Mashable’s Spark of Genius series highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, see details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.Name: Togetherville.comQuick Pitch: Togetherville is an online community for kids who are too young for Facebook that allows them to experience social networking in a fun, age-appropriate ...
Perhaps now you’ve read Fred Vogelstein’s feature about the relationship between AT&T and Apple in this month’s Wired magazine. If not, you definitely should, it’s available online. It reads a bit like a story about a couple who after three tumultuous years of marriage are about to split up. Not get divorced, mind you, but separated.
In this scenario as laid out by ...
AFP - South Korean cellphone manufacturer Samsung Electronics Tuesday dismissed claims by iPhone maker Apple that all smartphones suffer dropped signals when held in a certain way.
The best investors are learners rather than teachers. Micro venture capitalist Chris Sacca is one of Silicon Valley’s most thoughtful learners – a former lawyer and failed entrepreneur, once Head of Special Initiatives at Google, an early investor in Twitter with his own 1.3 million person following, a 2009 TechCrunch Crunchie Award nomination for Best Angel Investor, ...
Amazon announced today that its sales of e-books for its Kindle reader have passed those of hard cover books.
Over the past three months, according to Amazon, it has sold 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardbacks; over the past month the ratio is 1.8:1. Unfortunately, the company did not provide overall figures for those time periods.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs response to the iPhone 4s antenna or “Antennagate,” as he mockingly referred to it has drawn new criticism, instead of downplaying the issue, as he may have liked. - Apple CEO Steve Jobs' quickly called press conference July 16
-- in which he disputed whether there were ...
Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff is going to Twitter and Facebook to ask for feedback about some new ads.
This is what makes Benioff different than most any CEO of a billion dollar company. He gets the whole concept of engagement. He's literate about the social Web. In this case, he uses the social networks better than most marketers do.
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Google's Nexus One phone, touted as a "super" phone by Google and a key iPhone competitor when it launched in January, is now history in the United States.
Employee participation and information overload are two of the most common concerns regarding enterprise 2.0 adoption, but Carl Frappaolo, writing at Information Architected, highlights a significantly greater concern: accuracy of information. The problems of cultivating collaboration and creating, finding and filtering information are secondary to the problem of ensuring that the information that both employees and the public access ...
It has become a cliche that newspaper are stumbling in their transition to the Web, largely because they just can’t make as much money from their websites as they can from print. A startup called Perfect Market is unveiling its latest tool today aimed at changing that.
Dubbed The Vault, the new service is basically the data and analytics side of ...
When I saw the first trailer for the Facebook movie, The Social Network, I was a little bit ashamed to admit that I thought it actually looked pretty good. Sure, it has David Fincher directing, Aaron Sorkin writing, and Trent Reznor composing. But still, it’s a movie about Facebook. But the trailer was a homerun. Well, except for one ...
Smartphones are one of the most talked-about and hotly debated consumer electronics on the block these days, and manufacturers are pumping out more of these devices each month.So, how are these devices measuring up in the arena of public opinion? A few 140-character user reviews can say a lot about a phone's early success or failure, and we've got details ...
This morning, MobileCrunch’s Greg Kumparak delivered his pre-review preview of Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7. The soon to be released mobile operating system is far from finalized, as Kumparak explains, but it is a grand departure from 6.5 and represents Microsoft’s best mobile effort to date.
In today’s episode of TechCrunch NOW, we explore the operating system’s key highlights, including its clean ...
Curse, a startup that offers a variety of gaming-related resources, tools, and news sites, has added a new property to its arsenal: the company has just acquired MMO-Champion, a very popular site that follows news for the hit massively multiplayer game World of Warcraft. Curse is acquiring the site from Major League Gaming and is not disclosing the terms ...
Online learning site Grockit, which launched at TechCrunch 50 in 2008, has integrated educational videos from YouTube EDU to enhance the learnings experience for its users.
Grockit is an online learning community that adds game mechanics to helping high school students prepare for standardized tests such as the GMAT and SAT. The startup, which just raised $7 million in ...
Cellphone maker Nokia is on the hunt for a new chief executive, one who can help it compete against popular new devices from Apple and others, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that cites “people familiar with the situation.”
Nokia spokeswoman Laurie Armstrong told the Journal (and VentureBeat) that the company doesn’t comment on speculation.
The Finnish company ...
AP - Uncertainty about the stability of world markets is clouding encouraging signs about the health of the technology sector.
Mashable - On Wednesday, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg will sit across from ABC News' Diane Sawyer in his most high-profile interview since 2008, when Sawyer interviewed him on 60 Minutes.
In response to the mounting pressure from Activision and analysts to charge for Call of Duty’s online games, the developer has said that it won’t happen, at least for Modern Warfare 2.
Reuters - The ratings-challenged FX drama "Damages" has been rescued by DirecTV.