2009
23AndMe Completes $27.8 Million Series B Round
Personal genomics startup 23andMe has recently raised another $14.2 million to close out its $27.8 million Series B round, according to regulatory filings with the SEC. The filing indicates that…
UFC targets online piracy. Let's just hope it doesn't go all RIAA on us.
It’s been a running theme for the past few years, and as more and more people get faster Internet connections, and as video compression technology continues to improve, we’re going…
The next logical step for both bacon and popcorn is bacon-flavored popcorn
You like bacon? Who doesn’t?! Howsabout popcorn? Yes? If you find yourself short on time every day, perhaps you could combine bacon and popcorn by using BaconPop. Each bag is…
Zubworld set to launch – Monopoly meets Facebook
[UK] A new social network that connects people with real-world places and enables them to have discussions around those places is set to launch in just over a week. Currently…
http://www.giantbomb.com/video/video.swf Play Borderlands. You’ll love it and the fact that Gearbox Software keeps releasing modest-sized expansions rocks. The last one, Dr. Ned’s Zombie Island, provided me with a weekend of…
Nexus One specs leaked, limited launch date revealed?
Google’s semi-secret Nexus One handset has been more or less exhaustively leaked at this point, with very few cats left to let out of the bag. The only two major…
ChaCha Raises Another $7 Million
Human-powered mobile answers service ChaCha has raised $7 million funding, according to an SEC filing. The company has confirmed the funding but declines to name investors. This brings ChaCha’s total…
The rumor mill has been cranking way too hard over Motorola as of late for us to feel confident in taking a stab at what they may launch, but Motorola…
Barnes & Noble Will Ship Around 60,000 Nooks This Year
A lot more people have ordered the Barnes & Noble Nook, first announced on October 20, than the company expected (despite getting panned by the official reviewers). The company had…
Nook shipping update: Pre-ordered Nooks should arrive before Santa
I have some good news and some bad news for those waiting for their Nooks to be delivered. The good news is I just got word from a B&N VP…
PyramidTalk: Seiko updates their cult clocks from the 1980s
Some of the older CrunchGear readers will surely remember the Pyramidtalk, a clock that verbally announced the time and other information. Seiko started selling the clock in 1984, and it…
First Release of Crunchies Awards Ceremony Tickets. Grab Em Fast.
The first batch of 150 tickets to attend the Crunchies Awards celebrating the best tech accomplishments of 2009 are on sale now, courtesy of Eventbrite. The Crunchies Awards will be…
Viliv is on a steady roll releasing hot portable computers and in just a couple of weeks at CES, we’ll see the company’s next creation dubbed the N5 with the…
Blippy Already Showing Off $1 Million Worth Of Your Credit Card Purchases (More Invites)
Yesterday, Blippy opened its doors beyond a private group of users it had been testing with. Their invites went quickly (we have more below), and despite the obviously controversial idea…
AOL's Deteriorating Fundamentals Not A Hit With Analysts
Aol is telling a good story, but Citi analyst Mark Mahaney isn’t buying it. AOL is probably the toughest Internet turnaround story, he says in a report today, citing “28%…
How many times do you have to be burned by BlackBerry to consider your options?
What’s the phrase? Oh, yeah: Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. BlackBerry went down yesterday across North and South America. Users couldn’t send or…
Confirmed: Jajah Sold For $207 Million
The reports from a few days ago that the Jajah deal with O2 closed at $200 million were correct. Telefónica Europe (aka O2) just announced that it bought Jajah for…
He’ll be back: The awesome 1/1 scale Gundam statue that was erected on Tokyo’s artificial island Odaiba in June and that was deconstructed in September this year, will be seen…
More People Around The World Get Their News Online From Google News Than CNN
Well, Rupert Murdoch is going to love this. More people around the world get their news online from Google News than from CNN or the news properties of the New…
Qik Live Recording Finally Makes It To The iPhone (Legally)
The live video streaming application Qik has just been approved in the App Store and should be available shortly, we’ve learned. The company submitted the app a couple weeks ago…
CauseWorld Launches: Do Good Deeds Simply By Walking Into A Store
Six months ago I wrote about a startup called Shopkick (it was then called MOBshop). The company won’t disclose much of what their eventual product will be, but they’ve attracted…
The family of the fake flying balloon boy, the Heenes, whose strange, sad story so captivated us for about an hour two months ago has been hit with a $42,000…
Play And Share Your Music Collection In The Cloud With tunesBag
Vienna, Austria-based tunesBag is opening up the public beta version of its social music service today, after allowing access by invitation only for the past year or so. The launch…
Buzzd Brings Its Social City Guide To Android
We’ve written about the social city and nightlife mobile app, buzzd, which pulls its data from Twitter and other buzzd users, for a bigger picture of the places that are…
Sharp develops efficient solar cells for use in outer space
Earlier this year, we reported twice about Japan’s serious plans to go to outer space to generate solar energy and then beam it back to Mother Earth. And today, Sharp…
Canadian Communication Services Provider Mitel Files For $230 Million IPO
Canadian telecom company Mitel Networks Corporation yesterday filed for an IPO of up to $230 million. The company, which provides integrated communication services primarily to SMBs, said it plans to…
A hacker, Labba, and his buddies have cracked the Kindle’s ebook DRM, essentially allowing folks to extract the text of Amazon’s AZW files into a PDF for viewing on any…
According to the Mercury News, cops in San Jose will soon be wearing head-mounted video cameras to record their interaction with civilians. The devices will sit above their ears and…
Those wacky NookDevs have hacked the Nook to within an inch of its life, created a softroot for those who don’t want to crack open their Nook cases to get…
Curse Raises $6 Million As It Looks To Become The Ultimate Gaming Resource
Most people would probably view a hardcore, 16 hour-a-day addiction to World of Warcraft as a bad thing. That was certainly the case for Hubert Thieblot a few years ago,…