Roughly a year ago, entrepreneurs Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström decided to form a traditional venture outfit called Yes VC. Fast forward, and the duo has nearly closed on $50 million for their deb
Caterina Fake and Jyri Engeström have much in common beyond the home and family they share. Each has started (and sold) companies. Each has angel invested. But both were beginning to see more opport
<b>Editor's note:</b> <em>Peter Arvai, founder and CEO of <a target="_blank" href="http://prezi.com/">Prezi</a>, is working to help people share ideas.</em>
Just months before Twitter launched in
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Looks like <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/jaiku">Jaiku</a> founder and former Googler <a href="http
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/Screen-shot-2010-01-20-at-1.23.37-PM-155x200.png" width="155" height="200" />Google has an unfortunate history of buying companies — and the
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/Screen-shot-2009-10-12-at-2.41.07-PM-204x200.png" width="204" height="200" />In October 2007, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2007/10/09/googl
<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/jyri-133x200.jpg" width="133" height="200" />I just finished moderating a panel with Chris Messina and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/pers
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What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly there
<img src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jaiku.png" alt="" />Last week, Google announced that the company was unceremoniously <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/14/google-axes-
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FON (better known for building a WiFi community) launched Twitxr today through their FON Labs group. Basically, it’s Twitter but allows picture uploads when sending a message (which makes it par
I am convinced that we are going to see a big growth in voice apps that use a mobile phone as a microphone. Today, at the Mobile World Congress in Spain, London-based startup SpinVox announced a new f
Google has teamed with Twitter to provide a Twitter/ Google mashup for Super Tuesday. Tweets relating to Super Tuesday are overlaid on a Google Map, along with other data including YouChoose ’08
Automattic has released Prologue, a Twitter style service for groups that is also being pitched as a distributed Twitter. According to Automattic’s founder Matt Mullenweg, the new service is way
BREAKING NEWS: Jaiku, the Twitter (and Pownce)-like service from Finland, has been bought by Google. Jaiku Founders Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen today posted this on their homepage: “Whil
Microblogging platform Jaiku has added Jabber-based instant messaging capabilities to its service. The new feature will allow Jaiku users using Jaiku’s Web, iPhone, and Nokia Series 60 smart pho
TwitKu is a new site that is sort of a Meebo (web instant messaging) for the Twitter and Jaiku “presence blogging” services. The site brings your Twitter and Jaiku accounts onto one screen
So I’ve had a week now to play around with Pownce, Kevin Rose’s (the founder of Digg, pictured left) newly launched Twitter killer. Twitter, which launched a year ago, was obviously used a