2011
When we first heard about Samsung’s 5.3-inch Galaxy Note, we didn’t really know what to do with it. Is it a phone? Is it a tablet? Oh, look! A stylus!…
BP, Shea Ventures, Google Ventures And Others Invest in Cool Planet’s C Round
Today, Cool Planet BioFuels, Inc. announced that BP Technology Ventures has made an investment in the company’s C round led by Shea Ventures. Current Cool Planet investors, General Electric, Google Ventures,…
Mobilewalla: The Highest Rated Mobile Apps Of 2011
Mobile analytics firm Mobilewalla has ranked the top apps across all four mobile platforms for 2011, using its own ranking system known at the “Mobilewalla Score.” Instead of looking at…
Amazon: We Sold Over 4 Million Kindle Devices This Month; Gifting Of E-Books Up 175 Percent
Amazon has just released new data regarding its Kindle sales for the holiday season. According to the e-commerce giant, Amazon customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle…
Rumor: Apple Will Debut Two iPads Next Month, Retina Displays In Tow (Update)
The Apple rumor mill never takes a break, even during the holidays. In the past months we’ve heard two very specific allegations concerning the iPad — both out of Digitimes…
Video: Electric Car From Japan Reaches Over 300KM Travel Range
We spent two posts on SIM-LEI, an electric car developed by a a spin-off startup at Keio University in Tokyo in collaboration with a total of 34 domestic and foreign…
7moments Is A Beautiful New Way To Share Private Photos In A Group
We’re all familiar with the pain of having to share photos with people. I’m not talking about the staff party album on Facebook, I’m talking about moments that matter -…
Fund.me: Mobile Social Network Startup Just.me Raises $2.7 Million
Just.me, a stealth startup incubated by Palo Alto, California-based Archimedes Labs has raised $2.7 million in Series A funding according to an SEC filing. The company earlier secured $600,000 in…
LG To Showcase 84-Inch 3D TV With 4K Resolution At CES 2012
It seems that 55-Inch OLED TV wasn’t enough for LG: the Korean company today announced it’s ready to showcase another monster TV at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas (which…
Here are some of yesterday’s stories on TechCrunch Gadgets:
12 Things That Won’t Happen In Online Video in 2012
There are no shortages of “predictions” articles, here I look at a dozen things that won’t happen in the world of online video in 2012, even though they should. 1) …
Gillmor Gang 12.28.11 (TCTV)
The Gillmor Gang goes enterprise in a conversation with Paul Greenberg, the eminence grise of the CRM, now Social CRM world. Gangsters John Taschek and Steve Gillmor decrypt Paul’s latest…
Why We Should All Give Google+ The Finger
“Google+ is about sharing the right updates with the right people – making sharing online just like sharing in real life. Just like in real life, sometimes you just want…
Blip Networks, which operates Blip.tv, is raising more money. According to an SEC filing, the New York City company sold $6 million worth of stock beginning on December 22, 2011…
Bank Shuts Down Local Online Advertising Company WebVisible For Not Paying Debts
Local interactive advertising firm WebVisible has shut its doors. According to a note sent from the company’s CEO to employees, WebVisible ran out of cash, and Silicon Valley Bank is…
Find Out Which Brands Are Winning On Google+ With ZoomSphere (Hint: Android is #1)
Facebook has AppData, Twitter has Twitaholic, and now Google+ has its own independent brand page rankings site: ZoomSphere. It shows which brands have the most followers, activity, +1s, shares, and…
In many ways, 2011 was the year of the pivot. One startup that successfully switched gears was Fab, which started the year as a gay social network and ended it…
Makerbot’s Thing-O-Matic is pretty pricey – $1,299 for the kit and $2,500 for the assembled kit – but (and this is my professional opinion) it is amazing and everyone in…
Will UK Prime Minister get an iPad app for work? Unlikely. Here's why.
According to some press reports today the British Prime Minister, David Cameron is to get “his own personalised iPad app” to stay on top of Government business. Cameron is known…
Taleo’s Recruiting Solution Processed 15% of Last Year’s US Hires
Other than Salesforce, no cloud SaaS provider handles more transactions than Taleo. The stats the company revealed to me about its 2011 are staggering. The Taleo talent and recruitment solution…
Subpug RSS Reader Looks To Pull You Away From Google Reader
As far as web sites go, there’s only one site I look at more than Google Reader. You’re on it right now. There’s nothing technically “wrong” with Google Reader, but…
Exclusive: Groupon Acquires Stealth Silicon Valley Startup Campfire Labs
Groupon has continued its (talent) acquisition spree with the recent purchase of a hot Silicon Valley startup before they even launched – and with extremely little fanfare. We’ve learned that…
Khan Academy Jumps To 4M Uniques Per Month (Up 4X From Last Year)
Oh, how I love Reddit AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) posts. In almost all cases, the inherent down-to-earth nature of a community-driven interview leads the most interesting of people to open up in…
Does Microsoft Really Need A Windows Superphone?
A leaked Windows Phone roadmap made the rounds earlier today, and if its contents hold true, then Microsoft will be going big on hardware when it comes time for Windows…
23andMe Snags GeneticScreening.com For A Mere $2200
Quick, how many pairs of chromosomes do you have? If your mind just drew a blank — or an image of Ethan Hawke fiddling around with tweezers in GATTACA — then…
Crazy “Spam” Email About Print Cancellation *Is* Actually From The New York Times
If you’re a New York Times subscriber — or even if you’re not — you may have received that following email this morning, implying that you have cancelled your subscription.…
Verizon Customers Dealing With Third Data Outage In One Month (Update)
It seems like December just can’t end soon enough for the folks at Verizon — we’re getting reports that Verizon’s data network is once again on the fritz. Like both…
M-Edge, a small Maryland-based company responsible for many popular Kindle cases, last week filed suit against Amazon. According to the Wall Street Journal, M-Edge claims that Amazon has repeatedly tried…
Geico Turns One Man’s PR Trash Into Their Own PR Gold
And that, friends, is what we call seizing the moment. (Meme-ment?)
Keen On… Kurt Andersen: Why Nothing Much Has Changed In The Last 20 Years (TCTV)
We all know that not much happens in the week between Christmas and the New Year. But less well know is how little has happened culturally in the last twenty years.…
