It’s time for TechCrunched, where we take some of the most popular stories running on TechCrunch and put them together for you in a quick video package. This week was a big one for Apple, with stellar earnings and new products. Google+ took the iTunes App sStore by storm. And Zillow had a big...
Daily Archives: July 21, 2011
Why changing Twitter’s 140-character limit is a dumb idea
Maybe it’s the influence of Google+, but suddenly everyone seems to be talking about what’s wrong with Twitter. First it was the quintessential social-media early adopter, Robert Scoble, complaining that the arrival of Google’s social network has made Twitter “boring,” and recommending all kinds of things the service needs to do to change. Now...
Stats from Chile: the Internet is Young and Social
Did you know that Chile was Facebook’s fourth market in terms of reach? This is one of the findings revealed by comScore, which studied the use of Internet in Chile during the month of May 2011. Here is what you need to know about this growing market: 7.3 million: this is the number Chileans...
After 8 Years, TheLadders Finally Ditches The 6-Figure Salary Requirement
See Also: Here’s Why Mac OS X Lion’s “Natural Scrolling” Feels So Horribly Unnatural Some Of New York’s Wealthiest Might Get Charged In The Wall Street Prostitution Ring It Has Started: Wall Street Is Preparing For A Doomsday Scenario After eight years, TheLadders is finally expanding. Come September, any professional will be able to...
Tulalip Tribes investigate Microsoft’s use of their name
Microsoft may have opened up more than one can of worms when it recently leaked its internal project, codenamed ‘Tulalip,’ to the world. Not only did the company have to answer to every major news organization over just what it was up to, but there is a potential legal headache looming between the company...
SAICAST: Carol Bartz Is Really Bad At Playing The Wall Street Game
Image: AP See Also: CHART OF THE DAY: Yahoo’s Revenue Since Carol Bartz Took Over Apple And Google Reportedly In Another Bidding War To Buy Mobile Patents Bleacher Report CEO: Why Slideshows Are A Good Thing For Readers — SAICast SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON iTUNES HERE Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz threw her ad...
Next Jump puts pieces together to be a deals powerhouse
Next Jump spent 15 years in stealth mode before it emerged as a power player in the employee discount and rewards business, where it now serves 70 percent of the Fortune 1000. It is now taking its experience and assets over that period to step up as a potential powerhouse in the local deals...
Mark Suster: Here’s How Entrepreneurs Should Be Raising Money Now
See Also: Jon Stewart BLASTS Fox News For Not Bringing Their Usual Outrage To The Murdoch Scandal Here’s Twitter’s CEO Talking About How Great Twitter Is Doing Startup GigMaven Shares The Secret To Making Money By Booking Artists Online It’s a great time to be a tech startup founder right now, but as valuations...
Nokia’s Newest NFC Phones Won’t Support Mobile Wallets
This post assumes you are familiar with the term NFC as well as the technology’s use in mobile payments. If you’re just starting to learn about NFC, you should begin here with the first post in our ongoing NFC series to get caught up. No Mobile Payments for the N9 or C7 In an...
Comparing Apples to Workloads: The Pricing Problem with Cloud Services
When you look at cloud providers like Amazon, RackSpace, GoGrid, and others, you’ll find pretty quickly that it’s not as simple as buying physical servers. With Amazon you’re paying per hour, plus bandwidth, plus fees for load balancing, managing IP addresses, and more. Rackspace uses slightly different measurements, and GoGrid offers up yet another...