January 2011
The Phantom Menace: Is Your Windows Phone 7 Device Sending Out ‘Phantom Data’?
The jury is still out as to whether or not 2011 will be the year of “traitorware,” but so far it seems to be the year, at least from Microsoft’s…
Prezi Launches A Precious Presentation App For The iPad
If you haven’t yet checked out Prezi, one of the most innovative presentation tools I’ve ever seen, you’re totally missing out. Today, the young company behind the amazing product is…
Verizon Will Trip AT&T With The iPhone — Then Point And Laugh With Unlimited Data
Uh oh, AT&T. It’s looking very, very, very, very likely that the event Verizon is holding on Tuesday morning in New York City is all about unveiling a CDMA iPhone…
Founders Den: A Private Clubhouse For Entrepreneurs Opens In San Francisco
Over the past several months, there’s been a shift happening in the Bay Area. Whereas a lot of startups used to be centrally located in actual Silicon Valley, near the…
After Three Weeks, Foursquare Hits One Million Photos
Three weeks ago, Foursquare updated its iPhone app to include the ability to upload photos with check-ins. Around that time Foursquare competitor Gowalla hit the one million milestone after nine…
Khush Lands Funding To Help Wannabe Singers Create Music On The Go
Khush, a startup that develops music applications, has raised a new round of funding from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups, angel investor Yee Lee, and Georgia Tech ATDC VentureLab. The startup…
At Launch, Thrillist Rewards Sells More Than $25,000 Of Endless Rib Dinners
Nothing speaks to the hearts, minds (and stomachs) of young, urban men than endless rib dinners. Last week, Bro-zine Thrillist launched Thrillist Rewards, a weekly deals site aimed at its…
If you look at the batches of new cell phones Japan’s leading mobile carriers have been presenting in recent months, you’ll notice the high-quality cameras some of the models have.…
Hold Everything – You Want London Startups Exceeding $10m In Revenues? OK
Saul Klein is a partner at European VC firm Index Ventures, previously worked for Skype, co-founded Video Island and is founder of Seedcamp. In this guest post he responds to…
Next Jump Acquires FlightCaster, The Flight Delay Prediction Engine
Back in July 2009 we wrote about a Y Combinator-funded startup called FlightCaster that looks to help you predict flight delays — before the airline even tells you about them. The…
Klout Lands $8.5 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Greycroft To Measure Social Influence
Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, has raised $8.5 million in new funding led by the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer recently launched sFund with…
As you probably are aware, the Nintendo 3DS is just around the corner: it will hit Japanese stores on February 26, followed by the US and European markets in March.…
Hugh Hefner Takes Playboy Enterprises Private (At $6.15 Per Share)
Playboy Enterprises, the world-famous adult entertainment and media company, is to “go private” again. The media company, which of course publishes the Playboy magazine but also runs an Internet business…
Restaurant Reservation Startup VillageVines Raises $3 Million
Hearst Interactive Media, early investors in companies like Pandora, Netscape and Local.com, has taken the lead in a $3 million round of funding for VillageVines, a startup that offers member…
SCHAD Secures $4.2 Million Led By M8 Capital For Its Plant Mobile Monitoring Technology
London-based m8 Capital has announced its latest investment: leading a $4.2 million round in SCHAD, which produces mobile technology to enable engineers to remotely access, monitor and manage company plants,…
Quickish Delivers Almost Real-Time Yet Editor-Vetted News Recommendations
Today sees the launch of Quickish, a near-realtime micro-news recommendation service founded by former Associated Content Vice President and ESPN.com ‘Daily Quickie’ writer Dan Shanoff. Considering Shanoff’s background, it’s no…
Your Music In The Cloud No More – blueTunes Keels Over, Dies
It took a bit longer than we thought, but the inevitable has happened: blueTunes is calling it quits. A message posted on the website reads: We have decided to pursue…
Here are some stories from CrunchGear’s week at CES. Hands-on With the Orbitix Sphero Samson Meteor Mic: Meteor-y Sanyo Shipped 150 Million Eneloop Batteries Onkyo Looks To The ’80s For…
The popular Incursore collection from Glycine returns with a model II and model III. Relatively inexpensive, these watches comes with a few dial styles and with automatic or manually wound…
Spotify Ties Up With Logitech
Good news for Europeans and those U.S. users (perhaps as many as 30,000) of music streaming service Spotify. In a similar deal to the one signed last year with Sonos,…
As the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show wraps up today, we’d like to share a few secrets. The CrunchGear writing team, with support from TechCrunch TV, provided more than 20 hours…
As we saw teased before CES, the Star Wars Trilogy (along with those other ones) is indeed to be re-released on Blu-Ray in September (you can pre-order now). The fan…
Visions of 3D TVs and prototype tablets clogging your brain? This little mash-up (slightly more melodic than my own take on the theme) should help clear your head, and maybe…
Frequently Asked Questions About Quora
The incredible growth of Quora has also led to an equally incredible growth in chatter, punditry, and analysis about the future of social networking. The opinions range from thought-provoking (“the…
Streaming CES: How We Did It
As the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show wraps up today, we’d like to share a few secrets. The CrunchGear writing team, with support from TechCrunch TV, provided more than 20 hours…
Verizon Will Trip AT&T With The iPhone — Then Point And Laugh With Unlimited Data
Uh oh, AT&T. It’s looking very, very, very, very likely that the event Verizon is holding on Tuesday morning in New York City is all about unveiling a CDMA iPhone…
Evolution seems to be a bit less violent this time around. The just-announced HTC EVO Shift 4G attempts to build on the brand started with the much-hyped EVO 4G superphone…
Instagram Shuffle Adds Roulette To Photo-Sharing
Instagram is no doubt the latest rage in photo sharing, recently crossing one million users after less three months of being open to the public. While the company is planning…
Five Ways The Verizon iPhone Will Change The Mobile Landscape
It has been a litany akin to prayer in certain circles: “Everything will be better when Verizon gets the iPhone. I’ll buy it then.” But what will a Verizon iPhone…
Daniel Raffel's Favorite New Geek Stuff Of 2010
Looking back at 2010, I’m particularly struck by the quantity and quality of new projects that launched. Just when I thought I had time to start reflecting on the year…