolidPunch, today as a rewards platform for your Facebook friends. SolidPunch by PunchTab lets you reward your Facebook friends for all the favors they do...
04:24 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Digital Ad Buying Platform MediaMath Adds Another $14M
Ad tech company MediaMath is announcing a Series B round of financing today, in addition to its $12.5 million round in debt plus VC last August. The "Bloomberg terminal for marketing," MediaMath manag...
04:22 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch NYC SeedStart Is On The Hunt For Digital Media Startups
If you have an idea for a startup in New York City, this might just be the summer for you to get that idea off the ground. There is no shortage of startup accelerators, incubators, and other venture ...
03:55 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch As Apple Ponders Their Subscription Ruling, Readability Goes Full HTML5
A few weeks ago, Readability got word that their iPhone app was rejected by Apple.While obviously, that's never good news, this was especially hard to take because the reason for the rejection was tha...
03:11 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch On Apple TV Special Apps, Sports, And The Slow Bleeding Of Cable
Buried today in the iOS 4.3 release is an unmentioned, but very interesting update for the Apple TV: access to both MLB.tv and NBA League Pass. Yes, the live sports are coming to the Apple TV!That's g...
02:46 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Don't Believe The FUD: Square Is Only As Insecure As You Let It Be
Early this morning, VeriFone CEO Doug Bergeron wrote an "open letter" to the financial industry. In it, he decries Square and their little smartphone-credit-card-reader-that-could, calling for its rec...
02:15 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch "~The Daily' Finds The Richest Dog In South Dakota
After The Daily editor Jesse Angelo's colorful memo about what constitutes compelling bullshit journalism became more an impetus for Internet mockery than staff enthusiasm, Stephen Colbert challenged ...
02:11 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky On When To Take VC Cash
Today, Stack Overflow founder Joel Spolsky announced that he raised another $12 million in venture capital and that he is changing the name of his company to Stack Exchange. He also happens to be ou...
12:14 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch Recommendation Engine StumbleUpon Stumbles Onto $17M From Accel, August Capital And Others
Recommendation engine StumbleUpon has just announced a $17 million Series B round of funding, from Accel Partners, August Capital, DAG Ventures, First Round Capital and Sherpalo Ventures.StumbleUpon h...
12:00 am GMT - Thu, March 10, 2011
Techcrunch MindSnacks Raises $1.2 Million For Mobile Educational Games
Game developer MindSnacks has raised $1.2 million in funding from Felicis Ventures, 500 Startups, Mitch Kapor, Geoff Ralston, David Jesk, Oleg Tscheltzoff, Collaborative Fund, StartupAngel, ENIAC Vent...
11:05 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch StartupDigest Takes $200,000 To Curate Information For Entrepreneurs
Let's say you're an entrepreneur who wants to keep up with the latest startup news and events. You could scan places like Twitter, Facebook, and Quora, but the picture would likely be incomplete. You ...
11:01 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Gmail Unveils Another Weapon Against Email Overload: Smart Labels
Back in August, Gmail launched a new feature that's proven to be one of its most effective tools in the fight against email overload: the Priority Inbox. The feature attempts to automatically sort you...
10:05 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Report: PayPal's Express Checkout Helps Bump Merchant Sales By 18 Percent
Payments giant PayPal has been offering online merchants the ability to use its Express Checkout service, which is a one-stop payment option streamlines the checkout process for consumers. A buyer doe...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Apture Adds Former About.com CEO Peter Horan To Board; Signs Up More Publishers
We're big fans of Apture, a startup that brings instantaneous search to content on the web. Today, Apture is announcing a new board member and new publishers using its plug-in. As we've written in th...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Automattic Launches Jetpack, Gives WordPress.org Users WordPress.com Perks
Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org have a little more in common this morning, as Automattic has announced Jetpack, a bridge between the two Wordpress related offerings. For those that still don't know th...
09:50 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Dropico Launches Yet Another Photo Sharing App (But You Just Might Like It)
There's no shortage of apps for iOS, Android and other mobile platforms that enable you to easily share photos with your family, friends and/or the rest of the world. In fact, there hasn't been a shor...
09:34 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch VeriFone Takes The Gloves Off, Accuses Square Of Serious Security Hole
Mobile payments are heating up and companies are taking ruthless steps to knock down competitors. Today, VeriFone is claiming that Square's mobile payments processor contains a serious security threat...
09:17 pm GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Does Broadband Create Digital Ghettos?
Australia's Special Broadband Service has warned that the steady increase in broadband speed, and its increasing availability, may lead to "digital ghettos."  The premise is simple: fas...
07:19 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Memolane Launches Its Personalized Internet Time Machine To The Public
Back in November we wrote about Memolane, a new startup that lets you import and visually browse through your tweets, Facebook updates, Flickr photos and the rest of your content littered across the w...
07:09 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Twitter Succumbs To Backlash, #Dickbar No Longer Covers Tweets
Oh poor #Dickbar, we've spent about five days bemoaning how terrible a UI you were and now you've been pinned down, unable to roam free like the days of yore.Cow-towing to user and blogger feedback, T...
06:48 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Apparently Only eHarmony Is The eHarmony Of eHarmony
As long-time readers are likely aware, from time to time we get legal threats (or potential legal threats) sent our way. But instead of running off to go cower in a corner, we like to post these threa...
05:32 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Beverage Companies Go Sustainable With Biodegradable Plastics, Ramped Up Recycling
Coca-Cola (nyse: KO) announced plans today to invest $24 million, along with ECO Plastics Ltd. (which will contribute about $5 million of that) to build a new, plastic bottle recycling facility in Li...
03:33 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Holy Misleading Conclusions, Batman! The Facebook Netflix-Killer That Wasn't
This morning, news broke that Warner Brothers had begun a test on its Facebook Page wherein it's going to allow users to rent The Dark Knight for 30 Facebook Credits (which translates to $3). It's app...
02:54 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Adobe's Wallaby Can't Jump Very High
Earlier today, Adobe Labs released Wallaby, a way to convert simple Flash games and animations into HTML so that it is readable on "devices that do not support the Flash runtimes." Those would be iPh...
02:26 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Hey Facebook Lawyers, Here's A Mark Zuckerberg Action Figure
Still fresh from their run-in with Apple's legal department over the Steve Jobs action figure (which resulted in the figure getting pulled), the folks at M.I.C Gadget have moved on to the next bigges...
02:25 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch HubSpot Takes $32 Million Investment From Sequoia, Google Ventures And Salesforce
In January we reported that digital marketing startup HubSpot was close to taking a new venture round. That deal is now closed, and the company will announce that they've taken $32 million from Sequoi...
02:22 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Google Instant Previews Go Mobile, Are Handier Than Ever
Android may be the first thing you think of when you hear the words "Google" and "mobile", but the search giant has also been putting a lot of work into improving its web apps " especially s...
01:41 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Dennis Crowley Unsubscribes From Unsubscribe.com; World Explodes
A few days ago, Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley sent out the mildly amusing Tweet above declaring that he was unsubscribing from Unsubscribe.com, a service that aims to help you clean up your inbox ...
01:31 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Mike Maples: Why I Don't Go for the Flip and the Three Deals that Got Away (TCTV)
Floodgate's Mike Maples came in the studio yesterday to pre-tape an episode of Ask a VC, and while we had him here we picked his brain about the state of the venture industry. We started by talking ab...
01:25 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Report: Number Of Malware-Infected Web Sites Has Doubled In Past Year
A new Dasient report says that the number of Web sites infected with malware has doubled in the past year. That means we're now just short of 1.2 million Web sites out there infected with malware. Won...
01:24 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Fearing iTunes-Like Domination, Hollywood Plots Netflix's Downfall
Shocking news: Hollywood is not a fan of Netfix. Movie studios have started to become concerned with the company's growing influence, and they're determined to prevent it from becoming the next iTunes...
12:11 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch Just In Time For SXSW, Foursquare Ups The Game And Adds Recommendations
We're now just days away from SXSW. And a service that launched there two years ago and made a name for itself last year, is aiming to make another splash this year: Foursquare.The service will tonigh...
12:00 am GMT - Wed, March 9, 2011
Techcrunch HomePipe Raises $1.1 Million For Cross-Platform Content Streaming Service
Startup HomePipe has raised $1.1 million in Series A funding from a group of angel investors, including Mark DiSalle. This brings the startup's total funding to $1.8 million.HomePipe, which launched i...
11:30 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Breezy Gets $750K From Accel And Others, To Advance Its Mobile Printing Platform
Mobile printing company Breezy is announcing its first angel round today with a roster of investors that include Accel's Rich Wong, Felcis Ventures' Aydin Senkut, Jeff Clavier of SoftTech VC, Eniac Ve...
11:25 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch EduLender Raises $1 Million For Student Loan Comparison Search Engine
Chicago startup EduLender, which is a comparison search engine for student loans, has raised $1 million in seed funding from Hyde Park Angels, Kapor Capital, Sandbox Ventures, New World Ventures, Exce...
11:17 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Explor, Touch-Based App Discovery To Get Around The App Wall
Back in 2007, we covered AdPinion, a Y Combinator startup that allowed you to vote on ads you wanted to see on the web.In 2008, we covered the launch of Appalanche, a web-based app recommendation engi...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch EightBit Hits The Street Running With HTML5 Power; SXSW Just Got A Lot More Fun
The other day, I was thinking about the magic that was the original Foursquare launch at SXSW in 2009. The city of Austin was abuzz with everyone using the app "  even though no one was sure...
10:18 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch OpenText Acquires Mobile App Deployment Software Maker weComm
OpenText this morning announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire London-based weComm, which offers cross-platform mobile application deployment software. Terms of the deal were not disclose...
09:30 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Speedier, Easier Google Chrome Browser Now Out Of Beta
Three weeks ago, Google kicked off the Year of the Rabbit with a beta version of Chrome 10. Today, the company is launching a stable release of the upgraded desktop browser solution, which it points o...
08:57 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Craigslist Founder Launches craigconnects: "The Biggest Thing In My Life" 
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark has just launched craigconnects, which he says is a long-term initiative to "connect and protect organizations that are doing good stuff".Newmark on the site's homepag...
08:54 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch In The Search For New Distribution Partners, E-Book Retailer Kobo Raises More Funding
E-book retailer Kobo has announced a new Series C round of funding. The company did not disclose the amount raised but said that the investments was led by a major institutional investor and previous ...
08:35 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Grid2Home Raises $2.6 Million To Help Smart Devices And Power Suppliers Communicate
On Tuesday, a San Diego-based startup Grid2Home raised $2.6 million in a new round with its previous investors, Granite Ventures according to a new SEC filing. The company sells integration software ...
08:26 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch InMobi Adds More Evidence That Android Is #Winning (With 37 Percent Mobile Ad Share)
The evidence is mounting that Android phones are surging past the iPhone in terms of subscribers and now mobile ad impressions, at least in the U.S. A new report put out this morning by mobile ad ne...
08:05 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Potential Open Source License Violations In Android and iOS Apps?
One of the reasons a lot of big companies shy away from using open source software is because the plethora of open source licenses can make things confusing. The licenses themselves can be confusing, ...
07:47 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Microsoft: How To Reassure Users When Your Site Goes Down, Using Twitter
Microsoft has teamed up with Psychster, a research firm that apparently specializes in "the psychology of social media", to study how companies should use Twitter to address a site outage, unscheduled...
07:16 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Hyper-Local Ad Network Chalkboard Helps Stores Increase Walk-In Traffic
Mobile advertising continues to be a hot topic, with new startups cropping up everywhere lately. And now we have South East Asia- and US-based Chalkboard throwing its hat into the ring, a hyper-local ...
07:01 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Local Mobile Ad Network xAD Buys Mobile Search And Ad Assets Of Go2 Media
Local mobile advertising network xAD has acquired the remaining assets of Go2 Media. These assets include Go2 Media's direct-to-consumer business as well as the mobile web properties, brands and searc...
07:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch AdSense For Images Pixazza Now Seeing 20 Billion Image Views Per Year
Pixazza, a Google Ventures-backed photo tagging service that has been compared to an "AdSense for Images,"  has hit a major milestone today. The company's in-image advertisements now re...
06:56 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Baidu Leads $50 Million Funding Round For Chinese Real Estate Marketplace Anjuke
Leading Chinese search engine company Baidu has led a $50 million financing round for Anjuke, a major real estate marketplace in China. Anjuke, which was founded in Shanghai in 2007, provides a platfo...
06:30 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Vringo To Acquire Mobile Content Solutions Provider m-Wise
Vringo, which offers video ringtones and personalization solutions for mobile devices, this morning announced that it has signed a (non-binding) Letter of Intent to acquire substantially all of the as...
06:18 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Sonos To Add MOG To List Of Available Music Streaming Services This Spring
Are you a MOG user in proud possession of a Sonos Multi-Room Music System? Let me make you a happy man or woman: US-based MOG users will have access to the company's on-demand music service throug...
04:03 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Post-Facebook Deal, Beluga Gets A Final SXSW Tune-Up
Immediately following their launch a few months ago, I noted that Beluga was my group messaging app of choice. I didn't expect that to change leading up to SXSW "  then Facebook stepped in a...
01:05 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Fast Society Is Ready To Party At SXSW (Exclusive Demo Video)
If you are a group texting startup worth your salt, you've got to have a new app ready for the upcoming SXSW conference in Austin. GroupMe, Beluga (which was just bought by Facebook), Kik, TextPlus, ...
12:16 pm GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch The Facebook Bureau
This past weekend, I saw the film The Adjustment Bureau. It's an entertaining movie "  not great, but sort of fun and interesting. The plot (and I'm not giving anything away that the trailer...
11:29 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch I'm Already Sick Of SXSW
I had a conversation today with a colleague to discuss our SXSW Interactive strategy. My coworker figured, rightfully, that SXSW would be a shitshow and that maybe we should use one of the much talked...
08:48 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Nyoombl Slips Back Into Stealth To Create A Hybrid Of Skype And YouTube
If you've seen the name Nyoombl before, it's for one of two reasons. First, it's a really weird way to spell a word that sounds like "Nimble". Or second, they launched at DEMO last spring as one of th...
05:13 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Apple To Shed Some Retail Games And Peripherals, Focus On Selling Macs
Apple's retail stores are well-known for their clean layout, product-first mentality, and obsequious staff. Though they stock things like iPod cases, printers, and so on, the focus has always been on ...
04:41 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Hey Facebook, Your Code Is Showing (Comment Login From GoogleTwitterEtc)
Last week, as we rolled out our new Facebook Comments system, we noted that two useful options were pulled at the last second: Twitter and Google login. And today brings more proof of that: the code s...
03:52 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch YouTube Acquires Next New Networks, Introduces "~YouTube Next' Training Squad
Cute kittens and toddlers may be YouTube's bread and butter, but Google's video portal needs more than that to encroach on the goliath that is cable TV. But instead of shelling out for the rights to p...
03:22 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Microsoft Seeding Windows Phone 7 On Nokia With A Billion Dollars Up Front
The strategic partnership between Microsoft and Nokia, announced in February, was regarded as auspicious by some and desperate by others, yet some specifics of the agreement were largely a mystery unt...
02:53 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Ask a VC with Mike Maples and Peter Barris This Week, Send Questions Now
I’m leaving the country for a few weeks, so I’m trying to get a few episodes of Ask a VC in the can before I go. We have two exciting guests we’re taping this week: Mike Maples of Fl...
02:20 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Opera Launches Appia-Powered Mobile App Store To The Public
Opera is launching a designated, web-based mobile app store today, called the Opera Mobile Store. The store will be a featured Speed Dial link in the Opera Mini and Opera Mobile browsers.The Opera Mob...
12:51 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Dear Apple, Please Copy This Notification System For The iPhone Immediately
As you're aware, I tend to take Apple's side on almost all matters iPhone versus Android. Having tried over a dozen Android devices ranging from the G1 to the Nexus S, I simply still prefer iOS. And i...
12:25 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Uber's Private Cars Are Preparing For A Secret Push Into New York City
They must be blasting a lot of Sinatra at Uber, the San Francisco startup that lets you order a private car from an iPhone app and watch it as it gets closer on a map. So far the company has been tes...
12:15 am GMT - Tue, March 8, 2011
Techcrunch Google Maps Navigation For Android Now Routes Around Traffic
Buh bye GPS: the Google Maps Navigation Beta is adding traffic re-routing to its free Android app today, further sounding the death knell of traditional (and not free) in-car GPS systems.From the Goog...
11:44 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch comScore: Android Passes iOS And RIM For U.S. Smartphone Subscriber Share
comScore's monthly smartphone data is in and it looks like for the first time Android OS has surpassed both Apple's iOS and RIM in terms of U.S. smartphone subscriber share. The data, which measured ...
10:49 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Study: Too Much Technology Has Destroyed Our Ability To Sleep
It would appear that our increased reliance on technology has destroyed our ability to have a good night's sleep. So says the 2011 Sleep in America poll, which was conducted by the the National Sleep ...
10:38 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Ustream 2.0 For iPhone Lets You Broadcast And View Live Video, All In One App
Want to watch Charlie Sheen's Sheen's Corner on mobile? Aspire to be Charlie Sheen on mobile? Well, just like it did on Android back in January, Ustream today has combined both its Viewer and ...
10:21 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Beat That! Google Acquires The UK's BeatThatQuote.com For 37.7M
Breaking: Google has acquired the financial product comparison site BeatThatQuote.com for 37.7m. The news was first outed by the blog money.co.uk but has since been made official.Writing on the UK com...
09:56 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch This Year, Do Your Taxes On The iPad With TurboTax
Last night, after much procrastination, I started my taxes" on my couch with a movie playing on the TV, using only my iPad. I was testing out an early build of TurboTax, which is now availa...
09:50 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Hyperlocal Places Directory Fwix Adds Social Data And Geotagging To New Android And iOS Apps
Fwix is rolling out new versions of its iPhone and Android apps, which adds social geotagging to its hyperlocal places directory. As we've reported last Fall, Fwix originally launched as a hyperlocal...
09:24 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Kazaa Disses Apple, Debuts Web-Based Music Streaming Service For iOS, Android
Atrinsic, the direct and online search marketing agency that acquired the assets of former P2P sharing tool Kazaa a couple of months ago, is trying to drum up some attention for the digital music subs...
08:55 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Business Insider Turns A $2,127 Profit On $4.8 Million In Revenue
The Business Insider is now profitable" just barely. In a post this morning reporting the digital media startup's revenues, operating profits, and other metrics, Henry Blodget reveals that ...
08:45 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Gowalla 3 Launches For Android Today
Adding existing features like third-party check-in and better photo support, the Austin based company updates the Android version of their location software today. Gowalla co-founder and CEO Josh Will...
08:38 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Qriously Raises $1.6M To Let Brands Replace Mobile Ads With Questions
Qriously, a service that lets brands measure location-based public opinion, has raised $1.6m in a new funding round led by Accel Partners. Amalfi Capital also participated, while the London-based star...
08:32 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Skype Revenue Up 20 Percent To $860M In 2010; Paid Users Up 19 Percent
As the company prepares for a public offering in the next year, Skype released an updated S-1 filing that includes several new revenue, income and usage numbers. As you may have heard, Skype initially...
08:09 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch The Social Printshop Introduces An Instagram Trio: Prinstagram, Instagrid, and Instawar
It's only been a few weeks since social photo-sharing app Instagram released its API, but developers are trying their hand at it and coming out with new photo-linked services. Today, the Social Prints...
08:05 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch In The Search For More Revenue, Skype Rolls Out Advertisements In Windows Client
It's no secret that Skype is looking for way to make more revenue from its VoIP technologies, both in the consumer and enterprise sectors, as the company prepares for a public offering in the next yea...
08:00 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Mobile Messaging Startup Kik Raises $8M; Launches Group Chat And Photo Sharing
Mobile messaging startup Kik Interactive has raised $8 million in Series A funding from RRE Ventures, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures. Kik also announced that Union Square Ventures' Fred Wils...
07:59 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch ZoomSafer Raises $1.1 Million, Seeks To Prevent "~Distracted Driving'
ZoomSafer, developer of safe driving software for mobile phones, has raised an additional $1.1 million round of financing from White Birch Capital and SugarOak Holdings, bringing the company's total c...
07:28 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Kiwibox.com Acquires German Photo Blog Community Pixunity
Kiwibox.com, a social network focused on young adults, has acquired German photo book community site Pixunity.de for an undisclosed sum. Pixunity lets users upload photos, design scrapbooks and share ...
07:23 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch PlugShare Helps Electric Vehicle Drivers Find Free, And Paid Charging Options
A newly released app for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, called PlugShare aims to alleviate so-called "range anxiety" for electric vehicle drivers by giving them a map of an area's available, paid c...
05:42 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch SpareFoot Lands $1.5 Million For Online Marketplace For Self-Storage Companies
SpareFoot, which helps people find and compare self-storage facilities online, has raised $1.5 million in an extension to its Series B round of funding, bringing the total round size to $3.5 million.S...
05:14 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch AOL Closes $315 Million Huffington Post Acquisition; Expands Editorial Team
Well that was fast. AOL has closed its $315 million acquisition of The Huffington Post. The deal was originally announced on February 6, so it's taken a month for the acquisition to close. As we heard...
05:00 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch AdGrok Raises $470K To Be The TurboTax For Search Engine Marketing
Y Combinator-backed AdGrok has raised $470,000 in angel funding from Chris Sacca, Russ Siegelman, Ben Narasin, TriplePoint Capital and Y Combinator.Today, the startup, which launched in August 2010, i...
03:20 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Privalia Raises $123.4 Million, Buys German Online Fashion Retailer "~Dress for Less'
Privalia is very serious about becoming a major private online sales club on a global scale, kicking up its European presence up a notch with the acquisition of Germany's online clothing and apparel r...
12:28 pm GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Love The Twitter #Dickbar? Get Your Own, We Did
Regardless of what you think about the Quick Bar in the newest version of Twitter for iOS, there's no contesting that it's definitely captured tech pundits' imaginations for the past weekend or so. Th...
07:25 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Shed Simove: "I Suggested "~Lie Pad' But Apple Didn't Like That Either"  [NSFW, TCTV]
For reasons too odd to get in to right now, I'm writing this from the Hollywood Hills, in a house owned by the voice of one of the Rugrats.I'm here with a gang of old friends from London, many of whom...
07:03 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Comments Have Silenced The Trolls ""  But Is It Too Quiet?
As you've noticed by now, we're about a week into our latest experiment in troll-slaying with Facebook Comments. So far, the reactions have been very mixed and very interesting. Publicly, many of the ...
04:18 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch In Search Of The Internet Kill Switch
The complete internet shutdown this week in Libya involved a new way to turn off web access for an entire country. Earlier this year, the total internet blockade in Egypt backfired and emboldened the...
12:09 am GMT - Mon, March 7, 2011
Techcrunch YouGotListings Offers A Broker-Tested Rental Listing Management Software
There's no question that technology has helped redefine the real estate industry. With the success of Trulia, Zillow and others, it's clear that there is a huge market for providing the real estate se...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch The Coolest Tech Tour Ever: A Look At How SRI Is Augmenting The Human Condition
Editor's note: the following is a guest post by Robert Scoble, who studies tech startups and innovators for Rackspace Hosting. His videos usually go up on Rackspace's Building43. In the post he shares...
11:00 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch Jump Ball
By the end of the iPad 2 launch event this Wednesday, you could see a future without Windows. Not just Office dead, or in the cloud. An alternate universe, a path not taken, a recall of global proport...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch Apple's JointVenture For Business Gets Official
Apple has officially launched its JointVenture support for small businesses. Support comes from the Apple store and will be provided by the Apple Genius Bar. The plan is only available to business cus...
10:00 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch Why Payments Are Hard, Even For Apple And Google
Editor's note: Guest author Ohad Samet is an expert in managing fraud and other risks in payments systems. He was previously a senior manager at PayPal and blogs at As Risky At It Gets.We hear a lot ...
09:28 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch iBoobs Reborn: Undaunted, The Famous Chest App Comes To Android
When Apple kicked iBoobs out of the App Store in 2008, they struck a blow against freedom what was heard around the world. Some historians believe that the Great iBoobs Reaping of 2008 is the cause of...
07:45 pm GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch Why Silicon Valley Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are Returning Home
NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw visited Silicon Valley last month to meet immigrant entrepreneurs. At Microsoft's Mountain View campus, he met with a dozen of them. More than half said that they mi...
11:19 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch Google Responds To Android Malware, Will Fix Infected Devices And "~Remote Kill' Malicious Apps
On March 1, news broke that dozens of malicious applications had made their way to Android Market, each infected with a rootkit that could grant hackers deep access to Android devices that installed t...
11:18 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch Technology Is Crucial To The Big Society, Says Lord Of Silicon Roundabout
Nat Wei (@natwei), is a social entrepreneur and adviser to the UK Government on their "Big Society" project. As one of the youngest people ever to have been made a Life Peer of the House of Lords, Lor...
06:47 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch The App Wall
A couple nights ago, a friend sent me a message. "So glad we finally have a way to talk without hanging out."He was, of course, kidding. He sent me the message through Yobongo, a new location-based re...
04:45 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch 955 Dreams Plays The iPad Like Jazz
"The shallow experience for a user has to be very interesting. The deep experiences have to be profound." That statement, which is profound itself, is how 955 Dreams co-founder Kiran Bellubbi approach...
03:41 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch View Is Like Foursquare Tips, But Visual And In Realtime #SXSW
Right now in private beta and planning on launching right before SXSW, location relevancy service View wants to tell you what you need to know, when you need to know it. Unlike Foursquare Tips, there'...
01:56 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch OMGJK: A Kiss For iPad 2, A Slap For Xoom
It's war!This week, I went to the unveiling of the iPad 2 and got some hands-on time with the device afterwards. Meanwhile, Jason bought a Xoom and has been extensively testing it out. The consensus&#...
01:00 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch Fly Or Die: The iPad2, ecoATM, and SocialEyes
Last week was about the other tablets, but this week was all about the iPad 2. You've read all the posts and previews, but will it fly as high as Steve Jobs says it will? And what, if anything c...
12:51 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch "~Tweet Viewer' Virus Spreads On Twitter
There is something amazing about how desperately humans want to see who has viewed their online profiles. This desire has been taken advantage of (again) by Twitter spammers as tweets like "WOW! You c...
12:30 am GMT - Sun, March 6, 2011
Techcrunch First Piece of Mozilla's Web Apps Project Arrives, But Can it Outfox Chrome?
At great long last, Mozilla has revealed the first developer release of their Web Apps Project, which aims to build the infrastructure for an open web app ecosystem.Back in May of 2010, Google announc...
11:00 pm GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Gillmor Gang 3.5.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang "  Cluetrain co-author Doc Searls, Betaworks' John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, and Kevin Marks "  explored Apple's launch of the iPad 2 and its impact on the linked ...
09:35 pm GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Foursquare's Dennis Crowley: "Stop Sketching, Start Building" 
All this week, we've been running segments of our Founder Stories interview with Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley (see links at bottom for past episodes, or watch the whole 45 minute interview below). I...
07:11 pm GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch RIM Finally Sees The Light. Unfortunately, It's An Onrushing Train "" Or Is It?
Strange things are afoot in my hometown of Waterloo, Canada, which doubles as Research In Motion's headquarters. ShopSavvy says that someone there has been running their Android app "  on Bl...
07:53 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Wow. Just" Wow: Facebook Hits Record $75 Billion Valuation On SecondMarket
Last week, in our weekly report on the insanely hot Facebook stock trading going on behind the scenes on SecondMarket, I wrote the following: "Do I hear $75 billion next week?" I was sort of kiddi...
06:34 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Judge Allows Sony's Request For Identifying Information For Anyone Who Visited Hacker's Sites
This is a rather disturbing turn of events. Federal Magistrate Joseph Spero has approved a request by Sony to subpoena the hacker GeoHot's web host, as well as YouTube, Google, and Twitter, for identi...
05:50 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch WordPress.com DDoS Attacks Primarily From China, Possibly Politically Motivated
After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service's history ("multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second") yesterday morning, blog host...
05:50 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch WordPress.com DDoS Attacks Primarily From China
After recovering from the largest Distributed Denial of Service attack in the service's history ("multiple Gigabits per second and tens of millions of packets per second") yesterday morning, blog host...
05:50 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch IntoNow Hits A Million Shows Tagged In A Month. Two And A Half Men One Of The Shows #Winning
Just about a month ago, we wrote about IntoNow, a new service that allows you to tell your friends what television shows and movies you're watching in realtime. But unlike other media "check-in" servi...
05:21 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch A Day In The Life Of A Liveblogger
I hate liveblogging major events.It's hard. It's painfully frustrating, and lifespan-limitingly stressful.I also absolutely love it, and it's one of my favorite parts of this job. It's something that,...
04:49 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Foursquare's SXSW: Version 3.0, Party, Concert, 18 New Badges, And A Genius Amex Deal
Of all the startups launching things at SXSW this year, the most closely watched may be Foursquare, since they're a company that got their beginning at the conference two years ago. And it's looking l...
04:03 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Google To Shut Down Gizmo5 On April 3
Back in November 2009 Google acquired Gizmo5, a powerful VoIP telephony service that allows users to place and receive calls from their computer and mobile phone applications. Today, the company has s...
03:26 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch There Will Be Karaoke: SXSW RVIP Goes East Coast Vs. West Coast Vs. Press Vs. Investors
If you've ever been to SXSW, you know what the RVIP Lounge is. It's the RV that drives around Austin at night luring the drunken masses onboard to belt out Ace of Base songs. Yes, it's the mobile kara...
03:01 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Instagrams Go Head-To-Head With Pic A Fight
Notifoco-founders Paul Stamatiou and Chad Etzel have built Pic A Fight, a combination of Facemash and Instagram which allows you to vote on the aesthetic value of Instagram photos in a side to side co...
02:43 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Twitter Will Shut Off GeoAPI To Developers
When Twitter bought Mixer Labs in December, 2009, it inherited the startup's then-recently launched GeoAPI, which offered a platform for building geo apps. The GeoAPI combined a places database of 16...
01:23 am GMT - Sat, March 5, 2011
Techcrunch Libya Finds New Way To Cut Off Internet
Here we go again: After a six hour shutdown about two weeks ago, traffic monitors are once again reporting that Libya has lost internet connectivity, most notably that search queries to Google from Li...
11:35 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Android Market Malware Has Users Begging Google To Remotely Disable Bad Apps
These past few days haven't been Google's best. The company ran into a bit of a problem with its Gmail service late last week, with some users reporting that all of their e-mails had been deleted. Goo...
11:01 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch TechCrunch Giveaway: Tickets to Sarah Lacy's SF Book Launch Party #TechCrunch
We have released tickets to Sarah Lacy's San Francisco Book Launch Party twice. Each time, tickets to her party sold out incredibly fast. We received many emails, tweets, and Facebook messages of peop...
10:45 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Keep Track Of All The Apps Launching At SXSW At AppShowcase
South by Southwest is not only a launching platform for new startups, but has also become a destination for existing companies to show off new features and technologies. For example, we know Foursquar...
10:01 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch My Ordeal"" and the Firestorm"" in Boston
As TechCrunch readers know by now, I speak my mind and don't shy away from controversy. I am even more provocative when I talk to students. My goal is to make them think outside the box. I encourage s...
10:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch HipChat Takes Enterprise Communications Platform Mobile With iPad And iPhone Apps
HipChat, a private instant messaging service for companies, is releasing native iPhone and iPad apps.Similar to Campfire, HipChat provides a simple application for communication within businesses. The...
09:39 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch CBS Acquires TV Guide For Online Video Clicker, Jim Lanzone Named President Of CBS Interactive
CBS has acquired Clicker, a TV Guide for internet programming, according to a release just issued by the companies. Clicker's CEO Jim Lanzone has been named President of CBS Interactive. Terms of the ...
09:30 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Geotrio Wants To Be The YouTube For Tours
Startup Geotrio is launching today as a centralized platform for anyone to create, take and share tours. Tours range from historical and architectural tours for travelers, campus tours for prospectiv...
08:38 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Foursquare's Crowley: "Now Is Our Best Shot To Invent The Future" 
Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley has been thinking about and building geo-social apps for ten years. In Part III of this episode of Founder Stories, he tells host Chris Dixon, "Now is our best shot ...
08:14 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Is This Uncanny Valley-Scaling Robot Proof Of Our Impending Demise?
Sweet merciful fates: this is a robot. Called a Geminoid, these things came into fame with an early version in 2005 by Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR. This new version seems completely revamped and upd...
08:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Confirmed: AOL's Patch Buys Hyperlocal News Site Outside.In
AOL's Patch has acquired hyperlocal news aggregator Outside.In, we've confirmed with Patch's president Warren Webster. It's unclear what the terms of the deal are but Business Insider reported earlier...
07:09 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch The (Fake) Banned iPad 2 Promo: "Like The iPhone 4, Minus The Retina Display" 
You've seen the parodic banned white iPhone 4 promo video, so you know what to expect.Below is the transcript of "Johnny Five"'s introduction, just in case you hadn't seen the previous fake Apple prom...
07:00 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Blekko Now Offers "~Blekkogear' Publisher Tools: Badges, Widgets, And Toolbars, Oh My!
Search engine Blekko is taking its initiative to insert itself into the news as much as possible one step further today, and is launching a Blekkogear hub for its publishing tools, presenting a suite ...
06:16 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch MyBuys Raises $20 Million To Help Online Retailers Cater To Individual Visitors
MyBuys, provider of multi-channel personalization solutions for online retailers and brands, has secured a third round of funding to the tune of $20 million. The round was led by Rho Ventures with par...
12:46 pm GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Conan Roasts iPad 2: You'll Buy It No Matter What We Say [Video]
With every new Apple product launch, there's now an expectation that we're going to get a video made by Apple to help explain the product. You know the ones. They feature Apple executives (though, odd...
08:32 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Noteleaf Takes Mobile Meeting Notifications To A Whole New Level
Backed by Y Combinator and SV Angel (outside of Start Fund), Noteleaf helps you prepare for meetings, in one of the more novel ways I have seen. Launching today, the service pulls information from you...
06:57 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Vurve Raises Another $4.5 Million To Give Businesses "Advertising On Autopilot" 
It's no secret that a well-managed online marketing campaign can be a powerful weapon for small businesses eager to get in front of new customers " there's a reason Google's AdWords pulls in...
06:34 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Ford Focus Is #WINNING
You know who else is #WINNING in with this whole Charlie Sheen on Twitter thing? The Twitter ad sales team. At upwards of $100K a pop "Promoted Tweets" aren't a joke. It looks like big name brands...
06:15 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch TextPlus Plays A Different Card In Group Messaging SXSW Battle: Your Heart Strings
We're a week away from the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas and it's becoming very clear what the big battleground will be this year: group messaging apps. Just like micro-messaging apps a few years a...
05:40 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch DEMO Wrap Up: 7 New Social Startups to Watch
The DEMO Spring 2011 conference wrapped up yesterday in Palm Springs, and echoing the current climate in the Valley, day two of the conference belonged to startups focused on social technologies. From...
04:56 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch ContextLogic Gets $1.7M From Conway, Rabois And Others To Better Target Ads, Content
ContextLogic, an information relevancy startup that is focusing on optimizing the online ads space at the moment, has raised $1.7 million in angel funding from (for effect) SV Angel's Ron Conway, form...
04:45 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch This Just In: Facebook Makes Millenials Even More Insufferable (TCTV)
In case recent political uprisings have given us too many reasons to feel good about the impact Facebook is having in the world, we just got a study from Cornell that shows the mega-site is also helpi...
04:22 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch It's A Good Day To Be An iPad Competitor . . . Oh Wait, It's Not
Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday introduced the iPad 2 at a special event in San Francisco, taking even more momentum away from its competitors.I've had a lot of people in the last 24 hours tell me t...
04:00 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Chrome OS Get A Big Update ""  Two Words: Trackpad Fixes
A couple weeks ago, Google rolled out the beta of Chrome 10, the latest version of their web browser. Today they're bringing it to Chrome OS too "  and it contains more goodies. Most importa...
03:59 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch New Yfrog Aspires To Be A Platform For All Your Social Sharing
Yfrog is attempting to go beyond being just a photo landing page and comments today, soft launching an entirely new product in beta. This relaunch is a big departure, actually asking users to look at ...
03:11 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Trends Show Android Gaining Among The Young And Vivacious
This little study by Nielson doesn't actually say "vivacious," but it's implied — right there in the headline. The study is just an exercise in statistics and a look at the smartphone market, bu...
02:37 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Dennis Crowley: "The Hard Part Is Building The Machine That Builds The Product" 
What's the hardest part of building a hot startup? In Part II of his Founder Stories interview, Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley tells Chris Dixon it's not building the product, it's building the co...
01:34 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Bing, NYT And Everybody Else Wants A Piece Of Groupon's Success
Does anyone know where I can find some daily deals? Everywhere. Taking a cue from the New York Times and everyone else in the world Bing has launched a daily deals service today, Bing Deals.Now vi...
01:25 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch First Hands-On With The Phosphor Reveal Crystal Watch
The Phosphor Reveal is one of the coolest timepieces I've seen in a long time. This is an extremely simple digital watch with a surprising trick: it shows the time by "flipping" little jewels from dar...
01:07 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Motorola Mobility Invests In HTML5 Game Developer And Publisher Moblyng
Via its venture arm, Motorola Mobility has made an investment in Moblyng, the game developer and publisher of cross-platform, HTML5-based games. Joining Motorola in the investment round are Mohr David...
01:01 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Last 40 Tickets For Sarah Lacy's Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky SF Book Launch Party. Tickets On Sale Now!
We had an overwhelming response when we first released tickets to Sarah Lacy's SF Book Launch Party, so we wanted to release more! Sarah's number one book, Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How The Top 1% of E...
12:32 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch Ditto: The Social App For What You Should Be Doing
Think about Foursquare right now. You can tell everyone what you're currently doing, but there's no good mechanism for planning something to do or for getting a recommendation for something to do. Sur...
12:22 am GMT - Fri, March 4, 2011
Techcrunch The Twitter Story Fail
It's amazing to me how wrong The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times were on their Twitter fundraising stories last week. All claimed multiple independent sources, but ever...
11:49 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch With "Quick Bar" , Twitter Has Figured Out How To Cram Ads Into The Stream
Twitter has just rolled out a pretty substantial new update to the iOS versions of its app today. Several of the new features look nice, such as the new Tweet box design, and the easier way to find fr...
11:29 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Google Maps Allows You To Tweet Hotpot Reviews; Adds "Pinging"  Feature To Check-Ins
Google is making its local directory Places a bit more social today by allowing users to share Hotpot recommendations and reviews on Twitter directly from Google Maps for Android Phones. As you may re...
11:15 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch An Unlikely Entrant In The Location App Race At SXSW: Ask.com
There's a fairly insane rush currently underway to launch new services in time for SXSW next week. Most of these are obviously startups hoping to hit it big at the conference and ride that success to ...
10:54 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Jack Dorsey On Being Ejected From Twitter: "It Was Like Being Punched In The Stomach" 
Jack Dorsey gets the Vanity Fair treatment in a long profile written by David Kirkpatrick (author of The Facebook Effect). It goes over familiar ground for anyone who's been following Dorsey"&nb...
10:54 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch WordPress.com Suffers Largest DDoS Attack In Its History
You have no idea how hard it was to get this post up, as Wordpress.com, our blog host, is currently under a denial of service attack. It's been almost impossible to access the TechCrunch backend for t...
10:45 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch The Age Of Relevance
What's the Next Big Thing after social networking? This has been a favorite topic of much speculation among tech enthusiasts for many years. I think we are already witnessing a paradigm shift &quo...
10:20 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Energy Efficiency Measures Saved AT&T $44 Million In 2010
Telecommunications giant AT&T announced the results of its 2010 energy efficiency efforts today. According to the company's own report, it saw $44 million in annualized energy savings as a result...
10:15 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch GotoGuru: Hot Or Not For" Pretty Much Everything
A few weeks back, everyone lost their mind over Cubeduel, the social game that blended Hot or Not with LinkedIn. In fact it was so popular that it exceeded LinkedIn's API limits and was briefly shut d...
07:17 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Imation Acquires Encryption And Security Solutions Company ENCRYPTX
Imation, a global developer and marketer of branded products that enable people to store and protect digital information, has acquired ENCRYPTX Corporation, which provides encryption and security solu...
07:05 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Demand Media Buys Liveblogging Tool CoverItLive
On the heels of its entry to the public market, content farm Demand Media has just acquired CoverItLive, a liveblogging tool. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.CoverItLive provides an ext...
07:04 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Big Pay Day For Big Data. Teradata Buys Aster Data For $263 Million
In the old days, big data used to be called data warehousing. But that was when corporations stored all their own data on their own servers. Today, it's just called big data and it generally refers ...
07:00 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Visibli Raises $500K To Give Brands And Companies A Way To Personalize Links
Visibli, a startup that gives brands and companies a way to personalize links, has raised $500,000 in seed funding from Extreme Venture Partners and undisclosed angel investors. Visibli solves a pain ...
06:40 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Microsoft And Google Jointly Hit GeoTag With A Lawsuit To Invalidate Its Patent
Google and Microsoft, tech giants embroiled in a competitive battle that has spanned many years and will continue to rage for many years to come, have teamed up to take down a Texas-based patent troll...
03:48 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Disney Acquires Gaming Startup To Build HTML5 Games Outside App Stores
Disney has acquired an HTML5 gaming engine startup called Rocket Pack, based out of Helsinki, Finalnd. A Disney spokesperson told us today, exclusively: "We can confirm that The Walt Disney Compa...
01:47 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Finally, Placekitten: A Web Service For Kitten Photos
Placekitten: Something every designer needs. "A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code." "This is awesome," says a developer/entrepren...
12:54 pm GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch "~Sloppy Google' Is Lazy And Incompetent, Like A Human
Sometimes I think we suffer from Louis CK syndrome, as in we don't fully understand how amazing it is to live in a time where technological advancements allow all the world's information to be accesse...
09:58 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Salesforce Debuts A More Social Service Cloud 3 With Chatter, Facebook And Twitter Integrations
It's no secret that Salesforce is aggressively pushing its social agenda with product developments. Chatter, the company's "Facebook for the Enterprise," was recently updated with Facebook and Tw...
08:13 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Square Now Processing $1 Million In Mobile Payments Per Day
Mobile payments startup Square has reached a new milestone this week" the company is now processing $1 million in payments per day, co-founder Jack Dorsey just Tweeted. Square was processin...
08:05 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch The iPad 2: Sleeker, Faster, And Light Enough To Use As A Frisbee? [Video]
As you undoubtedly know by now, this morning Apple unveiled the iPad 2 "  the successor to its massively successful tablet, and a product that's sure to sell millions over the next year. Yo...
07:39 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch A Week With Uber And This Blogger Is Totally Hooked
I just finished a week long trip to San Francisco. This time I didn't rent a car, meaning I didn't have to deal with the rental cost, gas cost, parking and the delays in shuttling back and forth to th...
05:50 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Drawing Inspiration From Facebook, Google Revamps Public User Profiles
Way back in December 2007, Google began to roll out a new centralized Profile feature that allows users to establish their own public online profile, complete with a short bio and links to personal si...
05:29 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch The Four And A Half Things Missing From The iPad 2
Did you hear!? There's a new iPad. It's called the iPad 2. Clever, right?It packs a faster CPU, more powerful graphic engine, a bigger speaker, thinner casing, herp, derp and more. It's a fair...
04:55 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Highlights (And Low Budgets) From The ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit 2011
Today marked the last day of the U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) 2011 summit in Washington D.C. Here are some of the deals and agency decisions revealed or disc...
04:34 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch TC Cribs: IGN HQ Gets Its Game On With Lawn Gnomes, Plumbers, And Creepy Dinosaurs
The wait is finally over: TC Cribs is back.This week's episode features IGN "  the web's most popular gaming destination "  which happens to have an office loaded with video game m...
04:20 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Our Take: Apple's iPad 2 Announcement
This morning's Apple press event has come and gone, and as you likely have noticed, we covered just about every aspect of it. The iPad 2 itself, the new features and apps coming with iOS 4.3, the 100m...
03:53 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch In With A Bang, Out With A Whimper: Calacanis Walks From TechCrunch Lawsuit
The PR stunt/blatant shakedown that so many tech journalists fell for is now apparently over. Just one business day after the conclusion of Jason Calacanis' Launch Conference he's filed a court docume...
03:01 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch An iPad Lover's (Initial) Thoughts On iPad 2
"These are post-PC devices, that need to be even easier to use than a PC." That was Apple CEO Steve Jobs' closing remark as he left the stage having just announced the iPad 2 at an even...
02:40 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch @CharlieSheen's Road To Almost A Million Followers
As some of you may have noticed, Two And A Half Men star Charlie Sheen joined Twitter yesterday afternoon, and today has almost a million followers. I spoke to Ad.ly founder Sean Rad this morning abou...
02:40 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch @CharlieSheen's Road To A Million Twitter Followers
As some of you may have noticed, former Two And A Half Men star Charlie Sheen joined Twitter yesterday afternoon, and today has a verified account and a million followers in a little over 24 hours. Wh...
02:25 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Foundry Group Puts $500,000 Into Attachments.me
How much time do you waste trying to find pictures or documents that were sent to you as email attachments? If creating a product around a consumer "pain point" is what startups are supposed to d...
02:12 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch RentJuice Buys East Coast Rival Kahoots, Cuts Brokerage Prices
RentJuice has acquired its Boston-based competitor Kahoots, retaining the latter's founder, Janak Sanariya, as Director of East Coast Operations to strengthen partnerships with the rental industry on ...
01:33 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Hands-On With The iPad 2! (Update: Now With Video!)
After less than a year on the market, the iPad has already been made obsolete by its own creator with today's introduction of the iPad 2 "  or has it? Just how big of a jump is it from t...
01:04 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch No "One More Thing"  At Today's iPad 2 Event
Despite being on medical leave since January, Steve Jobs took the stage at today's Apple event to a standing ovation. After revealing that over 100 million iPhones and over 15 million iPads have been ...
01:04 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch DailyWorth Raises $850K To Become The Daily Candy For Personal Finance
DailyWorth, the personal finance daily email and community for women, has raised $850,000 in funding led by Robin Hood Ventures with Eric Schmidt'sTomorrowVentures, Howard Lindzon's Social Leverage, 5...
12:34 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch The iPad Gets A Magical, Magnetic, Self-Cleaning Cover
One of the slight drawbacks of the iPad, and touch computing in general, is that, well, everybody touches your computer screen, leaving unsightly smudges. Apple is taking a step towards addressing th...
12:21 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Hey, Apple, Where Are Our Pre-Orders? Apple Store Is Up But iPad 2 Is Unavailable
If you've been obsessively refreshing the Apple Store for the past few minutes (Guilty as charged!), you'll notice that the page for the iPad 2 is up and ready to go. The rub? You can't add the iP...
12:11 am GMT - Thu, March 3, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Announces New iMovie, Garageband For iPad
Today, Apple announced a few new apps for the iPad to run on the latest version of iOS 4.3. Apple says they have set the bar high for devs with iPad specific releases of iMovie and Garageband.iMovie f...
11:58 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Photo Booth And Other Improvements in iOS 4.3, Coming March 11th
At the iPad 2 announcement today, Scott Forstall announced a few updates to iOS that will be rolling out on March 11th, some to do with the iPad 2, some more general improvements.You've got Photo Boot...
11:50 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Fragmentation Mystery: Why Is iOS 4.3 Listed For GSM iPhone-Only?
Today at their event in San Francisco, Apple showed off the new iPad 2 alongside a new version of iOS: 4.3. But the end of walk-through was a bit odd. On screen, Apple showed that iOS 4.3 would be ava...
11:23 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Announces The iPad 2: A5 Processor, Front And Back Cameras, And Available March 11th
After selling 15 million iPads in 2010 and gaining 90% market share in the tablet market, Apple is ready to take the next step. Apple's latest iPad, the iPad 2, is official. The new tablet has a A5 pr...
11:20 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Amidst Medical Leave, Steve Jobs Takes The Stage At iPad 2 Event To A Standing Ovation
At today's iPad 2 press event, Apple CEO Steve Jobs took the stage, surprising attendees. Jobs, who has been on medical leave since early January, unsurprisingly received a standing ovation. He told t...
11:15 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Announces 100 Million iPhones, 15 Million iPads Sold
Steve Jobs, on stage at the iPad 2 event today, announced that, among other things, Apple had sold 100 million iPhones. That's a hell of a lot. They also announced an official figure of 15 million iPa...
11:13 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Now Has 200 Million iTunes Accounts, Biggest Credit Card Hub On Web
Today at their event in San Francisco, a familiar face took the stage: Apple CEO Steve Jobs. And he kicked things off with some big numbers. The biggest was this: 200 million people now have Apple ID ...
10:38 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Play Along With Our Apple Event Bingo Card
Another day, another Apple event. This time our own Devin has created a fun play-along-at-home Bingo card for your and your closest friends to enjoy at home. Will it be an OLED kind of day or dual ca...
10:23 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Google's New 404 Fail Robot Says, "That's An Error, That's All We Know" 
As we've written in the past, 404 pages are an opportunity for startups and companies to have a little bit of geeky fun. Twitter has the Fail Whale, Google had its own version of the Fail Whale for Go...
10:11 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch We're Live at Apple's iPad 2 Press Event!
Are you ready for the next iPad? Because Apple is. At least, that's what we're all assuming, given that the invite for the press event has a big ol' iPad on it (with an even bigger number 2 right ...
10:08 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Posterous 2.0 Is A Group Sharing App With A Website Attached
Simple blogging service Posterous is taking its recently launched Posterous Groups function mobile this morning with the release of the Posterous 2.0 Android and iPhone apps. Along with the app's prev...
10:00 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Cardpool Launches One Gift Card To Rule Them All
As gift card companies vie for consumer dollars, Plastic Jungle, Cardpool have been consistently innovating around the gift card model. For example, Cardpool recently launched the ability to sell a ...
09:55 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Verizon Slated To Cancel Unlimited iPhone Data
According to Verizon's Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo, speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, Verizon's current unlimited data plan is untenable and cannot remain in place forever, a bit of new...
09:46 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Apple Now Owns FaceTime.com (But Still Doesn't Own iPad.com)
When Apple first announced its video calling application FaceTime on June 7, 2010 at the WWDC event, in conjunction with the iPhone 4, it quickly became apparent that there was a potential trademark c...
09:26 pm GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch (Founder Stories) Dennis Crowley On The Origins Of Foursquare
Before all the buzz and acquisition offers, Foursquare was just an idea in Dennis Crowley's head. He recently sat down with Chris Dixon to tape an episode of Founder Stories. Above is Part I of that...
10:31 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch LetterMPress Kickstarter Project Is An Early Sign Of The New iPad Direction
Perhaps the most beautiful Kickstarter project I have ever seen (sorry RoboCop statue) LetterMPress is a virtual letterpress app for the iPad, created by designer and typographer John Bonadies. Alread...
09:38 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Angel-Turned-VC Mike Maples: Yes, There's a Bubble
The dreaded "B" word is on the tip of many tongues these days. Are we or aren't we in a bubble? Everybody has an opinion. Yes, Facebook's valuation lingers around $50 billion, Zynga's is close to ...
08:09 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch HeyTell Hopes SXSW Will Become One Big Walkie-Talkie Party
About a month ago, we covered HeyTell, an iPhone/Android app that made me feel like a kid again. Why did it make me feel like a kid? Because it turns your iPhone into a walkie talkie. Yeah. Awesom...
07:23 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch We'll Be Live At Apple's iPad 2 Event Tomorrow At 10 A.M Pacific!
Are you ready for the next iPad? Because Apple is. At least, that's what we're all assuming, given that the invite for the press event has a big ol' iPad on it (with an even bigger number 2 right ...
06:20 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Genomatica Raises $45 Million To Make Sustainable Chemicals, And Greener Spandex (A Good Thing, In This Case)
Genomatica, a San Diego based producer of chemicals from renewable sources including sugar, raised $45 million in a new round led by VantagePoint Venture Partners, a fund that has committed $2.5 bill...
05:55 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Is "App Store"  As Generic As Microsoft's "Windows" ?
As tech companies fight for ubiquity, it's no surprise that there should be disputes like this. Using common words for product names is always a risk, as is establishing generic traditions (like Apple...
05:11 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch A Mobile Photo Sharing Casualty, Treehouse Hits The Deadpool; Founder Off To Google
In terms of hot spaces at the moment, you'd be hard-pressed to find anything hotter than the mobile photo sharing space. Instagram, PicPlz, and Path all have gotten huge amounts of funding recently. A...
04:35 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch The Pros And Cons Of Facebook Comments
Today, Facebook rolled out a new commenting system for blogs and third-party sites. We've implemented it here on TechCrunch, and after a few hours of the system being live it is obvious that it has i...
04:23 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Solar Equipment Made From Castor Beans, BioBacksheets, Going Commercial In U.S.
BioSolar, a small public company (OTCBB: BSRC.OB) that makes solar backsheets "  a component of the equipment used to hold solar photovoltaic modules in place within frames and racks, and t...
02:57 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Charlie Sheen, Now On Twitter At @CharlieSheen
Because if I don't write this somebody else will: After blazing a colorful trail through some obscure radio show, The Today Show, TMZ, CNN and so on, media obsession of the moment Charlie Sheen has br...
02:22 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Secretive Seattle Startup Lumier Co. Raises Top Tier Angel Round
I first met Cullen Dudas, the teenage founder of Lumier Co., at an event I spoke at in Seattle last summer. As I came off stage I wanted to make a quick exit. Cullen cornered me and asked if he could ...
01:04 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Google Buys Security Analytics Software Developer Zynamics
It looks like Google has made an acquisition today: software analytics company Zynamics.Here's the post on Zynamic's blog: We're pleased to announce that zynamics has been acquired by Google! If you'r...
01:00 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Andreessen Horowitz Finally Adds A Fourth General Partner, Scott Weiss
The firm is keeping the name, but Andreessen Horowitz is officially no longer just the Ben and Marc show. It has added a fourth general partner (the third was John O'Farrell), and astoundingly, he did...
12:49 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Internet Up For Nobel Peace Prize Again, Let's Hope It Wins This Time
The Internet, which was nominated but lost to Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo last year, is up for the Nobel Peace Prize again this year. This year's 241 nominations surpassed last year's 237...
12:28 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Peter Guber: "The Idea That Music is Dead is Ludicrous"  (TCTV)
Yesterday, movie, music and sports mogul Peter Guber told me why there's no business without story business. In the instant best-selling Tell To Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Po...
12:01 am GMT - Wed, March 2, 2011
Techcrunch DEMO 2011 Roundup: The Eight Best Startups of Day 1
The DEMO Spring 2011 conference kicked off yesterday in Palm Springs, featuring 27 startups in the consumer, enterprise, and cloud sectors. Each company was allowed six minutes to make their presentat...
11:55 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Skype Teams Up With Citrix To Bring GoToMeeting Web Conferencing To Business Offerings
As the company looks to boost revenue in 2011 in advance of an IPO, Skype is pursuing an aggressive enterprise strategy. Today, Skype's VP of Enterprise, David Gurle, is announcing a strategic partner...
11:03 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Acquires Group Messaging Service Beluga In A Talent AND Technology Deal
Facebook has just acquired group messaging service Beluga, we've learned.Here's what we know: Facebook has acquired both the product and the team, and the plan is apparently to keep the service open f...
11:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber
I know what you're thinking - link bait title, right? Wrong. I will stand 100% behind my assertions in this post. Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it b...
10:59 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Big Appetite: Greylock Sends Entrepreneurs a Message with Expanded $1 Billion Fund
In case you missed it, being a super angel is officially passe. The new hotness is having a late-stage growth cash. Sequoia Capital is doing it. Andreessen Horowitz is doing it. Kleiner Perkins Caufie...
10:47 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Hipmunk Finds Their Next Tasty Nut: Hotel Search (And It Includes Airbnb!)
Up until now, if you've heard of Hipmunk, it has been as the "easy flight search service". But today they're adding another layer to their business. It's an obvious one, but a big one: hotel search.Li...
10:15 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch With Facebook Comments, Twitter And Google Login Flew The Coop
Given that it's an identity that 600 million people around the world already use, the push by Facebook into the publisher comment space is undoubtedly going to be a very, very strong one. And the fact...
10:01 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Facebook Rolls Out Overhauled Comments System (Try Them Now On TechCrunch)
Over the last few months there have been numerous reports about a new, fully revamped Facebook commenting plugin that would make the social network a viable competitor to the likes of Disqus, Echo, an...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Android Users Get An Official Taste Of Foodspotting Just In Time For SXSW
Back in December of last year, I noted the existence of the firstFoodspotting build for Android just in time for the holidays. Turns out, the app was a little undercooked "  still in beta &q...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Online Meeting Software Developer FuzeBox Releases API
FuzeBox, the developer of an online meeting software, has released a number of new APIs for software developers to include the company's collaboration technology in third party applications.Similar to...
10:00 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Loopt To Get Pushy With Big Flash Deals At SXSW
With a little over a week until SXSW begins in Austin, Texas, our inboxes have been hemorrhaging with seemingly every startup under the sun attempting to launch something in time for the festival. Man...
09:39 pm GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Hour.ly Lets Employers Interview Potential Temp Hires With Browser Based Video Chat
Hour.ly, a New York City startup that matches temporary job seekers and freelancers with prospective gigs and employers online, unveiled two new features and partnerships on Tuesday with Trufina and ...
10:14 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch What Makes @ACarvin Tweet? (TCTV)
The recent compounded protests and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa have had the unintended side effect of highlighting information nodes/elites like @Ghonim and @Sultanalqassemi, peop...
08:58 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Ron Conway, Chris Sacca And Others Invest 800K In PaaS Dotcloud
Hosted application platform dotcloud is announcing 800K in angel funding today, from notable angel investors Ron Conway, Chris Sacca, Jerry Yang,Raymond Tonsing, Roger Dickey, Ash Patel, Eric Urhane, ...
07:55 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Ning Launches Slick New Mobile Social Tool Called Mogwee
Mogwee launches this evening, an ambitious new product from Ning unrelated to its core social networking service. It's a new social/communications tool that's built from the ground up for mobile platf...
06:47 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Nexus EnergyHomes Raises $1.5 Million To Build Luxury, Net Zero Energy Houses
Annapolis-based Nexus EnergyHomes raised the first $200,000 of a $1.5 million dollar series A round, a new SEC filing revealed. The company designs, sells and builds pre-fab homes that are "net zero,...
06:07 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch YC-Backed TellFi Is Like "Google Voice"  For Companies
Launching today is Y Combinator company TellFi, an Internet-based phone system that is specifically tailored to enterprise needs. In building Tellfi, founders Jason Corwin and Conor Lee asked customer...
06:04 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch AOL's Awesome Weekly Drinking Binge
One great thing about big corporations are all the rules. AOL has a twenty nine page Standards of Business Conduct policy that all applies to all employees. The document covers things like harassment,...
06:03 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Check Into Foursquare, Facebook Places With Your Watch
If you've ever thought "I'd get so much more geo-location done in my day if it could all just be done from my watch," the folks at inPulse smart watch have an app for you.This hack allows inPulse smar...
05:43 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Creator Of Angry Birds' Physics Engine Calls Out Rovio For Not Giving Him Credit
Aaaawkwaaard!I'm not at this week's Game Developer Conference in San Francisco for various reasons (the main one being that I've been covering events non-stop for nearly two months and my body is fall...
05:25 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Great Moments In Tech Punditry: The Day Facebook Lost Half Its Value
Angel investor and fight picker Jason Calacanis on February 10, 2010:Facebook lost half its value today. Google Buzz 1.0 is a better product than the seven-year old Facebook. Look at Scoble's post fro...
04:02 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Why Is It Taking So Long For Amazon To Close Its Diapers.com Deal?
It's been about four months since Amazon announced its plans to acquire of Quidsi, the parent company of Diapers.com and Soap.com, for $540 million. The deal has not yet closed, primarily due to an e...
04:00 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch As Profits Dip, Salesforce Exec Talks Up Chatter
Today, at the DEMO Conference in Palm Springs, Salesforce VP of Platform and Marketing George Hu remained markedly confident over Salesforce's future, smiling broadly in the face of rising costs and d...
03:29 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Meet The Newest Founders Den Tenant: Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom
Last month, we first wrote about Founders Den, a new "private clubhouse" forentrepreneursin the heart of San Francisco's SoMa district. In that short amount of time, they've grown quickly and are now ...
02:59 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch The Oscars, On Twitter: Over 1.2 Million Tweets, 388K Users Tweeting
Twitter has changed the way we watch television. Say what you will about the 83rd Annual Oscars (and thus far the consensus is "meh"), you've probably already said it on Twitter. Mass Relevance and Tw...
02:47 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Intel Closes $7.68 Billion McAfee Acquisition
Intel has officially completed its acquisition of security giant McAfee, according to a release issued today. Intel announced the $7.68 billion, all-cash deal last August. According to the release, Mc...
01:04 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch When Will Apple Cave And Accept Flash? Maybe When It Doesn't Suck
I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe's Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don't think that's going to happen.In an open...
12:11 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Storm Clouds: Gmail Failure Reinforces Danger Of Becoming Too Cloud-Dependent
Surely by now you've heard of the problems people have been having with their Gmail accounts. E-mails have been deleted, accounts have been disabled, and while Google has been hard at work trying to m...
12:06 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Keen On" Peter Guber: "If You Can't Tell It, You Can't Sell It"  (TCTV)
"I was born curious,"  Peter Guber confessed to me when he came into the TechCrunch studio earlier this month. We should all be so curious. The legendary Guber "" whose list o...
12:00 am GMT - Tue, March 1, 2011
Techcrunch Chomp May Have Just Solved The Nightmare That Is Android App Search
Regardless of what you think about the Android platform, there's no denying that the Market experience for finding apps is pretty poor. And that's putting it nicely. Google has evolved the experience ...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch YouCeleb Lets You Look Like a Star For Cheap
Do you secretly wish you could look like a celebrity but don't have the entourage, breakfast cereal in your name, or cash flow to make it possible?Well, thanks to YouCeleb, an e-commerce site laun...
11:00 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Dow Chemical Spending $100 Million On Energy Efficiency, Emissions Reduction
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) "  which makes specialty materials and chemicals for electronics, automotive, water, energy and agricultural sectors "  today announced that i...
10:52 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch FlyRuby Aims to Be the Kayak of Private Air Travel
Launching today at the Demo Conference in Palm Springs is flyRuby, a platform that enables you to search, compare, and book private air charters online. There is something to be said for startups that...
09:50 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch HP Tablet Saves Dr. Dre's Life In "~I Need A Doctor' Music Video
"I Need A Doctor"  is the second single from Dr. Dre's upcoming album Detox, which has been in development, I think, for 400 years. It feel like that anyway. You've seen the Grammy perf...
09:27 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Khosla Ventures Leads $5.6 Million Funding For MyLikes; Buchheit Joins Board
Khosla Ventures likes social advertising startup MyLikes. The VC firm is leading the startup's $5.6 million Series A financing. Lightspeed Partners also invested and Metamorphic Ventures, which par...
09:01 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Enterproid Separates Professional And Personal Lives On Android Phones
As more businesses turn to Android and iPhones for employee use, there is a need for enterprise-focused mobile security on these devices. Enterproid, which is launching today, hopes to fill this gap b...
08:34 pm GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Former RealNetworks Execs Want You To "SocialEyes"  With Video Chat
Video chat has been tried countless times on the Web and mostly failed, but a new startup called SocialEyes is giving it another shot. Backed by $5.1 million from RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser and ...
09:03 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch What "~The Social Network' Won (Not Best Picture) #Oscars
We're more than halfway through the Oscars and Aaron Sorkin's epic Facebook creation myth The Social Network has already picked up Best Film Editing, Best Original Score and Best Adapted Screenplay. T...
08:51 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch AT&T Taps Placecast For Location-Based Shopping Alerts
AT&T is betting big on location-based shopping alerts through a partnership with Placecast. AT&T is debuting a branded ShopAlerts service, which will deliver special offers and discounts to ...
08:04 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter Via Huge Secret Secondary Fund
Lots and lots of buzz today in all the major newspapers about how J.P. Morgan is trying to buy 10% or so of Twitter for $450 million.As far as I can tell, all of the stories are wrong. In particular,...
05:44 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Comprehend Systems Wants To Make Data Analysis Less Of A Pain
Founded by Rich Morrison and Jud Gardner, Y-Combinator backed Comprehend Systems is launching the first iteration of its comprehensible data analysis platform today, Comprehend Clinical. Comprehend Cl...
04:54 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Infographics (Attempt To) Predict The Oscars
The folks over at online analysis serviceMeltwater, who Wired's Epicenter hilariously called out for not doing so hot at predicting the "The Grammys," have once again tried to use "chatter in social m...
03:56 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch In Two Years, Most Of You Will Be Reading TechCrunch From An Apple Device
In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent. In February 2009, the ...
02:22 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Sorry Entrepreneurs: You're Probably the Rule, Not the Exception
I was in the air an average of 30 hours a month for the last two years, so I watched a lot of movies -- typically semi-delirious on Ambien-- that I wouldn't ordinarily. One of those was the star-studd...
02:00 am GMT - Mon, February 28, 2011
Techcrunch Custora Helps Online Businesses Improve Customer Retention
For any retailer that is selling goods online, it is incredibly important to be able to retain customers and identify when purchasers are about to leave a site. While many online retailers and compani...