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Collecta Enters The Real Time Search Wars

As we become inundated with more and more streams of data from Twitter, Facebook, blog, Flickr, and everywhere else, we need better ways to search what is happening right now. Twitter, Facebook, and Google are working on their own real-time search

Posted: Jun. 18, 2009 11:55 AM

Demdex Comes Out Of Stealth, Offers Advertisers Their Own Behavioral Data Bank

Advertisers and websites all too often rely on other companies for data about their own potential customers. A new advertising analytics startup called Demdex came out of stealth mode today to give companies a way to store and make sense of all the

Posted: Jun. 18, 2009 10:36 AM

Here Comes The iPhone 3G S

AT&T has just released official word about the upcoming wave of iPhone 3G S device deliveries to its retail locations and directly to customers who have pre-ordered the widely anticipated phone. TechCrunch is here to make it easier for you to sk

Posted: Jun. 18, 2009 06:53 AM

Lacy, Birch, Krim And Glaenzer To Attend TechCrunch Europe Awards

Preparations for The Europas - The TechCrunch Europe Awards 2009 - are coming together. Held on July 9 in London, these will be the first Europe-wide awards ceremony for technology innovation, honoring the best tech companies and startups across the

Posted: Jun. 18, 2009 06:50 AM

Mozilla Shows Microsoft Where $10,000 Is Buried

Yesterday, we poked fun at Microsoft’s tacky $10,000 online treasure hunt to get people to use IE8, at the domain TenGrandIsBuriedHere.com. We were hardly the only ones. Today, a developer at Mozilla, makers of IE rival Firefox, weighed in with

Posted: Jun. 18, 2009 05:23 AM

TinyPetition Aims To Become The Default Petition Engine For Twitter

Dan Blake from Harkness Labs - who is working on far more projects at the same time than he could possibly tell me about in just one conversation - recently filled me in on his latest Twitter-related venture, TinyPetition. Basically, Blake is looking

Posted: Jun. 18, 2009 05:03 AM

Animoto Is Already Cash-Flow Positive, Raises Another Round To Go To 11

In a world where most startups choose gaining users over making money, Animoto is an odd exception: It’s doing both. Since launching in August 2007, the company has signed up some 750,000 users, and some 10% of those are paying customers. And t

Posted: Jun. 17, 2009 11:56 PM

Yahoo Is Now Resorting To Selling Killer Domain Names On The Cheap

No sooner do we finish writing up Yahoo deadpooling yet another project, Gallery, do we get a tip that Yahoo apparently has another money saving/making plan: Selling off domains it owns. That’s exactly what it has done with contests.com, which

Posted: Jun. 17, 2009 10:39 PM

Exhibition Over: Yahoo Gallery Closing

One thing Yahoo has been very good at over the past year is closing down services. Today brings news of another one shutting down: Yahoo Gallery. Come July 14, it will be no more. Yahoo Gallery was a project that never left beta testing. It was inten

Posted: Jun. 17, 2009 09:42 PM

Tinker Becomes A More Powerful Twitter Trends Discovery Engine

Tinker, the recently launched microblogging topic tracker from Glam Media, will be rolling out several new features to upgrade its service. Tinker, which we covered in depth during its launch here, allows users to quickly browse through different re

Posted: Jun. 17, 2009 08:58 PM