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Friday, February 29th, 2008Google has just released a new product called Google Sites, and you can start using it today!
What is Google Sites?
It’s an online application that makes creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can quickly gather a variety of information in one place — including videos, calendars, [...]
Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
Ex-Apple Team To Launch Stealth Startup Fotonauts
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008A team of five former Apple software engineers, led by former Apple Exec Jean-Marie Hullot, have been working on a new stealth desktop/web photography focused startup called Fotonauts since late 2006. Sometime in the next couple of months, they’ll launch publicly. The company is based in Paris, France.
Hullot, who worked with Steve Jobs at Apple [...]
Mixx To Cluster Related Stories - Digg Should Have Done This
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Digg competitor Mixx continues to impress us with new features (although the exodus of Digg users to them may have been short lived).A new feature launches this week on Mixx called Related Items. It solves a common problem found on Digg and other sites where multiple articles on the same story compete with each other [...]
Rackspace Offers Cloud Computing with Mosso
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Last week’s incident with Amazon Web Services briefly going down may have raised questions about the reliability of cloud computing, but demand is high enough for competitors to keep trying to get into the game. The more companies that enter this space, the cheaper and more competitive that Web-scale computing should become.
Today, hosting provider Rackspace [...]
Hijacking Search: Surf Canyon and ManagedQ Rethink The Search Experience
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Creating a new search engine seems like a futile exercise. If Yahoo and Microsoft cannot compete with Google in search, what chance does a startup have? So instead of creating new search engines, we are starting to see the rise of search applications that sit on top of existing search engines.
Two recent examples are Surf [...]