What Do TMZ And The Daily Have In Common? Both Are Published On Crowd Fusion (Source: TechCrunch) A couple weeks ago at the debut of The Daily, besides the press and bloggers a few tech CEOs associated with the project were also milling about. One of them was Brian Alvey, the founder of Crowd Fusion, [Read More]

Roqbot Is A Jukebox On Your iPhone (Source: TechCrunch) Roqbot, a unique iPhone app that allows you to pick the music playing at a bar. Like a combination Pandora and traditional jukebox, Roqbot allows you to control the tunes without getting up from where you’re sitting. The inspiration for Roqbot came when one of the [Read More]

3 Months To The First Million Users, Just 6 Weeks To The Second Million For Instagram (Source: TechCrunch) Back in late December of last year,there was a huge milestone for photo-sharing app Instagram: a million users. It took them only three months for Instagram to hit the mark. That’s crazy when you consider it took [Read More]

App Filters What Pages You’ve “Liked” On Facebook: Why Isn’t This A Facebook Feature? (Source: TechCrunch) The meaning of a Facebook Like has been getting more and more vague ever since Facebook changed the wording from “Become a fan” to “Like” on its Fan Pages. What’s even more frustrating than this is that there’s no [Read More]

Cooliris Gets $9.6 Million From Kleiner Perkins And Others, Releases New Version Of LiveShare Group Photo Sharing App (Source: TechCrunch) Multimedia browser plugin Cooliris, which lets you view photo and video content on the web in a more visually appealing manner (screencap above), has snagged $9.6 million in Series C financing from investors [Read More]

Zendesk Brings Help Desk Software To The iPad (Source: TechCrunch) Customer support startup Zendesk is rolling out an iPad app today, which allows support agents to manage a company’s help desk on the go. Launched in 2008, Zendesk offers a web-based, SaaS-delivered help desk/support ticketing application that gives companies a simple way to [Read More]

Instagram Finally Gets A Better Website — For The Grammys. A Sign Of What’s To Come? (Source: TechCrunch) When it comes to Instagram, there are generally two complaints: 1) there’s no Android app yet. 2) the web experience is severely lacking. Today they’ve finally taken a stab at the latter. Well, sort of. The Instagram [Read More]

Sonos Android App Controls Wireless Music Systems (Source: Mashable) This free Android control software for Sonos wireless multi-room music systems includes unique features that aren’t available on the iPhone version. If you’re not familiar with Sonos S5 wireless speakers, you can place them in any room in your house, or pair two of them [Read More]

You Can Now Punch People On The iPhone, Congratulations Humanity (Source: TechCrunch) Oh Western culture, when will you cease to amaze me! First the fact that you can buy a Julian Assange as Che Guevara shirt in the WikiLeaks “mall” and now this … “Punch Your Friends” is an iPhone app created on a lark [Read More]

WordPress for Blackberry 1.4.4 Released WordPress for BlackBerry version 1.4.4 has been released to BlackBerry App World. Depending on your region or country, you may not see the latest version in BlackBerry App World yet. However, the new release should be available for download on your device starting today. 1.4.4 adds the following features: [Read More]

HTML5 Is An Oncoming Train, But Native App Development Is An Oncoming Rocket Ship (Source: TechCrunch) HTML5 versus native apps. It’s a debate as old as — well, at least three years ago. And pretty much since the beginning of that debate, there has been a general underlying current among the geek community that HTML5 [Read More]

Google Continues To Embrace Native iPhone Apps As Google Translate Hits App Store (Source: TechCrunch) At one point, as tensions were rising between Google and Apple, it seemed as if the search giant would forgo native app development on the iOS platform and instead only offer service those users through HTML5-based web apps. But lately, [Read More]

Appbistro Announces Appstores.com White-label App Store Platform (Source: TechCrunch) App marketplace for Facebook pages, Appbistro has expanded its scope today and launched Appstores.com. Like a non-enterprise Appia, Appstores will offer publishers the ability to create their own app stores like a (hypothetical) http://apps.techcrunch.com or [Read More]

iPhone App Fragmentation FUD Is Looming (Source: TechCrunch) ZDNet ran a story with a very provocative headline: Not all iPhone apps work on the Verizon iPhone — fragmentation looming? Oh no! Android was supposed to be the platform with the fragmentation problem, not the iPhone! The end must be near, right? Nah. Author James Kendrick [Read More]

Path Finally Finds Its Way To Comments (Source: TechCrunch) In announcing their funding last week, Path co-founder Dave Morin noted that they were listening to all the feedback on the product and would be rolling out features that users have made clear they wanted. The biggest of those has to be comments. And today, Path [Read More]

Qualcomm And CAA Back Creative Mobile Labs To Make Entertainment Apps (Source: TechCrunch) Hollywood looks at mobile apps like Angry Birds and Pull The Rope, and sees franchises built around characters and a new form of story telling. It is a little bit threatening, but it is also a little bit exciting. Telling stories is [Read More]

Audioboo allows any iPhone app to add user voices – Signs big media partners (Source: TechCrunch) AudioBoo, the social sound sharing startup, has developed an iPhone framework that gives drag and drop audio recording functionality to any iPhone app. That means any app developer can now add Audioboo recording functionality to their app, thus [Read More]

Fly Or Die: Can The Daily Make It? (Source: TechCrunch) The big product launch this week was Rupert Murdoch’s new iPad publication, The Daily. The Daily is light but informative, the way that you’d imagine Time or Newsweek should be on the iPad (it’s really more of a daily news magazine than a newspaper). There [Read More]

New GroundLink App Lets Travelers Book A Green Limo, Shuttle or Car Service (Source: TechCrunch) GroundLink — a New York City transportation technology and travel services business — released a new mobile app this week. The second iPhone app from the company, GroundLink allows users to book a hybrid, electric or otherwise clean-vehicle car, [Read More]

(Founder Stories) Kevin Systrom On Instagram’s Launch, “I Have Never Felt So Sick Ever” (Source: TechCrunch) So far in it’s brief existence, Instagram has had a wild ride. It started out as a location app called Burbn, then pivoted before it even launched to just photos. Within a week, the photo sharing app was up [Read More]

In-App Purchasing Finally Coming To Android; Disney Brings Tap Tap Revenge To Take Advantage (Source: TechCrunch) Today at their Honeycomb event at the Google HQ in Mountain View, Google had a lot of information to share. First, they gave a demo of the new Honeycomb features. Then they shared the new Android Market Webstore. And [Read More]

Need To Find The Ladies ASAP? Wheretheladies.at Finally Hits The App Store (Source: TechCrunch) Geo-location has come to this: After three weeks in review, Wheretheladies.at, a web app that aggregates Foursquare checkins by the female gender, is now available on the iPhone. The concept OF A BIG COMPASS POINTING YOU IN THE DIRECTION OF LADIES [Read More]

Exclusive: An Early Look At News.me, The New York Times’ Answer To The Daily (Source: TechCrunch) Tomorrow, all eyes will be on the launch of News Corp’s iPad newspaper The Daily, but huddled away in a downtown loft in New York City’s meatpacking district a team from betaworks and the New York Times are busy [Read More]

Try To Imagine Times Square With No Ads. Can’t? Then Use This App. (Source: TechCrunch) Close your eyes and picture Times Square in New York City. What do you see? Probably an insane amount of ads. Sadly, that’s the defining characteristic. But what would it look like without ads? A few groups have teamed up [Read More]

Apple: Nothing Has Changed- Except For This One Thing. (Source: TechCrunch) Last night the New York Times published a report stating that Sony’s E-Reader application had been rejected from Apple’s App Store, because it used a transaction system other than Apple’s In-App Payments. What’s worse, Apple was apparently blocking applications [Read More]

Apple Reportedly Blocks Sony Reader App, May Foreshadow War With Amazon Kindle (Source: TechCrunch) This evening the New York Times published an article titled Apple Moves to Tighten Control of App Store. An alternative title, should the report prove accurate, could be, Apple Underscores The Downsides Of Its Closed Platform. Really, things look [Read More]

“Apple Is Evil! Boycott The iPad! – Sent From My iPad” (Source: TechCrunch) Here we go again. It has been a few weeks since we had a story about how Apple is evil, or how the relatively closed system the fuels the iPad and iPhone will be the downfall of society. And tonight we got [Read More]

Bump Now Lets You Swap App Recommendations With A Tap (TechCrunch) You can tell a lot about a person from their mobile app library. Are they avid Doodle Jumpers, or do they prefer to challenge their wits with a few rounds of Civilization? Do they stretch their vocal chords to the beats of T-Pain or [Read More]

iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint (Source: TechCrunch) Ever since the iPad came out, print media companies have been feeling their way in this new medium, but so far they’ve just been stumbling over themselves. They are latching onto the iPad as a new walled garden where people will somehow magically pay for articles they [Read More]

Blekko Takes Curated Search Mobile With iPhone And Android Apps (Source: TechCrunch) Blekko, the search engine that is fighting the good fight against web spam with human editors, is joining biggies Google and Bing in the mobile search arena today with an Android and iPhone application double whammy. Says Blekko CEO Rich Skrenta, “In a [Read More]

Zynga Close To Acquiring Whereoscope, The App That Lets You Track Your Kids (Source: TechCrunch) Y Combinator-funded company called Whereoscope  helps parents keep tabs on their kids using a location-aware smartphone application. Now we’re hearing that the startup is about to be acquired by a company that’s in an entirely different space: [Read More]

WebMynd Receives 100K TechFellow Award To Focus On Addon Developer Platform (Source: TechCrunch) YCombinator-funded WebMynd, which launched in 2008 and was most recently responsible for the browser addon Search Smarter, is today announcing that it is the recipient of one of our heralded 2010 TechFellows Awards, from none other than Paul Graham [Read More]

LinkedIn Buys Business Card Converter CardMunch, Will Offer Its Services For Free (Source: TechCrunch) In perhaps one of the most like-minded and forward-thinking acquisitions  we have ever seen, career-driven social network LinkedIn has bought CardMunch, a Shoeboxed-like startup that scans your business cards and accurately converts them into [Read More]

HighNote Is Group Messaging With A Multimedia Twist (Source: TechCrunch) What sets group messaging app HighNote apart from the current wave of group texting apps like Kik, PingChat and Beluga is that it adds a multimedia focus to the act of messaging in multiple. Aside from being a free Internet Protocol-based messaging app for members, [Read More]

The Social Walkie-Talkie App With 3 Million Users (Source: TechCrunch) A few years ago, there were few things cooler than a walkie-talkie.  Then cell phones came along and changed everything. For a short amount of time, push-to-talk technology in some phones replicated the idea. But smartphones quickly put an end to the fun. But there’s [Read More]

Apple Brings The App Store To Twitter Promising Exclusive Offers (Source: TechCrunch) Apple and Twitter have had an interesting but cautious relationship over the past couple of years. Early on, the only official Apple accounts belonged to various iTunes properties, which utilized the service for promotions. Then Apple secured a deal with Twitter [Read More]

Blatant IP Theft In App Store Garners Little Response From Apple (Source: MobileCrunch) One of the criticisms of Apple’s App Store (and application stores in general) is how it is commonplace for a popular app or game to have dozens of clones. These can be sifted through due to their low popularity and shoddy icons, [Read More]

TestFlight: Super Simple, Over-The-Air App Beta Testing Comes To The iPhone (Source: TechCrunch) If you’ve ever had to test an unreleased iPhone application or wanted to test yours with real world users, you’ll know what a pain it is. The UDID thing is bad enough, but the process of having to drag and drop .ipa [Read More]

PicPlz Pretties Up Android App And Begins Accepting (Beta) API Applications (Source: TechCrunch) Last week, we noted that mobile photo-sharing app PicPlz rolled out a bunch of improvements to their app in an effort to better compete with rival Instagram. Sadly, that new polish was only for their iPhone app at the time. But today [Read More]

Facebook Brings Mobile App to Feature Phones Facebook users who want to access the social-networking service on the go, but don’t have smartphones, now have an app of their own in some countries. On Wednesday, Facebook introduced a mobile app for feature phones, the less-expensive, Internet-capable phones that far outnumber smartphones in [Read More]

Four Lessons From Evernote’s First Week On The Mac App Store (Source: TechCrunch) Editor’s note: The following guest post is written by Phil Libin, CEO of Evernote, which is currently the No. 5 app in the Mac App Store. It also didn’t hurt that the app has been prominently featured by Apple. We just finished [Read More]

Facebook Teams With Snaptu To Launch Rich App For Feature Phones (Source: TechCrunch) Facebook has proven to be immensely popular on smart phones: it’s the most downloaded application of all time on the iPhone and probably holds the record on Android as well. But the user experience for so-called feature phones, which still make up [Read More]

In The Race To 10 Billion Downloads, Apple Uncovers The Top All-Time Apps (Source: TechCrunch) As they countdown to 10 billion total app downloads, Apple has unveiled a page within the iTunes Store that shows the top app downloads of all time.These are broken in to four categories: Top Free iPhone Apps, Top Paid iPhones [Read More]

DriveSmart Android App Plays On Parental Fears Of Teens Texting While Driving (Source: TechCrunch) You just shouldn’t text while you drive, even if you are a dextrous teen used to multitasking all day long. Yet people still do text (and Skype and email) while they drive, and not just teens (cough, Michael). There’s not too [Read More]

Sobees Launches iPad App NewsMix, A Socially Curated Digital Magazine Sobees has made a business of creating innovative social media clients, particularly focusing on bringing Twitter, Facebook and social search to the a variety of platforms. Today, the developer is getting into the news business with the launch of NewsMix, an iPad app which [Read More]

Apple’s Mac App Store is Open for Business Today, Apple has announced the grand opening of Mac App Store that brings the App Store experience on iPhone/iPad to the Mac platform. You can find great apps, purchase them or download them onto the Mac computer with just one-click.It’s just how you use the App Store [Read More]