Hitwise: Google Up, Yahoo Down in Search for May, 2008
8:09 am PDT • June 10, 2008
This morning, Hitwise came out with its search market share numbers for May, 2008. In the U.S., Google was up slightly to 68.3 percent percent versus 20 percent for Yahoo…
Paltalk Brings Its Massive Multiperson Video Chat To the Web
5:31 am PDT • June 10, 2008
This morning, New York City-based chat company Paltalk is releasing a version of its multi-person video chat service on the Web in beta. Called Paltalk Express, it is a Flash…
As Apple gears up for the launch of its 3G iPhone, outside developers and startups are finally going to get to sell or give away their own applications that run…
The 3G(PS) iPhone Arrives (See The Video From the Stevenote)
11:52 am PDT • June 9, 2008
Apple announced its new 3G iPhone today. It is much thinner, much faster, and much cheaper than its predecessor. Starting at $199(with a two-year contract), you get an 8 gigabyte…
Apple Relaunches .Mac as MobileMe: Sync Everything
11:30 am PDT • June 9, 2008
http://qik.com/player.swf?streamname=e2ee30b0319e4d57a4287ec78125ef07&vid=98254&playback=false&polling=false&user=techcrunch&userlock=true&islive=&username=anonymous As was widely speculated before Steve Jobs’ keynote address today, Apple is relaunching its .Mac service as MobileMe. The service syncs emails, photos, contacts, calendars, and other information between…
Location-Tracking Startup Sense Networks Emerges from Stealth To Answer the Question: Where Is Everybody?
5:02 am PDT • June 9, 2008
What if you could look at your cell phone and see a heat map of where everybody in the city was at that very moment? The more people at any…
Healthline Launches Semantic Health Ad Network
10:14 pm PDT • June 8, 2008
Believing that health sites need their own ad network, Healthline is bringing its semantic search technology to advertising. The health search engine is launching the Health Media Network, an ad…
Can Google Trends Predict The Election?
3:20 pm PDT • June 7, 2008
If more people are searching on Google for “Obama” than “McCain” does that mean he is more likely to win the election? Not every voter in the U.S. uses Google,…
The Story Behind Google's New Favicon
7:48 am PDT • June 7, 2008
Recently people have been noticing that the Google favicon, the small icon in your browser’s address bar when you visit a Google site, has changed from the familiar upper-case G…
The Crowd Takes On Naming Consultants With NameThis
4:58 pm PDT • June 6, 2008
Let me just say before I begin that I think everyone should come up with their own names. I could never understand why companies pay naming consultants to come up…
Loren Feldman Did Not Buy Cnet
4:33 pm PDT • June 6, 2008
But Loren Feldman, of 1938 Media, (the guy who always seems to be at Michael’s house) is going to be producing a weekly video for Cnet. Dan Farber, the bravest…
Ballmer Tells the Washington Post That Print is Toast
11:18 am PDT • June 6, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/mmedia/player/wpniplayer_viral.swf?thisObj=fo254049&vid=060508-17v_title Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sat down for lunch with editors and reporters at the Washington Post and told them print will be dead in ten years: There will be…
Icahn Sends Yahoo Another Love Letter. Yahoo Says, Keep Dreaming.
9:37 am PDT • June 6, 2008
The letters keep flying back and forth between investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo. On Wednesday, Icahn called for Jerry Yang’s head and characterized its employee retention plan as a “poison…
TV, Meet the Web. Google Analytics Starts Measuring TV Ads
7:40 am PDT • June 6, 2008
Google’s experiment with selling and measuring TV ads on the Dish satellite network just got a lot more interesting. A month ago, Google incorporated the ability to buy TV ads…
One Prediction We Got Right: The Presidential Nominees
4:24 pm PDT • June 5, 2008
Six months ago, we went out on a limb and endorsed Barack Obama and John McCain as the most tech-friendly candidates of each political party. McCain clinched the Republican nomination…
Broadcom Billionaire Henry Nicholas Indicted on Cocaine and Stock Back-Dating Charges
3:17 pm PDT • June 5, 2008
Practically everybody partied too hard during the 1990s. But Broadcom founder, and billionaire, Henry Nicholas, partied harder than most. Two indictments came down today on Nicholas. One for back-dating stock…
Techmeme Search Feeds. Use 'Em, Love 'Em.
12:05 pm PDT • June 5, 2008
Gabe Rivera finally added search to Techmeme last month. But already he is making it much better. Rivera just added a nice prospective search feature to the site. Anytime you…
Add Google Reader, Techmeme, and TechCrunch Tabs to FriendFeed
11:29 am PDT • June 5, 2008
Who knew Duncan Riley was such a Greasemonkey? My former colleague just made FriendFeed a lot more useful for people on Firefox. Using Greasemonkey, an add-on to Firefox that lets…
Yahoo's First Search Gallery Apps Leaves You Searching For The Right Results
9:13 am PDT • June 5, 2008
I want to love the search apps in Yahoo’s newly opened Search Gallery. I really do. Opening up its search engine to outside developers is an idea worth applauding (although…
Facebook Is Blocking Ads From MySpace, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut . . . and 3Jam?
5:55 pm PDT • June 4, 2008
If you try to buy an ad on Facebook, there are certain words that are taboo. Any ads that contain four-letter words are automatically blocked. So too are ads with…
Introducing A New TechCrunch Video Project: Elevator Pitches
2:36 pm PDT • June 4, 2008
We get a ton of pitches at TechCrunch every single day. It is a deluge we can hardly keep up with. Some are amusing, some are horrible, and a select…
Jerry Yang's Salary Is Only $1, But Icahn Still Wants His Head
9:01 am PDT • June 4, 2008
June promises to be an interesting month for Yahoo. The company filed it’s proxy statement yesterday, setting the date for its annual shareholder meeting on August 1. Activist shareholder Carl…
Intel Capital Invests $60 Million In Eight Startups
2:06 pm PDT • June 3, 2008
Today, Intel Capital announced new investments in eight startups totaling $60 million. Below is each company, along with the size of the round they just raised. (Not all would disclose…
Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford
12:28 pm PDT • June 3, 2008
Is there room for a video-sharing site besides YouTube? Intel Capital, Adobe Systems, and media investor Gordon Crawford are placing their bets on Veoh, which is announcing a $30 million…
Another Casualty Of the Facebook Redesign: Network Pages To Be Discontinued
11:05 am PDT • June 3, 2008
Facebook doesn’t think a social network needs to have Network Pages. And maybe it doesn’t. I didn’t even know they existed until someone told me they are about to be…
Jimmy Wales: Wikia Search Finally Doesn't Suck
5:42 am PDT • June 3, 2008
Wikia Search is finally ready to play with. Jimmy Wales admits that up until now his company’s project to apply the wiki concept to search: Pretty much sucked. It has…
Lumos Labs Gets $3 Million Funding for Brain Games
4:58 am PDT • June 3, 2008
As you age your brain slows down, your memory goes, and your attention lapses. Online brain fitness games like Lumosity sell the promise of stopping that decline. But as the…
TC40 Startup BeFunky Gets a Seed Round
3:56 pm PDT • June 2, 2008
Turkish startup BeFunky has closed its first round of venture funding from Golden Horn Ventures in Istanbul. The amount raised was $550,000. Previously, the company raised $250,000 in seed capital…
The CNN.com Effect: Mixx More Than Doubles Visitors in May To Nearly One Million
3:21 pm PDT • June 2, 2008
May was a good month for social-news site Mixx. At the beginning of the month, CNN.com put “Mixx it” buttons at the end of every article on its site. Consequently,…
GreenNote Offers More Peer-to-Peer Loans To Tackle the College Funding Gap
10:00 am PDT • June 2, 2008
If you are having trouble paying for college, maybe you can hit up your social network for a loan. That’s the idea behind GreenNote, another peer-to-peer lending startup that is…