Penguin Books, one of the largest publishers, has agreed to terms with Amazon.com over the price of new Penguin e-books for Amazon’s Kindle reader. The move will return about 150 Penguin titles to Amazon’s electronic shelf. Amazon had removed them …
Jinni, a content discovery system for movies and TV shows, was recently named one of the first partners for Google TV. To find out more about the features that will come out of that partnership, we contacted the Israeli startup …
This afternoon “The Facebook Effect” author David Kirkpatrick, and Napster co-founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker, joined TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington on stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference to discuss the book, and Facebook in general.
The discussion hit many …
In the midst of the privacy uproar over the past month, Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the public and media have misconstrued his and the company’s mission in a number of ways. He spoke today at the company’s Palo …
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg responded today to criticism Facebook has faced recently over privacy issues. Zuckerberg announced a new set of privacy controls. We’ve already outlined the changes in a separate post, but beyond the new options, it’s worth …
Facebook released a new, simpler set of privacy controls today and curbed the amount of publicly available information about users. It’s part of the company’s response to increasing criticism from privacy groups and the media over a series of decisions …
Facebook has acquired ShareGrove, a small startup focused on creating private spaces for close friends and family to share content.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company, which debuted at the DEMO conference last fall, offered a private real-time space where a …
In a prudent move to diversify its Facebook-centric audience, social game maker Zynga this morning announced a distribution deal with Yahoo that will allow game players to play games and update statuses from Yahoo’s homepage, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Messenger, and …
Swaptree, a web-based swap meet for books, CDs, DVDs and video games, has nabbed $6 million in fresh venture funding. The news comes at a time of expansion for the company, which has also just named Jeff Bennett as its …
The red-hot location-based service Foursquare is supposedly bringing in 15,000 users a day and recently passed the 1 million user mark. It seems to be having problems keeping up, though, as there are increasing reports on Foursquare downtime, recognized by …
Tomorrow Facebook will launch a host of new privacy controls that it says will be simpler for users to navigate. But what all keen observers will be watching are the default settings.
This is where Facebook will signal whether it …
Ads with images outperform those without. Put your brand name at the top. Change your ad’s image or title every couple of days so it appears fresh. And always, always tell your audience exactly what you want them to do, …
Tripping, a site that’s ending its beta test today, aims to connect travelers who want a richer experience than your average tourist trip with hosts who can help provide it.
Cofounder and chief executive Jen O’Neal is a big traveler …
The fourth-generation iPhone due in June will allow users to conduct video chat sessions, according to the ace rumormongers at Engadget. Hit movie producer Sam Mendes (American Beauty) is said to be filming video commercials in which a mother and …
New York-based startup Yext has been working to bring more effective advertising and analytics to local businesses for some time. Today at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference, Yext CEO Howard Lerman announced its next big product: Yext Rep, a simple way …
Twitter developers say they’re pivoting around the social network’s broad new restrictions on advertising and that their business models won’t be too detrimentally affected.
The San Francisco-based microblogging network said today that it won’t allow third-party companies to serve ads …
Email marketing company Constant Contact announced that it has acquired startup NutshellMail for an undisclosed amount.
The move is supposed to expand Constant Contact’s services into social networking. A growing number of companies bring social networking data into email, including …
Giving another disruptive jolt to its ecosystem, Twitter has banned third-party ad networks from serving sponsored tweets in user feeds.
“We will not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any service that leverages the …
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally began speaking publicly about the latest round of privacy troubles the social network has faced in the month after the company’s first big developer conference in two years. He also pledged to launch new tools …
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s baby-faced founder, is under a lot of criticism for his social network’s personal privacy policies. But you have to give the guy this: You don’t have to guess where he’s coming from. Zuckerberg shares online more than …
