New Twitter Funding
There's a lot of talk today about our financing. Yesterday we closed a significant round of funding with a group of investment firms that we're excited to publicly thank: Insight Venture Partners, T....
Response to AT&T's letter to FCC on Google Voice
This afternoon AT&T filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission, alleging that Google Voice is preventing its users from making outbound calls to certain phone numbers with inflated acce...
Jump to the information you want right from the search snippets
For most search results, Google shows you a few lines of text to give you an idea of what the page is about — we call this a “search snippet.” Recently, we've enhanced the search snippet with two new...
AT&T Activates MMS Functionality for U.S. iPhone Users
As previously scheduled, AT&T has activated MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS users in the United States, bringing to an end months of speculation and waiting since software support for the feature was introd...
Going to Palm with Dion
Do you remember how much the Web used to suck? — Not so long ago, we Web developers would have to constantly educate product managers and other business stakeholders about the limitations of HTML; w...
Confirmed: Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets, After All
Forest fires in California, the plane landing on the Hudson river, the Mumbai hotel attacks - these historical events and many more have been recorded by everyday people on the ground, using Twitter.
VERDICT: Why Gawker Will Win The McSteamy Sex Tape Lawsuit
We all know the details by now: — Grey's Anatomy's McSteamy, his wife, and what is apparently a very good friend made a sexless sex tape. Gawker posted the video and McSteamy and wife (hereinafter ...
Apple's Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers
TOKYO — As video game giants like Sony and Microsoft touted their new gizmos at the Tokyo Game Show this week, industry executives had more than the coming holiday sales season on their minds. — App...
Confirmed: Verizon Wireless will sell the Palm Pre
We've just confirmed this with one of our ninjas: the rumor of Verizon Wireless passing on adding the Palm Pre to its line-up is totally and 100% bogus. We don't have any other information to share a...
Video: Phoenix Instant Boot BIOS starts loading Windows in under a second
Phoenix is showing off a few interesting things at IDF, but the real standout is their new Instant Boot BIOS, a highly optimized UEFI implementation that can start loading an OS in just under a second...
Meet Twitter's Self-Appointed Nemesis
The revenues of Jason Fried's scrappy Chicago startup are estimated at maybe $10 million annually. Twitter, meanwhile, is about to deposit ten times that in its already-stuffed bank account. Which h...
Citigroup, Microsoft Said to Take on Intuit, Mint.com
Sept. 25 (Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. has formed a venture with Microsoft Corp. to compete with Mint.com, the personal- finance Web site that Intuit Inc. agreed to buy last week for $170 million, peop...
Laptop searches at airports infrequent, DHS privacy report says
Social media, airport image-screening technology also examined in annual report to Congress — Computerworld - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's annual privacy report card revealed more deta...
Let's Kill The CPM
Editor's note: This guest post is written by Shelby Bonnie, the CEO of Whiskey Media. He co-founded CNET in 1993 and was the Chairman and CEO from 2000 to 2006. He served as Chairman of the IAB from...
‘Best Camera’ iPhone App by Chase Jarvis
Chase Jarvis, a world-renowned commercial photographer, recently launched an iPhone application, book and online photo community to convince everyone that the best camera is the one that's with you an...
Google Responds [CYANOGATE '09]
You know something's a pretty big deal when Google feels obligated to respond to a situation. Such is the case with the recent situation going down between the Android team and Cyanogen. Today sees ...
San Francisco Launches City App Store
This guest post was written by San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who was elected to the position in 2003 and reelected in 2007. In this guest post, Mayor Newsom details the launch of a City App Store...
Sticky situation: WhoGlue v. Facebook
By now, you may have heard about WhoGlue Inc., a tiny Baltimore tech firm, launching a lawsuit this week against Facebook for infringing on a key patent that essentially covers social networking and p...
RIM signals price war potential; Fallout could be substantial
Research in Motion's second quarter sounded alarm bells and may have signaled a smartphone price war, according to analysts. The company's contention that it would target a ‘more mainstream’ market w...
Squidoo Backs Down On ‘Brand Campaign’ As Many Are ‘Not so Happy’ About It
Squidoo founder and author Seth Godin has backed down on creating company pages by default as part of their new ‘Brands In Public’ service that launched a few days ago. The idea behind the new servic...
Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer: Products, Competition, The Road Ahead
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited Silicon Valley on Thursday for his annual meeting with top venture capitalists to talk about Microsoft product strategy. This was his first visit to Silicon Valley...
Twitter Appears Set to Raise $100 Million, Valuing It at $1 Billion
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter has trained people to compress their thoughts into 140 characters and given a public stage to both dissidents in Iran and voluble stars like Shaquille O'Neal. — Now the start...
Intel to Ship New Pineview Netbook Chips in Q4
Intel will ship a new line of Atom processors for netbooks and nettops during the fourth quarter of this year, a company official said late on Wednesday. — Processors codenamed Pineview will succeed...
Jump to the information you want right from the search snippets
For most search results, Google shows you a few lines of text to give you an idea of what the page is about — we call this a “search snippet.” Recently, we've enhanced the search snippet with two new...
37SIGNALS VALUATION TOPS $100 BILLION AFTER BOLD VC INVESTMENT
CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. — Founder Jas...
Early Twitter Backer Union Square Sits This One Out
Twitter CEO Evan Williams thanked a long list of investors in his blog post today formally announcing his newest funding round. Not included: New York's Union Square Ventures, which has been one of t...
Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure
Microsoft does not recommend that Internet Explorer users install Google Chrome Frame, in order to avoid having more security issues. — The release of Google Chrome Frame, a new open source plugin t...
Windows 7 PCs to go on sale early
Windows 7, which is scheduled to launch on October 22, will be available nine days early via PC purchases from system builders, also called small custom PC makers. — If you've been putting off buyin...
Palm Pre price drops to $99 on Amazon
I just noticed the Palm Pre has finally made it's way down from $199 to $149 and now $99 on Amazon.com. You can avoid the hassle of visiting a retail store by ordering online. There's no need to fil...
How Could IPhone MMS Crash AT&T's Network?
All the hand wringing over the Friday launch of MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) on AT&T iPhones may be misplaced for a service that hasn't been a huge success on most other phones. — Apple let do...
It Took A Year, But Fitness Gadget Fitbit Will Finally Launch
Fitness gadget Fitbit was a hit at last year's TechCrunch50, where it created a ton of buzz and was a runner-up for the top prize. Of course, we all know that it takes hardware companies longer to la...
Report: Apple to unveil new iMacs by mid-October
Analysts agree the iMac needs a facelift, unsure whether now's the right time — Computerworld - Apple will refresh its iMac desktop computer within a matter of weeks and will unveil the first revamp...
Google hits Android ROM modder with a cease-and-desist letter
So this is interesting: apparently Google's hit the developer of the Cyanogen modded Android ROM with a cease-and-desist letter, asking him to stop distributing the closed-source Google apps like Gmai...
In San Francisco, Plans to Start News Web Site
A wealthy investor, a university journalism school and a public radio station have joined forces to create a nonprofit local news Web site for the San Francisco area, in what may be the largest and mo...
Warner Inks Deal to Bring Green Day, Madonna, U2 Back to YouTube
Label Also in Talks to Join Vevo, the ‘Hulu for Music’ Initiative — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Warner Music Group has completed a deal with YouTube that will bring back music videos for Green Day, U2, M...