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| Nov 11, 2009 | Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny | “My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt
Facebook developer Joe Hewitt, the man behind the immensely popular Facebook application for iPhone, has just tweeted that he’s done with ... |
| Sep 12, 2009 | Interview: Vinod Khosla Is On The Hunt For Great Technologies | In venture capital, Vinod Khosla likes to go his own way, which is why he’s been so successful. He was the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and then moved to venture capital and became a star partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he backed Jun... |
| Aug 16, 2009 | Facebook 3.0 For iPhone Submitted. Now Let's Count The Days Until It's Available | Facebook has submitted v. 3.0 of their iPhone application to Apple, Joe Hewitt says via Twitter: “Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)”
Hewitt also says he’ll post screen shots and more detais on this Facebo... |
| Apr 14, 2009 | StumbleUpon, A Case Study In The Efficient Allocation Of Resources | So StumbleUpon, a social bookmarking site that lets users browse and discover new websites by clicking a button, was a subsidiary of eBay for just less than two years. The acquisition made the startup’s founders extremely wealthy, given tha... |
| Aug 2, 2008 | Preventing Crime With Tech: The Newark Experiment | When Cory Booker became Mayor of Newark, New Jersey in 2006 he made it a priority to fight crime in the city. Gang members took his pledge so seriously that they planned to assassinate him just before taking office.
To show his dedication, ... |
| Jul 2, 2008 | Interview With Barney Pell and Ramez Naam About Microsoft’s Powerset Acquisition: Integration By End Of Year | I spoke with Powerset cofounder/CEO Barney Pell and Microsoft’s Live Search General Program Manager Ramez Naam shortly after Microsoft’s announcement of their acquisition of Powerset earlier today.
Microsoft intends to use Powerset’s natura... |
| Jun 17, 2008 | Skype 4.0 Beta: It's All About Video | Skype is getting a major, much-needed upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it the “biggest new release in Skype’s history.” The new software client, which which will be released here in beta tomorrow (for Windows only), takes ... |
| May 23, 2008 | Newt Gingrich Talks Tech, Presidential Aspirations | Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich is in Silicon Valley today talking about his American Solutions organization, which recently opened an office in Palo Alto. I spent about thirty minutes on the phone with him talking about a wide ra... |
| Apr 28, 2008 | Interview With Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney On Yahoo/Microsoft/Google | Citi’s Internet Analyst Mark Mahaney has been at the center of the Microsoft/Yahoo takeover battle since the beginning. On February 2, a day after the Microsoft bid, Mahaney gave his reasons why he believed the deal had just a 60% chance of... |
| Mar 17, 2008 | McCain Embraces Tech Executives For White House Push – TechCrunch Interviews Carly Fiorina | Senator McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, has twice this month embraced technology leaders in his push to become president. On March 7 Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett Packard, joined the Republican National Committee as V... |
| Feb 4, 2008 | Get Ready For Super Tuesday | Tomorrow 24 states will hold their presidential primaries, the largest Super Tuesday in U.S. history, and what will be, effectively, a national primary.
Last week we endorsed two presidential candidates based on their technology policies – ... |
| Jan 29, 2008 | Ron Paul Softens Stance On Net Neutrality; Talks On Other Tech Issues | We’ve spoken with most of the top presidential candidates over the last few months to get their on record position on ten key technology issues (Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich). But we ... |
| Jan 19, 2008 | Crunchies Wrap Up – A Big Thank You To The Community | Thank you to everyone who attended the first Crunchies event last night to honor startups in categories ranging from “best business model” to “best time sink” (pictured right is Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic/Wordpress, showing off his a... |
| Jan 7, 2008 | Yahoo Is Clearly Up To Something Big Around Music | There have been rumors that Yahoo Music is preparing to launch a big new product sometime soon. And when I read this overview of a presentation given by Yahoo Music’s VP of Product Development Ian Rogers last month it basically confirmed it... |
| Jan 5, 2008 | Kucinich Banned By ABC, Talks To TechCrunch (sort of) | Well, I thought we had a really interesting interview on our hands. Democratic candidate Dennis Kucinich was banned from the ABC/Facebook presidential debates tonight because he didn’t have enough support in the polls. But he is an exciting... |
| Dec 8, 2007 | Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel Does Things A Little Differently | We’ve now had five 2008 presidential candidates on TechCrunch: Senator Obama, Senator Edwards, Governor Romney Senator McCain and now Senator Mike Gravel. As always, we are posting this simultaneously on TalkCrunch, where you can subscribe ... |
| Dec 5, 2007 | Google for the iFones now available | Surf on over to Google, iFones fans, and feast your eyes on the new mobile version of Google. You’ve got Google Reader, Gmail, your Calendar, and even Docs all nicely arrayed in Joe Hewitt’s (TC thinks) iPhone sexiness. It’s good to own the... |
| Dec 4, 2007 | Google Pre-Launches New iPhone Interface | We heard a rumor that Google was going to launch a new interface for users accessing the site via an iPhone in the next few days. But an anonymous tip let us know it actually launched without any warning or announcement this evening.
If you... |
| Nov 12, 2007 | McCain Embarrassed by Yahoo’s Actions in China; Also Calls Google To The Mat | Next up in our series of interviews with 2008 presidential candidates: Senator John McCain. The recording is below and is also available at TalkCrunch.
McCain’s campaign made no stipulations on the questions I could ask (and they didn’t eve... |
| Nov 5, 2007 | Listen To Ads, Earn Minutes On Jajah | Ad supported telephony has been a bit of a hot topic in telephony. Jingle Networks plans on ads supporting for Free 411. Virgin launched an ad supported phone service last year. Blyk and ThePudding are two new startups that recently launche... |
| Nov 1, 2007 | Interview With Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney On Technology Issues | Last week I wrote asking for reader input into the questions we would ask Governor Mitt Romney, a Republican candidate for President in 2008, in an upcoming interview. Thanks to the great feedback in the comments, we were able to put togeth... |
| Oct 26, 2007 | Digg Images On The Way | In a conversation with Digg founder Kevin Rose tonight at The Lobby conference in Hawaii, he mentioned that Digg would be adding an Images category on top of the existing News, Video and Podcasts.
This was originally mentioned in a Digg blo... |
| Oct 25, 2007 | CNET Sells Webshots For $45 Million; Other News | Ok, the CNET news we hinted at is starting to roll in. They’ve sold Webshots, a photo sharing site, for $45 million in cash to American Greetings. The reason, says CNET Neil Ashe, is to allow CNET to “focus on key areas of growth.”
Webshots... |
| Oct 11, 2007 | Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life | In the past we’ve posted communications whenever someone has threatened to sue us. I think it’s entertaining, and it hopefully makes people think twice before firing up the legal machine with ridiculous claims. So when YouTube sent us a cea... |
| Oct 8, 2007 | Yahoo's Ian Rogers To Music Industry: "Inconvenience Doesn't Scale" | Yahoo Music VP of Product Development Ian Rogers and I have different opinions on the future of the music industry. I think the price of recorded music will continue to fall towards free, whereas he thinks the industry can turn itself aroun... |
| Sep 19, 2007 | Ooma's First (Drug Induced?) Viral Video | http://www.brightcove.tv/playerswf
New consumer VOIP service Ooma officially launched yesterday and began selling units on their website. See additional coverage from Dean Takahashi and Adweek.
They also released their first (drug induced?)... |
| Aug 24, 2007 | An Interview With Joe Hewitt, Facebook iPhone App Programmer | Nik and Mike did a cool podcast with Joe Hewitt, the crack programmer of the mobile Facebook app for the iPhone. Joe is the creator of iUI, the most complete Safari Mobile programming kit out there. It’s a great listen.
Listen Now:
http://w... |
| Aug 23, 2007 | Interview With Facebook's Joe Hewitt, iPhone God | The Facebook iPhone application was a one-man job. Joe Hewitt joined Facebook when the company he co-founded with Blake Ross, Parakey, was acquired last month. He quickly got to work on the company’s iPhone app, which was released just a mo... |
| Aug 13, 2007 | 37Signals Drives Another Company To The DeadPool | Ok, the title is a bit ridiculous. But 37Signals has been urging developers for years now to charge for their software, and attacking anyone who suggests a business can be made from giving that software away for free instead. Their model wo... |
| Jul 19, 2007 | Fifty Oomas For Readers, Just Tell Us Why You Want It | You read the story and you heard the podcast. Now you can try out Ooma yourself, way before they go on sale to the public in September.
We have fifty to give away. This isn’t like most account giveaways – each of these packages will be sold... |
| Jul 19, 2007 | Ooma to Land Tomorrow: Peer-to-Peer VoIP in a Pretty Package | While we’re spending our time pushing our Destroy Your Landline Contest, wherein you the readers are implored to destroy your traditional landline phones, something comes up that makes us want to perhaps hold on to ours. Ooma is a new Vonag... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Free Consumer Phone Service from Ooma | Thanks to mobile plans with thousands of free minutes, in-network calling options and even mobile VOIP options many consumers have ditched their traditional landlines. But Michael has posted over at sister site TechCrunch about VOIP startup... |
| Jul 18, 2007 | Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service | An ambitious and long awaited new consumer VOIP startup – Ooma – launches on Thursday morning. Much like Vonage and the ill-fated SunRocket, Ooma allows consumers to use their normal phones to make and receive telephone calls, but at drasti... |
| Jul 9, 2007 | Get A Little Bling At HotOrNot | San Francisco based HotOrNot, a popular online dating site which has broken most of the de-facto rules of running a silicon valley startup, is shaking things up again.
For the last several months they’ve been testing a new service called Ho... |
| Jun 22, 2007 | Next Target for Subvert and Profit: StumbleUpon | Controversy surrounds social media rigger Subvert and Profit. The service, which helps advertisers get on the front page of Digg, has been a thorn in the side of the service and the bane of many of Digg’s users. Subvert and Profit, like Use... |
| Jun 11, 2007 | PayPerPost Raises $7 million More | Controversial pay-per-post startup PayPerPost has raised $7 million in a second round of financing, bringing their total raised capital to just over $10 million. Like their previous round from last October the financing was led by Draper Fi... |
| May 11, 2007 | Intellectual Property Day: MySpace Anti-Piracy, DRM Name Change, Apple C&D | Lots of Intellectual Property-related news today:
MySpace has announced their implementation of copy protection, aptly named “Take Down and Stay Down”, that promises to knock out user generated piracy like a prize fighter. Now identified co... |
| May 1, 2007 | Former Yahoo Music GM Dave Goldberg Joins Benchmark Capital | Former Yahoo Music GM Dave Goldberg made waves in early 2006 when he urged major music labels to kill DRM to give music fans the flexibility to listen to music on any device that they own. It sounded crazy at the time, but later on Bill Gat... |
| May 1, 2007 | Why Silverlight Is Important | The announcements around Microsoft’s new Silverlight platform yesterday were important to anyone who is thinking about where the web will evolve. For those of us watching the demos at the Mix conference the immediate importance of it was ap... |
| Apr 30, 2007 | Silverlight: The Web Just Got Richer | Update: Listen to our podcast interview with Silverlight product manager Brian Goldfarb at TalkCrunch.
Today at Mix07 Microsoft made a number of major announcements, mostly around the recently-released Silverlight (formerly known as Windows... |
| Apr 24, 2007 | Yahoo Music To Add Music Lyrics Later Today | Look for music Lyrics to be added for hundreds of thousands of songs to Yahoo music later today, the first time they will appear legally on the Internet. They are being provided through a partnership with Gracenote, which is best known for ... |
| Apr 17, 2007 | Amazon S3 Reaches 5 Billion Stored Objects | While I was busy announcing the upcoming TechCrunch20 conference and picking fights with venture capitalists today, Dan Farber was covering the news at the Web 2.0 Expo. One of the more interesting disclosures to surface: Amazon’s Jeff Bezo... |
| Apr 12, 2007 | Sansa Connect by SanDisk | The Sansa Connect is the newest MP3 player to appear on the SanDisk roster of DAPs. The device stirred quite a bit of clamor at this year’s CES due to its innovative use of WiFi and affordable pricing.It’s been three full months since the d... |
| Apr 8, 2007 | Yahoo's New Media Device | Yahoo has just announced a cool new wifi device, called the SanDisk Sansa Connect, that comes ready to listen to Yahoo Music (see Yahoo Music overview here along with competitors) and it also syncs up with your Flickr account.
This gives th... |
| Mar 26, 2007 | Zimbra Desktop To Launch: Full Offline Functionality | Zimbra will announce a new offline client application, Zimbra Desktop, later this week. It will allow Zimbra users to access and use Zimbra’s email and other office applications, in the browser, when offline.
I spoke withZimbra Co-Founder a... |
| Mar 19, 2007 | Kiko Guys Back As Reality TV Stars | Two years ago Y Combinator invested in Justin Kan and Emmett Shear’s calendaring company, Kiko, which eventually folded after Google Calendar launched in 2006.
The Kiko guys have returned to the startup scene since their acquisition on eBay... |
| Mar 15, 2007 | 1-800-Free-411 Has 6% Market Share of U.S. Mobile 411 Market | Jingle Networks, operator of the 1-800-Free-411 service, just announced that they now control 6% of the U.S. market in 411 calls. This is up from 1.5% a year ago.
About 2.6 billion mobile 411 calls are made in the U.S. each year, and is a $... |
| Feb 27, 2007 | Talking Apollo with Kevin Lynch at Adobe Engage | I’m at the Adobe Engage event with a bunch of other bloggers including David Berlind, Tim O’Reilly, Robert Scoble and James Governor. We’re getting demos from Adobe customers (and in some cases products the company is working on) which I’m ... |
| Feb 13, 2007 | Launch Execs Leave Yahoo, Rumor of Sale | Yahoo! Music heads Dave Goldberg and Bob Roback, who came to Yahoo! when their seven year old startup Launch was acquired in 2001, have resigned from the company. ValleyWag had it first. We’re hearing rumors that Launch may now be up for sa... |
| Jan 28, 2007 | Adobe's Apollo Provides New Ground For Entrepreneurs | Undoubtedly you’ve heard the term “Rich Internet Application” (RIA) with increasing frequency lately. Sometimes you hear about it in context of Ajax, sometimes with Flash, and now even Microsoft gets talked about as having an RIA solution w... |
| Jan 15, 2007 | Another PayPerPost Virus | The blog payola virus is spreading yet again. In addition to PayPerPost, ReviewMe and CreamAid, a newcomer with the catchy name SponsoredReviews is preparing to launch.
The Blog Herald got a good first look, and notes that it differs only i... |
| Jan 10, 2007 | The Inevitable Death of DRM | Notwithstanding Apple’s announcement today of the sale of 2 billion songs on iTunes (all with DRM), most of the recent market signs suggest that the eventual demise of DRM is inevitable. Consumers are more frustrated than ever that certain ... |
| Dec 28, 2006 | No Acquisition For Digg – Raise Series B Round Instead | Red Herring and VentureBeat are reporting that Digg closed an $8.5 million Series B round of financing from previous investors Greylock Partners and the Omidyar Network, bringing the the total of capital they’ve raised to just over $10 mill... |
| Dec 26, 2006 | AT&T Acquires InFreeDA, Gets Into Free 411 Business | The massive success of Jingle’s 800-Free-411 service, which allows people to get 411 information without the outrageous fees charged by cell phone carriers and other telephone companies (up to $3.50 per call), has finally caught the attenti... |
| Dec 18, 2006 | Digg Breaks Away From All News Focus | Later today, Digg, which just celebrated its second birthday, will release a number of new features.
The primary release is the first content area of the site that isn’t news-focused. Users can now Digg their favorite podcasts (feeds and in... |
| Dec 16, 2006 | Preparing For Apollo | 2007 will bring the launch of the much anticipated Adobe Apollo platform, a cross platform run time that will allow developers to take rich internet applications, whether they be built on Flash, HTML, JavaScript and/or Ajax, and turn them i... |
| Dec 16, 2006 | PayPerPost Does Something Right | PayPerPost, a marketplace for advertisers to pay bloggers to write about their products, will make a significant policy change on Monday: Bloggers will now be required to disclose that they are being paid for their posts. This looks to be a... |
| Dec 7, 2006 | Digg Celebrates 2nd Birthday | Two years ago today, after about $2,000 in development costs, Kevin Rose launched Digg and changed the way millions of people consume online news.
The guy that built the original Digg prototype, Owen Byrne, wrote a post on the Digg blog tod... |
| Dec 3, 2006 | PayPerPost Chronicles Their Amorality | Florida based PayPerPost just launched a new site called RockStartup, which chronicles the birth (and I hope, ultimate failure) of their ethically-challenged startup.
RockStartup seems to be heavily influenced by the movie Startup.com, whic... |
| Dec 1, 2006 | New Amazon Web Service Coming: "SDS" | Update: The reference to SDS has been removed from the Amazon site linked to below. The original text is saved at the bottom of this post.
A new and unannouced Amazon Web Service to be called “SDS” is referenced on this Amazon web page disc... |
| Nov 30, 2006 | Jingle's Free 411 Service Hits 100 Million calls | Jingle’s free 411 service has announced that users have now placed over 100 million 411 calls.
The company, which we profiled in October 2005, has raised over $60 million in capital to date, has taken over 3% of the U.S. 411 market.
We inte... |
| Nov 14, 2006 | Interview With Jeff Bezos On Amazon Web Services | Moments after Jeff Bezos left the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit last week I was able to talk to him for a few minutes about Amazon’s web services ambitions. Jeff is emphasizing that new services like Mechanical Turk, Simple Storage Service (S... |
| Nov 12, 2006 | Listen To Podcasts On Any Phone | We’ve been testing two new services, Fonpods and Podlinez, that allow users to listen to podcasts directly from any telephone. Unlike existing service VoiceIndigo, which requires users to listen to podcasts on a cell phone through downloade... |
| Nov 9, 2006 | Who Are the Y Combinator Companies? | Software is moving to the web and as it does, tech companies are becoming easier than ever to launch. One of the most notable changes to the tech industry of late has been the emergence of a significant number of startups that have succeede... |
| Oct 31, 2006 | Interview With Reddit Founders | Marshall Kirkpatrick and I spoke with Reddit founders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian just a few hours after the announcement of their acquisition by Condé Nast earlier today. A recording of the discussion is now up at TalkCrunch.
Steve an... |
| Oct 26, 2006 | Pando Moves Beyond Email File Sharing | New York based Pando has been breaking away from the P2P file sharing pack, which we reviewed in late August. They claim over 1.5 million downloads of their client software, and move up to 20 TB of data per day between users.
Pando is very ... |
| Oct 23, 2006 | Jingle Networks Has Now Raised Over $60 million | Like Skype, the main attraction of Jingle Networks is to destroy a fat existing market. Skype gave users a way to bypass costly telephone calls by routing them over the internet for free. Jingle Networks, through its 1-800-Free-411 service,... |
| Oct 17, 2006 | Media Temple Crushes Shared Hosting | Media Temple launched a major new hosting service this morning called Grid Server. It matches low end shared hosting services in pricing ($20/month) but promises to grow along with the site, manage huge short term traffic spikes without a d... |
| Oct 3, 2006 | Pageflakes 2.0 To Launch | Pageflakes, an Ajax home page service that is headquartered in Germany, is preparing to launch a major user interface change in the next day or two. I interviewed co-founder and CEO Christoph Janz and head designer Jeremy Baines about the n... |
| Oct 1, 2006 | Controversial PayPerPost Raises $3 million | We first covered PayPerPost when it launched three months ago.
The service is a marketplace for advertisers to pay bloggers to write about products for a fee. Commenters to our original post were polarized into those violently for and those... |
| Oct 1, 2006 | All The Cool Kids Are Deep Tagging | The popularity of rich media publishing (such as podcasting and videocasting, the YouTube phenomenon, etc.) is a problem for search engines and people trying to use search engines to find this content. The problem is that the traditional wa... |
| Sep 24, 2006 | Podcast with Om Malik and Robert Scoble | We just posted the next podcast episode at TalkCrunch. This was a joint effort, with Om Malik, Robert Scoble and me talking for an hour on a range of topics, from the startups we’re most excited about to the state of VOIP to the upcoming Ya... |
| Sep 21, 2006 | Exclusive – Zookoda Goes Up For Auction | While some companies have the ability to hire investment banks to help them sell themselves (see Grouper and Napster for recent examples), eBay is proving to the be liquidity path of last resort for many struggling web startups, or those th... |
| Sep 9, 2006 | Microsoft Launches Desktop Feed Reader | Microsoft has added a desktop feed reader to its Max photo viewing and sharing software.
To use Max you must be on a Windows machine running the new Windows .NET Framework 3.0 RC1 (it will self install if you are on a previous version). Add... |
| Sep 6, 2006 | Six Apart Acquires Rojo | Blogging platform company Six Apart will announce this morning that it has acquired Rojo, a feed reader and search engine that competes with Bloglines and other companies.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but our assumption was that th... |
| Sep 6, 2006 | Interview With Kiko Acquiror Elliot Noss | We have a new podcast up on TalkCrunch – an interview with Tucows CEO Elliot Noss. Tucows just acquired one year old Ajax calendar Kiko for $250,000 on ebay. We spoke for about twenty minutes on his reasons for buying the company and what h... |
| Jul 23, 2006 | Online Dating 2.0: Thirteen Sites To Find Love | Online dating is big business, drawing about 4 million U.S. Internet users daily in June 2006 (and 25 million monthly), and they spend a daily average of nearly 17 minutes each on these sites. That adds up to a lot of page views – almost 4.... |
| Jul 17, 2006 | Digg to Add Sports, Swarm & Stack | Version 3 of Digg launched late last month with tweaks to the user interface, and new categories to expand Digg beyond technology news. The release, along with user stats that show massive growth, pushed Digg into the consciousness of mains... |
| Jul 13, 2006 | When Did Earthlink Get So Cool? | Earthlink doesn’t conjure up images of cutting edge new web apps. In fact, the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Earthlink is my old dial-up ISP account that took me forever to cancel. And on more than one occasion I’ve asked S... |
| Jul 11, 2006 | Digg v3 out of 3 week long beta | Cynics allege that Web 2.0 is in a perpetual state of beta, but the newest version of Digg.com spent only 3 weeks in beta before opening up for full public use today. The new Digg is most notable for including news categories beyond tech. D... |
| Jul 6, 2006 | Hitwise: NyTimes still way ahead of Digg | Hitwise came out with some new data today indicating that previous speculation that Digg could soon pass the NYTimes in online traffic is not supported by more definitive data. LeeAnn Prescot writes on the Hitwise blog “According to the Hit... |
| Jun 30, 2006 | Newsgator posts roadmap for the future of RSS | Newsgator and Feedburner are the two most active companies in the RSS space right now. When either of these companies say anything, I pay close attention. Yesterday Newsgator founder and CTO Greg Reinacker (listen to an interview with Greg ... |
| Jun 26, 2006 | Digg 3.0 Launches, First Thoughts | The much anticipated Digg 3.0 launched this morning as promised.
My first thoughts are – it’s beautiful, although it isn’t stable yet (search in particular seems to be breaking, although there are other small bugs too). The integration of A... |
| Jun 22, 2006 | Digg 3.0 expands beyond tech | This Monday Digg will release the next version of the enormously popular
community news site digg.com. Mike Arrington
and I did a
TalkCrunch podcast with Digg’s co-founder and Chief Architect Kevin
Rose and CEO Jay Adelson, in which we disc... |
| Jun 22, 2006 | Digg 3.0 To Launch Monday: Exclusive Screenshots and Stats | Digg 3.0 will launch Monday, June 26, in the morning PST. The launch is being announced this evening, and Digg has made a number of screen shots available to me which are included in this post.
Richard MacManus and I interviewed Digg founde... |
| Jun 15, 2006 | Riya 2.0 On the Way; Major Strategy Shift | Photo search and facial recognition site Riya (a TechCrunch sponsor) had a million photos uploaded in the first two days after launch and seven million photos uploaded in the first seven weeks. For details on the core service, see this post... |
| Jun 13, 2006 | Flock Raises New Venture Round, Launches Public Beta | It’s been nearly eight months since Silicon Valley based Flock released a developer version of its Firefox based browser. This evening they are releasing their first public beta version, available for Windows, Mac and Linux machines, at Flo... |
| Jun 12, 2006 | TechCrunch Turns One Year Old | I started writing TechCrunch one year ago, on June 11, 2005. Looking back, it’s been the best year of my life, although there were also some incredibly difficult times as well. I’m sure years from now I’ll have more perspective on things. A... |
| Jun 5, 2006 | Gil Penchina Leaves eBay To Run Wikia | Gil Penchina, previously eBay’s Vice President and GM of International, is now the CEO of new startup Wikia.
Wikia is the for profit sister site of Wikipedia. Where Wikipedia focuses on verifiable facts, Wikia is all about opinions – travel... |
| May 1, 2006 | New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches | New blog search engine Sphere launched just moments ago and has also announced a $3.75 million round of venture financing. In addition to covering the launch of Sphere here, we have a podcast interview with CEO Tony Conrad and advisor Toni ... |
| Apr 13, 2006 | TalkCrunch: Riya Update | Photo search and facial recognition startup Riya launched on March 21 and had a million photos uploaded in the first two days. We interview Riya CEO Munjal Shah and Marketing Director Tara Hunt on TalkCrunch to understand what Riya’s plans ... |
| Apr 4, 2006 | CNET rolls out "College Live" at Webshots | Webshots, a photo publishing and sharing service which was acquired by CNET in August 2004, is starting to launch social networking features to compete with the more cutting edge photo services like Flickr. Last month they launched the soci... |
| Apr 3, 2006 | TalkCrunch: Battle of the Online Feed Readers | Episode 4 of TalkCrunch is a follow up to Frank Gruber’s popular post last week comparing features and performance of nine of the best online RSS readers.
I invited on executives from four of my favorite readers: NewsGator, Attensa, Rojo an... |
| Mar 26, 2006 | TalkCrunch: Podcast with Amazon S3 Grid Storage Team | Episode 3 of TalkCrunch is up. We invited in two key Amazon S3 team members, Adam Selipsky (VP of Product Management and Developer Relations for Amazon Web Services) and Dave Barth (Product Manager for S3), to talk about Amazon’s exciting n... |
| Mar 20, 2006 | TalkCrunch Podcast: Reid Hoffman & David Hornik | We just posted the second podcast episode of the new TechCrunch Network podcast site TalkCrunch. Nik and I spoke to Linkedin CEO Reid Hoffman and August Capital’s David Hornik about the past, current and future of social networking. Listen ... |
| Mar 19, 2006 | Firefox 2.0 Alpha Released | An early alpha release of Firefox 2.0 has been quietly released. I don’t care if it is an alpha, it has to be more stable than v.1.5. I’ve downloaded it and its working swimmingly so far on my Mac. In fact I am writing this post with it. Th... |
| Mar 15, 2006 | Announcing TalkCrunch: A New Weekly Podcast | I am happy to announce the launch of a new podcast blog – TalkCrunch. Each week we’ll be posting a new episode, featuring founders of companies we’ve written about the previous week.
For our inaugural episode, we invite Ethan Stock, Founder... |