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Image via CrunchBase, source unknownThe nerd fight is well underway between Techcrunch and Le Web generating controversy and its own share of commentary on the social networks (Twitter and Friend Feed) today. The long story short is that Techcrunch did something that Loc Le Meur did not like, and the nerd spat went on from [...]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch : Fring Lays Off 20%, Says Business Is Surging   —  Israel-based mobile VoIP startup Fring joins the layoff parade by letting 10 people, or around 20% of total staff, go.  Company CEO Avi Shechter says the company is doing well, though, and the layoffs were to ensure that the company had enough capital to get them past 2009.

Today TechCrunch launched a new search engine for their network of blogs, using the new Yahoo Boss technology known as ‘Boss Vertical Lense’ (of which you can read more about here.) See below for a quote from the TechCrunch website:  ”The new TechCrunch Search is considerably more powerful than WordPress’s default search capabilities. For one, you [...]

In my last post I mentioned that we were working hard at Jaduka to launch a new project. At the time I didn’t want to say much more since the press release hadn’t gone out, but I am happy to announce that on Tuesday Jaduka officially launched dukaUS as part of Jaduka Labs. dukaUS is a [...]

When we are in need of capital business, if not to go to the bank, we may go to people who are overweight cash. But now, just need to sit in front of the computer sweet, and then descend to a website called Kiva.org. What Kiva.org? This is a social networking site in the microfinance [...]

IBM, in partnership with the Palace Museum, has released a virtual version of China's Forbidden City.Screenshots and more information at Techcrunch.

TechCrunch’s latest post (posted by Michael Arrington) gave me a shock. Why? It was shocking because it revealed that TechCrunch has been sued by Earthcomber! It all started when EarthComber started suing Loopt last week. All of sudden and out of nowhere, EarthComber added TechCrunch in their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

It looks like we have good news for those tech geeks following TechCrunch, Loopt has came up with a special social network for them. With this new social network, TechCrunch readers (tech geeks) can connect, share their locations, statuses, comments and even photos with fellow TechCrunch... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Seems he ran into a writer for TechCrunch at the TC50 conference who was blowing out posts using a service called Datapresser. Now, Datapresser is

The computer giant Intel has filed a lawsuit against Californian travel company Intellife Travel, claiming the company is trying “to cause confusion that Intel is the source or sponsor of Intellife’s services” and “dilution of the INTEL trademark.”Intellife has put a confedential petition up on its site asking for people to register support.Read more at Techcrunch.Bad PR on Intel's part,

Serkan Toto reports on a new sensation: social networking combined with dating simulators. Webkare (Web boyfriend)was released on September 10th and received 3.5 million page views and 10,000 members by September 15th.I wonder if Webkare would ever take off in Britain. Would Bebo-loving British children respond to the collaborative nature of the site, and would they have the patience to use it? Ma

link: Streaming de la conferencia TechCrunch50 2008 Rss del sitio

DEMO проводиться вже в 19 раз, на відміну від TechCrunch, який проводиться вдруге. Обидві події проходять одночасно: DEMO (7-9 вересня), TechCrunch50 (8-10 вересня). Хоча сама назва TC50 мала б передбачати участь 50 компаній, їх насправді 52. У DEMO

Techcrunch finally unveiled its progress on Tablet PC that will cost $200 and run nothing more than just Firefox. Below is a preview of all the effforts behind the project. We wish all best to the team behind this project.

Interesting way to wake up this morning is to see that Demo has made noise that Jason Calcanis pulled a “what everyone should know about pitching your startup” saying that it was very similar to something that was written 10 years ago for Demo. So taking a quick look at what is there, the scary [...]

How does TechCrunch stories make it to Digg's front page so often? With a little help from its friends or (all the help), of course.Former TechCrunch writer Duncan Riley,now a foe of editor Michael Arrington,posted a screenshot from his inbox (Listed below)revealing what Riley calls "The TechCrunch Digg Club." It includes four writers from TechCrunch proper; seven from gadgets blog CrunchGear;two

La gente de TechCrunch se han decidido a producir los productos que imaginan, huyendo de la masificación de funciones en un sólo aparato e intentándo ahorra en costes reduciendo el hardware necesario, ya que la premisa dominante es que el precio final no puede superar los 200 dólares. Y el producto que imaginan no es nada más y nada menos que un Tablet PC enfocado únicamente a navegar por

TechCrunch a well known Weblog and now more than a weblog, a network cum organization of people obsessed with technology and start-ups led by Michael Arrington are visualizing a Tablet PC that will cost $200 and run nothing more than just Firefox - people’s very own browser which just ended up making world record in [...]

28 Haziran günü İstanbul Conrad Hotel‘de TechCrunch ve Webrazzi MeetUp‘ı gerçekleştirildi. 400‘den fazla kişinin katıldığı etkinlikte, Türkiye internet pazarının ne kadar yüksek bir enerjiye ve potansiyele sahip olduğunu Arda Kutsal sayesinde göstermiş olduk. Tatil dolayısıyla katılamadığım etkilinlikle ilgili detayları ve videoları buradan ya da bur

Nice post from Techcrunch on Firefox Mobile. Good screenshots there as well.The user interface shown in the video is a working prototype and will change, but there are some worthwhile concepts—some borrowed from Apple, some borrowed from Firefox. The mobile browser is built for a touch screen and allows scrolling with a flick of the mouse like on the iPhone (although it is single-touch, not mult

The idea behind Glassdoor is simple: You tell me your salary, and I’ll tell you mine. The stealth startup, which raised $3 million from Benchmark Capital last March, just went live.More.

28 Haziran 2008 Cumartesi günü gerçekleşecek olan TechCrunch ve Webrazzi Buluşması İstanbul Conrad Hotel 'de gerçekleştirecek. Web 2.0 sektörüne ait proje ve şirket haberlerine sayfalarında yer veren TechCrunch sorumlusu Mike Butcher' ın katılacağı organizasyonlara Webrazzi' den tanıdığımız Arda Kutsal'ın girişimleri doğrultusunda İstanbul ayağı da eklendi. TechCr

The last couple of days could not have been better for Loic Le Meur and Seesmic as the company had managed to secure a number of huge Hollywood Stars to be interviews using the Seesmic platform. The idea was for a couple of London based Seesmic users to set up the equipment on location [...]

I am at work so this post will be very short and I just couldn’t wait to write something to both of these adults that are acting as kids. TechCrunch Kid 1 Post and a nice message on Twitter(NWR) WIRED Kid 2 Post I hope you read the two posts, and to be honest this game is very [...]

Yesterday CNET’s Charles Cooper reported that Twitter had signed a term sheet to raise $15 - $20 million in a new round of venture fundingIt’s fairly well known that they are out talking to VCs (it’s hard to keep that quiet), but our sources are saying no deal is imminent, and that Twitter is still meeting with potential suitors.The company has received a number of term sheets, according to one source. Valuations range from $60 million on the low end to more than $150 million on the high end. There is, clearly, a bit of salivating going on around Twitter.One reason for all the attention: growth rates suggest that it is now just a matter of when, not if, Twitter usage will go mainstream. Twitter usage has “exploded” in the last couple of months, says our source (this is supported

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There is something nice when the boss is not completely pissed off that you are walking out the door to go compete with them. With the ever present “non-competes” that we sign here in just about every technical job, the extraordinarily nice note that Duncan Riley is leaving techcrunch for his own blog at Inquisitr [...]

Times Magazine has included Michael Arrington of Techcrunch in the list of world’s 100 most influential people. Congratulations Michael!! Michael is the only full time blogger who has been featured in Times Magazine so far. Time magazine describe his traits as intense, passionate, consumed with his subject, opinionated, sleep-deprived, forward-thinking, easy to irritate and apt to air his grudges in public. Indeed the online glory he achieved in short time was not easy. His peerless commitment and hard work has paid him off in well.Huffington , the editor in chief of the Huffington Post praises like this –Dubbed the Walter Winchell of Silicon Valley and compared by Wired magazine to "a Hollywood agent at a cast party" and to "Tony Soprano—a large man always on the verge of losing his

Well I was organizing my feeds I was subscribed to and notice @TechCrunch is using different logo on Feeds then the one on page. Why don’t they match logos on feed and blog? iBeginShare.attachButton('share-tool-910948291', {title: 'Different Logo at TechCrunch', link: '-logo-at-techcrunch/', content: '

There’s some legal shiz going on over at TechCrunch.com! Yesterday the site wrote the following: CrunchGear and TechCrunch are hosting a special event tomorrow, April 30 (Wednesday) in San Francisco - a special screening of the movie Iron Man, two days before the official May 2 release. We’ve rented out the largest theater we could find in [...]

Panedia is a content creation and licensing company, specializing in high quality georeferenced photography using immersive panoramic technologies. Panedia offers three core services. Panedia panoramas offer 360 degree immersive images of “amazing places.” The service is completely web based, so users choose a location and can move around each position. Panedia’s Map service offers over 3500 [...]

I went through some of my feeds and for some odd reason I was interested, how come that most of the bloggs I visit on daily basis have not upgraded to wordpress 2.5 yet some of them are stuck with 2.1 or 2.3.3 TechCrunch and Mashable didn’t nor Problogger or BlogHerald I wonder why? Hope they won’t [...]

This ought to start off some conversations this morning, if not a bitch meme or two. Techcrunch has gone through Techmeme’s head lines to figure out who the top bloggers are since the beginning of the year. The good part, we read most of these folks, the bad part, if they have an ego, it [...]

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TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com) seems to have taken a kit-kat break. One, if not the largest technology and silicon valley news/gossip sites maintained by the equally liked and hated Michael Arrington hosted by Media Temple disappeared at around 5PM GMT. Hopefully it’ll be back soon, after all, where else am I going to get my latest tech [...]

Yesterday Michael Arrington pushed out a rant that while amusing, was more self serving than anything else, technically if someone is going to offer you money for something you are doing, you would have to be insane not to take it. We covered the post yesterday saying “if people give you money to do something [...]

It looks like the once informative and authoritive tech-news blog, Techcrunch is beginning to falter under the weight of it’s own ego, spiralling into school-yard bickering both within the ranks and with it’s supposed target audience of sillicon valley insiders. Co-editor Michael Arrington, and Author Duncan Riley have been airing their petty insecurities on Twitter, which [...]

We just opened up our video blogging platform to the public. Check out what the press had to say! TechCrunch: Magnify.net Releases Video Blogging Platform, Seesmic Competitor? Magnify.net, hitherto a platform intended primarily for collecting and sharing videos found around the web, is broadening its focus with the release of a service that lets you record video clips directly into the browser

Magnify is in TechCrunch again! Check out our most recent write-up here: Here's a quote from the post: Magnify.net users will have access to content from providers including ABC, NBC, and CBS affiliates, Bloomberg, AP and Fox News. The additional content allows for the creation of new channels that can be used to build communities around topical news and niche markets.

I got an interesting email last night from David Hissami, CEO of The Whoa Show, who wanted to clarify a TechCrunch Article comparing the service to an Exquisite Corpse, which he felt was inaccurate. I guess TC author Erick Schonfield is sticking to his guns, so armed with some new info, StartupEarth sets the record straight. The Whoa Show is a media company based in Orange County CA, whose aim is to make exciting video shows, called Whoa Shows, that star the audience. The site will go live on New Years Day, with the first Whoa Show, “First in Action”, followed by “The Count Drop” and “Opposite Line”. First in Action is set up as a never-ending chain of videos. At the end of every clip, someone gives a direction. The first person to follow it makes it on the show, and gets to direct the next person. So Billy says “I want you to scare someone”, Timmy scares his gran, then says “I want you to confess something on tape”.. Johnny

I got an interesting email last night from David Hissami, CEO of The Whoa Show, who wanted to clarify a TechCrunch Article comparing the service to an Exquisite Corpse, which he felt was inaccurate. I guess TC author Erick Schonfield is sticking to his guns, so armed with some new info, StartupEarth sets the record straight. The Whoa Show is a media company based in Orange County CA, whose aim is to make exciting video shows, called Whoa Shows, that star the audience. The site will go live on New Years Day, with the first Whoa Show, “First in Action”, followed by “The Count Drop” and “Opposite Line”. First in Action is set up as a never-ending chain of videos. At the end of every clip, someone gives a direction. The first person to follow it makes it on the show, and gets to direct the next person. So Billy says “I want you to scare someone”, Timmy scares his gran, then says “I want you to confess something on tape”.. Johnny

The front page at TechCrunch looks as if it was taken out of the Venture Capital Cafe today. Out of 8 posts displayed on the home page, 5 are related to Israel - not bad for a tiny country in the middle east. AllofMe, SeeToo, Google Israel, eToro and SuTree - read more on VC Cafe.

The last 24 hrs have been wonderful for Techkeyla. Since the 5 reasons review of Mixx, I have been flooded with appreciation mails and comments from all across.I even received a comment from Will at Mixx asking me for what opinions I had on the service of Mixx and what could make it even better. Well, more on that shall be covered in a post coming soon. But for now, lemme just enjoy this moment. Thanks to all those who commented and voted for the post. The best part is the 5 reasons review of Mixx got featured on the Page 1 of Mixx, and not only that, it was sandwiched between two posts on Techcrunch, which were about Mixx. Have a look at the pic below. I have also saved the Page 1 pic for you guys and of course for me to enjoy. Woohooo.Thanks Mixx and well, shall be back with my opinions and may be an updated review of Mixx, soon.

TechCrunch ebay Not Afraid To Promote Unlocked iphones Outside iphone TerritoriesTechCrunch, CA - 1 hour agoSince the first time Apple’s iphone was unlocked there has been a thriving market internationally for unlocked iphones. The practice itself is legal in many … Read the entire original post via

      We've just got some very positive coverage on TechCrunch.       They like what we are trying to be. So do we!

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 In the article Another payperpost virus  TechCrunch stuff Michael Arrington gave his opinion about PPP websites. I would like to agree with some statements about corruption in blogging community and mislead of readers. But every blogger has his right to write sponsored reviews and collect money the same way like newspapers publish adds and TV [...]

Come ha raccontato Matteo, TechCrunch è partito dalle grigliate a casa di Michael Arrington a Silicon Valley alle quali partecipavano prima gli amici e poi gli amici degli amici... il resto lo sappiamo (e lo leggiamo su TechCrunch stesso!).Però Michael si è appena reso conto che una cosa è fare le grigliate a Silicon Valley e un'altra è farle a Londra nella vecchia Europa:"One thing I need to remember for our next party - Londoners drink a lot more and stay out far later than their Silicon Valley geek counterparts. We actually ran out of alcohol completely at around 10:30 but Heather soon had another shipment brought in. I left at 1:30 am to get back to my day job. As far as I know the party is still going strong."(tratto da questo post su TechCrunch stesso)Max

Su Techcrunch hanno dato i numeri (visto che non riesco a trovare le fonti ufficiali), ma questo è quanto:- Google: 100 miliardi di pagine visitate al mese- Youtube: 16 miliardi di pagine visitate al meseMax

In a handy overview with chart, TechCrunch looks at Virtual World Hangouts: So Many To Choose From. This is indeed growing into a crowded space. I predicted at a conference a while back that every single major toy brand would have an MMO within two years. Well, we’re getting close, what with stuff like Mattel announcing U.B.Funkeys, for example. Edit: and the BBC jumping in as well. And BarbieGirls.com has hit 4m users, and the toys just now hit the streets. Meanwhile, we have EA’s “chief visual officer” saying that chasing graphics is no longer the point because it’s becoming about user content — something which even a year or two ago was heretical within the industry. I’m going to have to come up with some new stuff to predict soon, because predicting the present ain’t gonna cut it. Source: Raph´s Website Online Games Virtual Worlds

I came across a post on Techcrunch today about selling on eBay which was based on an article in Christian Science Monitor.  Most of the research which is mentioned is covered in posts on this blog, and so I thought I would link to them to make it easy to people to read what I have to say Some buyers outbid the “Buy it now” price for a good, finding 45 to 50 percent of eBay auctions for a sample of iPods exceeded the “buy it now” price. This was covered in this post.  The percentage of daily bids is highest at 8pm. The percentage of closing auctions is also highest at 8pm. The study says this may be counterproductive since it creates greater competition for bidders attention at that time. I haven’t covered this actual study, but a German study produced similar results Buyers seem to favor auctions with more bidders. They don’t mention the source for this in the article, but it is cover in a study by Gillian Ku, reviewed in this post

Hey what do you know? Remember my post on InviteShare? TechCrunch was planning on launching a website similar to Invite Share but then InviteShare came out first. Ditching their plan to launch another website, TechCrunch acquired InviteShare through an auction at Sitepoint.com for $25,000. TechCrunch says Invite Share will remain pretty much the same with a couple tweaks to fix up InviteShare. [via TechCrunch Acquires InviteShare] No Tags

InviteShare was recently put up for sale at Sitepoint, and sold to TechCrunch. I think InviteShare is a great idea, with the amount of beta invitation only sites out there and all. However as a revenue generating website, I have my doubts. I suppose with TechCrunch behind it, it is certainly going to get lots of traffic, and it will enhance TechCrunch’s already fantastic website. As a stand alone site though? I don’t blame the owner for selling it. Seems like a lot of work with little financial reward. Technorati Tags: beta, techcrunch, inviteshare, invites, web 2.0 Share This

InviteShare was recently put up for sale at Sitepoint, and sold to TechCrunch. I think InviteShare is a great idea, with the amount of beta invitation only sites out there and all. However as a revenue generating website, I have my doubts. I suppose with TechCrunch behind it, it is certainly going to get lots of traffic, and it will enhance TechCrunch’s already fantastic website. As a stand alone site though? I don’t blame the owner for selling it. Seems like a lot of work with little financial reward. Technorati Tags: beta, techcrunch, inviteshare, invites, web 2.0 Share This

Techcrunch, uno de los blogs de tecnología más populares en los EEUU compra a la página InviteShare. La idea de la página es poner un foro donde los usuarios puedan compartir invitaciones a las betas privadas cuando nuevos productos en páginas web se anuncien, como fue el caso de Gmail, Joost y últimamente Pownce. InviteShare es la creación de Jeff Broderick en EkinDesigns. Techcrunch primero cambiará algunas de las funciones y estabilidad del código en estas semanas y después lo moverán a un dominio más en línea con su genérico tema “crunch”. Compártelo

Google vs Michael Moore - TechCrunchExcerpt:"In an interesting move, Google has come out against controversial documentary film maker Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Sicko” in a post titled “Does negative press make you Sicko?“."http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/06/30/google-vs-michael-moore/

In a recent post on Techcruch, site founder Micheal Arrington just unleashes on an unexpecting new start-up. Apparently someone affiliated (Maura Landry) with the new dead pool member start-up Panraven submitted a story to Techcrunch hoping to get some press.  Well things could not have gone worse.  The start-up is a Flickr competitor that claims to be killing them, but in the email they spell Flickr as Flicker with an E. Well for some reason Mr. Arrington has issues with adding “e’s” by accident, probably an over site considering the person spelled the word by the dictionary. But in Micheal’s defense it is a corporation and thier name is spelled “Flickr” but come on, why ream the guy for the misspelling. Its the internet people spell almost everything worng;). Techcrunch’s post are not immaculate either so who knows why he freaked on that one. Then to add to the start-up’s misery the Techcrunch founder heads over to the site to check i

We applied for the TechCrunch20. The conference is being put on by our friends Michael Arrington and Jason Calcanis, long time critics of PPP. The two report that they will be judging the applicants "soley on merit". We have some radically new additions to the PayPerPost service offering "codename Birdo" that we would like to announce at the show. The question is how objective these guys can be when they have openly attacked our business model regardless of everything we have done to promote the disclosure movement (I will give you that Jason seems to be coming around).We have signed up over 5,500 advertisers in less than a year and are generating hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. I don't know of too many startups that have experienced the same type of user and (more importantly) revenue growth that we have. In addition to everything we have accomplished internally, next week we will announce we have completed a strategic acquisition. I think we have merit as a company, a

I am pleased to announce that late last night Mike Arrington and I came to an agreement whereby PayPerPost will acquire TechCrunch and all related "Crunch" properties. I am well aware of the irony of this situation given Mikes comments about PayPerPost in the past. This comes on the heels of TechCrunch's acquisition of FuckedCompany, which was already in progress and will be part of the deal. Through it all we have been able to come to an agreement whereby Mike will continue to run the Crunch sites but PayPerPost will be able to leverage the site for its advertisers. As a result of this merger, we will soon be launching a new "PayPerCrunch" feature, whereby Advertisers will be able, at our customarily low prices, to leverage the journalistic talents of Mr Arrington and his staff to fully promote our customers products and services.Mike and I are now BFFs, don't be surprised if you start seeing pictures of us partying together in Vegas.

A top 10 contender for any web developers blog list, TechCrunch is a great resource for keeping in touch with the new and the now of internet products and companies.  Subscribe to their RSS feed and pay attention it if you have any interest at all in Web 2.0 or web apps that are new and cool. www.TechCrunch

It’s hard to get a PS3 right now, probably harder to get a Nintendo Wii. Word on the street is that it’ll be popping up in your local Best Buy or GameStop soon. If sunlight isn’t your thing though TechCrunch has word “from a reliable source” that both consoles will be turning up on Amazon “in the coming days.” Shoppers are in a tough spot right now, it’s the last big shopping weekend before the holidays and the second biggest left before the year ends. IF Nintendo Wiis and PLAYSTATION 3s are going to be turning up it will almost definitely be this weekend. Studious Wii / PS3 fanboys will note that both consoles sold out pretty quickly on Amazon at launch. With the major issues that arose during the XBox 360 Thanksgiving sale (where 1k lucky buyers got a console for $100) there’s also the threat of Amazon’s servers crapping out under the pressure. If you’re looking for either console, you may consider keeping your eyes