It is isn&'t often that a web service needs almost no instructions. Minus, part of the minimalist design trend inspired by apps likea4s‚ Glen Murphy&... read more »
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We&'ve killed a lot of things recently at Techcrunch: the phone call, cable tv, books, the mouse, and many more. Regrettably, I&'m ready to kill off ... read more »
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm broke all PC game records, selling more than 3.3 million copies on its first day of sales on Dec. 7.Blizzard Entertainment... read more »
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Well that didn&'t last long. Verizon started taking pre-orders for its upcoming iPhone today and, due to overwhelming demand, had to stop taking pre-o... read more »
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Doodle Jump, an enormously popular game on the iPhone built by two brothers in New York, has been downloaded more than 10 million times across the iP... read more »
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Email has taken over our lives, and most of us hate it. But a new generation of email apps are changing how we interact with the inbox, and on Monday... read more »
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Just about every inside joke imaginable popped up at this evening&'s Crunchies awards, an event that honored startups that have performed above and be... read more »
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WhaleShark Media, an online coupon rollup play, launched in June 2010. It was primarily funded by Austin Ventures, which has strong experience in the ... read more »
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Last night was interesting. I was sitting down to do some last-minute research for a post I was working on (this one) when news began to break that No... read more »
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Venture capitalists invested the most money last year since 2007, pumping $21.8 billion into 3,277 deals in 2010, according to a MoneyTree Report rele... read more »
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Aircell the company that provides the Gogo in-flight Internet service, has raised $35 million in new funding.In-flight Internet seems to be more and m... read more »
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Linden Lab, creator of the Second Life virtual world, has hired Rod Humble as its new chief executive.Humble is a veteran of Electronic Arts, where he... read more »
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This made us smile. Star mobile developer Joe Hewitt just tweeted out the following missive roping Twitter, email and yes employer Facebook into a tr... read more »
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Since the launch of New Twitter in September, things have been pretty quiet on the new feature front. Yes, they&'re testing out a new analytics produ... read more »
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Goldman Sachs today revealed a big change to its private offering of Facebook shares &8212' ita4‚¬a4„s only making the deal available to investors out... read more »
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Herea4‚¬a4„s our roundup of the weeka4‚¬a4„s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories that VentureBeat published in the last seven days... read more »
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In lieu of actual first day US sales numbers from Microsoft, everyone seems out to predict doom and gloom for its Windows Phone 7 platform. Microso... read more »
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Bebo just launched Meebo&'s web-based instant messaging client across the social network and the company says a million messages have been sent alread... read more »
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I am sure the Washington Post&'s new iPad app is a wonderful way to read the venerable newspaper. It certianly seems perfectly serviceable at first... read more »
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Hulu unveiled some new features today that could help users discover more content on the TV- and movie-watching site, as well as make it a little mor... read more »
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