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The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon

Nov 17, 2009 11:38 PM

The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real. The next “super” Android device will almo...

Trouble At Twitter: U.S. Visitors Down 8 Percent In October

Nov 12, 2009 12:02 PM

Ever since last summer, Twitter’s growth in the U.S. has been stalling. But in October, the number of people who visited Twitter.com from the U.S. actually declined for the first time by 8 percen...

No Need To Wrap Your Blog Post In A Tweet, Just Sync It With MySpace

Nov 12, 2009 11:14 AM

Plenty of people use Twitter to syndicate out their content — like TechCrunch, for example. And often those tweets also are syndicated out to other places — like MySpace, for example. But now you c...

Video: Fox News Takes On Violent Video Games. Again.

Nov 12, 2009 9:12 AM

Fox News held a fair and balanced debate over Modern Warfare 2, the popular new FPS that lets you play a CIA operative tasked with helping Russian agents clear terrorists out of an airport. In the ...

Forget iPhone MMS, Share 100 Pictures In An Instant With Knocking

Nov 9, 2009 1:45 AM

As we were all painfully aware, it took AT&T forever to bring MMS to the iPhone. A new app has just been released that hopes to one-up it. Knocking, made by Pointy Heads Software, is basically a ph...

Apple Rushes Out Apple TV Update To Cure Disappearing Content

Nov 7, 2009 2:19 PM

Last week, Apple released its new 3.0 software for the Apple TV. Unfortunately, it looks like it came with a pretty big bug in tow: Disappearing content. Here’s the problem in Apple’s words: There...

Google Open Sources Set Of Closure Tools It Uses To Build Its Own Apps

Nov 5, 2009 10:30 AM

Google has just announced that it is open-sourcing a set of tools its own developers use to build some of the company’s most well known products, including Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. The ...

Topsy Surfaces Hottest Real Time Links, Hits Bit.ly And TweetMeme Head On

Nov 3, 2009 2:46 PM

Real time search and discovery engine Topsy is releasing a bunch of new products and tools this afternoon. Topsy is all about the power of the ReTweet on Twitter. When the service first launched pu...

NBC Prepares For The Winter Olympics With Silverlight, HD Video, And Facebook Connect

Nov 3, 2009 11:26 AM

NBC is gearing up for the 2010 Winter Olympics with some changes to its mainstay site, NBCOlympics.com, scheduled to go live tomorrow. (See screenshots below). Once again, just as it did with th...

Zynga Takes Steps To Remove Scams From Games

Nov 2, 2009 12:49 PM

Well that didn’t take long. We outlined the not-so-ethical ways that the big social gaming startups are generating revenue through lead gen scams and subscriptions through a series of posts over th...

An Angel Goes Pro: Reid Hoffman Now Officially A Venture Capitalist At Greylock

Nov 2, 2009 10:59 AM

LinkedIn’s founder Reid Hoffman will be joining Greylock Partners as a partner but will continue to hold the role as executive chairman of LinkedIn. Hoffman tells us that he will be shifting his a...

Rearden Commerce Raises Another $40 Million, Lays Off 18 Percent

Sep 21, 2009 3:18 PM

Rearden Commerce, the under-the-radar automated online assistant that helps people organize travel needs and other services, has raised another $40 million in a Series F funding from JPMorgan Chas...

ThankfulFor: Share Your Gratitude With The World, 140 Characters At A Time

Sep 21, 2009 2:04 PM

Meet ThankfulFor, a new micromessaging site that is a “personal gratitude journal” which invites people to share the things they’re most thankful for in the form of 140 character long messages. I...

TC50: Clixtr Launches Location-Aware Photo Sharing For The iPhone

Sep 15, 2009 5:26 PM

We’ve all been there: the classic group photo, with twelve friends side by side doing their best to look as happy as humanly possible. The first shot is easy — but wait, the guy next to you has th...

TC50 Backstage: Well, Tell us How you REALLY Feel, Tim O’Reilly

Sep 15, 2009 3:15 PM

Conference organizer, publisher and investor Tim O’Reilly doesn’t mince words. In this video he talks candidly about what he hated at TechCrunch50 today, what he loved and what excites him about th...