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Google Latitude Comes To The iPhone. No, It Doesn’t Run In The Background.
Google has finally gotten around to launching its location-based network, Latitude on the iPhone. The service, which has been around for months on the web and Android, BlackBerry, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices may finally be ready to take off...
iPhone Security Is “Broken” - Business Users Take Note
An Apple expert and hacker has shown that the iPhone, in all its various forms and moltings, is child's play to compromise. This comes despite assurances from Apple regarding the 3GS's encryption feature. Bad news for businesspeople of the 21st ce...
Why Is Google Latitude A Web App And Not A Native App? Because Apple Said So.
We briefly pointed this out in our longer post on Google Latitude launching on the iPhone, but its worth pointing this out separately. In its post today, Google made an unusual admission about its service: It apparently built a native Latitude app...
Microsoft’s Money Pit. Every Dollar Of Online Revenue Is Wiped Out By A Dollar Of Loss
Microsoft just announced quarterly earnings and they are not pretty. Total revenues are down 17 percent to $13 billion, and net income is down 29 percent to $3 billion. Every business got hit hard, but the worst-performing business by far was t...
Amazon: Kindle Growth Is “Very Strong”, But That’s All We’re Saying
During this afternoons Amazon Q2 conference call, there was one topic that was clearly on many analysts minds: the Kindle. With the recent release of the Kindle DX and the Kindle 2 only a few months before it, the financial of the device is still...
Amazon’s Bezos Apologizes For The “Stupid” And “Thoughtless” Kindle Incident
Last week, Amazon sent a shiver down the spine of the Internet when it remotely deleted copies of the books 1984 and Animal Farm from users Kindles. As just about everyone was quick to point out, the incident showed a very Big Brother-like side to...
Review: T-Mobile myTouch 3G with Google
It's been twenty long months since the announcement of Android and nine months since its handset debut, but it's finally picking up steam. On August 5th, the HTC-made T-Mobile myTouch 3G will become the second Android handset to make its way to ...
The Mac Versus PC Debate Has Never Been Clearer
“Our goal is not to build the most computers. It’s to build the best.”
That was Apple COO Tim Cook two days ago during Apples quarterly earnings call. Sure, it may sound like spin from an executive who doesnt have a better answer as to why Apple i...
Gmail Tries To Make It Easier To Unsubscribe From Spam Newsletters, But Fails
When it comes to email, less is more. So I applaud Gmails efforts to try to reduce all the unwanted emails in my inbox. Its latest attempt to make it easier to unsubscribe from unwanted email newsletters is well-intentioned, but falls flat on i...
TicketFlow: You Know, For Tickets
I was not aware that the live event marketplace was so crowded. Apparently there are hundreds of ticket websites out there including StubHub and TicketMaster. Luckily, TicketFlow is there to make sense of it for you.
TicketFlow is the self-descri...
The Online Payment Wars Continue: PayPal Officially Announces Flexible API
While Ebays Q2 earnings yesterday showed that its marketplace business was slow, the companys revenue was boosted by continued growth in its online payments business, including PayPal and BillMeLater. Both businesses saw 11 % growth in revenue in...
Ronny Conway, an Associate at Google Ventures, has joined the newly formed Andreessen Horowitz. Conway, the son of prominent angel investor Ron Conway, has worked at Google for the last six years in a variety of business development, sales and venture roles.
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Social Browsing Assistant Glue Adds Recommendations And Facebook Comments
If you want to add social smarts to your browsing experience, Glue by Adaptive Blue just got better. Glue is a Firefox add-on that uses semantic technology to understand the subject of the page you are on and shows you via a bar at the bottom of...
Tim Armstrong At Fortune Brainstorm: The First 100 Days Are Over. So Now What?
New AOL CEO Tim Armstrong takes the stage at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Pasadena, California this morning for an early interview by David Kirkpatrick.
Armstrong has been on a bit of a road show recently, talking in vague terms to p...
AOL May Spin Bebo Off Into Independent Company
Interesting off hand comment by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong at the Fortune event this morning. Bebo, the social network AOL paid $850 million for in 2008, wasnt mentioned on the list of AOLs core product goals going forward. Late in the interview, thoug...
Kontera Raises $15.5M For Annoying In-Text Advertising Technology
In-text advertising technology provider Kontera has raised $15.5 million from its current investors Sequoia Capital, Carmel Ventures and Tenaya Capital, the former venture capital arm of Lehman Brothers. This is the second Israeli startup to annou...
EtherPad Gets A Makeover And Becomes Even More Of A Threat To Google Docs (Invites)
AppJets EtherPad, the real-time Google Docs-like wiki tool we wrote about last fall, has been upgraded to be prettier, more user-friendly and far more collaborative than before. EtherPad was the brainchild of former Googlers (who founded online p...
RackSpace Opens The Cloud
Rackspace is open-sourcing the specs for its Cloud Servers and Cloud Files APIs under the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license, enabling third-party developers to copy, implement and rehash them as they see fit.
In addition, The Rackspace Clo...
Online Ad Revenues At The New York Times Keep Dropping Like A Rock
As if the New York Times doesnt have enough to worry about, with total advertising revenues down 32 percent in the second quarter, its online business is deteriorating as well. In its earnings announcement this morning, the company breaks out In...
Bubble Motion Scores $6 Million In Funding For Voice Messaging Solutions
Voice messaging company Bubble Motion has secured $6 million in financing from Palomar Ventures, for which this is the first investment in the startup, and existing investors Sequoia Capital and Comcast Interactive Capital.
Venturebeat had earlier...
‘How To’ Video Site 5min Raises An Extra $7.5 Million
Instructional video site 5min, based in NYC and Israel, has raised an additional $7.5 million in a round led by Globespan Capital Partners and joined by previous investor Spark Capital, reports Israeli business news site Globes. This brings the to...
Woah, People Really Don’t Like IE6
People, especially web developers and designers, tend to have a profound dislike of Internet Explorer 6. Thats not news, but it keeps amazing me how deep this hate runs. Consider my recent article on YouTube prompting IE6 users to please switch to...
Are Some Spinvox call Centre Staff Putting Voicemails On Facebook?
Some Spinvox call centre staff are chattering away on Facebook - essentially a public platform - about internal company operations and in one incident weve found, posting what sounds like a private call onto Facebook. A BBC investigation today has...
Artist Finds His Own Music Video Removed From YouTube, Lashes Out On Twitter
Hell hath no fury like a music-artist-who-sees-his-own-music-video-removed-from-YouTube scorned. The video sharing service may be doing its best to keep copyrighted material off its website, but London-based artist Calvin Harris, who saw the music...
Zivity Splits Employees, Execs, Venture Funding Into Two Companies
In a highly unusual transaction, Zivity, a venture funded adult content startup, has spun off the majority of its assets, employees and venture funding into a new company called Top Fans. Zivity first launched at TechCrunch40 in 2007 and has raise...
Sure, The U.S. Has A Lot Of Click Fraud, But At Least We’re Not Vietnam
When it comes to ad clicks, Anchor Intelligence says it has more data than anyone this side of Google and Yahoo. And so when they release a report for the first time outlining what theyre seeing in click fraud rates, its worth paying attention to....
Groovy’s SQL Switch: A Powerful Tool In The Quest For A Truly Real-Time Web
The real-time web is shaping up to be the next online revolution, and as we saw during our RealTime CrunchUp earlier this month, its already begun. But there are still some things that are holding us back — for one, many services still arent actu...
Google Listens, Gives A Friend-Only “Likes” Option In Reader
It seems like just yesterday we were complaining about the lack of options for the new like functionality in Google Reader. Okay, it was two days ago. And Google has already responded. A new option in the settings menu of Google Reader allows you ...
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Silicon Valley based Ooyala, a service that manages video streaming for websites, hit an important milestone last month - positive cash flow. The company was founded by ex Googlers Bismarck Lepe, Sean Knapp and Belsasar Lepe in 2007 and has raised just $10 million in funding.
And now theyre considering the hire of a new CEO, weve confirmed. Bismarck Lepe, the current CEO, says hes actually been looking for his replacement for the last year. This isnt being driven by the venture investor, Sierra Ventures, h...
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Show Off: YouTube Now Lets You Share Just How Well Your Video Is Performing
YouTube has always given you the chance to show off how well your videos are doing, but only to a limited extent. Aside from a star rating, view count, and of course, the infamous comments section, there hasnt been an easy way to share more meani...
Someone Please Caption This
This picture is great. And its just begging for some kind of caption. It was taken today at Microsofts MGX conference in Atlanta, where Windows President Steven Sinofsky and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage to reveal that Windows 7 was ...
Softball: Marc Andreessen Talks Tech At Fortune Brainstorm
Fortunes Adam Lashinsky is interviewing Marc Andreessen in an evening session of the Fortune Brainstorm in Pasadena, CA. Unfortunately Lashinsky didnt ask any hard questions (um, Ning worth $750 million?). But among the softballs were a few intere...
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Its CrunchBoard time, so lets take a look back at the recent job news.
Super Secret startup MOBshop is looking for some serious coding guns for hire. They say MOBshop will hit the intersection of mobile and physical worlds.
If your looking to get your name out there and do some networking, Card.ly lets you create some cool online business cards. Its time to get yourself a presence online, cause you know, this internet thing is here to stay. And were all about that business card dying thing.
Things still d...
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The iPhone’s Competitors Have A Big Problem: Their Games Stink
Its no secret that gaming on the iPhone has been one of the main keys to the App Stores success. You know it, I know it, and so you have to believe that all the competitors know it too. And yet, their actions would seem to suggest that they dont k...
Patent Defense Play RPX Closes Series B From Index, Kleiner, And Charles River
Defense Play RPX, a defensive patent aggregator, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series B funding led by Index Ventures with Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Charles River Ventures participating. The company also raised an undisclosed Seri...
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Earlier today came news that Billboard, the well known music analytics company, was repositioning its homepage to serve as a consumer-friendly destination for music fans rather than the B2B hub it had been before. Alongside the release, the company has informed us that its planning to make its API more accesible to developers, with the hopes that it will spur a new wave of music-related applications built around the data. Developers can access the API at developer.billboard.com.
Billboard has been churnin...
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