Google announced last week that it was shutting down its News Archive Project. Akin to the massive Google Books project, this was a plan to digitize the world’s newspaper archives and make them searchable online. But if you’re worried about the digitization and preservation of British newspapers, fear not. As The Guardian reports today,...
Lenovo’s CEO claims that high demand for the LePad tablet has resulted in a supply shortage since its debut and aims to grab 20 percent of China’s tablet computer market by the end of this year. That will put the world’s fourth-largest PC maker in direct competition with Apple, which takes up 78.3 percent of China’s tablet market, followed...
There are literally hundreds of thousands of iPhone, iPad and Android apps to choose from, and yet finding good apps is far from easy. App discovery and recommendations is a fertile niche where a few startups are fighting for mindshare. After being downloaded more than 2 million times, app discovery startup Appsfire closed a...
With Apple’s App Store hitting the half billion app mark and Android Market poised to overtake it later this year, it’s a busy time to be in the app discovery business. Appsfire, a French-based start-up is reaping the benefits, scoring $3.6 million in Series A funding from French investors Idinvest. The funding will help the...
My Five is a small web app by Kyle Bragger, the man behind popular design social sharing site Forrst, that gets you to make up a list of just five people you would follow on Twitter if you were restricted to that number. One of the greatest things about My Five is the number...
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Hey, this is Jason K. with TechCrunch TV. And I am here with Marissa Mayer. Again, I actually just got a chance to interview her earlier this month. But now I have another chance to ask more questions about all the cool local and other products that you guys are working on. And once...
Mavenir Systems, a company providing telecommunications gear, has raised $40 million and has acquired Waltham,Mass.-based messaging software company, Airwide Solutions. The funding will help Mavenir (see disclosure) fund its acquisition as well as provide opportunities for organic growth. The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but Mavenir will integrate Airwide’s products into its own suite of...
Maybe Microsoft’s multi-billion dollar deal for Skype wasn’t such an outlandish deal after all. Because according to a recent poll conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the popularity of Internet phone calls has jumped dramatically, with 5% of Internet users placing a VOIP phone call on any given day. The survey...
We’re hearing from multiple sources that Twitter is in talks to acquire Y Combinator-backed key word bidding platform AdGrok, in a deal that is less than $10 million. It’s still unclear where exactly they are in the closing process or whether this is a tech acquisition or an acqui-hire. AdGrok itself automates the process of bidding...