1000memories, an online crowd-sourced obituary service, announced that it has raised $2.5 million in its first round of funding from Greylock Partners... read more »
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The Gillmor Gang convened this week in the wake of the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco. Much of the conversation, however, concerned TechC... read more »
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Star Wars and video games go hand-in-hand. There is a long line of Star Wars-themed games going back to the days of arcade games, and continuing thr... read more »
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Google showed a live demo of the Android 3.0 version of its mobile operating system today at the Verizon keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Sh... read more »
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In case you missed it, here&'s the video of yesterday&'s Web 2.0 Summit interview with Evan Williams on Twitter&'s relationship with Facebook, devel... read more »
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The National Renewable Energy Labratory (NREL) recently tested thin-film solar modules made by MiaSolÆ‚©, and verified that their energy conversion e... read more »
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IBM said today that it has made new breakthroughs in an industry-wide race to create laser-based chips that can send data at high speeds through compu... read more »
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I posted a story earlier today about a cool company called Bonobos, which makes better-fitting hipster pants and just raised $18.5 million in funding.... read more »
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Peter Vesterbacka, whose company Rovio makes the immensely popular Angry Birds game, has a big vision for the future of mobile gaming.Vesterbacka lead... read more »
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MySpace, the social networking site that once was social networking, could lay off a staggering half of its 1,100-employee workforce, according to‚ Al... read more »
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In a move with huge implications for chip makers, Microsoft is expected to announce a version of Windows that will run on chips based on ARM designs f... read more »
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If 75 percent of my day is spent writing, the remaining 25 percent is probably going over TechCrunch stats. I&'m obsessed with it. That&'s why I do so... read more »
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Who would have thought that a simple city simulation would become the biggest-ever app on Facebook, eclipsing FarmVille Zynga&'s CityVille game crosse... read more »
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Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, wants a &''dog activated world.&'' That means he wants to see Zynga&'s dog logo everywhere. If you see the Zyng... read more »
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What are the headlines people are sharing the most A new headline aggregation site called Bitly News tries to answer that by showing the most clicked... read more »
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The classroom is no place for fighting. Unless it&'s between education startups.In a move that signals an aggressive expansion into the online learnin... read more »
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The political paralysis over network neutrality might be a microcosm of the broader political paralysis in America. Last week, after FCC chairman Juli... read more »
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Looking over the tech news today, you&'d think Chrome OS is dead. Nevermind that it hasn&'t even officially launched yet. Dead. Early reviews for the ... read more »
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Buying a digital book for your iPad is a very odd experience. If you fire up iTunes, you can find music, movies, apps, even audiobooks, but there is... read more »
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OnLive plans to expand its online game service next year to include movie streaming, according to the Wall Street Journal.If OnLive does so, it could ... read more »
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