Hearst’s Latest Social Launch: A Redbook App For Father’s Day

Hearst’s Latest Socia...

Hearst is best known as print publisher, but this year its digital arm has been making a big push into social media. Its latest effort is a Father’s Day themed Facebook app for Redbook magazine . In order to use the Father’s Day app, people need to “like” the...
KPCB’s Chi-Hua Chien: The Next Wave Of Tech Disruption Will Hit Commerce

KPCB’s Chi-Hua Chien:...

Technology has helped to level the playing field across a wide range of industries, letting more individuals come to the table in fields such as publishing, entertainment and, of course, building web startups. And according to Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers partner Chi-Hua Chien ,...

Amazon Partners With Pa...

Amazon is continuing to grow its collection of streaming video titles at Amazon Prime Instant Video, and is today announcing another new agreement with Paramount Pictures bringing “hundreds” of new movies to the service. This deal isn’t as large as March’s...

VisibleGains Launches P...

Email is broken. Social networks are not for private file distribution. Collaborative file sharing sites are missing pizzazz and key functions for the enterprise. This is the thought process behind Postwire by VisibleGains. The company explained to TechCrunch, “We want to do for...

Vinylmint Is A Jamminâ€...

Vinylmint is a Norfolk-based startup that aims to assist musicians in creating their music. It’s essentially a recording studio in the cloud. You record uncompressed audio right into the computer, the service uploads it to the cloud, and then you can listen to and edit tunes in...
Tim Armstrong — I Love TechCrunch And It Made AOL Cool Again

Tim Armstrong — I Lov...

A panel run by TechCrunch’s Josh Constine with with Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL and Melissa Brenner of the NBA was billed as being about how social advertising is working for those content brands. In the end, we heard a lot more about the future path of AOL and TechCrunch perhaps....

Business Insider’s He...

If you are so inclined, it’s pretty easy to criticize Business Insider — the all caps headlines , the slideshows, and content that has been “aggregated” from other sites. (And yes, BI has some mean things to say about us too. ) But in the course of of the Disrupt...

reCaptcha Founder’s L...

At TechCrunch Disrupt New York this morning, Luis von Ahn , the founder of the ambitious free language learning and text translation site Duolingo , announced that the site will come out of private beta on June 19. Duolingo was founded by reCaptcha founder Luis von Ahn in 2011. The site...

Punch! Launches A Platf...

It’s a familiar story in the tech world: A company wants to build a consumer product, finds that the necessary tools aren’t available, creates its own tools, then realizes it has created a broader platform. David Bennahum offers some examples: Zip2 . Vignette . TypePad . And...

Digital Video Consolida...

A double-whammy in the digital video space today: Avail-TVN , a video services provider that works with companies like NBC, Univision, and brands like Mattel, has announced that it has picked up $100 million in financing led by the Carlyle Group , and it is using those funds to make an...

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