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Last night, during his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer showed off a prototype for a new HP Slate computer running on Windows 7. It was supposed to be an Apple-stealing moment and it was Microsoft’s moment, which is probably why Hew...

The show floor is open, and we're going live. First thing up is an announcement (upcoming) by someone named Lady Gaga, something about becoming some sort of bigwig at Polaroid. I know! What will she do next? I'm thinking Ponzi scheme. So we're streaming that live right now, and then we're live fr...

The last 100 seats to attend Friday’s Crunchies Awards are on sale now. Act fast!Reminder, the Crunchies Awards start at 7:30 pm Friday night at the historic Herbst Theater in San Francisco. Along with our co-hosts, GigaOm and VentureBeat, we’ll announce the winners to our 18 award c...

If you own an Internet-connected TV that is compatible with Yahoo’s TV widgets (AKA, a Yahoo Connected TV), you may soon start seeing video produced for the Web on your TV. Brightcove announced today that media publishers using its online video platform can now distribute their videos thro...

We're rolling two separate announcements into one post, if you don't mind. Fandango this morning announced the official release of its free app for the Android platform, enabling owners of Google's Nexus One and other devices that run Android to check out movies showtimes and more on the go. The ...

Although there is no shortage of businesses large and small making great use of Twitter, many are still trying to make heads-and-tales of how to harness its power to communicate with existing and prospective clients. CoTweet and HootSuite are trying to meet this opportunity with feature-rich CRM ...

Later today at CES, Glide will be debuting its extension for the Google Chrome browser, which it claims turns the software program into a full operating system. The extension, which is also available for Internet Explorer 7+ and Firefox 3.0+, can already be downloaded here.What Glide does is exte...

Businesses and brands have already caught onto the immense power of the social stream that runs through Twitter and Facebook to track the pulse of conversations around consumers. Both tech giants and startups are competing to provide enterprise-friendly, social platforms to businesses that combin...

In August 2009, Google announced that it had agreed to acquire On2 Technologies for – then – roughly $106 million. At the end of last year, On2 – not for the first time – postponed a meeting at which it had hoped to get shareholder approval for its purchase by Google.A new...

It’s no secret that Google is a big proponent of open source technology and the open web (to a degree), and it’s no secret that Chris Messina is too, either. It’s thus not terribly surprising that the man is joining the Mountain View Internet giant as its new Open Web Advocate.M...

Google introduced the term “superphone” to the world yesterday when they unveiled the Nexus One Google phone. Right from the beginning of the hour+ presentation, Google execs were referring to the Nexus One as the first “superphone,” a term not previously widely used (of n...

For most people on the prowl for employment, job fairs are something of a mixed blessing. Yes, they can sometimes lead to job opportunities. But it’s often very difficult to separate yourself from the dozens (or hundreds) of other prospective applicants in attendance — at the end of the da...

Lenovo gave us a chance to check out their latest smartphone today at CES 2010. It's Android-based with a complete OS facelift and hardly any of the original OS sticking out. I doubt they intended it to be, but it seems like a sort of interesting mix of webOS, iPhone, and Android features. I quit...

When we first wrote about Oneforty, the “App Store for Twitter” in September, founder Laura Filton told us that plan was for the service to be a full-fledged e-commerce platform eventually. That will start happening next week, we’ve learned.Specifically, on January 12 (next Tues...

Yesterday, G4’s Attack Of The Show had our own MG Siegler on to talk about the Nexus One, Googles’ much-hyped new smartphone. MG’s early verdict? It’s “a nice little device”, and “by far the sexiest Android device [he's] ever seen”. The 5-minute i...

We’re live from the CES 2010 keynote, featurin’ good ol’ Steve Ballmer! We’ll keep the live blog flowing as long as Verizon doesn’t crumble under the weight of a thousand bloggers. Check out the live blog after the jump.

Howard Stern talks about the Google Nexus One on the air today, quoting from our review. Woot. I got Shatner to say TechCrunch (although I had to pay for that), and now Stern’s said it too. I’m done here, I can retire now.NSFW. Not even close to SFW. Listen below.Crunch Network: Crun...

Every day I troll SEC Form D Filings to discover new startups, fundings and investments. I put everything I find into CrunchBase. For everyone else I give you the daily digest, a quick hit of the latest and greatest SEC Form D filings in the TechCrunch sphere:Lagotek - Wireless Home AutomationPin...

In terms of new hot startup, Square is among the hottest. And for good reason. If it takes off, it has the potential to transform the way vendors and consumers handle transactions. (There’s a reason it was worth $40 million before launch.) Not surprisingly, the talent is also flowing to the...

Two days ago, I wrote a speculative piece wondering if Apple hadn’t leaked some of the information about its forthcoming tablet device to the Wall Street Journal itself. I based this on a number of curiosities in the post, the timing of it, as well as the history between the secretive compa...

This guest post is written by Matt Bell, VP of Sales and Business Development for Azaleos. Azaleos is a company focused on putting the things in the cloud that make the most sense for large enterprise; application management. Matt offers appealing insight because he has grown sales for companie...

Our Google Nexus One giveaway yesterday drew so much attention so quickly that our site actually went down hard for half an hour. 4,089 comments and 8,242 tweets later, we have a randomly selected winner. Who is from Romania (we said we’d ship it anywhere). Matilda Tanascov is the proud own...

Stylesight, a company that specializes in trend forecasting and product development tools for professionals in the fashion and style industries, has raised $5 million in funding according to an SEC filing. The company previously raised $16 million in series A funding from Fidelity Venture in 2008...

What AppMakr lacks in vowels they make up for in coolness. AppMakr is a dead easy app design engine that allows you to enter a URL or search term, pick a few images, and publish an app to the App Store in a few minutes. The service uses RSS feeds and searches to build a comprehensive feed of your...

This is it, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Well, those of you who are Mac users that use Chrome anyway. Though it took longer than expected, bookmark syncing and extensions have been turned on in the latest version (4.0.288.1) that just went live today.However, before you start com...

If you’re not glued to our live streaming CES coverage, then you’re really missing out. Although the press lounge here is the most inhospitable place on the planet (no water, no coffee, no internet), preventing effective blogging, we’ve been hands-on with LG’s quarter-inch...

The New Year brings with it the much awaited numbers from online holiday spending. And its good news. For the full holiday online shopping season, $29.1 billion was spent online, showing 4 percent increase versus the same period last year, according to comScore. It looks like consumers spent just...

The Chicago-based Groupon has been valued at $280 million after closing their recent $30 million venture round with Accel Partners and previous investors. Clearly Groupon’s new take on group buying is a hot space right now. Now DailyDeal.de in Berlin, a Groupon-like startup, has attracted ...