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Thursday, February 28th, 2008Yelp, the popular local review site, will soon announce a new $15 million dollar round of financing led by DAG Ventures. The valuation is rumored to be in the $200 million range. Yelp says that they will be using the money to expand geographically, add onto their sales team, and establish an office in NYC [...]
Blog Network MyKinda May Be Pulling A BlogNation - Writers Going Unpaid
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Anyone who watched the BlogNation implosion last year certainly doesn’t want to see a rerun of that particular debacle. But there are worrying signs coming from Romania-based blog network MyKinda that suggest the young startup is facing some of the same cash flow issues that plagued BlogNation.Like BlogNation, MyKinda is a network of country-specific blogs. [...]
Make3D: Turn a 2D Picture Into a 3D Model
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Make3D: Turn a 2D Picture Into a 3D Model
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Stanford University service Make3D automatically converts a single picture into a 3D model. We covered similar technology from Fotowoosh in April 2007.Make3D takes a two-dimensional image and creates a three-dimensional fly around model that includes depth and a [...]
Eurekster Debuts Improved Swicki Results Pages
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Site-specific search provider Eurekster is today releasing a new version of its Swicki product that features a set community features on its results and home pages.
The free Swicki search widget, used here on TechCrunch in the right-hand column, provides a cloud of popular search terms and leads to a page with results voted on by [...]
Zoho Writer Gets An Update—More Than One Million Documents Served
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Web-based word processors keep closing the gap with Microsoft Office. Since its launch, Zoho now has 650,000 users, a 30 percent increase from just last November, the company tells us. It is doing 2 million user sessions per month. And its users have created more than one million documents on Zoho Writer (1.6 million, [...]
EU To Microsoft: Not Open Enough. Imposes $1.4 Billion Fine
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Microsoft’s sudden conversion to openness and interoperability last week did not impress the European Commission. Today, the antitrust-enforcing arm of the European Union imposed a $1.35 billion fine (899 million Euros) on Microsoft for failing to comply with a 2004 order to supply interoperability data for its products to its competitors. That brings the total [...]
MoFuse Instantly Converts Sites for the iPhone
Thursday, February 28th, 2008MoFuse is a service that will take your website and instantly create a mobile version of it, sparing you the development costs of doing so by hand. Today the company is announcing that it will now automatically create iPhone versions of sites in addition to the standard versions for dumbed down mobile browsers.
Starting immediately, when [...]
Microsoft Picks Up Israeli Ad-Targetting Software Startup YaData for a Reported $20 Million to $30 Million
Thursday, February 28th, 2008In other Microsoft news, the company bought an Israeli startup today called YaData, which makes analytic software for marketers to help them micro-segment consumers. (Redmond is not going to let a little thing like a $1.4 billion fine slow it down). The purchase price was undisclosed, but Israeli newspaper The Globes is reporting that the [...]
Lighting Without Lights: Creating HDR Images in Photoshop
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008I checked into a charming little hotel while on assignment in San Diego recently. When I opened the door, the soft, diffused light streaming into the room through the windows was beautiful. There were flowers on the table in the alcove. I had to have a photograph of it. There was one tiny problem. No [...]
Yahoo Can’t Find the Pirate Bay
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A search for “pirate bay” on Yahoo no longer turns up a link to the controversial BitTorrent search engine. It appears that Yahoo has decided to filter the site from its search results. Clear references to the site appear in Yahoo’s drop-down search assistant, but when you click on those, you still don’t get [...]
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