Despite All The Angst Around Its Demise, Tr.im Will Hardly Be Missed
6:53 am PDT • August 10, 2009
For all the angst around the demise of Tr.im, the fact is that there are way too many URL shortening services in the world and inevitably more will fall by…
Digg Is On A Roll
11:43 pm PDT • August 9, 2009
Digg’s been busy lately adding new features—some loved, some not—but they seem to be having a positive effect on overall. In June, comScore estimates the site brought in 8.8 million…
Microsoft Unloads Razorfish To The French For $530 Million
10:03 pm PDT • August 9, 2009
More than two years after buying advertising network aQuantive for $6 billion, Microsoft finally unloaded the digital advertising agency that came with that deal. It sold Razorfish to French advertising…
I Want To Love Firefox 3.5, But It Keeps Crashing On Me
9:59 am PDT • August 8, 2009
Ever since the new Firefox 3.5 came out about a month ago, I’ve been using it as my main browser. Generally I am very happy with it. Pages load a…
When Amazon Bought Zappos, Clothes.com Also Came In The Box
11:05 am PDT • August 7, 2009
When Amazon paid $928 million for Zappos in July, it got a little something extra in the box: the Clothes.com domain. It turns out that Zappos bought the domain last…
Tesla Says It Is Now Profitable, Ships 109 Roadsters In July
10:06 am PDT • August 7, 2009
Silicon Valley’s electric car company, Tesla Motors, says that it hit profitability in July. The private company reports that it made “approximately $1 million of earnings” on revenues of $20…
Media & Entertainment
Realtime Blabfest With Andrew Keen, John Borthwick, and Kevin Marks
4:53 pm PDT • August 6, 2009
Earlier today I had a debate about the Realtime Web with author Andrew Keen on a Blogtalk Radio podcast hosted by Supernova’s Howard Greenstein. (It is embedded below if you…
Can You Recognize The Chrome Icon Yet? Maybe These Videos Will Help
10:54 am PDT • August 6, 2009
Remember that video contest Google announced back in June to try to get people to make videos showcasing the icon for its Chrome browser in creative ways? No? Well, the…
Android and iPhone Apps Cost About The Same, Except For Games And Dictionaries
9:32 am PDT • August 6, 2009
Do the prices people are willing to pay for a phone app depend on the device or the type of app? A comparison of July prices in the iPhone App…
Savings.com Makes Coupons More Social; Jason Calacanis Joins Board
9:04 pm PDT • August 5, 2009
Coupon site Savings.com just got a redesign and a new board member: Mahalo CEO (and TechCrunch50 co-host) Jason Calacanis. “They’ve broken $10 million in revenue after just a couple of…
Q2 Takeaways: Search Revenue Down, Display Down, But Google And Amazon Gained Share
3:23 pm PDT • August 5, 2009
Most of the public Internet companies have reported their second quarter earnings by now. In a research note sent out to clients today, J.P. Morgan provides a few takeaways from…
Oh No, They Didn't? Tumblr Launches a "TumbleUpon" Toolbar.
12:23 pm PDT • August 5, 2009
What is it with all the toolbar copycat craziness lately. First, there was Digg going after StumbleUpon with the Diggbar. Then StumbleUpon, which already had a toolbar, introduced a new…
Latest Google Chrome Beta Is "30 Percent Faster," Supports HTML5, And Is Prettier Too
9:56 am PDT • August 5, 2009
Google just released a new beta version of its Chrome browser for Windows PCs. The company claims that it is 30 percent faster than the current stable version of the…
Here Come The Twitter Patent Lawsuits. TechRadium Files The First One.
8:23 am PDT • August 5, 2009
Twitter is being sued again, and this time it isn’t some angry baseball manager who doesn’t like people impersonating him on the service. This time it is a little more…
Google Maps Fills Out With More Landmarks and Points Of Interest
4:44 pm PDT • August 4, 2009
Slowly but surely, Google Maps is filling up with more and more places. If you do a search in a major city, you are likely to find landmarks, museums, famous…
Flickr Turns Up The Awesome On Image Search
2:40 pm PDT • August 4, 2009
Searching for photos on the Web takes way too much time. There are simply too many photos to sort through and not enough good ones. Image search is a major…
Facebook Is Now the Fourth Largest Site In The World
10:29 am PDT • August 4, 2009
The global rise of Facebook is nothing less than astounding. In the month of June alone it gained 24 million unique visitors worldwide, compared to the month before, for a…
Mobclix Takes On AdMob By Roping Together 20 Mobile Ad Networks Into An Exchange
4:39 pm PDT • August 3, 2009
iPhone app developers who choose to go the free route typically try to make money by placing ads in their apps. But now there are so many mobile ad networks…
Twitter Reaches 44.5 Million People Worldwide In June (comScore)
4:09 pm PDT • August 3, 2009
Well, Twitter didn’t win a Nobel Peace Prize for its role in getting the word out about the Iran election protests earlier this summer, but it did gain about 7…
If You Could See Google Street View In Video, It Would Look Like YellowBird
9:51 am PDT • August 3, 2009
Over the past few years we’ve seen 3-D panoramic photographs become popular on the Web. These are photos taken with special 360-degree cameras and stitched together to mimic the experience…
Why Schmidt Had To Go
7:55 am PDT • August 3, 2009
What happens when the enemy of your enemy is no longer your friend? You cast him out, as Steve Jobs seems to have done to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who…
Why The FCC Wants To Smash Open The iPhone
7:27 am PDT • August 1, 2009
Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the apps. Nobody really knows.…
Google Adds More Options To Image Search
3:50 pm PDT • July 31, 2009
Image search is an area of intense competition between Google, Yahoo, and now Bing. Today, Google Images added some search options to make it easier to filter a search by…
Google Maps Don't Lie. Sweden And Canada Among Worst Greenhouse Gas Emitters.
1:43 pm PDT • July 31, 2009
Which countries are the worst greenhouse gas emitters? Now you can see for yourself on this handy Google Map created by a department of the UN and Google. The map…
The Online Ad Recession Continues. Is This What A Reset Looks Like?
10:39 am PDT • July 31, 2009
The recession in online advertising, which began in the first quarter of 2009, continued into the second. Every quarter we keep track of the combined advertising revenues of the four…
YouTube: Viral Wedding Videos Are Great For Advertising
11:03 am PDT • July 30, 2009
The conventional wisdom out there on Web video advertising is that most advertisers don’t want to risk being associated with user-generated videos (i.e., the vast bulk of videos on YouTube).…
M&A Activity Heats Up In July To $9.6 Billion
9:11 pm PDT • July 29, 2009
Whether it’s a sign of economic recovery or just investment bankers getting ready to take off the month of August, there’s been a lot acquisition activity lately. In the last…
Yahoo Got Binged
1:48 pm PDT • July 29, 2009
Today, Yahoo died as a search engine. If the deal with Microsoft is approved, what will replace it will be Bing, the search engine that Microsoft launched only two months…
Well, we never thought it would happen because of its intense rivalry with Google, but Facebook is almost ready to launch an official app for Android phones. Hints are already…
Wall Street's Reaction To The Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal: Not Good
9:07 am PDT • July 29, 2009
Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer are all smiles this morning with the signing of their long-awaited search deal, but the agreement isn’t going over so well on Wall Street. Shares…