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Bing Tries To Buy The News

Murdoch keeps threatening to stop letting Google index the WSJ.com and his other media sites, and wants other news sites to join him in this self-imposed silence. The folks at Microsoft’s Bing think this is a great idea. Not only that, but the FT ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  News Corporation Limited,  Yahoo!,  Wall Street Journal

Hot Potato Organizes The Stream Around What’s Really Happening Now

Hot Potato is a micro-messaging app that organizes the conversation stream by events. For Hot Potato, an event can be anything that is happening right now: a basketball game, concert, party, street fair, buying a new car, or even just two friends on a ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc

Google Is Keeping Chrome OS Simple. Maybe Too Simple.

Of course, as Michael pointed out during the Q&A, Steve Jobs said the same thing when he launched the iPhone without apps, and then when he was ready, it was all about the apps. But Google had a good response: they want to make web apps work well on ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Steve Jobs,  Sergey Brin

Video: Chrome OS For Dummies

Still not sure why Google is building its own operating system? It created this animated video to try to explain why the Web needs a new OS, and why that OS should be Chrome. Google just showed the video at its Chrome OS press event which MG is ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Facebook Inc.

The Latest News From Bing

Just to be clear, this is different than searching for a topic which is in the news and getting news results at the top in the form of headlines, which all search engines do. The “Latest posts” appear when you do a search for a specific news site. ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  19 Nov 2009

Silverlight 4 In Beta. Supports Google Chrome. (Plus, Screenshots of Facebook Desktop App).

One of the big capabilities of Silverlight 4 is its ability to take rich-media experiences outside the browser in client apps which will compete with Adobe AIR. The non-browser apps fully support HTML, allowing tight integration with content from the ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation,  Twitter Inc

Qlipso Brings Avatars, Video Chat, and Facebook Connect To Virtual Rooms

Media on the Web is going from a solo affair to a shared experience. We are seeing this in everything from CNN live news videos enabled with Facebook chat to Meebo Rooms and Tiny Chat. Today, a new startup from Los Angeles called Qlipso is launching ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.

Come To The Realtime CrunchUp, Win A Free Sailing Trip In San Francisco Bay

We’re just two days away from our Realtime CrunchUp in San Francisco. The CrunchUp agenda is chock full of goodness. Since our first event back in July, the momentum around realtime has accelerated. We find ourselves awash in realtime streams of data, ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.,  Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Murdoch Warns That Without eTablets, “Newspapers Will Go Out Of Business.”

Old habits die hard. Rupert Murdoch believes that the future of the newspaper business is subscriptions—electronic subscriptions. He’s done with giving away his news for free on the Web and to search engines like Google. Instead thinks that Kindle-like ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Rupert Murdoch

Come Up With Your Own Target Stock Price For Apple Or Google With Trefis

Have you ever wanted to be a Wall Street analyst or come up with your own discounted cash flow model for a publicly traded company? Me neither, but I like the idea of tweaking a few variables in a company’s business model and seeing how that might ...

From ERICK SCHONFELD, TechCrunch,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Microsoft Corporation,  Yahoo!,  Intel

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