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OptimalKeyword Chooses All The Right Words For Your Social Advertising Campaign

Startup XA.net has been offering its technology to Facebook advertisers for several years, but this week, with the launch of optimalKeyWord, it’s trying to reach new customers who need help fin...

33 min ago

The Number Of Mobile Devices Will Exceed World’s Population By 2012 (& Other Shocking Figures)

Despite its long and boring name, Cisco’s “Visual Networking Index (VNI) Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update” is one of the more fascinating data-filled reports you’ll ...

35 min ago

Keep Your Eyes Wide (Hello From Ingrid)

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won’t come again And don’t speak too soon For the wheel’s still in spin —Bob Dylan (“T...

37 min ago

Ingrid Lunden Now Writes For Us From London And Colleen Taylor Will Be Our TCTV Reporter

Silicon Valley thrives on change. At TechCrunch, we chronicle change, honor it, and, lately, we’ve been living it. As we rebuild TechCrunch, it’s the talent of our writers that sets us ap...

1 h ago

Investors See New Traffic, Hope For New Revenue Ahead Of Zynga’s First Earnings

Three months after going public, Zynga is having its first quarterly earnings call this afternoon, and expectations are high. Public investors had given the social gaming developer a cool reception t...

1 h ago

Going After Parents, Pet Owners, Foodies & More, Fab.com Launches Weekly Shops

Design-focused startup Fab.com is launching a new type of shopping experience today with the debut of what it’s calling “Weekly Speciality Shops.” These new stores will be targeted ...

1 h ago

iTV Might Be Awesome, But It’s Not What We Really Want

Apple’s iTV is reportedly in the labs of Canadian cable service providers Rogers Communications and Bell Canada right now. This is exciting news (it is real!), but it’s a bummer for those of us...

1 h ago

I’m Already Bored With The iPad 3

The iPad 3 is coming next month. Or so says the endless rumors. These rumors also state the next iPad will have higher resolution screen and high-speed data connection. But I couldn’t care less...

2 h ago

AT&T’s Wireless Data Traffic Doubles Every Year, But Throttling Is Not The Solution

AT&T Senior Executive VP John Donovan took to the company’s Innovation Space blog to talk wireless data, and the statistics he brings to the table are nothing if not impressive. Among other...

2 h ago

Content Wars – Could Meltwater-Versus- AP And UK Papers Spill Over?

You’ll recall the battles between the RIAA and the technology industry over music licensing. Well something similar as been going on regarding how newspaper content is licensed to commercial cl...

3 h ago

Sony To Offer NFC Authenticated Power Outlets

Sony is working on a new technology that authenticates devices via the power outlet, allowing for a few interesting applications. The system, based on the Japanese Felica standard, would allow authen...

3 h ago

500 Startups Alum LaunchBit Launches Its Email Ad Network

Advertising in email newsletters is an old idea, but the founders of LaunchBit, a startup that’s leaving closed beta testing today, say things haven’t changed since the ’90s. The bi...

3 h ago

Barry Diller Wants To “Transform Television” With Aereo, A DVR In The Cloud

Barry Diller always enjoys riling the media industry from which he sprang. A few minutes ago at a press conference at IAC headquarters in New York City, Diller introduced a new startup IAC is backing...

3 h ago

Lover.ly Raises $500K To Be An Online, Visual Inspiration Engine For Weddings

Lover.ly, an inspiration engine and Pinterest-like startup for weddings, has raised $500,000 from Joanne Wilson, Michael Edwards, Michael Yavonditte, Charles Smith, Anu Duggal, Jordan Levy, and Rick ...

4 h ago

Walnuts Launches Its Facebook Scrapbook Maker Just In Time For V-Day

Oh crap, it’s Valentine’s Day. Did you just remember, too, courtesy of that clever Google Doodle? The blogosphere will be filled today with last-minute gift ideas and other such ephemera ...

4 h ago

Samsung Galaxy Note Review: Initial Impressions (Video)

Even if it isn’t my favorite new device, I’m glad to see the Galaxy Note bring something totally different to the mobile table. At first glance you’d think it was a tablet, especial...

4 h ago

An Answer To Apple: Inkling Creates First Industrial-Grade Publishing Platform For Interactive eBoo...

A little less than a month ago, Apple held an education-focused event in which it announced the launch of iBooks 2, a move the company said it was making in an effort to “reinvent the textbook&...

4 h ago

Delivery App Postmates Offers A Last-Minute Valentine’s Gift

Yes, there are going to be a lot of startups trying to capitalize on Valentine’s Day. Postmates, however, has the advantage of doing something cool — something that involves free chocolate. Whe...

4 h ago

No Name, No Email, No Problem: nFluence Media Raises $3M For Anonymous Deal-Targeting Tech

Seattle and London-based nFluence Media emerged from two years of stealth mode to announce it has raised $3 million for a deal-targeting technology whose first application will be a daily deal aggreg...

5 h ago

Meanwhile In Europe … (Runtastic, TechCrunch Baltics, SecretSales, Cabify, Soup.me)

Here’s a roundup of recent stories on TechCrunch Europe: — Mobile sports and fitness app Runtastic is moving beyond software, announcing a hardware line as well as its expansion to the United S...

5 h ago

Motorola’s First Ice Cream Sandwich Handset Smiles For The Camera

Motorola’s latest handsets have been pretty impressive. The Razr and Razr Maxx, in particular, are excellent handsets. But it would seem that the (almost) freshly acquired company has no intent...

5 h ago

WorldDesk Launches Dropbox-powered Way To Access Your Desktop

It would appear Dropbox is building a pretty wide ecosystem around its service and the latest today is an integration with WorldDesk. Who are they? Well they provide desktop virtualisation software, ...

5 h ago

Amazon To Open 1 Million-Square-Fo ot, $90 Million Fulfillment Center In Delaware

Amazon is opening a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Middletown, Delaware, which is the e-commerce giant’s second facility in the state. Amazon says that the new center will create 8...

6 h ago

Nimble 2.0 Looks To Give SMBs A CRM Platform That Actually Does Social Right

There are few aspects of growing a business that are easy. But when you think about the big picture, one of the most significant challenges — besides hiring attractive, productive interns ̵...

6 h ago

New Photo Technology Lets You Get Rid Of The People You Don’t Love

No, silly, this isn’t about murder – it’s a program to remove people from a photo! Scalado has created a photo-taking system that allows you to selectively remove people in a photo....

6 h ago

Need a Job? Learn Linux

The Linux Foundation today posted their first ever Linux Jobs Report, created in conjunction with tech job site Dice.com. The report examines the current demand for Linux talent, and identifies a few...

8 h ago

ComScore Posts $3.3 Million Q4 Loss – Hit Hard By Nielsen Patent War

Digital audience measurement company comScore this morning reported its earnings for Q4 and full year 2011. Last quarter, comScore says it achieved record revenue of $62.6 million, a 22 percent incre...

8 h ago

Daily Crunch: Jacket

ThinkGeek’s 8-Bitty Gamepad Promises Fun Times And Blistered Thumbs ScottEVest Releases The Transforming Transformer Jacket Motorola Droid 4 Review: Head-To-Head With The Droid 3 And iPhone 4S False ...

11 h ago

Pearltrees Raises $6.7M For Its “Collaborative Interest Graph”

Pearltrees, a company offering a novel interface for sharing and finding content, has raised 5 million euros ($6.7 million US) in new funding. The basic unit of the Pearltrees service is the pearl, w...

13 h ago

How Google Created Its Epic(-ish) Valentine’s Day Doodle

For Valentine’s Day, Google has created one of its most ambitious Doodles yet. When you click on the Google logo today, you get to watch a one-minute animation showing the highs and lows of you...

15 h ago

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