Social gaming company Idle Games launched its first social game, Idle Worship, today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Idle Worship is a social game where you create little creatures called Mudlings and try to make them …
How do you feel about coffee in San Francisco? Love it? Hate it?
Well, Amen, a new company that broadcasts short Twitter-like messages with strong opinions, wants to help you let the world know about your opinion. The company launched …
YouNow, an online video streaming application where you vote on broadcasters to keep them on the air or boot them off, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
If you vote up the stream, the broadcaster …
Shaker, a Facebook application that drops you into a virtual environment where you can interact with other Facebook users, is not a dating app. Never mind you can strike up a conversation with that cute guy or girl your friend …
Everpix, a cloud-based photo storage service that automatically synchronizes with most photo-sharing applications, launched a private alpha today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Everpix is a desktop client that browses your computer for photos and uploads …
Bitcasa, an online storage service that turns your hard drive into a cloud server with “infinite” space, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
Bitcasa streams data to and from remote servers, turning local hard drives …
Pressly, an online service for converting online publications to more readable tablet versions, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
The company re-renders online publications into more reader-friendly versions that run on tablet computers like the …
Verious, an online marketplace for pre-made mobile application components, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
The marketplace features pre-built, pre-tested mobile app components such as translation services or location-based camera features for sale. Developers can …
Spool is a new mobile bookmarking service for devices like the iPad and iPhone that allows you to save interesting online content to enjoy later. The company launched a private beta today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.…
Farmigo wants you to eat more vegetables. The new group-buying site for locally grown farm produce, meat, fish, and other edible goods launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
Groups of people can sign up with local …
Tonara, a sheet-music reading application for the iPad, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in San Francisco.
Musicians download sheet music to the free Tonara app by purchasing sheet music from the company’s in-app store. The musician can then …
Early Facebook investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has a problem with clean technology companies.
With innovation in transportation and alternative energy forms stalled, cleantech investing has become a disaster that has scattered Silicon Valley investors and left the U.S. …
Location-based check-in company Gowalla unveiled the next version of its mobile application today, which features guides that include more in-depth information about locations.
For example, users can see guides to locations such as Disneyland or the University of Texas, which …
Gamers have downloaded game developer Rovio’s Angry Birds, a popular iPhone slingshot-style game franchise, more than 350 million times, the company’s general manager Andrew Stalbow said today.
Mobile device users play the game for more than 300 million minutes each …
Michael Arrington, founder of technology blog TechCrunch and known for his fiery personality and zero tolerance for corporate authority, has “decided” to move on from the San Francisco-based tech news publication.
“It’s no longer a good situation for me to …
Game publishing company Electronic Arts‘ newest social game, The Sims Social, has passed social gaming supergiant Zynga’s Farmville and now has 36 million monthly active users just under a month after its launch, according to AppData.
The Sims Social has …
“Range anxiety” for pure battery-powered electric car owners wears off quickly as a driver begins to understand the capabilities and charging patterns of their car, according to a new study by the Technology Strategy Board.
Around 35 percent of electric …
Sales of Nintendo’s latest handheld console, the Nintendo 3DS, rose 260 percent after the company slashed the price of the device by 40 percent.
Nintendo sold 185,000 Nintendo 3DS units after the company lowered the price of the device to …
Platfora, a data management software provider based on Hadoop, announced on Thursday it has raised $5.7 million from Andreessen-Horowitz just a few months after the company was founded.
Hadoop is an open-source data-management software framework. It’s useful for companies that …
Flight and hotel search startup Hipmunk today announced it is adding routes from Amtrak to its travel search site.
The train results now appear in-line with flights whenever users search for a travel route. The results only show up when …
