11 March 2010, 12:12 pm by: Liz Gannes
Foursquare, the New York-based location services startup, has more than 500,000 users and 1.4 million venues, it announced today, one year after it launched at SXSW. The company says it had its biggest day ever last Friday, with 275,000 check-ins.
11 March 2010, 11:22 am by: Darrell Etherington
The iPhone has many advantages over smartphone competitors, but one thing it hasn't had that users have been clamoring for is true multitasking. Now, true app backgrounding capabilities are said to be on the way in iPhone OS 4.0.
11 March 2010, 10:10 am by: Colin Gibbs
Microsoft faces a tough assignment when it comes to regaining its relevance in mobile, but there's no shortage of players who have a vested interest in seeing Windows Phone succeed. Here are some of those rooting for Microsoft's upcoming mobile OS to...
11 March 2010, 9:00 am by: Om Malik
Betaworks, a New York City-based Internet company, has raised $20 million in new venture funding in a round led by Intel Capital and RRE Ventures. Softbank, Founders Collective, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures and the New York Times are new investors in the...
11 March 2010, 7:30 am by: Stacey Higginbotham
My inbox is littered with friend requests on Gowalla, a check-in service that I can use to show my location. But when I get these emails from strangers I have never met, talked to, tweeted with or emailed, I don't really know what to do.
11 March 2010, 7:02 am by: Colin Gibbs
Verizon Wireless said it will launch its first LTE handsets by the middle of 2011. But the super-fast handsets are likely to come with usage pricing models that will see high-end users pay substantially more for 4G service than they're currently payi...
11 March 2010, 6:47 am by: Weldon Dodd
When iTunes web preview pages first appeared for songs and albums the industry was abuzz with the possibility that iTunes could be migrating to the cloud. iTunes preview has so far had little impact on how we use purchased media content, but it has h...
11 March 2010, 4:30 am by: Liz Gannes
We know there are lot of entrants in the group deals space -- see my recent piece Groupon and the Wannabes -- but now the competitors are seriously bulking up. LivingSocial is today announcing it's raised a $25 million Series B round.
11 March 2010, 12:00 am by: Om Malik
Digg, the San Francisco-based social media company, is dropping MySQL and instead betting its future on Cassandra, an open-source data store. It’s just the latest sign of the growing popularity of the software, which was developed (and open sourced...
10 March 2010, 8:30 pm by: Om Malik
Faced with declining revenues and increasingly dismal prospects, some mainstream media outlets are adopting questionable tactics. A liberally funded LA startup is only too quick to help them. The story starts with San Francisco-based sex writer Viole...
10 March 2010, 5:08 pm by: Stacey Higginbotham
Future media will be consumed on the go, said Rob Glaser, former CEO of RealNetworks, in a speech today. He also forecast that by 2013 the installed base of smart and superphones will exceed the installed base of PCs.
10 March 2010, 3:32 pm by: Liz Gannes
Facebook redesigned at the beginning of February, moving its search box from the right side to the top middle of its home page, and it seems to have paid off, with the company's U.S. search queries growing 10 percent in February, according to comScor...
10 March 2010, 3:00 pm by: Liz Gannes
A little-known white-label mobile social network company is suing Google and Facebook for patent infringement. Wireless Ink, maker of Winksite, says it owns the intellectual property for enabling users to join social networks from their mobile phones...
10 March 2010, 2:30 pm by: Stacey Higginbotham
Big consumer issues such as the availability of internet apps on mobile devices and metered broadband are outside FCC authority said Kevin Martin, the former FCC chairman speaking today in Seattle. He also expressed doubt that adding spectrum alone w...
10 March 2010, 2:03 pm by: Sebastian Rupley
CA today announced that it is acquiring privately held Nimsoft, which makes performance and availability monitoring software, in an all cash transaction valued at $350 million. According to CA, Nimsoft will help it better serve "emerging enterprises"...
10 March 2010, 1:00 pm by: Om Malik
From new data stores to large-scale databases to cloud-based storage services, it seems VC dollars these days are primarily flowing into two important (if somewhat unsexy) technology sectors: storage and big data. Here are some of the recent fundings...