Amazon Web Services Adds Long Requested Web Browser Specification

Amazon Web Services (AWS) <a target="_blank" href="http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/08/amazon-s3-cross-origin-resource-sharing.html">added support today</a> for a browser specification that defines way

Now In 600+ Schools And Open To Any Student, Lore Gives Higher Ed A Next-Gen Social Network

With social networking having permeated the way we look for jobs, share photos and music, and discover news, a startup named <a target="_blank" href="http://lore.com/">Lore</a> is on a mission to do t

Anticipating a Blended Classroom Boom Led by Education Startups

As kids head back to school this month and next, some will find a rather new arrangement greeting them: blended classrooms. These don't feel like the ways that many of us attended class, with a sin

Open Source in Action: LinuxCon 2012

I participated in a panel discussion at LinuxCon today with other journalists who cover Linux and open source goings-on, including our own <a target="_blank" href="https://techcrunch.com/author/alex-w

Kippt, Pinboard Help Digg Users Find New Home For Old Data [Here’s How]

After Digg's long fall, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/07/12/betaworks-acquires-digg/">Betaworks acquired the site</a> in July and put its News.me team in charge. Six weeks later, the new operat

Hey Vendors — It’s Too Early For An API Death Match

I am not one to argue with abundance. I am a big believer in the way we can create so much, all the time. But I can't stand an abundance of vendor one-upmanship and that's just what I heard this mo

YC-Backed Private Photo-Sharing App Everyme Raises $2.15M From Tencent And Others

So you've got your photos on Facebook, and you've got them on Instagram, and on Path. But what about that stuff that you don't want everyone to see? Just some people? That's what group photo-sharing a

biNu Socializes Its Feature Phone App Platform

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.binu.com">biNu</a>, a startup <a target="_blank" href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/15/feature-phones-binu-funding/#s:multiple-devices">backed by Eric Schmidt's T

Disrupt Startup Alley & Pavilions: Sold Out!

TechCrunch Disrupt is now one week away. We are excited to say that Startup Alley is now SOLD OUT. We have over 200 early stage companies joining us over two days on Monday and Tuesday. Thirty five pe

500 Startups Accelerator Alum Tiny Review Becomes Tiny Post, Adds New Fonts And Filters

TinyReview was <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/02/the-seven-most-interesting-startups-at-500-startups-demo-day-2/">one of TechCrunch's favorite startups</a> from the third 500 Startups Acceler

With Google Fiber Sign-Ups Behind Schedule, Google Lowers Pre-Registration Thresholds

A few days ago, Google's gigabit Fiber project in Kansas City had only reached its sign-up goals in about <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/08/29/with-less-than-2-weeks-to-go-50-of-kansas-city-neig

Gillmor Gang Live 08.31.12 (TCTV)

<strong>Gillmor Gang</strong> - John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. <strong>Recording has concluded.</strong>

Cinemagraphs (Animated Gifs) As Ads? Tumblr Experiments With New Advertising Format

GIF, a filetype that celebrated its <a target="_blank" href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/06/25-year-history-animated-gif-gif-format/53608/">25th anniversary</a> this past June (don'

The Value Of Your iPhone Drops Every Second, So Try This

The value of your current iPhone is going down as I write this very sentence. And according to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gazelle.com/">Gazelle</a>, current iPhone models traditionally deprec

SEC’s Proposed Rule on General Solicitation Reads, “Sorry…Please Hold… It’s Too Complicated for Us”

<strong>Editor's note:</strong> <em>Jason Best and Sherwood Neiss led the U.S. fight to legalize debt and equity based crowdfunding, co-authored <a target="_blank" href="http://www.barnesandnoble.c

Open Compute Project: Can Facebook Help Save The World?

Hardware generally doesn't interest me too much, so when I heard about the Open Compute project I didn't give it too much attention. Casually reading up on the subject a little more left me even less

Lifestyle Web Publisher Zimbio Becomes Livingly Media

Zimbio, which publishes <a target="_blank" href="http://www.zimbio.com">the celebrity news website of the same name</a>, just announced that it has renamed itself <a target="_blank" href="http://www.l

Serendip Helps You Discover Music And DJ Friends By Creating A Playlist Shared By Your Friends

When it comes to music discovery, technology and the Internet opened a lot of possibilities. Yet, and this is what <a target="_blank" href="http://serendip.me/">Serendip</a> is all about, music curati

Facebook Stock Hits A New Low, Now Down More Than 50% Since IPO

Facebook's stock just hit a new low and has now lost <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=0&chfdeh=0&chd

Keen On… Danny Sullivan: Why We May No Longer Be Able To Trust Google [TCTV]

My own criticism about Google's <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/26/my-message-to-google-stop-cheating/">bias</a> are well known. But I'm far from alone in worrying that Google's increasing inv
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