Aidin Finds $600K From General Catalyst & More For A Yelp For Continuing Care

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.myaidin.com/">Aidin</a>, a startup that helps people find better continuing care after they leave the hospital, is announcing today that it has raised $600K from Ge

#FailedTechBands Is Funnier Than Most Hashtags, Shows Genius Of Twitter Personalized Trends

"The Black IPs" lol. I follow nerds on Twitter, so rather than just the latest pop stars and sports games, I was delighted to see a <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23F

Yahoo Mobile Sales Head Paul Cushman Joins Ad Targeting Startup Drawbridge

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.drawbrid.ge">Drawbridge</a>, a cross-device ad targeting startup <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/drawbridge-kleiner-perkins-sequoia/">backed by Kleiner P

Fritz Lanman’s ‘Livestar’ Launching Soon, To Fill The Gap Between Foursquare And Yelp

It's been a little over a year and a half since we <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/01/03/microsoft-corp-dev-exec-bails-raises-angel-round-for-hot-stealth-startup/">wrote</a> about <a target="_bl

From The Archives: Watch Yammer’s First Public Demo And Launch At TC50

Way back in 2008, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yammer">Yammer</a> made its first public appearance at the TechCrunch TC50 conference. <a target="_blank" href="http://www

Zynga And CBS Are Working To Bring Draw Something To Primetime TV

So you wondered how Zynga was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/09/was-zyngas-deal-to-buy-omgpop-that-disastrous-heres-some-perspective/">gonna make money</a> off its <a href="https://techcrunch

EBook Revenues Beat Hardcovers For The First Time

The Association of American Publishers released a report today that shows that ebooks have beaten hardcover revenues for the first time. Ebook revenues topped out at $282.3 million YTD while hardcover

Hardware Accessory Maker PCH International Acquires Design-Centric Lime Lab

You may have never heard of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.pchintl.com/default.aspx">PCH International</a>. But this Irish company makes packaging and accessories for some of <em>the most iconic<

TechCrunch Giveaway: One Free Ticket To Disrupt SF #TCDisrupt

TechCrunch Disrupt SF last year was a huge hit and we are all ready to do it again! <a href="https://techcrunch.com/events/disrupt-sf-2012/">Disrupt SF</a> is coming up, quicker than we realize, and w

Top Facebook Exec Bret Taylor Leaving To Do His Own Thing, More Departures Could Follow

And so it begins: Facebook CTO and platform guru <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/bret-taylor">Bret Taylor</a> is leaving Facebook this summer, Kara Swisher <a target="_blank"

Driving Loyalty: Offers Provider Bloomspot Reports 72% Customer Repeat Rate

<a target="_blank" href="http://bloomspot.com/">Bloomspot</a>, a local offers company <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/16/bloomspot-funding/">launched</a> back in 2010, is pulling back the prov

Exit Interview: Nitin Bhatia On Sharepoint, Yammer, Leaving Microsoft And Joining NextDocs

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=4684506&authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=Joic&locale=en_US&srchid=bdab87f4-1883-4da4-81cb-f36c3b372c94-0&srchindex=8&

Report: Google’s Chromebooks Account For Less Than .02% Of All Desktop Traffic

Google has been putting quite a bit of its weight behind its Chromebook initiative, but it's been rather quiet about how well these browser-centric laptops have been selling. Judging from <a target="_

Cartoonist’s Lawyer Responds To FunnyJunk: The Oatmeal Will Not Cave

It's on now. Matthew Inman at the The Oatmeal has hired a crackerjack lawyer, Venkat Balasubramani, who sent a <a target="_blank" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/96850920/FunnyJunk-The-Oatmeal-Respons

Hitwise: Google US Search Share Down 5% In The Last Year; Bing, Yahoo Gained

Google is still by far the most dominant search engine in the U.S., but in the last year it actually lost some momentum while Yahoo and especially Microsoft's Bing both saw increases, according to fig

YouTube Launches Auto-Captions In Spanish

Google's YouTube is slowly but surely <a target="_blank" href="http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/06/selamat-datang-youtube-indonesia.html">expanding</a> its line-up of supported languages for it

Newly Published Samsung Patent Points To A Stylus You Can Talk To

If that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/26/a-microreview-of-the-fantastic-9-99-microstylus/">microstylus</a> just isn't cutting it for you, then you may want to see what Samsung has been mulli

Dwolla’s First FiSync Banking Customer Goes Live, Eliminates ACH Delays With Real-Time Bank Transfers

A major milestone for disruptive payments platform <a target="_blank" href="http://www.dwolla.com/">Dwolla</a>: the company has just switched on FiSync, its real-time money transfer system which aims

TheDatable Launches To Help You Discover The Singles In Your Social Graph

Even though it grew out of Facemash, Facebook has always been, by default, a dating site. With its portable social graph, an enormous user base and repository of images, and droves of social and inter

Making The Web Faster: CloudFlare Adds Support For Google’s SPDY Protocol

<a target="_blank" href="http://cloudflare.com">CloudFlare</a>, the fast-growing service that aims to make websites faster and safer, today announced this it starting to roll out support for Google's
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