Twitter is notorious for going offline, but usually not for more than an hour. Today, however, the site was inaccessible — on the web and through Twitter clients — for just about one hour.
As of 10:20 a.m. Pacific time, …
Talk about a backfire. Controversial Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who recently renounced his U.S. citizenship and came under fire for supposedly skipping out on U.S. taxes, might actually end up owing more money — an estimated $43 million.
Back in …
Patents may not always rise to the top of tech news, but major companies are gobbling them up every chance they get.
That’s exactly what Google just did with a $10 million IP purchase from the now out-of-business TeraHop, a …
Finding the perfect gift for a friend’s birthday can be tricky. Bday today launched the Bday Gift Finder, a Facebook app that scrapes your friends’ profiles to recommend the perfect presents. And the company has already secured the best gift …
The Internet has long been a go-to resource for getting a question answered, but oftentimes the answers you get come from less than stellar “experts”. Beepl, a social Q&A service hopes to solve that problem. The site launched out of …
Ticketing giant StubHub, owned by eBay, has acquired local event-discovery and promotion service Zvents, according to eBay’s internal employee blog eBayInk. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Zvents, founded in 2005, lets users to find out what events …
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No, not that kind of bubble. The bubble we’re living in is actually much more dangerous than the classic tech bubbles that inevitably come and go, because this particular bubble may well prevent American entrepreneurs from playing a leading role …
Is it fair to comb through Craigslist ads looking for people to win over to your own online marketplace?
That’s what Zaarly, an online marketplace for people to post items they need, appears to be doing.
In an email thread …
For many people, a simple “Happy Birthday” on a friend’s Facebook wall is enough. But a startup called Giftiki is launching a new group gift-giving tool Monday to make a birthdays a bigger deal using Facebook.
The idea behind the …
Though am by no means a web designer or developer, I often wish I could build a website on my own. That’s why I was intrigued by the new website development tool IM Creator, which lets you quickly design a …
Video-calling application Tango announced on its blog today that it is now available on desktop PCs. The company originally announced the feature back in July, along with a $42 million second round of funding.
The original Tango mobile app allowed …
What fun is sweating through a tough workout if there’s nobody around to be impressed by it? Endomondo is a mobile fitness-tracking application that not only tracks your workouts, but also shares that information with like-minded fitness buffs for motivation.…
You know what’s cooler than a million check-ins? A billion. Popular location-based check-in location service Foursquare today announced on its blog that it has reached one billion check-ins, as well as launched updated versions of its popular iPhone and …
What do you do when you’re already the number one website for sharing photos? Go after videos. In a report released today by online measurement firm comScore, Facebook ranked as the third largest website for viewing videos online in the …
Now businesses can keep an eye on consumers checking in in TV land and the real world at the same time. LocalResponse, a company that helps businesses monitor and respond to check-ins, today announced its acquisition of Philo Media Corporation, …
Read It Later, the company that lets you bookmark web content and access it on other devices, has secured a first round of funding for $2.5 million, according to a company blog post.
The idea is to let you save …
BuyWithMe, a daily deals service, has just announced the acquisition of Edhance, a company that provides card-linked loyalty programs to merchants. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
With Edhance, BuyWithMe merchants will now be able to create ongoing …
Popular check-in application Foursquare, which recently reached 10 million global users, today announced on its blog that it will be offering local daily deals from 5 new partners, including LivingSocial, Gilt City, Zozi, AT&T Interactive and BuyWithMe.
Similar to how …
Popular check-in application Foursquare announced today on its blog that as of last week it has more than half a million businesses signed up and offering specials.
Businesses looking to take advantage of customers using Foursquare to check in to …
Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, today announced the launch of Loopt u-Deals, a feature that allows consumers to request daily deals from local businesses.
The feature will enable any consumer to request that a business launch a daily …
