The pace of new domain name registrations shows no signs of slowing down: Consumers and companies signed up for 7.9 percent more in 2010.
It’s a sign that the Web continues to grow, and that the exhaustion of standard IPv4 …
Greylock Israel Partners, the affiliate fund of Greylock Partners – well-known for investing in companies like Facebook, Groupon, LinkedIn, and Pandora — is reportedly raising a new venture fund valued at $160 million for startups in Europe and Israel.
The …
Apple’s App Store, the store in which iPod, iPhone, and iPad users buy and download applications, has surpassed 500,000 approved applications according to a combined estimate by Chomp, 148apps, and Chillingo.
Since its debut in 2008, a year after the …
According to multiple sources, an explosion occurred earlier today at the Foxconn factory in Chengdu, China. The factory is one of Apple’s leading manufacturing plants.
Two people were killed in the explosion and 16 injured, all of whom were Foxconn …
A class action lawsuit filed against AT&T is alleging that the company is routinely overcharging its 20 million iPhone and iPad users for data usage. The cost? According to the lawsuit, up to $10 to $15 a month in additional …
Hipster, a startup which aims to bring question and answers to local communities, has raised $1 million in seed funding from a long list of big-name investors, including Google Ventures.
In stealth mode for some time, Hipster first opened its …
StackMob, a backend development platform for mobile applications — in the vein of the successful Ruby-backend platform Heroku – has announced that it has raised $7.5 million in its first round of funding.
Currently in a private beta, the startup …
P2P file-sharing service LimeWire has agreed to pay $105 million to the record companies responsible for shutting it down in October last year, settling a five year-long lawsuit against the now-defunct company.
Using its application for Windows and Mac, users …
Daily deals juggernaut Groupon has just launched Groupon Now, a spinoff service which looks to break its traditional deal-a-day model and offer real-time deals based simply on the user’s location.
Revealed in March, the service works both through the web …
ATX Innovation, the startup behind mobile payments application Tabbedout, has secured $3.7 million to make bar and restaurant payments much simpler.
Using the free TabbedOut application for the iPhone and Android, users open a tab when they’re visiting a supported restaurant …
AVOS, the new and upcoming startup by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, has announced the purchase of Tap11, an analytics platform for social media campaigns.
A spinoff from Zannel, a mobile social networking startup founded in 2006, Tap11 …
This morning, AOL executive Jason Shellen sent a company-wide e-mail urging employees to test AV by AIM, a new web-based video chat service for the company’s instant messaging client.
TechCrunch, a subsidiary of the company, was not included as an …
At the BlackBerry World 2011 conference today in Orlando, Florida, today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that its Bing search engine will be replacing Google as the default search and maps provider on all of Research in Motion (RIM)’s BlackBerry …
Israeli online video advertising startup Eyeview has raised $1 million in its second round of funding, with notable involvement from former Google CEO and current Chairman Eric Schmidt.
Schmidt’s investment will go a long way to raising the profile of …
New York-based Ideeli, a members-only shopping community — known commonly as a “Flash sales” site — has raised $41 million in its third round of funding.
The site, which has over 4 million members, offers limited-time offers on apparel, accessories, …
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) announced this morning that it has acquired Tungle.me, a calendar scheduling application, for an undisclosed sum of money.
Tungle.me, which launched at DEMO in 2007, offers a service to synchronize and schedule meetings across …
DoubleDutch, a developer of geolocation applications which help companies connect with employees and customers, has announced that it has landed $1.2 million in seed funding.
Launched in March last year, the startup currently provides three solutions to enterprises — an …
Visits to green and travel-related websites had the most noticeable increase in March, according to the latest comScore Media Metrix report which ranks the top 50 U.S. web properties every month.
The report, which tracks where Americans spend their time …
Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices have long been storing positions and timestamps in a hidden file on the user’s computer. That’s according to developers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, who plan to report their finding at the Where 2.0 conference …
Google has opened its Map Maker tool, which lets locals contribute mapping information to Google Maps, in the United States.
Map Maker has previously been open to 183 countries and regions around the world. But Google has presumably held off …
