Some of you may recognize that Twitter’s recent downtime issues are a result of its architectural problems exposed by its rapid growth. However, back in the day (that is, January and the preceding months), Twitter used to crash the old …
Xumii, a mobile service that lets you access feeds of activity from other social networks and services, is launching a private testing version (beta) next month.
When I first looked at it, I was skeptical. I’ve already written that large, …
Electronic Arts is still banned from Liberty City.
Take-Two Interactive bought itself some time with some solid earnings yesterday that beat earnings expectations. That gave a boost to its stock price and it suggests that Electronic Arts is going to …
The back and forth between Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who is attempting to take the company over, is now arguably more entertaining than the formal letter wars during the whole Microsoft/Yahoo debacle.
Icahn recently got FTC approval to …
Today we’ve opened voting for the best mobile start-ups of 2008.
The winners, as determined by readers, will be invited to present at MobileBeat2008, our conference in July.
To vote, go here. Please vote for the company you think has …
Aside from the ever-present possibility of a real curveball, the clues as to what we’ll see Apple announce at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) are likely out there right now.
Not surprisingly most of the ones we’ve seen revolve …
With the major U.S. telecom carriers rolling out ways to track the location of mobile phones with more precision, startups are rushing to offer services exploiting this.
Krillion is the latest Silicon Valley company to seek possible salvation in this …
With some services, a strength is also a weakness. Take the micro-messaging service Twitter for example. It’s becoming more and more popular because more and more people are using it. However, because of this popularity, fundamental flaws in its architecture …
As mobile phones become more powerful, and unlimited data transfer plans from carriers become widespread, technologies such as streaming live video from phones are becoming feasible. One of the most hyped players in this market is Qik. Unfortunately, so far …
It looks like social networking site ConnectU‘s lawsuit against Facebook may not be over yet. Although the two companies agreed to settle in April (and have since signed the paperwork) ConnectU attorney John Hornick told a judge yesterday that his …
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If you’re ever annoyed by the at-times howlingly inappropriate ads on Facebook, there’s now an easy way to express your disapproval — users can vote for or against the small “social” ads that appear on their sidebar.
This addition …
Tonight at 6pm PST all users of Google’s e-mail program, Gmail, will notice a tab on the site to access a new part of the service called “Gmail Labs.” Included in Gmail Labs will be 13 experimental features meant to …
Depsite the plethora of reports, many people, including myself, are still having a hard time believing Apple will sell the 3G iPhone for only $199. So here’s another option: What if Apple is planning to sell an iPhone for $199, …
As more 3G iPhone rumors pour in, I still believe the most audacious one is that the device will be sold for $199. I, like many others, have a hard time believing that Apple and AT&T would give us all …
I can see it all too clearly. Next February, during the post Super Bowl XLIII celebrations, a reporter asks the MVP of the game what he’s going to do now: “I’m going to Disney World — on Google Earth!”
It’ll …
Kiptronic, a San Francisco ad startup that inserts ads into audio and video files as they are downloaded, has raised a $3 million second round of funding, according to VentureWire.
The company’s technology also targets by the usual metrics — …
Enquisite has raised $3.2 million in a first round to improve search advertising analytics tools.
The round was led by The Entrepreneurs Fund III, which is headed by Jeff Webber and focused on Web 2.0 software startups.
Richard Zwicky, president …
A startup called Wakoopa has raised funding from Big Bang Ventures and HENQ Invest for its social network, which share information about the software that its members use. The company’s announcement doesn’t mention the size of the round, but TechCrunch …
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Federated Media, the Sausalito, Calif. ad network that is in a land-rush to sell ads for independent publishers, has landed a big customer, the technology information site DeveloperShed.
DeveloperShed, part of Ziff-Davis Enterprise (a company that spun off last …
The online event-planning market is mature. Various event web sites have gotten bought, gone out of business, or gone nowhere in the last several years.
However, two companies, Amiando and EventBrite, allow you to sell tickets to events online, and …
