Skype coming to the iPad soon
After plenty of success with the iPhone version of the Skype app, the company is finally releasing an official version for the iPad. Skype hasn't announced a date for release yet, but video of the ap...
Microsoft exploits uproar over Firefox 4's retirement to beat IE drum
Addressing the IT furor over Mozilla's plan to pull support for Firefox 4, Microsoft issued an open letter affirming its commitment to support the current Internet Explorer edition through 2020.
A Consequence of Losing the PC Wars
Apple brought in $4.976 billion in revenue from the sale of 3.76 million Macs last quarter. Divide the $4.976 billion in revenue by 3.76 million Macs and you get an average selling price of $1,323.40...
Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation
Foursquare has just closed one of the most secretive rounds of venture capital TechCrunch has seen. — The company is raising $50 million, and all of it will go towards building out the company, no s...
TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Soluto Raises $10.2 Million In B Round
TechCrunch Disrupt winner Soluto has raised $10.2 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures led the round, with Saul Klein taking a board seat. Previous investors including Bessemer, Giza Venture ...
The Web Is Shrinking. Now What?
We all read the statistics every week documenting the meteoric new growth areas of the Internet, and they are impressive: — Online video is exploding, with annual user growth of more than 45 percent...
Angry Yahoo Shareholder Confronts Bartz And Asks For Her Head (Audio Clip)
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz got an earful yesterday at the tail end of the company's annual shareholder meeting. An angry shareholder, who identified himself as Steve Landry—an advisor to institutional inv...
Supporting choice, ensuring economic opportunity
At Google, we've always focused on putting the user first. We aim to provide relevant answers as quickly as possible—and our product innovation and engineering talent have delivered results that user...
Arizona Confirms LulzSec Docs Are Authentic, Worries About Officer Safety
Officials in Arizona have confirmed that the documents dumped by the hacker group LulzSec are authentic. They also say they're concerned that the release of personal information about some officers c...
Apple files patent suit against Samsung in South Korea
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has filed a lawsuit in South Korea, claiming Samsung Electronics Co Ltd infringed upon several patents, a court official said on Friday, in the companies' latest legal tussle ove...
Xbox ‘begins dev support for free-to-play’
Develop sources: Microsoft is preparing microtransaction system — Microsoft is fostering new relationships with developers in a bid to bring free-to-play gaming to Xbox, Develop understands. — Sev...
Facebook Now Has 750 Million Users
Facebook's incredible worldwide growth has reached another major milestone: the service now has 750 million monthly active users, according to a source close to the company. — We reached out to Face...
Is Nanosys' awesome new screen technology gonna be in iPad 3? I hope so. Wow.
When Nanosys CEO Jason Hartlove pulled two iPads out of his bag and turned them on one looked like when I first saw my first Kodachrome slide while the other looked muddy and crappy in comparison …
Mainstream Location App Life360 Hits 3 Million Users: Here's Its Disruptive Plan
Early adopters may love to check in at nightlife hotspots on Foursquare and Facebook Places, but what might location technology look like once it moves into the mainstream? Fast-growing startup Life3...
Why Some Skypers Are Seeing Red
Departing employees have had their stock options zeroed out — For decades, people such as Yee Lee have been coming to Silicon Valley for the opportunity to work not just for a salary but for stock o...
In-Stream Ads Are Coming To Twitter, Will A User Revolt Follow?
After nine months of testing in-stream Promoted Tweets on third party client Hootsuite, reports have surfaced today that Twitter's head of monetization Adam Bain has been pushing a new in-timeline Pro...
The Final Word: Yes, You Will Be Able To Access iCloud Apps On The Web
Apple has just published a MobileMe to iCloud transition FAQ. Of note, there has been a lot of confusion as to whether or not iCloud apps would be accessible on the web. We had previously heard that...
40% of European smartphone buyers intend to buy an iPhone next
Yankee Group is set to release its European Mobile User Study next month and the research firm has just provided a quick glimpse into its early findings. Reportedly, 40% of European smartphone buyers...
Google: ‘At scale, everything breaks’
Q&A — Google operates technology that is expected to be reliable in the face of major traffic demands. — To scale its services, the company has developed many systems, such as MapReduce and Google...
Google Rolls Out Behavioral Targeting To All AdWords Advertisers
Google is finally rolling out the ability to target ads to users by interest — based on their previous browsing activity, or behavior — to all of its advertisers. The company first announced a beta t...
Jingle Becomes The Default Protocol For Google Talk's VoIP
Google has announced that Google Talk calls will now use the Jingle (XEP-166 and XEP-167) protocol as the primary signaling protocol. — Jingle is an extension of the XMPP which supports peer-to-peer...
Baidu Invests $306 Million in Travel Search Engine
SHANGHAI — Chinese search engine giant Baidu.com said late Friday that it would pay $306 million in cash to acquire a controlling interest in the travel search site Qunar.com. — It is one of the lar...
Microsoft sees a future for Kinect avatars in health care
Microsoft's Craig Mundie showing an Avatar Kinect prototype at the Pacific Health Summit in Seattle today. — As Microsoft looks to take its Kinect sensor beyond video games into mainstream computing...
$72M Scareware Ring Used Conficker Worm
Authorities seized computers and servers in the United States and seven other countries this week as part of an ongoing investigation of a hacking gang that stole $72 million by tricking people into b...