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May 7, 2009
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In celebration of Mothers Day, Facebook now lets you list and connect to your family members in the Basic Information part of your profile. Starting later today and through this weekend, you will see a new Family Members section within the Inform...
We all know about Twitters downtime today. It was a scheduled maintenance service that was supposed to last for about an hour. Sure enough, after about an hour, Twitter came back but only partially. Over the past hour since its been back, its bee...
Twitter just went down. Dont worry, it was planned. It should only be offline for about an hour today but theres another downtime planned for Monday as well. Im sitting here not quite sure what do with myself, as Im sure many of you are. So Ill go...
April proved to be a dismal month for technology sector jobs and overall employment, but there may be a light at the end of the tunnel. Granted, this morning brought sobering news of the U.S. unemployment rate hitting its highest mark since 1983:...
Its sort of funny when Facebooks Randi Zuckerberg takes her frustration out on a club bouncer by saying it would be a huge bummer if their facebook pages accidentally went down. But its also terrible messaging for the fast growing company. Randi ...
DocuSign, an e-signature service, closed $5 million in Series D funding from Frazier Technology Ventures, Ignition Partners, Sigma Partners, and West River Capital LLC. The funding follows a Series C investment of $12.4 million in 2007 from the...
Federated Media has been our advertising partner since December 2005. The first checks they sent us allowed TechCrunch to become something more than a guy sitting in a spare bedroom talking about startups to a small audience. Revenue from Federate...
I find it frightening that the first alien contact we might make could be a tweet.
Truer words have never been spoken by a YouTube commenter.
NASA astronaut Mark Polansky, who will be commanding the next mission to the International Space Station...
During the past several months, a war has been brewing between Twitter apps for the iPhone. But its been largely two-sided. You were either in the Twitterfon camp or the Tweetie camp. And if you were using any other app, it was only because you di...
Are you looking for the best beer bars in the world, good places to make out in San Francisco, or where to go on the Big Island in Hawaii? A travel recommendation site called nextstop mixes social recommendations with search and adds a reputatio...
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start.
There are few codes more sacred to old school gamers than the Konami code - a cheat code that originated on the original NES and has since made its way into many other games. More rece...
Weve covered SeeqPod quite a bit here on TechCrunch. The San Francisco startup has been hard at work to develop a way to intelligently index media files on the Web to make them searchable online, and introduced an API which many other startups an...
Its no surprise that Google has its fair share of Trekkies, and theyre as excited about the new Star Trek film as anyone. So excited, in fact, that the Google Calendar team has put together a new Stardate calendar that will tell you exactly toda...
There are now 231.5 million Websites according to Netcraft. But last year the number of new sites added to the Web slowed down to 29.9 million, from 48.7 million in 2007. Royal Pingdom went through Netcrafts server surveys to come up with the c...
Forget Ashton Kutcher and Oprah Winfrey, theres a genuine queen on Twitter these days: Rania Al Abdullah, Queen of Jordan, joined the tweeting masses yesterday and she really has a feel for the micro-medium too!
And yes, its the real deal since it...
Theres a new trend that starting to sweep the web: Real-time. Everyone wants access to information as it happens instantaneously. FriendFeed recently went real-time and now Facebook is starting to embrace it. But those are just two services what ...
TicketLeap, the Philadelphia-based provider of Internet ticketing services for event organizers, recently launched a product that turns any Internet-enabled computer with a browser into a functional box-office ticketing system. The new product, du...
The last video interview I did at the Next09 conference in Hamburg that I wanted to feature here on TechCrunch is the conversation I had with mr. Captain Web 2.0 himself, open web advocate Chris Messina. Besides his involvements with Citizen Agenc...
OLX, the Craigslist for the rest of the world, has raised $5 million in Series C funding from General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Founders Fund and DN Capital, bringing the total funding raised to $28.5 million. OLX raised $13.5...
I’m getting shit for this post no matter what. By insinuating business magazines are better off than papers when I currently write a column for BusinessWeek people will call me biased. (As Arrington would say, “consider that your disclosure.”) Lik...
Facebooks battle with Twitter just got more interesting. Two months after its homepage redesign, Facebooks iPhone application has caught up to the web version, and now features real-time updates.
This is actually a much bigger deal than it soun...