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Woot , the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot . The new site is a fairly major departure for Woot, which up until now has been driven by product selections from a team of Woot employees (aside from the main ...
Online
Digg
Now this is cool. Some of the hype over Google Wave has died down over the last few weeks, in no small part because most people have absolutely no idea how to use it (no, the 80 minute long video demo doesn’t help). Now it looks like the Wave team has another idea up their sleeves to ...
Other
At a time when publications targeting small business owners are in decline or dying (R.I.P. Fortune Small Business ), the Web is thriving with experimentation. One effort that is just getting off its feet is Bizmore , a site backed by former junk bond king Michael Milken and ...
Hardware
Michael Dell
It seems that flight delays could turn into a big business. FlightCaster , the startup that helps predict flight delays long before the airlines themselves usually do, has just landed a $1.3 million funding round led by Tandem Entrepreneurs and Sherpalo Ventures. FlightCaster previously ...
Other
Life360 , a startup that looks to help families keep their loved ones (and their identities) safe, has closed a $750,000 funding round with investors including Seraph Group, LaunchCapital, Founders Fund (va FF Angel), the Band of Angels, and Mark Goines. The service also recently launched to ...
Mobile
As anticipated , Google has taken the first step to launch full extension support. Starting today , Google is allowing developers to upload the extensions they are making to the new Extensions Gallery . This gallery isn’t yet open for Chrome users to test out, but Google is saying that ...
Online
Chrome
Though it has yet to take off in a major way, the idea behind video comments remains a potentially compelling one. And after seeing some success using its video platform to serve up videos on Twitter, Vidly thinks it can crack the case. And Gramming-winning hip-hop star Chamillionaire and the ...
Online
Online video ad rates keep coming down, but that could be a good thing. BrightRoll , a large video ad network, is reporting that cost-per-thousand (CPM) rates for pre-roll video ads across its network are down on average by 37 percent from a year ago, but total revenues across its network ...
Other
Remember that hubbub a few weeks back about Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy advertising Windows 7? But the show was apparently deemed to raunchy so Microsoft replaced Family Guy with Warner Bros. Well, did you catch last night's episode? There was a Family Guy segment that certainly looked like an ...
Software
Windows 7
Microsoft
A year ago, Swype launched a new way to type on a touchscreen phone at TechCrunch50 . Swype was created by the inventor of the T9 predictive typing system used on most phones today because he felt that new text input methods for small touchscreens are sorely needed. Today, the startup ...
Mobile
iPhone
Android
A few weeks ago there was a lot of excitement surrounding the launch of Google Maps Navigation. Unfortunately, it only worked with Android 2.0 and up, which means only the newest devices right now, like the Droid. But today Google has given an early holiday present to its other Android users: ...
Mobile
Android
Google Maps
Go ahead and take that second helping of bacon-broasted mashed potatoes and high-fat gravy this Thursday, friends, because even if your tummy gets big and round like a steamed black bean bun, there's an app for that.
Fitness apps for all!
iPhone fitness apps have come a long way since ...
iPhone
iPhone
This morning, professional social network LinkedIn announced that it is opening up its API for developers to build applications around the platform. While LinkedIn has partnered with Twitter, Microsoft , IBM, Research In Motion and others, this will be the first time startups can tap into the ...
Online
A little over a year ago, Swype announced at TechCrunch50 2008 that they were going to “change how the world inputs text on screens”. By allowing the user to type words by tracing a path between its letters rather than tapping them out one-by-one, Swype claims to speed up typing ...
Mobile
Verizon
Samsung
Here it comes: Best Buy ran a national Black Friday ad inviting the world to celebrate Thanksgiving and Eid Al-Adha , the Muslim festival of sacrifice. Fair enough, right? Happy Eid! Well, take a gander at the ad up there and brace yourself.
Other
Best Buy
Google has acquired display advertising company Teracent for an undisclosed amount of money The deal is expected to close this quarter.
Teracent’s Intelligent Display Advertising technology creates display ads entirely customized to the specific consumer and site. By deploying an unlimited ...
Other
As AOL prepares to spin off from Time Warner early next month, it is going through a slight rebranding. The AOL logo is changing to lowercase with a period (Aol.). The new branding campaign that is about to launch features the logo revealed as white space inside different images and ...
Online
AOL
jQuery is a Javascript library that is used in a large number of web applications and is popular amongst web application developers. It was launched in 2006 by John Resig , and immediately gained a large following due to its lightweight nature and design philosophy. jQuery allows developers to ...
Online
As rumors continue to swirl around LinkedIn’s possible IPO, the professional social network is steadily adding useful features that help transcend the platform’s technology into other applications.
LinkedIn recently launched two-way integration with Twitter and also rolled out ...
Online
As a blogger, sometimes the most difficult part of writing a post is contacting the company it is about. First, you either have to search your contact list, or the web, to figure out who to reach out to. And then you might not get a response right away. And finally, if you do get a response, it ...
