Google’s Nine Year Sh...

For those that remember when Google Voice was GrandCentral … Other than missing Like.com’s acquisition on August 20th and having the DoubleClick grab plotted when Google revealed its intent to acquire in April 2007 and not when the official acquisition was announced in March...

Google Testing A New, A...

Google doesn’t have a native app for Gmail on the iPhone. Read more here:  Google Testing A New, Auto-Refreshing Version Of Gmail For...

Preempting Search...

This post was written by Alex Rampell , the CEO of TrialPay . Rampell is a regular contributor to TechCrunch – see his previous guest posts here . Google: 65.8% Yahoo: 17.1% Microsoft: 11% Ask: 3.8% AOL: 2.3% (Search Engine Market Share, source: Comscore, August 2010) Outside of a...

Mobile App Directory Ap...

Social mobile app directory Appolicious is deepening its integration with Yahoo today with the launch of ‘yap.appolicious.com,’ a website that to help people find an apps that run on Yahoo’s platform, and the re-launch and design of AndroidApps.com , a website that...

It’s Official: Google...

It’s official. Google has acquired Like.com. In a post on Like.com’s homepage, the company’s CEO and Founder Munjal Shah writes that the visual search engine has been bought by Google See the rest here: It’s Official: Google Acquires...

There’s No Success Li...

Here’s some infographic perspective on the eve of Facebook’s copycat Facebook Places launch, which has some ringing the death knell for location based startups Foursquare and Gowalla . A stroll through the Google graveyard is a lesson in how rarely it works out when...

Foursquare Checks-In To...

Perhaps you’ve heard: Facebook just released their new location feature called Places. Excerpt from: Foursquare Checks-In To A San Francisco...

Live From Facebook’s ...

Watch live streaming video from facebookinnovations at livestream.com We’re at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, where the social network is finally unveiling its much-anticipated location feature, which will be called Places . We’ve already published the first screenshots...

SeeqPod Founder Returns...

Kasian Franks , an engineer and researcher mostly known for being the technical founder of music search venture SeeqPod (more about its tumultuous history here ), is back with another startup in the search space. This time, he’s set his sights on the world of mobile applications...

Now You Can Search For ...

Google may be synonymous with search, but some of the search functionality in its Apps products is sadly lacking — if you want to search for something in Google Docs, Calendar, or Gmail, you’ve had to do it from within its respective app. Today, it’s getting a bit better:...