GSI Commerce, a company that powers e-commerce platforms for major brands, recently made headline with the acquisition of Retail Convergence, which operates RueLaLa.com, a private sale site and SmartBargains.com, an off-price e-commerce marketplace, in a deal valued as high as $350 million. [...more]
Sharpcast’s SugarSync, an application that synchronizes data across desktop computers, laptops, mobile phones, and even televisions, is rolling out a service designed specifically for businesses. As people split up their digital lives across devices and the Web, allows you to back-up any kind of digital file, including videos, spreadsheets, photos and documents, in the cloud and access it from virtually anywhere via a variety of devices [...more]
A large number of customers of Rackspace Cloud , including Techcrunch, have been experiencing downtime for the past 1h 20m or so. [...more]
It’s been about two months since Opera introduced the non-beta version of its Opera 10 desktop browser , and today the Norwegian software developer is following up on that release with that of the latest beta build of Opera Mobile , a custom browser specifically built to give Symbian and Windows Mobile equipped handset users a (much) more pleasant Web browsing experience. The company’s latest ‘State of the Mobile Web’ report, which was based on usage data from their other mobile browser product, the popular Opera Mini , suggests that mobile web usage is still increasing at a rapid pace . [...more]
Since it was turned on for all users late last week, everyone is talking about Twitter’s new Lists feature. [...more]
Facebook is much more than a social network. Twitter is much more than an information network or serendipity engine [...more]
Our favorite jingle guy is at it again. Jonathan Mann, who TechCrunch readers will best know as the guy behind the awful Bing jingle , has released another new video (as he does every day), this time to serenade the children of Keith Valley Middle School who recently performed his Bing jingle [...more]
The wait is over. Twitter’s new Lists feature is now available to all users, project lead Nick Kallen has just confirmed through a tweet. [...more]
Ever since our first Realtime Crunchup last July, the momentum behind realtime streams just keeps getting stronger. Which is why TechCrunchIT editor Steve Gillmor and I are putting together another Realtime Crunchup on November 20 in San Francisco. Tickets are on sale now (the price is $395 until the final week when they will go up to $495—there are only 500 available) [...more]
As the number of apps in the App Store rapidly approaches 100,000, the fact that growth is still accelerating is pretty staggering. It’s not hard to see why when app development houses are pumping out dozens of apps in short order. But at that volume, most of those apps aren’t going to be very good [...more]
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