SAY Media, the company that was formed after the merger between VideoEgg and Six Apart, this morning announced its acquisition of Remodelista, a home interiors website targeting home owners and design enthusiasts.
It’s the third acquisition for SAY Media this year, after the digital media company picked up Dogster and digital agency Sideshow. → Read More
Internet access, content and online advertising company AOL (which also owns TechCrunch) this morning reported its earnings for the second quarter of the year.
AOL reported a net loss of $11.8 million, compared with a year-ago loss of a little over $1 billion, which had included a major goodwill impairment charge and higher restructuring costs.
Total revenue came in at $542.2 million, down… → Read More
Privately held Quark, which develops publishing software for professional designers and enterprises and is best known for its QuarkXPress (QXP) desktop publishing layout editor, has been acquired by Platinum Equity, a private equity firm that specializes in mergers and acquisitions.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Brian Wall, the partner at Platinum Equity who led the… → Read More
As we’ve seen in the last couple of days, a combination of technologies appears to have helped rioters and looters in London, and other parts of the UK, co-ordinate their efforts, just as these technologies were used to more noble ends in the Arab Spring. That’s the thing with tech – human beings are involved and they can use it for good or evil. The tech itself is neither good or bad.
But the… → Read More
CapLinked, the LinkedIn-meets-SalesForce for private investing, has landed a significant deal today, helping Microsoft BizSpark startups raise cash via a new capital raising tool. As we’ve written in the past, CapLinked launched to allow entrepreneurs to raise capital and sell or buy assets, manage and contact investor prospects, centralize document flow on a secure platform and connect with new… → Read More
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With Groupon on the verge of going public, and Google, Facebook, and just about everyone else rushing to copy the idea, there’s no question that the model has been a huge hit with consumers. But there are still some questions as to just how much it helps out the businesses offering the deals. It’s essentially a loss leader model, so the success metrics can be tricky to accurately gauge. Bloomspot… → Read More
Talkatone, the service that let you make phone calls over Wifi and 3G for free with Google Voice has expanded its offerings to Facebook with its new app release. As of today the Talkatone iPad and iPhone apps now let you call your Facebook friends using VoIP over Wifi and 3G networks and let you receive free push notifications for Facebook Chat, which are actually quite useful if you’ve long… → Read More
I can’t quite believe I am writing this. London is my home town, where I was born. For whatever reason – a flashpoint around the shooting of a man by Police on Thursday, social deprivation, youth unemployment, boredom, good weather, easy access to the ability to organise online, frankly take your pick – London is turning into patchwork of riots and looting across the capital which appear to flare… → Read More
Facebook has been trying to figure out its News Feed since it launched in 2006, and of course because it’s Facebook every time it changes absolutely anything it seems to throw users into of tumult. Earlier today the company launched the latest incremental step in its quest to try to make sense of the sheer amount of realtime data it processes: Aggregated topic clusters in the Facebook News Feed. → Read More
Are you trying to use the web right now? Just stop. It’s largely broken.
As indicated by about 20 tips in the last few minutes and pretty much all of Twitter, Amazon’s EC2 service appears to be down. That means services like Reddit, Heroku, Foursquare, Instagram, Fab, Quora, Turntable.fm, Netflix and many, many others are down.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because it just happened this past… → Read More
While I may have created some sweet spaceships in my days constructing LEGO, I never guessed how serious people would get with their blocky creations. Guns, computer cases, even a Tetris-playing device and a robotic hand. So I shouldn’t be surprised that someone has created a CNC mill with their Mindstorms NXT set.
Check out the video inside. → Read More
At this point, it’s already clear that the iPhone has become the camera many people use on a daily basis. The iPhone 4 is now by far the most popular camera on Flickr (and that’s true even though it’s being undercounted — likely drastically). And apps like Instagram, Hipstamatic, and Camera+ are exploding in usage, despite being iPhone-only. But some upcoming changes in iOS 5 point to an even… → Read More
A new display technology called i2R e-paper is making the rounds today. It’s developed by ITRI, a Taiwanese research company that has produced flexible AMOLED and LCD displays in the past. i2R is essentially a plastic substrate with a heat-activated liquid crystal coating: you pass it through a thermal printer and a 300dpi monochrome image is impressed on its surface — until you want to… → Read More
Less than two weeks ago, red-hot startup Airbnb got rocked by a wave of negative press after one of its guests blogged about the traumatizing experience of coming home to her apartment to find it utterly wrecked by a guest.
Airbnb’s initial response was lackluster at best. But after a couple of false starts, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wrote an unconditional apology that reaffirmed that the… → Read More
With companies chomping at the bit to enter the growing mobile space and take advantage of the opportunities therein, it’s almost more intriguing to explore why some companies don’t throw their hats in the ring. Case in point: AMD — the second largest x86 processor manufacturer in the world has yet to make their play. Why haven’t they made their push into mobile, just like everyone else? → Read More
Launching in beta today in California is the YC-funded Leaky. Like a Hipmunk for car insurance, Leaky’s premise is simple enough; visit the site and you’ll be prompted to fill out an online questionnaire covering all sorts of vehicle-related questions like make, model and mileage of your car as well as demographic information like education level and employer. When you complete the quiz, Leaky… → Read More
By now, we’ve all seen behind-the-scenes footage of motion capture in action — an actor clad in a monochrome jumpsuit and the occasional handful of colored balls, spouting off dialogue and gesticulating wildly. It used to be that such work could only be done within the confines of a studio, a closed space where a camera would have as little trouble as possible picking up those little points of… → Read More
As an intelligent TechCrunch reader with the gift of foresight, you’ve probably backed up your hard drive — and all of the precious photos locked inside — to at least one cloud service, just in case the unthinkable happens and you lose both your computer and your local backup.
But you’re unusual. Many of your friends probably haven’t backed up their photos at all, which means they’re one… → Read More
Twitter’s redesigned and feature-rich web interface (a.k.a. #newTwitter), which was announced last fall, has been completely rolled out, according to a company Tweet. That means that Twitter users can no longer use the old version of the site, which has been the case for nearly a year.
You can access more information about #NewTwitter here. Of course, this means that all Twitter.com users… → Read More
Google today announced an update to its Google Search app for Android, bringing a few new features that should improve your overall search experience. For one, suggestions will now be grouped by type, with the web suggestions appearing up top. Travelers, nomads, and peeps outside of the States will also get to see country-specific suggestions and search results as long as they’re in a country… → Read More
I tend to think of Defcon as a sort of massive free-for-all, with thousands of hackers all trying to be the one that replaces the speaker’s Powerpoint slide with a skull and crossbones, that sort of thing. In fact, it’s just a bunch of people who like to fiddle with stuff — whether it’s security, hardware, code, or what. It’s the people who tend to not just think “I wonder if…” but who… → Read More
Each time a new iPhone is set to hit the shelves, I get my pre-order in nice and early. Waiting in line is for chumps, right?
Then Launch Day Eve rolls around, and I end up carting myself off to the Valley Fair Apple Store and camping out for 14+ hours anyway. Not for the product, mind you — it’s more so to surround myself with eccentric people and see what the hardcore early adopter/Apple… → Read More
Earlier today, I had an amazing realisation: I spend at least half my day breathing in. The other half I spend breathing out. Combined, I spend literally my entire life breathing.
Enough.
From today I am quitting breathing. No more will my lungs be constantly tied up with the intake of oxygen and the removal of carbon dioxide. In one bold step I will be free from the oppressive yoke of… → Read More
Compuware’s benchmarks division, Gomez, has just released new data from a website measurement project whose goal was to determine what the fastest web browser is in the “real world” of desktop users. The project only measured load times of users on broadband connections.
The data, collected over a one-month time frame, captured the results of 1.86 billion individual measurements on over 200… → Read More
What is it? A laser cutter? A mod photo enlarger? A microscope? A tattoo remover? Nope, it’s a coffee maker, but an extremely svelte coffee maker. In fact, I imagine this little Nespresso-friendly caffeine inducer would look pretty sweet in your typical “ice hotel” or ad agency lobby.
Clearly, we’ve come a long way since days of yore when a Cuisinart was enough you get you by in the couture… → Read More
When it comes to file sharing, there is no shortage of tools and services to help you transfer your files, big and small. There’s the old tried and true approach on email, or using VOIP services like Skype, or cloud-based services like Dropbox and Box.net, or the browser-based Ge.tt, to veterans like WeTransfer and YouSendIt. Then there’s newcomer, the social and sharing-focused Minus, which… → Read More
Last time we heard from HTC, they had just announced that they would begin to make good on their promise to unlock their devices’ bootloaders. Well, we don’t have that long-awaited unlock tool yet, but thanks to a recent announcement, at least we’ll know where to find it when the time comes. → Read More
Over the weekend parts of London descended into chaos as riots and looting spread after a protest organised around the yet unexplained shooting of a man by Police. Of course, there was huge amounts of chatter on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, with the latter coming under enormous amounts of criticism from the UK press for fuelling the fire. But while Twitter has largely been the venue… → Read More
Havok, a provider of interactive software solutions for the games, entertainment and simulation industries that was acquired by Intel back in 2007, this morning announced that it has purchased long-time partner Trinigy, a 3D game engine provider with offices in Germany; Austin, Texas (US) and Seoul (Korea).
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. → Read More
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