100 More Invites For The Filter
9:00 am PDT • April 16, 2008
We have 100 more invites for Peter Gabriel’s music discovery site, The Filter. See my review from yesterday. You can sign up here. Get ’em while they last.
AdRoll Emerges From Private Beta With Co-Op Economics For Blog Advertising
9:44 pm PDT • April 15, 2008
When it comes to advertising for blogs, there is Federated Media for the biggest ones, and for everyone else there is AdSense (or some other low-paying ad network). Jared Kopf…
Where Have All the Bold VCs Gone?
2:17 pm PDT • April 15, 2008
As startups become cheaper to launch, more and more venture capitalists are finding themselves left out in the cold. Either angel investors are beating them to the punch in funding…
First Look and Invites To Peter Gabriel's New Music Discovery Site: The Filter
11:02 am PDT • April 15, 2008
Peter Gabriel knows a thing or two about music, and he thinks he’s come up with a better way for you to find new music that will rock your world.…
Update: Fring's Jailbroken iPhone App Now Live
7:41 am PDT • April 15, 2008
As Mike reported earlier today, Fring is launching a downloadable app for the iPhone that will allow people to make Skype and other VoIP calls over the data connection instead…
Federated Media's $50 Million C-Round Confirmed—No Plans to Buy Up Blog Partners
5:25 am PDT • April 15, 2008
After turning down a $100 million buyout offer, Federated Media Publishing has opted instead to raise $50 million in a C round led by Oak Investment Partners. As was reported…
Google Maps + YouTube Videos = Local Video White Pages
6:49 pm PDT • April 14, 2008
Google has long been using Google Maps as a way to show local business listings. When you search for hotels in a given city, for instance, each digital pushpin that…
FatDoor Closes Its Doors. Reopens as Centerd.
5:14 pm PDT • April 14, 2008
Maybe it is just because it had a really bad name. Or maybe it is because nobody really likes their neighbors. Or, if they do, they actually prefer to talk…
Wondering Which Partner at a VC Firm to Pitch? TheFunded Now Breaks Out Individual VC Ratings.
1:33 pm PDT • April 14, 2008
Up until now, if you wanted to see the ratings of individual venture capitalists on TheFunded, you had to be an invited member, which meant that you had to be…
TripSay Lets You Discover The World With A Little Help From Your Friends (Beta Invites)
12:03 pm PDT • April 14, 2008
When I was in Amsterdam a week ago, a startup founder from Finland named Leo Koivulehto showed me his travel site TripSay, which is in closed private beta. The first…
Here Comes More HD Video On the Web—Move Networks Raises $46 Million in C Round
8:32 am PDT • April 14, 2008
Investors are betting big on video streaming provider Move Networks. The Utah-based company just announced that it raised $46 million in a C round of venture financing. The round was…
More Details On The Google-Salesforce "Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend" Alliance
9:01 pm PDT • April 13, 2008
On Monday, Google and Salesforce are officially announcing the complete integration of Google Apps (Docs, Calendar, Gmail, and Gtalk) and Salesforce’s online enterprise apps. TechCrunch broke the story last week.…
Where Are All The Google Data Centers?
1:38 pm PDT • April 11, 2008
Google’s data infrastructure is massive and spread across the world. All that Web crawling, indexing, and searching takes enormous amounts of computing power, not to mention everyone pounding away at…
Microsoft Live Maps Drinks Google Maps' Milkshake
10:02 am PDT • April 11, 2008
Last night, Microsoft pushed out a ton of new features to Windows Live Maps, including a face-lift to some of its 3-D cities (Las Vegas, Dallas, Denver and Phoenix), the…
Stats: Obama Still Winning On the Web
7:55 am PDT • April 11, 2008
We all know by now that if you could vote on the Internet, Barack Obama would already be president. His Website has always attracted more traffic than those of other…
Delicious Not Shrinking, But Another Problem Looms
6:53 pm PDT • April 10, 2008
Earlier today, venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures wrote a post expressing concern that Web startups tend to languish after they are bought by big companies. To help…
Final Details For Tonight's Sold-Out PopSugar/TechCrunch MeetUp in LA (For The 2,000 Of You Who Are Coming)
3:01 pm PDT • April 10, 2008
Tonight’s TechCrunch MeetUp in LA co-hosted with PopSugar is sold out. For the 2,000 of you coming (and 500 on the wait list), here are the final details that you…
Shopflick: Bringing Home-Video Shopping To The Web (Beta Invites)
1:13 pm PDT • April 10, 2008
It was only a matter of time before someone created an online video-shopping marketplace. Mix together eBay and YouTube and you get Shopflick, a Los Angeles-based startup in private beta…
Fon Raises Another $9.5 Million In C Round
10:51 am PDT • April 10, 2008
Fon, the Spanish startup that wants to bring free WiFi across the planet, just raised $9.5 million (six million Euros) in a C round led by Coral Capital Management. Also…
Blockbuster Goes All Vudu With Plans For Its Own Set-Top Box
7:46 am PDT • April 10, 2008
From Doug Aamoth at CrunchGear: Hey what’s another box underneath your TV, right? Especially when it’s got movies streaming directly from Movielink and Blockbuster, yeah? According to Reuters, Blockbuster “is…
The Decline And Fall of Western Civilization Part III: The Twitter Years
7:27 am PDT • April 10, 2008
Are you feeling Twitter overload, or just sick of hearing about it? Blogger/Cartoonist/Ad Man Hugh McLeod feels the same way. He illustrated a post titled Why I Deleted My Twitter…
In Another Surprise Twist, AOL-Yahoo Deal Said to Be Close At Hand
6:53 pm PDT • April 9, 2008
Things are moving fast in the Yahoo-Microsoft drama. All the different forces are aligning for an endgame. The latest twist: The WSJ is reporting that Yahoo is close to signing…
Google Enterprise Takes A Page From Salesforce—Launches Its Own App Marketplace
11:03 am PDT • April 9, 2008
Google is obviously making big moves into the enterprise. In February, it relaunched JotSpot as Google Sites under the enterprise group, and next week it is expected to announce deeper…
Doom And Gloom Hits Silicon Valley
9:35 am PDT • April 9, 2008
You didn’t really think that Silicon Valley would be immune to the general convulsions in the overall economy, did you? I am not sure it is as bad as the…
Yahoo Refugee Tim Cadogan Lands at OpenX As CEO
8:15 am PDT • April 9, 2008
Executive recruiters are still loving Yahoo. Another former Yahoo executive has landed as the CEO of a startup. This time it is Tim Cadogan, an advertising senior vice president who…
EMC Buys 90s High Flyer Iomega For $213 Million
2:09 pm PDT • April 8, 2008
Storage giant EMC is buying Iomega for $213 million in cash, a slight premium above its $200 million market cap at the close of trading today. Iomega, which makes portable…
SMSOfficer Lets You Text From Outlook
11:53 am PDT • April 8, 2008
People caught between e-mail and text messaging are going to like this service. With SMSOfficer, which is a plug-in for Outlook, you can send and receive text messages from your…
The Truth According to Wikipedia
8:54 am PDT • April 8, 2008
Dutch filmmaker IJsbrand van Veelen stirred a lot of controversy last week at the Next Web conference when he premiered the documentary above, The Truth About Wikipedia. It has now…
"Deep Integration" Between Google Apps and Salesforce to Be Announced Next Monday
3:25 pm PDT • April 7, 2008
Salesforce will be making a whole bunch of partner announcements at an event in San Francisco next Monday. We’ve been informed that the on-demand enterprise software company will begin reselling…
Foreclosures Shown On Scary, Encroaching Heat Maps
2:49 pm PDT • April 7, 2008
If you want to see in stark colors exactly how the mortgage credit crisis is spreading across the country, go to real estate search site HotPads and look at the…