The Department of Energy has finalized a $343 million loan guarantee to develop a 500-kilovolt transmission line in northern Nevada that will connect ... read more »
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Cisco&'s Umi teleconferencing camera for home living room use‚ and the Microsoft Kinect motion controller have more in common than you might think.Tha... read more »
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These days, it&'s a given that the latest web service you sign up for is going to be using email for something. The better services make these message... read more »
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Factual, a startup that claims to host hundreds of thousands of data sets, has raised $25 million in its first round of institutional funding.When I s... read more »
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Ending petroleum dependence is the big, fat target of most cleantech startups. But one startup thinks it can make today&'s dominant energy source for ... read more »
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Mobile startup 4info first became known for delivering advertising in SMS text messages, but the company moved aggressively into display ads last year... read more »
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Herea4‚¬a4„s a good example of how going free can boost a mobile startupa4‚¬a4„s profile. RunKeeper Pro, a popular fitness app that normally costs $9.... read more »
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Yahoo is preparing to lay off 20% of total staff, we&'ve heard from two independent sources, and managers have been asked to begin to make the tough d... read more »
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A new wave of e-commerce is coming, backed by tends of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley&'s savviest investors, that&'s reinventing more than ju... read more »
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AdMob was one of the big success stories in mobile advertising, at least from a venture capital perspective. Now a team of former AdMob and Google emp... read more »
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Well look what we have here &8230' Last time we checked in on the Facebook/Google slapfight, Facebook had removed the option to import your contacts ... read more »
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A startup based in Shanghai, with United States headquarters in Woburn, Mass., 8D World, has attracted a series B investment of $5.25 million for the... read more »
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Jirbo is launching a new ad network today called AdColony that promises to give mobile developers a new way to make money from high-definition video a... read more »
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Google today officially accused the Chinese government of intentionally messing with its Gmail email, perhaps in an effort to head off any attempts by... read more »
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We wrote about the Foursquare for websites OneTrueFan, at the startup&'s launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in September. After three months in Alpha, OneTr... read more »
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Today, jewelry flash-sale site BaubleBar officially launched. Previously known as Eight1six, BaubleBar offers fashion jewelry at deep discounts for ... read more »
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Just when you thought Voice over IP (VoIP) couldn&'t be exciting again, along comes Viber with its free iPhone app for simple VoIP calls. After launch... read more »
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Yesterday, after some digging, we were able to confirm that the internal codename for Google&'s upcoming social project is &''Emerald Sea&''. Despite ... read more »
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Kevin Rose has left Digg, the news aggregation site he founded in 2004, after a few months of uncertainty over his role in the company.Rose has begun ... read more »
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We cornered SimpleGeo founder Matt Galligan yesterday and talked to him about SimpleGeo&'s newest hire, Mike&'s infamousa4s‚ &''What Is It You Do The... read more »
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