The second and final day of the TechCrunch40 conference is underway with the first of the final four start up sessions. Session 5 focuses on productivity and web applications. Below Continue reading »

Google announced yesterday that it would bring its contextual text ads service, AdSense, to the mobile web. AdSense for Mobile will allow mobile web site publishers in 13 countries to Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/software/Google_Reader_Goes_Multilingual_Comes_Out_of_Beta'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; The Google Reader team announced today that the project has left Google Labs and added 9 language options to its Continue reading »

Portland, Oregon based Lunarr is launching a deceptively simple looking collaboration platform tomorrow and we've got invites for the first 200 readers who want to check it out (see bold Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/IAC_Buys_UGC_Gaming_Company_GarageGames'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Barry Diller's Interactive Corp. announced tonight that it is taking majority share of Eugene, Oregon based GarageGames, a company that Continue reading »

Google has tonight announced its much anticipated Powerpoint competitor. It has been added to Google Docs - the new, simpler name for "Google Docs & Spreadsheets". With the new Presentations Continue reading »

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Mozilla_Launches_New_Email_and_Communications_Org_Similar_to_Firefox'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; Today Mozilla is launching a new organization to develop Internet mail and communications software. It will use the open source Continue reading »

The last session of the 1st day at TechCrunch40 was about crowdsourcing. Note: for a full round-up of the day's action at TC40, check out Allen Stern's sterling effort at Continue reading »

Session 3 was of community and collaboration startups. Two of the participants were from Korea, showing the internationalization of web 2.0. StoryBlender StoryBlender is a promising video mashup startup from Continue reading »

Rev2.org is reporting that buried deep in the Facebook Developer wiki is mention of a Data Store API hinting at Facebook's possible intention of offering data storage to app developers. Continue reading »