Amazon now lets you rent its virtual desktops, Amazon WorkSpaces, by the hour

Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces. Instead of paying monthly for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to at

Windows Azure Adds New Features, Including SQL Server Support General Availability And New Push Features

Microsoft introduced a <a target="_blank" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/08/12/windows-azure-general-availability-of-sql-server-always-on-support-and-notification-hubs-autoscale-imp

AWS Drops Prices For Windows On-Demand EC2 Instances Up To 26% As Competition Intensifies

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is dropping the price  of Windows On-Demand EC2 instances up to 26 percent, which is another clear sign of the price wars in the cloud computing market. The news follows Goo

4Mads Launches New Adtech Startup For DIY Online & Mobile Ads

San Francisco-based <a href="http://4mads.com/">4Mads</a> is a new, angel-funded startup in the adtech space which allows SMB's and local brands the ability to create both online and mobile rich media

ThingWorx Acquires AlwaysOn Developer Palantiri Systems

<img src="http://www.techcrunchit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/palantari.png" class="shot2" /> <a href="http://www.thingworx.com/">ThingWorx</a>, which provides a platform for the development of ap

Disrupting Display Advertising With Social, Mobile, And Beyond At Disrupt NYC

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/disrupt_empiredate.png"> Brands may be <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/04/13/iab-advertising-26-billion-2010/">pouring money</a> back in

Groovy's SQL Switch: A Powerful Tool In The Quest For A Truly Real-Time Web

<a href="http://www.groovycorp.com"><img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/picture-321.png" width="176" height="137" /></a>The real-time web is shaping up to be the next online re

The Churchill Club's 2009 Tech Trends: Energy, Data And More Energy

<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/tt-300x289-207x199.jpg" width="207" height="199" />Tonight we attended the <a href="http://www.churchillclub.org/eventDetail.jsp?EVT_ID=813">C

Yahoo! Acquires Ad Network BlueLithium

Todd Teresi has announced over at Yodel Anecdotal that Yahoo! will acquire online global ad network BlueLithium for about $300 million in cash. According to the announcement, BlueLithium is the fifth

Rebtel Makes International Calling Cheap and Easy

Sweden-based Rebtel have launched a product that will allow users to dial any international number at the cost of a local call. It works by having the two ends of the call use local connections (over

AlwaysOn Starts Today

Event: AlwaysOn We’ll be attending the AlwaysOn Conference this week. The buzz is incredible and we look forward to seeing and writing about new technologies all week. Updates to come. There&#82

Pluck Features the TechCrunch Feed

Pluck made TechCrunch a “featured feed” today (Link). For new subscribers (and there have been a bunch – thanks Pluck), we apologize for the slow review day today. We are still recov

Update: AlwaysOn (Day Two)

Event: AlwaysOn Previous Posts: July 19, 2005, July 20, 2005 What’s Happening? Day Two at Always On was hectic. There are two channels here – the main room with panel discussions (see sche

Update: AlwaysOn (Day One)

Event: AlwaysOn Previous Post: July 19, 2005 What’s Happening? Great start to the conference. Cocktail hour(s) followed by a number of panels and discussions. This is clearly going to be a great

Update: Always On (Day Three)

Editor’s Note: As the Always On event comes to a close, we want to take this opportunity to thank Tony Perkins. Tony, you put on a wonderful, interesting, enlightening conference and we are very

Update – IceRocket (name change)

Company: IceRocket Previous Profile: July 29, 2005 What’s New? We wrote in our previous profile on IceRocket that they were changing their name to BlogScour (based on something Mark Cuban said a

Profile – Shadows

Editor’s Note: Today is Social Bookmarking day, with profiles of Simpy and now Shadows. Simpy went out on TechCrunch today because they’ve been releasing new functionality that we really l

Web 2.0 This Week (July 17 – 23)

It’s been a helluva week. Myspace got bought for over half a billion dollars. Podcasting died (but not really), and an important development in beer tapping technology was announced. Oh yeah, we
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