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TechCrunch Europe's Mike Butcher and myself just finished conducting a short video interview with entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen about the end of Web 2.0 and the dawn of a new age of individualism, driven primarily by Twitter.
[Mike Butcher writes] The controversial, anti-Web 2.0, figure of Andrew Keen spoke at the Next Web in Amsterdam and outlined some of the themes that he is developing for his next book. Keen is most famous for deriding the 'cult of the amateur', as he calls it, or...
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Nokia reported financial results for the first quarter today and, despite posting a 90 percent drop in profits, gave investors something to celebrate. The world’s largest cell phone maker said the handset market hit bottom in the first quarter and sales for the rest of the year would be off by about 10 percent from [...]
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In this guest post, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom makes the case for investing in renewable forms of ocean energy. As he notes, California alone has more than 745 miles of coastline, and every mile has daily energy transfers in the form of waves, tides and current. While estimates vary, experts suggest that more than [...]
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Earlier this evening along with a select few journalists, I got a chance to interact with French Minister for Digital Development, Mrs. Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, who is in town to learn about latest developments in Silicon Valley and learn about the unique ecosystem that helps nurture technology start-ups in the Bay Area. She is quite a [...]
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Looks like Sun Microsystems is open to renewing acquisition talks with International Business Machines (IBM) if the latter makes a stronger commitment to actually closing the deal, according to Bloomberg sources.
Earlier this month, discussions over a potential takeover broke down when IBM withdrew its earlier $7 billion bid to buy Sun.
Discussions have stalled, still according to the sources, and both companies are now waiting for the other to make a move.
The information provided by the...
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OpenX, the largest neutral online ad server for website publishers, is finally ready to take the wraps of OpenX Market, a service that has been in the pipeline for quite some time and was anticipated to make some waves in the digital advertising industry. I have my doubts about its disruptiveness, but website owners and publishers already using OpenX (we use it at TechCrunch) or planning to switch soon are sure going to want to take a closer look at the service, which is being launched in beta...
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At USC to receive a Walter Cronkite award, Katie Couric was downright grumpy about Twitter. Except for her Twitter, which kind of rules, supposedly.
The CBS Evening News anchor was on some sort of...
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Yelp's version 2.0 of its iPhone app has officially hit Apple's App store. We reported on Yelp's focus on the mobile space and its importance here.
As we wrote recently, the new app gives consumers even more ease in automatically reviewing businesses via their iPhone and enhances its exiting GPS capabilities. The updated version of the app now lets Yelpers write reviews directly from their iPhone through a Twitter-like ?Quick Tips? feature that allows users to create 140 character tips. This...
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Earlier today The Business Insider reported that CNN may have acquired the massively popular CNNbrk Twitter account, which is currently in a heated race with Ashton Kutcher to attain 1 million followers. Thing is, up until recently CNN didn't actually own that account, which made the story's coverage on the cable network over the last few days all the more bizarre.
I just got off the phone with James Cox (whose personal Twitter account is here), who created and has maintained the account. ...
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Yahoo's closure of their Jumpcut video service feels like the slow peeling off of a bandaid. In December they announced that no new videos could be uploaded, but that they "will be keeping the Jumpcut site up and running for the foreseeable future."
Apparently the foreseeable future ends in June, when the site will be shut down. From an email they sent out to users today:
Dear Jumpcut user,
After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the Jumpcut.com site on June 15, 2009. This...
