Next week we'll publish Read/WriteWeb's annual Best Web Companies and Innovators post. Also coming next week is the 2007 Web Trends post (I'd hoped to do it this week, but

Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus. Paul Graham, as a combination of investor and uber geek, is a unique figure in the web industry. There's an increasing Continue reading »

Along with the increasing internationalization of the Web, comes the language challenge. China is obviously a key Web and business market going forward, so there is currently a lot of Continue reading »

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. A pure TechCrunch goodness has descended on New York on this rainy evening. Ignoring the rain, hundreds of web 2.0 fans, Continue reading »

IBM has been pretty slow to cotton onto the social Web, but this year they've started to embrace web 2.0 and ramp up its marketing (some would say hype) around

To continue our interview series on VCs and next generation web, today we speak to Neil Rimer - a co-founder and General Partner of Index Ventures. Neil's firm Index

The WSJ is reporting that US Social Networking site Facebook is in serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo, for an amount that may be as high as $1 billion.

In August AOL acquired online communications startup Userplane - which runs a suite of chat, IM, A/V Recorder, search and presence tools. AOL is in the midst of a big

Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus. Whether you like the bubble mentality of the current era or not, it's hard to deny that VCs play a big

While I've been busy profiling international "web 2.0" startups and products, Techcrunch has put together a video documentary that explores web 2.0 in Silicon Valley. This seems to be aimed