Social gaming is an international phenomenon. While Zynga is the leading social gaming company in the U.S., in Brazil it is a company called Vostu. ... read more »
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If youa4‚¬a4„re a technology entrepreneur or professional in the Vancouver area, please join us for a cocktail meetup at George Lounge in downtown Van... read more »
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Back in about 2002 or so when Toshiba and a few others tried to sell tablets to businesses and consumers. This was around when Bill Gates was floggin... read more »
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Nintendo sold 1.5 million Wii console and DS handheld video-game systems during Black Friday week, according to the Japanese company.The announcement ... read more »
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It&'s no secret that we like Yammer here at TechCrunch. We gave the company the top TechCrunch50 honors a few years back, we use the product pretty ob... read more »
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Various reports in the past couple of weeks have suggested that Twitter is in the midst of raising a new round of money that is akin to a hot-and-heav... read more »
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In a bid to find new markets for its blockbuster social game, Zynga is announcing a localized version of its FarmVille game in Japan today.Called Farm... read more »
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A startup called Prefinery launched last year to help other startups manage the beta testing process, where they only let a small number of users play... read more »
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It&'s already taken over the English-speaking world, and it&'s ready for more. Zynga&'s juggernaut FarmVille will soon be launching in Japan, marking ... read more »
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From what we can tell from a brief Reuters report, Microsoft is in talks with HBO and Showtime to broadcast and sell a la carte video through the XBo... read more »
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It&'s impossible to throw a rock at a media outlet today without hitting a story about Wikileaks. And to make the rock throwing even easier, the subje... read more »
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Okay this is just awesome. Internet marketer John Boyle has taken creative liberty with the rumors circulating about a Google Groupon acquisition and... read more »
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Where Nadanu''s online giving platform was designed specifically to mimic the experience of dropping coins into a real-world collection box, the Salva... read more »
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The geolocation wars are well underway. If you need any proof of that, simply look at this thread in Quora. A startup posted a question wondering whic... read more »
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Websites like SpotScout and Google Open Spot can help urban drivers find a place to park, but typically they rely on other users to post the relevant ... read more »
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Watch live streaming video from facebookguests at livestream.com Looks like President Obama isn&'t the only one resorting to Facebook as a way to reac... read more »
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Enterprise cloud management software company Abiquo has raised around $10 million in a second round of funding. The company is ramping up its global s... read more »
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Startup FitnessKeeper, the parent company of the RunKeeper smartphone app, has raised $1.11 million and will use the money to build out its nine-perso... read more »
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Rumors of a Google/Groupon deal have been swirling for weeks, and now Google has apparently bought the daily deal company for $2.5 billion, an anonymo... read more »
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Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected valuation was in the $3 billion range. T... read more »
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