Archive for January, 2008

• As Twitter Service Woes Continue, Japanese Money Looks Likely (32 comments)
• Facebook Finances Leaked (74 comments)
• Culinary Seductions: Cooking For Men Who Want To Impress Women (26 comments)
• In Time For Super Tuesday, It’s Super Obama Girl (15 comments)
• How Much Is a Facebook Ad Worth? Lookery “Guarantees” (Drum Roll) 12.5-Cent CPMs. (43 comments)
• Motorola May Spin Off Mobile Devices Unit: iPhone’s First Casualty? (23 comments)
• Cornerworld Acquires Sway For $30 Million (10 comments)
• Twitter and Joyent Split Amidst Downtime Travails (36 comments)
• Yahoo To Announce Large Video Acquisition—Maven Networks For $150 Million. (45 comments)
• Wireless Spectrum Auction Might Be Over For Coveted C-Block. But Who Won, Google or Verizon? (18 comments)
• 1-800-FREE411 Sells Out Half Its Ad Inventory For the Year, Growth Steadies. (17 comments)
• KickApps Wades into Ning Territory with Version 3.0 (13 comments)
• The Pirate Bay Makes $4 Million a Year on Illegal P2P File-Sharing, Says Prosecutor (29 comments)
• Widgetbox Secures $8M More in Series B Funding (17 comments)
• Amazon Strengthens Its Digital Hand With $300 Million Purchase of Audible (21 comments)
• Jangl Powering Anonymous Phone Sex On PlentyOfFish (26 comments)
• Meebo Turns Chat Rooms Into A Web Service (24 comments)
• Eons: Now You Just Have To FEEL Old To Join (82 comments)
• Redfin Continues To Shrink The Real Estate Market (56 comments)
• Google, Facebook Battle For Computer Science Grads. Salaries Soar. (144 comments)
• GlobalScholar Raises $27 Million B Round To Tackle Online Education (22 comments)
• JibJab Has Our Number (13 comments)
• Simple Bookmarking Now Available with Instapaper (36 comments)
• SixApart Offers MT Activity Plugin: This Is Good (27 comments)
• Amazon Earnings Call Details: Web Services Use Up More Bandwidth Than Amazon.com; The Kindle is a Hit (44 comments)
• SezWho Partners with BlogCatalog for Distribution of Comment Reputation System (19 comments)
• Etsy Raises $27 Million; Accel’s Jim Breyer Joins Board (41 comments)
• Loomia Powers Social Recommendations for WSJ, CNET, and NBC by Leveraging Facebook (15 comments)
• iStorez Takes Those Retail Newsletters Out of Your Inbox (27 comments)
• Ajaxonomy Hacks Together del.icio.us Spy (15 comments)
• Let’s Trash Yahoo During Happy Hour (85 comments)
• BlogTV Signs Strategic Deal With ICQ (17 comments)
• eBay Changes Fee Structure To Drive Growth (56 comments)
• Tripr.TV: Get Paid For Hotel Videos (25 comments)
• ThisNext Takes $5 Million Series B (18 comments)
• MySpace Platform Goes Live February 5; Accepting Developer SignUps Now (25 comments)
• ControlC: Turning Cut & Paste Into A Web Service (49 comments)
• MOLI wins $30m to keep your public and private life separate (16 comments)
• Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash (65 comments)
• Continental Takes A Crippled Approach to WiFi in the Sky (13 comments)
• Ron Paul Softens Stance On Net Neutrality; Talks On Other Tech Issues (66 comments)
• Movie Licensing Goes Virtual With Habbo-Paramount Deal (5 comments)
• YouTube + Digg + Obama = YouBama (49 comments)
• Ustream.TV Chosen to Live Stream the Republican National Convention (20 comments)
• Digg Nearly Triples Registered Users In a Year, Says Sleuth Programmer (27 comments)
• Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain (322 comments)
• Turkish social network Yonja raises $12.5m (20 comments)
• One Million Unlocked iPhones: Beautiful. (32 comments)
• It’s Fair To Say That Germans Will Soon Have Zero Access To Online File Sharing Sites (45 comments)
• Go To Google Groups. Get Tricked Into Downloading Malware. Do Not Pass Go (25 comments)
• Big Money For Mig33’s Mobile Social Network (17 comments)
• Google Mafia Update: AdSense’s Gokul Rajaram Joins Tumri Board (21 comments)
• Automattic Launches Group Twitter-style Platform (30 comments)
• Mahalo Expands Multiprofiles: One Stop For Various Social Networking Sites (34 comments)
• Redux Discovers Friends So You Don’t Have To (31 comments)
• The Hype Machine Releases 2007 Music Blog Zeitgeist (10 comments)
• Qtrax Really Blows Its Launch (37 comments)
• Sky Dayton Steps Down As CEO of Helio (15 comments)
• The killer Twitter-tracker just arrived and its name is Tweetmeme (46 comments)
• Diggnation to Be Shown on Virgin America Flights (40 comments)
• Delver Comes Out Of Stealth With a New Twist on Social Search (41 comments)
• Break.com Launches Ad Network For Dudes (20 comments)
• HubDub creates ‘fantasy league’ for news (19 comments)
• Huddle uses new apps and Facebook to take on Basecamp (27 comments)
• Imeem Gobbles Up A Young Startup, Anywhere.FM (17 comments)
• eBay Acquires Fraud Sciences For $169 Million (38 comments)
• Ribbit Readies An Amphibian Attack On Voice Apps (19 comments)
• DEMO 2008 Companies Roundup (26 comments)
• Find Something That Is “X” And Has “Y” With Circos (4 comments)
• Visible Measures Raises $13.5 Million B Round; Releases Software To Track Video Engagement (7 comments)
• iVideosongs Teaches You How To Be A Real Guitar Hero (27 comments)
• 7digital Takes £4.25 million (0 comments)
• Nokia Acquires Trolltech For $153 Million (16 comments)
• The Rubicon Project Gets $15 Million in a Series B (21 comments)
• Blogger Discovers The Middle East (14 comments)
• Sifry Launches “Web Hot Or Not?” (46 comments)
• MocoSpace Raises $4 Million B Round (13 comments)
• Free (legal) P2P Music Downloads? Told You So. (106 comments)
• Amazon Says International MP3 Downloads Coming in 2008 (21 comments)
• Facebook Apps On Any Website: Clever Move (115 comments)
• WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites (99 comments)
• TheFunded Creating Database of VC Term Sheets (29 comments)
• Failure: Everyone But Me Gets On Google Plane Back From Davos (141 comments)
• The Super-Awesome YouTube Room At Davos (36 comments)
• Belt-Tightening In Corporate IT Spending Will be Good For Web 2.0 (33 comments)
• Pay-Per-Play Media: I Was Wrong. TC Competitors Should All Sign Up (166 comments)
• From Across the Pond: Yabb, A Seesmic for VOIPmails (11 comments)
• ConceptShare Melds With Corel Draw (15 comments)
• Globally, Baidu Beats Microsoft in Search; Yandex Creeping Up On Ask (27 comments)
• Warner Music Sues Seeqpod (29 comments)
• Despite Bleak Outlook, Mobile Ad Startups Keep Getting Funded; Amobee Spurns $150 Million Buyout Offer From Yahoo (24 comments)
• Super Panel At Davos: The Future Of Mobile Technology (43 comments)
• Global Digital Music Sales Up 40 Percent, But Overall Sales Down 10 Percent (23 comments)
• Scoble Sells Out (109 comments)
• Google May Knee Cap Domain Tasting (39 comments)
• TechCrunch’s CEO Heather Harde On The GigaOM Show (16 comments)
• Do Not Want: Pay-Per-Play Media Audio Ads (65 comments)
• SpiralFrog Exceeding Our Lack Of Expectations (18 comments)
• Xing Acquires Turkish Networking Site Cember.net (15 comments)
• Grouply Brings A Bit Of Facebook To Yahoo/Google Groups (10 comments)
• Mochi Media Gaia Contest, And A Quick Q&A (15 comments)
• Tech President Primaries Drawing To A Close; Endorsements Next Week (17 comments)
• Hulu Discusses Private Beta, Suggests Public Launch Time Frame (38 comments)
• Dataportability Gains Another Convert in Microsoft (27 comments)
• Final Word On WSJ.com: More Free Content, But Subscriptions To Remain, Likely To Cost More (22 comments)
• Battelle Turns Down $100 Million Offer For FM Publishing. Decides To Shop Around For a Higher Price. (45 comments)
• Gates Argues That A New Form Of Capitalism Can Save The World (46 comments)
• YouTube Goes More Mobile (15 comments)
• The Widget Kings (26 comments)
• Meg Whitman’s Exit Interview (40 comments)
• LiveCastr Launches; Next In Wave to Live Stream Video From Phone (9 comments)
• If “Real Journalism” Fails As A Business, Should Government Step In? (103 comments)
• Bono Responds To The Davos Question (61 comments)
• Chirp Launches Its Social Screen Saver In Beta (37 comments)
• Digg Changes Algorithm: No More Group Voting Up Stories (37 comments)
• Yahoo May Offer DRM Free Music For Free (21 comments)
• Google Health Coming Soon? (38 comments)
• EveryBlock Launches as Local News Aggregator for SF, NYC, and Chicago (33 comments)
• Kerpoof Helping Kids Connect Online, Create Together (20 comments)
• Apple Co-Defendent SimulScribe Settles Visual Voicemail Patent Suit. Is Apple Next? (20 comments)
• Goodbye, 30-Second Song Clips. Last.fm Offers Limited Full-Track Streaming and Moves Towards Subscriptions (32 comments)
• Box.net Raises $6M More for Online Storage (17 comments)
• Sweden’s Twingly To Launch Europe-Focused Blog Search Engine (23 comments)
• Facebook IM Client Social.im Now Available For Mac (20 comments)
• Virgin Galactic Unveils Design For SpaceShipTwo (32 comments)
• Playyoo: YouTube For Mobile Games Goes Beta (10 comments)
• Intel and SAP Put $15 Million Into Enterprise-Search Company Endeca (11 comments)
• Google Earth: 1,000 Human Lifetimes Spent Looking At It (28 comments)
• Europe 2.0: European tech investing “coming of age,” as events hard-wire the network (27 comments)
• Mental Note: Do Not Print Stuff From The Internet In Afghanistan (144 comments)
• Real-Estate Search Engine Roost Launches With Full MLS Listings (42 comments)
• 1,000 Free 23andMe Kits For Davos Attendees (plus one for TechCrunch readers) (211 comments)
• FunnyorDie Hangs In There: Good Content Still The Key (15 comments)
• Automattic Lands Massive $29.5M for WordPress, Other Products (23 comments)
• Syndicaster.TV Launches. Gives Broadcasters An Instant Way To Publish TV on the Web (6 comments)
• TrackMyShipments: Like TripIt For Deliveries (26 comments)
• Noca Targets Transaction Fees with New Online Payment System (69 comments)
• 23andMe Now Available In Europe, Canada (11 comments)
• Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You (124 comments)
• Reddit Adds Ability to Create Your Own “Reddits” (11 comments)
• Eroticism Comes to Microblogging with Boobik? (22 comments)
• SemantiNet Raises $1.7 Million (21 comments)
• As Tonight’s Deadline For Scrabulous Shutdown (Or Sale) Looms, Zynga Might Be Next. (32 comments)
• Travel Organizer Tripit Goes Social (23 comments)
• 500 Invites for Netvibes Ginger Beta (116 comments)
• ATG Buys CleverSet For $10 Million (13 comments)
• Ebay’s Meg Whitman to Step Down After a Decade as CEO (54 comments)
• Index Ventures Raises $577 Million For Late-Stage Growth Fund (7 comments)
• Widget Provider MixerCast Takes $6 Million Series B (10 comments)
• Yahoo Layoffs For Real—But What’s the Real Number? (62 comments)
• Greenplum Takes $27 Million Series C (4 comments)
• Some New Startups Direct To Video (36 comments)
• 9 Reasons Why The Digg Story Sells (83 comments)
• Pownce Opens To Public Tonight At Midnight; Early Screen Shots Of New Features (62 comments)
• Video Of Mahalo v. Wikia Search At DLD; Google’s Marissa Mayer Weighs In (29 comments)
• iPartee Releases Event Widget (4 comments)
• Quantcast Closes $20 million Series B (8 comments)
• We7 Takes $6 Million Series A (9 comments)
• WordPress Boosts Free Storage to 3GB. Leaves Blogger, TypePad in the Dust. (36 comments)
• Venture Fundings Hit $29.4 Billion in 2007: The Year in Charts (18 comments)
• Modu Wants You To Guess What It Is All About (58 comments)
• MySpace Answers Facebook’s fbFund With Incubator Slingshot Labs (14 comments)
• Facebook Taps Users To Create Translated Versions Of Site. Spanish, French and German Available Now (46 comments)
• Advertising Giant WPP On The Prowl For Acquisitions: Spot Runner, VideoEgg Rumored As Potential Targets (6 comments)
• Wow, That Was Fast. NBC Looking To Patch Things Up With Apple. (20 comments)
• Russians Invest $30 Million in Social Networking Site Badoo (23 comments)
• Will We See Delicious 2.0 This Week? (46 comments)
• Social Discovery Engine Noovo Launches At DLD Munich (25 comments)
• Murdoch, Packer To Buy Out Consolidated Media Holdings (10 comments)
• IncrediMail Gets A Stay Of Execution From Google (19 comments)
• Should There Be A Privacy Line With Life Streaming? (53 comments)
• Nokia To Invest In Facebook? (38 comments)
• Watch Recording of the Crunchies Online (16 comments)
• Davos World Economic Forum (30 comments)
• Unisfair Takes $10 Million Series C (10 comments)
• TechStars 2008 Applications Now Open (32 comments)
• Yahoo To Cut 20% Of Its Workforce? (76 comments)
• YouTorrent: Give It A Shot Before It’s Shut Down (60 comments)
• Crunchies Wrap Up - A Big Thank You To The Community (29 comments)
• CrunchGear this Week (5 comments)
• Google To Become Open Source Science Repository (21 comments)
• Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results (80 comments)
• 2007 Crunchies Party Report: Brotherly Love And A Guy Who Wears Sunglasses At Night (32 comments)
• (Fake) Steve Jobs Accepts The Best Gadget Award At The Crunchies (49 comments)
• 2007 Crunchies: The Winners (92 comments)
• Google Offers OpenID Logins Via Blogger (24 comments)
• 2007 Crunchies: Live From Herbst Theatre (21 comments)
• Fon Wants Residents of San Francisco’s Castro District to Share Their Wi-Fi (28 comments)
• Slide Gets Their Huge Valuation And Raises $50 million (55 comments)
• EditGrid Special Crunchies Release (17 comments)
• MySpace Russia Quietly Launches; MySpace Turkey Coming (22 comments)
• Songza Adds More Songs With Help From Seeqpod (11 comments)
• Yahoo Asks Employees To Turn In Computers (30 comments)
• 37Signals Down - Looks Like Rackspace Is To Blame Again (73 comments)
• Countdown To Crunchies Tonight (31 comments)
• OurStage Brings User Picked Content To Joost (12 comments)
• China Close To Becoming World’s Largest Internet Market By Users (73 comments)
• Yahoo May Be Looking To Buy Israel’s FoxyTunes (25 comments)
• Blogger Suffers Major Outage. Bloggers Not Happy (52 comments)
• If TechCrunch Was Written By Cats (25 comments)
• Every Urban Legend Is True (14 comments)
• Search Atheism On The Rise (50 comments)
• Mumboe: Paradise For Lawyer Types (9 comments)
• YouPorn, We’re Coming Up Behind You (58 comments)
• Fifth Generation Systems Takes $5.3 Million Series B (6 comments)
• Powerful Support For Flock. Wait, Nevermind. (19 comments)
• YouTube’s Traffic Marches North, But The Long Tail Keeps Wagging (16 comments)
• BitTorrent Clients Are A Security Risk, RIAA Probably Ecstatic (12 comments)
• KickApps Publishes API Kit, Adopts Facebook and OpenSocial Platform Standards (12 comments)
• Kaltura Partners to Add Crowdsourced Video to Wikipedia (11 comments)
• Google.org Targets Climate Change, Poverty and Emerging Threats (25 comments)
• P2P movie site Jaman signs deal with TIVO (14 comments)
• Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project (99 comments)
• Triggit: Edit Any Page Where Java Script Is Accepted (20 comments)
• Digg Has Super Users Or Hates Ron Paul (69 comments)
• As Promised, Zivity Founder Does The Full Monty (48 comments)
• Crunchies: Here’s The Winners’ Award (52 comments)
• How Do You Say “Fix Your Service” In Japanese? (14 comments)
• Loopt Launches Mobile Location Based Application Platform (13 comments)
• Toolbar Company Conduit Raises $8M More (8 comments)
• Salesforce.com To Offer DaaS Service, New Pricing Model, Competition (10 comments)
• Velocity Interactive Puts $10 Million Into Broadband Enterprises (3 comments)
• MySpace May Still Dominate in the U.S., But (Surprise!) Facebook is Catching Up Fast Worldwide (28 comments)
• Facebook Up, But MySpace Still Leads By A Very, Very, Very Long Way (33 comments)
• AOL Rumored To Be In Talks To Buy UK Social Travel Site WAYN For $200 Million (23 comments)
• Big Shot Live Makes A New Hollywood Star Each Day (28 comments)
• Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance (25 comments)
• OK, Now This Is A Little Scary: Microsoft Biometrics (63 comments)
• Tin Foil Hat Alert: Paypal Messes With Ron Paul Campaign (67 comments)
• Ximmy: A Digg Clone That Offers Users Money To Participate (46 comments)
• Bummer - No More Free Phones From Sprint (12 comments)
• Add TechCrunch WebClip to Your iPhone (19 comments)
• Flickr Takes Historical Imagery To The Masses (22 comments)
• Sun Picks Up MySQL For $1 Billion; Open Source Is A Legitimate Business Model (71 comments)
• Plaxo Pulls The Social Network Into Mac Mail (20 comments)
• Freebase Takes $42 Million (22 comments)
• Stevenote In 60 Seconds (37 comments)
• Application Developers: Don’t Be Surprised If Facebook Changes The Rules When You Do Something That Hurts Users (30 comments)
• Confirmed: Scoble Going To Fast Company To Build Army Of Scoble Show Style Shows (37 comments)
• Crunchies: The Award (12 comments)
• Joyent Suffers Major Downtime Due To ZFS Bug (32 comments)
• Will Apple TV Take 2 Take Online Movie Rentals Mainstream? (40 comments)
• Proximic Signs Deals With Yahoo and eBay To Turn Product Listings Into Contextual Ads; Taking on AdSense (24 comments)
• 100 Invites for Musana, The “Music Happiness Center” (15 comments)
• Air: The Only Thing Left In Your Wallet After You Buy Apple’s New Laptop (89 comments)
• Dreamhost Overbills Customers $7.5 Million; Uses Homer Simpson To Deliver Apology (134 comments)
• Meebo Widget Strategy Paying Off (27 comments)
• Criteo Raises $10 Million From Index Ventures (9 comments)
• Google Developing Mac Version Of Picasa, Due To Be Released This Year (50 comments)
• Listen to Pandora Internationally with Global Pandora (56 comments)
• Exclusive: Watch The Full Steve Jobs Keynote On CrunchGear (10 comments)
• Twitter Fails Macworld Keynote Test (66 comments)
• Fabrik Acquires G-Technology, Expect 2008 Revenues of $200+ million (3 comments)
• The Music Industry’s Going to Love This: Desktop Client for SeeqPod Released (12 comments)
• Breaking: Mozilla Hires Humanized Founders (25 comments)
• Apple Stock Tanks During Stevenote (53 comments)
• Breaking: Samwer Brothers Invest In Facebook (41 comments)
• Steve Jobs Keynote Live From Macworld (125 comments)
• Oversee.net Gets a $150 Million Injection of Private Equity (8 comments)
• TicketMaster Buys Online Scalper TicketsNow For $265 Million (22 comments)
• Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far) (48 comments)
• Macworld Expo Keynote Live On TechCrunch Tomorrow (26 comments)
• Babbel: Help Me, Help You Learn A New Language (28 comments)
• Drop.io Launches Easy Phone-To-MP3 Tool (19 comments)
• SuccessFactors Releases 71st Version of Its Employee Management Software (12 comments)
• What Does MySpace’s Child-Protection Deal Mean for Facebook, Bebo, and Google? (28 comments)
• Fake Apple Keynote “Leaked” on Wikipedia (37 comments)
• Hey ChaCha, I Don’t Like SMS Spam (75 comments)
• Amazon And Pepsi To Offer Free Music (18 comments)
• Gigya Unveils Monetization Strategy: Distribution of Branded Widgets (13 comments)
• MySpace Tries To Put Sexual Predator Problems Behind It (22 comments)
• Tinfinger: A User Generated Who’s Who (35 comments)
• Google Beefs Up iPhone Interface (15 comments)
• Patent Reform Act Focuses On the Wrong Problem (