Geni Goes Global With 2...

Genealogy site Geni is going global today with the addition of its site translated into 22 new languages, including Spanish, German, French, and Hebrew. The site will add dozens more languages in the coming weeks. Noah Tutak , President of Geni, said that this additional language...

4INFO CEO: Expect More ...

4INFO CEO Zaw Thet is trying to shed the title, “ King of SMS.” The mobile advertising company dominates the US SMS market, delivering some 400 million text messages each month (its monthly rate has roughly doubled from early 2010)— but Thet is tired of his crown, or...

Location Labs (Formerly...

A mobile app that doesn’t take advantage of your location information is becoming a rare breed. But developers must create different geo apps for each different phone—Android, iPhone, Blackberry, you name it. And that ignores all of the dumb phone out there (sorry, feature...

We Lose A TechCruncher ...

Damnit, a sad day at TechCrunch – we’ve lost one of our own, drawn by the allure of a startup to call his own. TechCrunch research analyst Dan Levine will be leaving us to start his own company as part of the next batch of Y Combinator startups. Read the original...

LeNewz Is A Handy Realt...

leNewz , developed by Paris-based Triviumsoft, offers a more visual way of browsing news on the iPhone. Continued here: LeNewz Is A Handy Realtime Coverflow-style iPhone News...

Sonic Solutions To Acqu...

Sonic Solutions and DivX , both listed on Nasdaq, this morning announced that they are to become one. Under the terms of the agreement, Sonic would acquire all the outstanding shares of DivX and merge DivX operations into those of Sonic Here is the original: Sonic Solutions To Acquire...

Mayor Bloomberg Calls F...

Today, TechCrunch Disrupt attendees were treated to a very special guest: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Read the original:  Mayor Bloomberg Calls For More NYC Startups At TechCrunch...

iGlue Raises New Fundin...

iGlue , which wants to ” wikify the web “, has raised a further $550,000 funding from private investors alongside Hungary-based Power of the Dream Ventures . The application unveiled at the recent GeeknRolla event in London, is pretty interesting in that it creates an...

The Open Gov Initiative...

While grandma flips through photo albums on her sleek iPad, government agencies (and most corporations) process mission-critical transactions on cumbersome web-based front ends that function by tricking mainframes into thinking that they are connected to CRT terminals. These systems are...

What Is Yahoo Thinking?...

Yahoo will look a little more like AOL and Demand Media with its acquisition today of Associated Content . Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but AdAge is reporting that the deal was north of $100 million. Others say it was $90 million Read the original:  What Is Yahoo Thinking? ...