Groupon Buys eCommerce ...

I love the smell of acquisitions in the morning! We’ve just heard that Groupon has acquired Adku , a stealth startup that uses big data in order to personalize the online shopping experience for people visiting eCommerce sites like eBay, Amazon and Zappos. The company built their...

WWJD? The CEO Every Hea...

Editor’s note:   This guest post was written by  Dave Chase , the CEO of  Avado.com , a patient portal & relationship management company that was a  TechCrunch Disrupt finalist . Previously he was a management consultant for Accenture’s healthcare practice and founder of...

Social Commerce Network...

Kleiner Perkins-backed social commerce network Lockerz is debuting a new Pinterest-like self-expression platform, where members can create and share collections of images and videos from anywhere on the Web. But unlike Pinterest, users can actually receive rewards for sharing content,...

Ahead Of Its IPO On Th ...

It may now be obscured by all the hoopla surrounding Facebook’s going public, but back in November the popular user-generated review site, Yelp , filed to go public and planned to raise $100 million ahead of its IPO (at an expected $1 to $2 billion valuation). On Friday, Yelp filed...

Jason Kilar: Hulu’s 2...

Last year, Hulu brought in $420 million in revenues , with was 60 percent above the year before. The news, however, was seen as a miss because Hulu earlier in the year suggested that it would make $500 million. Today at the D: Dive Into Media conference, CEO Jason Kilar defended his...

CardSpring Raises $10 M...

We measure every last click when it comes to the Web, but there remains a gulf between online and the real world. Yet the online world increasingly drives behavior offline, especially when it comes to purchasing habits. How many times have you researched something online or on your...

You Stopped SOPA. Now L...

Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Steve Case , the co-founder of AOL (which owns TechCrunch) and founder of Revolution. Case is the chairman of the Startup America Partnership and sits on the White House Jobs Council. In recent weeks, Americans from all walks of life came...

Kindle Sales Growing Fa...

Barnes & Noble may be challenging Amazon’s dominance of the e-book world, but Kindle sales are still growing faster than the Nook’s — at least if you connect the dots between some of the numbers included in a recently-published article by The New York Times . The...

Flurry: Amazon’s Kind...

Wuh oh, Samsung — better watch your tail. While Apple might not be seeing any impact (be it positive or negative) on iPad sales from the launch of the Kindle Fire, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab ought to be feeling the heat. Tapping into the data provided by their app analytics platform...

Android Reaches 39% Tab...

Apple’s iPad reigns supreme from whatever angle you choose to look at the tablet market (profits, apps, quality, market share, mindshare, you name it), but research firm Strategy Analytics this morning said Android did manage to capture a record 39 percent tablet OS market share in...