Watch 2012 Super Bowl C...

Want to watch the big budget Super Bowl commercials, but can’t wait till Sunday or don’t care about football? Facebook and USA Today have just launched Ad Meter , a Facebook app where you can watch many of the TV spots right now. Then from kickoff until Tuesday night you can...

Newest TechStars Networ...

Hub Ventures , the San Francisco-based startup accelerator focused on funding entrepreneurs “building a better world,” is the newest member of the TechStars network. The official announcement of its TechStars affiliation will be made next week. For those unfamiliar, the...

LeVar Burton Snags @Rea...

While we nerds may best remember LeVar Burton as a VISOR-clad Starfleet officer, he also spent much of the 80s and 90s instilling in children an appreciation for reading. In fact, Burton is still stuck to the idea of encouraging childhood literacy — he launched a new company called...

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...
iOS App Downloads & Marketing Costs Hit Record High In December

iOS App Downloads &...

Mobile app marketing company  Fiksu  just released new data revealing the impact the holiday season had on iOS app downloads and user acquisition costs. According to the company’s App Store Competitive Index , a measurement of the average aggregate download volume of the top 200...

On The Heels Of Nabbing...

Two weeks ago, we covered a fast-growing security startup called AlienVault , which had just stolen seven senior HP security executives. At the time, Barmak Meftah, who left HP Fortify to become president and chief executive at AlienVault told us that the allure was the startup’s...
MEDIAS ES N-05D: NEC’s New Android Phone Is 6.7mm Thin, Connects To Casio’s G-SHOCK GB-6900

MEDIAS ES N-05D: NEC’...

NEC did it again: about 11 months after unveiling the world’s slimmest smartphone at that time, the company is ready to release another super-thin Android phone with a set of impressive specs (via Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo ). Dubbed MEDIAS ES N-05D [JP], the...

SocialCam Is Growing, B...

Having spun out of online broadcaster Justin.tv last year, SocialCam has managed to get a strong footing on iOS and Android. It passed 3 million downloads in December, and it’s now sending 3 million notifications a day, with video uploads and following counts up by 700% and 800% in...

Codecademy Becomes A Pl...

One of the most buzzed-about startups over the last few months has been Codecademy — a site that looks to make programming accessible to just about anyone, with a variety of interactive, web-based courses that have users writing their first lines of code within a few seconds. The...

AngelList Launches 2011...

AngelList was founded back in 2010 as a community for startups — part social network, part communication tool — designed to connect first-time entrepreneurs with respected angel investors. At the time, veteran venture capitalist and angel investor Mark Suster said that it was...

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