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Amid user turmoil over a recent redesign, the Web site Digg.com appointed a new chief executive on Tuesday.

Google is a big proponent of HTML5, especially for video and rich graphics in the browser. To show off what HTML5 can do, Google Chrome teamed up with the Arcade Fire and director Chris Milk to create a custom interactive video for their song, "We Used To Wait." The experience is...

MySpace is launching Facebook sync today, allowing MySpace users to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page. The social network launched a similar functionality for Twitter last year. Once you've synced your Facebook account, you can update status on MySpace...

Of course, it makes perfect sense for Mark Cuban to appear in a very long and involved cameo as himself on the HBO original comedy series, "Entourage." Heck, the fun-loving Internet billionaire could easily slip into the pack of young Hollywood dudes on the show and seem part of...

A fair bit of time has passed since "antennagate" and Apple's unprecedented response to it. So how's the iPhone 4 been selling after all that criticism? As well as it ever was, says Deutsche Bank analyst Chris Whitmore.

This is unfortunate. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has certainly been hard at work trying to improve healthcare around the world, but the latest news is that the Foundation has decided to invest in Monsanto, a company famous for widely abusing intellectual property...

Earlier this year, as part of a discussion about Nick Carr's most recent book we pointed to some reports that noted Carr appeared to misrepresent the scientific research to support his point. It appears that others are finding more examples of this as well. There was a little...

As the e-reader wars ramp up, Sony introduces three new Readers.

The U.S. Patent Office awarded Facebook a patent for "a click-behavior based search engine application" earlier today, GoRumors reports. The patent, first filed back in 2004, determines search result ranking by looking at "the frequency of clicks on the search results by members...

A simpler alternative to transistors, the memristor, will allow for more computer memory in even smaller devices.

Gmail users can now choose to let Google sort their inbox by the most pressing messages, thanks to a new feature called Priority Inbox — think of it as a sort of reverse spam filter which bubbles messages to the top of the queue based on what you read and respond to.

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Digg users angry about the site's new redesign have filled the top news page with entries from rival Reddit.Join the conversation about this story »

The local news sites being developed by Yahoo, AOL, Huffington Post and a growing number of other online players will dash the hopes of most newspaper publishers of charging for access to their online content. While newspaper executives have agonized for the better part of...

The venerable Oxford English Dictionary isn't even one-third finished with what will be only its third revision in 80 years. But already there is talk that the multivolume work, which has informed scholars and fussy linguists, may eschew print entirely when the new edition is...

Last week, in writing about Paul Allen's decision to sue (nearly) every big tech company south of Seattle (notably absent: Microsoft and Amazon), I had seen a few people suggest that maybe Allen was doing this to prove how ridiculous the patent system is. Larry Downes is now...

Intertrust Technologies Corporation, a company that develops and and licenses technologies and intellectual property for digital rights management (DRM), has moved to acquire the assets of media search service Seeqpod. Intertrust, which holds over 150 patents and has offices in...

Web adoption is growing faster in Latin America than anywhere on the planet, according to comScore. Its audience grew 23% over the last year, and currently makes up 8% of the global Web population. That's larger than the Middle-East and Africa's Web audiences combined, and almost...

It appears that Foursquare hit the three million user mark sometime over the weekend. The location based social network has been adding users at impressive rates, and only hit 2 million users in early July. It took a year to reach one million; three months to hit 2 million, and a...

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Back in July 2009, Twitter made a big stink about developers using the term "Tweet" in their Twitter apps. The Twitter API team had contacted a third-party developer—TweetKnot—informing the company that it had "grown uncomfortable" about the use of the word "tweet" in the app's...

If there is a father of social media in Silicon Valley, it may be Reid Hoffman, the Stanford and Oxford educated entrepreneur best known for co-founding LinkedIn in December 2002. Hoffman, currently the executive chairman of LinkedIn and a partner in the venture firm of Greylock...

Boasting a star-studded roster of investors, New York-based startup Chartbeat has raised a $3 million Series A.The cash infusion is led by Index Ventures and rounded out by the likes of Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Jason Calacanis,…

Tel Aviv-based Attenti announced today its acquisition by 3M, most notably the makers of Post-Its, to the tune of $230 million in cash. Formerly Dmatek, Attenti is the world's leading supplier of remote people-tracking technologies such as ankle bracelets, voice recognition...

Today -- the day before Apple may announce a new iTV device -- Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak is presenting at some Samsung "Smart TV" event. Weird.Join the conversation about this story »

Via Joe Mullin, we learn the rather unfortunate news that, when asked about Paul Allen's decision to sue lots of big tech companies over questionable patents, Wozniak comes out in favor of "patent trolls" and patent holders suing companies who actually innovate. For someone so...

This is unfortunate. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has certainly been hard at work trying to improve healthcare around the world, but the latest news is that the Foundation has decided to invest in Monsanto, a company famous for widely abusing intellectual property...

The Sony Reader Touch Edition, to be introduced Wednesday. Researchers say people take naturally to touch screens.

It seems as if the ads for Sony's upcoming movie The Social Network -- you know, the Facebook movie -- are everywhere on the Internet. They're here on TechCrunch, they're on VentureBeat, they're on Techmeme -- they're just about everywhere but Facebook itself. In fact, they're...

As is tradition, Apple (AAPL) is holding its September music event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco. Join us here at 10 AM PT for live coverage.

Google’s Wave was a project that garnered a huge amount of interest, only to see the buzz completely die within a year of the launch, even after Wave stopped being invite-only and opened to the public.This prompted…

In the last couple of hours, Facebook has been unstable for many users (including us), according to numerous tweets from those affected. In the last 15 minutes or so, Facebook seems to be completely inaccessible.While downtime…

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Social-media savvy airline Virgin America, which used Twitter to announce its expansion to Toronto, is making use of location-based rewards network Loopt Star to draw attention to its next international expansion: Mexico.Virgin America will be running…

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