Can We Please Have Jerry Back?
Last November we all knew Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang would be stepping down after a disastrous tenure as CEO. He spurned Microsoft without realizing the consequences, and he had no ability to describ...
Skype Founders Pull Out the Stops
The men who launched the Internet-calling service are redoubling their legal efforts after a failed last-minute bid to buy back the eBay unit — Skype's founders aren't letting go of their brainchild...
The Facebook Sharecount Button
We hadn't really planned to announce this yet, but the cat is now out of the bag. — A few weeks back I decided to build a button for my blog that would give me the same functionality of ‘retweet’ bu...
Windows 7 launch party finalist e-mails sent out
Microsoft has sent out confirmation e-mails to finalists chosen to host their own Windows 7 launch parties. — Las night, Redmond sent out e-mails to finalists chosen to host a Windows 7 launch party...
The Pink Phone Pictures Microsoft Doesn't Want You To See Yet
Project Pink is Microsoft's secret new phone, their first major phone play since the iPhone. Here are the first pictures of Pink phones, Turtle and Pure. — These phones are going to be made by Shar...
BlackBerry Desktop Software: a Closer Look at the Mac OS Version
BlackBerry® Desktop Software is now compatible with the Mac OS platform, and the upcoming release is just around the corner. We'd like to take this opportunity to share some details about the key fea...
Twitter Needs An App Store, Oneforty Provides One
With the explosion of Twitter mobile apps, web-based clients, and desktop applications, it was only a matter of time before someone launched an actual Twitter-focused app store. Oneforty has built a ...
The Last Has Fallen. The Embargo Is Dead.
Late last year I announced a new policy at TechCrunch - we don't do embargoes. Well, it was a little more complicated than that, and designed to stir up chaos in the PR ranks. We said we'd break eve...
Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki
By 2001 web startup Third Voice, which let people annotate websites via a browser plugin, was done. Website owners just didn't like the idea of people “defacing” their websites with comments they cou...
A Wi-Fi Alternative When the Network Gets Clogged
Talk about falling short of expectations. — In the last year, millions of people have snapped up new smartphones, filled them with apps and promptly found out that they couldn't actually use them. ...