Storify has just released its compilation of the top 10 tweets of the year. The number one tweet was Bill Gates’ farewell post to Steve Jobs. Second place was Sohaib Athar’s observation of a helicopter over Abbottabad, Pakistan, which turned out to be the first report of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden....
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Nowbox, a 2010 YCombinator graduate, with funding from Ashton Kutcher, SV Angel, Jeff Clavier and Shervin Pishevar, is a brand new iPad app founded by Thomas Pun. Nowbox makes it easier than ever to watch YouTube videos on the go, and it’s one of the slickest tablet options we’ve seen yet. And it’s available...
If you run a website and care about the traffic that it gets, you’re more than likely using Google Analytics, which provides solid, and more importantly free, services. Viewing those stats on the go isn’t the easiest thing to do, so why not have an app to get a quick traffic snapshot? While apps...
After a long-running controversy, the 13,000 employees of the Los Angeles Police Department will definitely not move to Google Apps. And that’s final. On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council voted to officially kill a proposed deployment of Google Apps to the LAPD. The city’s other 17,000 employees–those outside law enforcement — will keep...
You’ve been anxiously waiting for it, and now it has finally arrived. Facebook Timeline, which MG likened to ‘the story of your life on a single page’ when it was first announced back in September at the F8 event, that is. We told you how to get it early (and millions of you did)...
We’ll we’ve run a lot of TechCrunch meetups all over Europe since 2007, getting to most of the major European cities. But there’s one place we haven’t got a chance to hit and that’s the tiger economies of the Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The latter is of course where, famously, Skype was...
Facebook’s Timeline is available around the world as of today, as announced on the company’s blog. Originally announced in September, Timeline is an updated take on how to get your profile to better tell your story. People will receive a notification that they can “Get Timeline” or visit this link to activate it. Want...
The Long Wait Is Over Facebook’s initial documentation was not specific about the timeframe of the rollout, saying only that it would appear “in coming weeks.” We learned at f8 that the plan was to roll it out after only one week, but that came and went with no change, partly due to a...
Stockholm mobile payment firm iZettle is usually referred to as Europe’s answer to Square, and for good reason: with a card-reading device that plugs into the iPhone and allows merchants to take card payments for a small fee, it’s highly reminiscent of the hotly-tipped San Francisco startup. But when I spoke to CEO Jacob...