In The Coming HTML5 Bro...
On Monday, Google made a big splash with a customized Arcade Fire video page that showed off all the cool things HTML5 can do, from video, animations and 3D rendering to gorgeous fonts and choreographed windows. It’s all cutting edge stuff as far as what is possible with a Web...
AOL And Google Renew Se...
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong hinted that this was coming, but this morning Google and AOL announced a five-year renewal of the search deal between the two companies. Google will continue to power search across AOL’s content network and properties. The partnership will be expanded to include...
What Does It Mean? Micr...
An anonymous tipster – we have reason to believe it was actually a Microsoft employee or contractor – just casually pointed us to a new promotional video that was published on one of the Redmond software giant’s YouTube channels. Unless you’ve been living under a...
Apple’s Ping Music So...
During their event today in San Francisco, Apple announced iTunes 10, the latest version of their music software. But they also introduced a big new feature in the app — Ping: a social network for music. It’s like “ Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes ,” Jobs says....
OAuthpocalypse Tomorrow...
A couple weeks ago, we noted the start of the “ OAuthpocalypse ” — that is, Twitter’s move to make all developers use OAuth rather than basic authentication for their third-party apps. Twitter expected some bumps as they were going to be continuously shutting...
The Full-On Assault On ...
Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon — when you hear these names, you usually think about how these tech giants all compete with one another. But what if they all teamed up for one cause? They’d be unstoppable, right? We’re about to find out. All of these companies...
OMG/JK: I’ll Have My ...
It’s time for this week’s episode of OMG/JK , the TechCrunch TV show that features fellow TC writer MG Siegler and myself discussing the top stories in tech. In this episode we cover the integration of Gmail with Google Voice (which is awesome), the launch of Digg 4...
The Fragmented Future O...
It’s no secret that Google, Apple and even RIM want a piece of the $1 billion-and-growing mobile advertising market. The fight over share of ad dollars is even resulting in possible anti-competitive practices. Apple’s developer licensing agreement update in June basically...
Silicon Valley’s Dark...
An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is both a shortage and a surplus of engineers in the United States. Talk to those working at any Silicon Valley company, and they will tell you how hard it is to find qualified talent. But listen to the heart-wrenching stories...