So, Justin Timberlake was supposed to be at a party tomorrow night in San Francisco. The “special, private celebration” was in honor of the company Particle (which counts Timberlake as its lead investor), which recently launched its Robo.to service
EchoSign, the web-based electronic signatures and signature automation service, has surpassed one million users.
One of my favorite startups at TechCrunch50 earlier this week was ToyBots , a spinoff of the popular Facebook/iPhone game developer Social Gaming Network . ToyBots has created technology that they’ll license to toy manufacturers that will make those toys Internet connected and controllable. Our launch post on them is here .
I’m flabbergasted with some of the coverage surrounding yesterday’s launch of Google Fast Flip .
Every startup needs exposure. So as part of TechCrunch50 , we’ve signed up some major partners to give $1.3 million worth of advertising to the startups launching at the conference next week.
Are normal people finally starting to warm to wikis as publishing tools? Wikia , which hosts 50,000 enthusiast sites on the same wiki software as Wikipedia, is claiming profitability of sorts on strong growth. Over the past six months, Wikia sites (which also includes Wikianswers ) have increased unique visitors 76 percent in the U.S
Imagine a small device that you wear on a necklace that takes photos every few seconds of whatever is around you, and records sound all day long. It has GPS and the ability to wirelessly upload the data to the cloud, where everything is date/time and geo stamped and the sound files are automatically transcribed and indexed. Photos of people, of course, would be automatically identified and tagged as well.
Residents of San Francisco are a bit put off by the temporary closure of the Bay Bridge this holiday weekend.
When Gmail went down today, it caused more than a minor panic . People, like me, who use Gmail as their primary email couldn’t get much work done. There’s nothing like an outage to make you realize how much you rely on something.
Over the last few months we’ve seen the rise of a new and highly controversial kind of website that focuses on “Entertainment Shopping” — online stores that offer customers goods with very steep discounts, but with some risk involved in the shopping process. Some have likened these to gambling or scams, while others consider them auctions.
