Zynga and SoftBank are preparing to announce an alliance to take the social gaming company into the Japanese market. The alliance, which comes at a crucial time for the young company, is part of Zynga’s plan to expand internationally, further …
In its day, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, first published in 1855, was an impressive accomplishment. Thousands of quotes were traced back to their authors, and the results combined into a hardbound meta-book of human wisdom, wit, and sloganeering.
Today, Internet entrepreneur …
Google is testing out display ads that have embedded tweets and prompt users to follow the advertiser’s account. They’re fairly simple; Twitter’s logo and bird appear in the ad and a tweet is placed in the center. If users click …
Not quite satisfied with Facebook’s new streamlined privacy controls?
Redwood City-based ReputationDefender has launched a more visual alternative to the social network’s tools. It’s a bookmarklet that you can drag and drop into your browser’s top bar, which you can …
Conduit, a company that has found great success with its cross-browser Web application platform, announced support for Google Chrome today. Now publishers will be able to develop an application once for Conduit’s platform and have it work on Chrome and …
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[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from an email sent by entrepreneur Jason Calacanis to his personal mailing list from the D8 digital entrepreneurship conference outside Los Angeles, after watching Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg's onstage interview. Zuckerberg seemed to …
Rdio — pronounced r-dee-o — has some spelling problems. But it is a very ambitious startup that hopes to liberate consumers from some annoying restrictions when listening to online music.
The San Francisco company, brought to you by the creators …
Microsoft’s Windows Live Essentials, a suite of free Internet-centric apps, is about to get a major upgrade in a few weeks, following the company’s announcement of its revamped Hotmail service.
I spent most of 2009 working on a Windows PC, …
Even though it lured Gmail’s creator to its team, Facebook is not creating a web-based e-mail client, according to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. He told AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher that the company is more focused on short-form communications in an on-stage …
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg literally sweated out a tough interview on-stage at The Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD conference today.
He admitted that when he was younger and still running Facebook out of his dorm room, he sometimes behaved in …
As Facebook starts heavily courting the financial press ahead of its long-anticipated initial public offering, it’s starting to point at its heft in online display advertising markets.
The company told Bloomberg that the number of advertisers using the service had …
Facebook has promoted Google veteran Bret Taylor to chief technology officer, less than a year after he came to the company through its acquisition of FriendFeed, a social-sharing startup he cofounded.
After coming on board, Taylor moved into a very …
It’s no secret that the best way to find a job is often through a friend.
The job search engine SimplyHired is finding a way to tap into that with Facebook integration launching today. It lets you look up jobs …
Wrike, an online project management tool, today announced the launch of a new collaborative feature – an activity stream. The new feature will help combine the project management software with the benefits of real-time chat and updates.
Wrike is a …
Joshua Schachter, who founded social bookmarking service Delicious, is leaving Google after about a year and a half. He’s undecided on what to do next, aside from having coffee with SoftTech VC managing partner Jeff Clavier, according to tweets.
Yahoo …
The field of startups taking on questions and answers is about to get a little more crowded.
PeerPong, a San Francisco-based startup that helps people find experts to answer their questions, launched its beta today. PeerPong scours peoples’ social media …
An attempt to stage a mass defection from Facebook today has fizzled. For every Facebook user who pledged to delete their account as part of today’s Quit Facebook Day campaign, there are more than 15,000 other Facebook members who didn’t, …
Would you keep a daily diary on Twitter? Or use it to decide what to wear? Or use it to bypass text-messages charges in international countries?
The possibilities for Twitter are about to get a lot richer with the ability …
It’s easy to make fun of Twitter, but the microblogging service’s users take it pretty seriously. Earlier today, TechCrunch Europe blogger Mike Butcher reported the disappearance of #flotilla hashtags attached to tweets about the fatal fight between Israeli naval commandos …
Bangladesh has become the latest country to block social networking site Facebook because of a page that asks people to draw their own images of the prophet Muhammad.
Clearly, this isn’t going to kill Facebook, which has nearly 500 million …
