George Bernard Shaw once claimed that England and America were &''two countries divided by a common language&''. This adage may hold true even when th... read more »
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Solar thermal company BrightSource Energy has raised $89.5 million out of a planned $100 million round, according to an SEC filing.Last summer, the co... read more »
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Brushing aside concerns about violence in Mexico, IBM today opened its first IBM innovation center in Mexico City.Big Blue hopes the center will becom... read more »
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Hoping to advance the speed of everything from computers to game consoles, Rambus is announcing today it has invented an extremely fast way to transfe... read more »
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Just about every evening investor Dave McClure sends me an email pitching one of his startups for a story. Company X just got a user! That sort of thi... read more »
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Ita4‚¬a4„s been a big week for numbers about photos. Yesterday, location-based service Foursquare launched the latest version of its app with support ... read more »
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Score one for social media.A new study has shown it&'s not how much you spend on advertising that gets you more favorable mentions on Twitter, it&'s h... read more »
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The developers behind the Kno, a student-focused tablet computer with a pen input, are in talks to sell off their hardware business and focus exclusiv... read more »
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AOL, at one time a leading Internet service provider, is looking to spin-off its dial-up operations and merge the remainder of the company with Yahoo,... read more »
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Once a year around this time, Brightcove rolls out a bunch of new features to its online video platform and calls it a new release. With Brightcove ... read more »
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Appceleratora4‚¬a4„s success is accelerating. The company, which has created a platform to let developers easily build software that runs across mult... read more »
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Google TV might be in a bit of a pickle if a Best Buy and Sony sale is any indication. The platform launched a few weeks ago with the Logitech Revue a... read more »
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Dear Microsoft, Remember me I&'m that guy at TechCrunch who actually defends you and your products, when appropriate, and whenever people start talki... read more »
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Here&'s the latest action we&'re following today on the GreenBeat:Tessera Solar loses 663.5-megawatt power purchase agreement &8211' The five-year-old... read more »
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Some of the excitement around real-time search seems to have died down recently &8212' Ia4‚¬a4„m no longer seeing hordes of startups embracing the ter... read more »
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Newly launched rental-property startup RentPost has a simple goal: to bring the aging and overly complex category of property management software i... read more »
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Personal genetics company 23andMe has raised $22 million in a third round of funding, according to a filing with the SEC. Founded by Anne Wojcicki, wi... read more »
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Microsoft&'s fledgling mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7, managed to be live for little over a month before somebody released a jailbreak tool ... 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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There was a big shakeup in the online advertising world last weekend: Google cut off AppNexus from its ad exchange, forcing the startup to direct its ... read more »
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