And The Winner Of TechCrunch Disrupt Is...Shaker
Three days and 31 startup pitches later, the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2011 has been determined. Out of the 29 startups and two audience choice winners, we whittled the list down to ...
AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo In Ad Deal Vs. Google
AOL, Yahoo and Microsoft compete for ad dollars. But a new pact calls for the rivals to cooperate on ad sales, too. — The three companies are going to start selling ad inventory on each others' sit...
How much of the internet is actually for porn?
Plug the question into Google and you reach an abandoned corner of the net: an article from 2005, a mess of answers from 37-80% and the Avenue Q Wikipedia page. — Surely there must be a better way. ...
Groupon Back on Track for Its I.P.O.
Groupon is planning to put its initial public offering back on track even as markets remain rocky. — After postponing presentations to potential investors early this month, the online coupon giant i...
New iPad Factory in Brazil Is “Ready”, Already Making iPads for December
According to a report by Brazilian website UOL, the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, Aolizio Mercadante, has confirmed during a hearing with the Commission of Economic Affairs that the ne...
Google Buys 1K IBM Patents for Android Defense
Google Inc. (GOOG) bought 1,023 patents from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) as the Internet search and advertising company bolsters its strategy of defending against smartphone lawsuits. ...
Apple is Building iMessage into OS X Lion's iChat
Back in June, Apple unveiled iMessage, one of the major new features of the upcoming iOS 5 update. iMessage is a unified messaging service for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch that allows users to send te...
John Sculley on Apple's Jobs and the Experience of a Lifetime
In 1983, when John Sculley was 43, he had a choice. He could remain head of Pepsi-Cola Co. and jockey with several other executives to be named successor to then-PepsiCo Chief Executive Donald Kendal...
Facebook puts off IPO until late 2012
Facebook is preparing to launch its blockbuster initial public offering in the US towards the end of next year, a later public debut by the social networking site than had been widely anticipated, say...
BetterWorks Brings Big Company Perks To Bay Area Startups — Coming Soon: The Gamification Of Working
Coming Soon: The Gamification Of Working — What's better: an employer giving you $500 or an employer giving you an iPad? At first, you may think it's better to get the cash. But often, that money i...
Your smartphone camera is now smarter with Goggles 1.6
Today, we launched a new version of Google Goggles that enhances the camera on your Android-powered phone. With this new opt-in feature in Goggles, you can simply photograph an image using your phone...
Amazon.com, Hearst Corp. strike content, e-commerce deal
In a move likely to secure more content for a tablet, Amazon.com and Hearst Corp. have entered into an expanded, consumer marketing, e-commerce and content relationship. — With the deal, Amazon cust...
Sony PlayStation Vita debuts in Japan on December 17th, partnering with NTT DoCoMo for 3G (updated)
Sony's just announced in Tokyo that the PlayStation Vita will debut in Japan on December 17th, and it'll partner with NTT DoCoMo for the console's prepaid 3G service.
Intel to Universities: No Patents, Please, Just Open Source
What would you do if you were the university official in charge of company research partnerships and a Fortune 100 tech company offered to fund a research center at your university to the tune of $2.5...
Media Tablet and eReader Markets Beat Second Quarter Targets, Forecast Increased for 2011, According to IDC
Worldwide media tablet shipments rose by 88.9% on a sequential basis and 303.8% year over year in the second calendar quarter of 2011 (2Q11) to 13.6 million units …
Reports: Feds Bust IMAGiNE Movie Release Group
At the end of July 2011, the admin of XtremeSpeeds.net, a private BitTorrent tracker, reported that his house had been raided by the authorities. He said that he was questioned under suspicion of bei...
Free Music For Everyone! Rdio Joins MOG, Spotify in the Big Digital Music Giveaway
Free, legal music on the web looked like a defunct business model just a few months ago. Now it seems to be going through a revival phase. — Over the summer, Spotify finally opened for business …
Demo: Fav.Tv ain't your grandmother's TV Guide
Just in time for the Fall television lineup, today Fav.Tv launched an interactive television guide that lets people discuss, follow and get notified about their favorite shows. — I'm not a big TV wa...
Yahoo for Sale: Possible Bidders Circling — Including Marc Andreessen — as Board Pressure Mounts
Including Marc Andreessen — as Board Pressure Mounts — A range of major players interested in acquiring all or a large piece of Yahoo have been prepping possible bids and have been in touch with the ...
Uberdata: How prostitution and alcohol make Uber better
What up humans?! Bradley Voytek here again. Man do we have some crazy #uberdata for you today. — Today is Uber: Freakonomics edition. — In this post I'll show how where crimes occur—specifically...
Introducing the Subscribe Button
Until now, it hasn't been easy to choose exactly what you see in your News Feed. Maybe you don't want to see every time your brother plays a game on Facebook, for example. Or maybe you'd like to see...
Apple to Revise S. Korea IPhone Return Policy After Complaints
Apple Inc. (AAPL) agreed with South Korea's fair trade regulator to revise its customer-service policy for iPhone users in the country to address complaints about the handling of faulty devices.
Postmates Aims To Be The Uber Of Packages — And More
And More — Couriers have been around forever. You've probably seen them on bikes, with messenger bags in tow. For a world teeming with innovative technologies, it seems somewhat surprising that the...
A First Look at PayPal's Strategy for Challenging Visa and MasterCard at the Register
For the first time today, PayPal demonstrated how it intends to provide payments to physical retailers as the race heats up to make wallets and clunky metal registers obsolete.
AT&T announces $25 monthly GoPhone plan beginning September 18th
With all of the unlimited everything plans dominating the world of prepaid currently, it's easy to forget about the smaller offerings ideally suited for those looking for appetizers instead of the all...