Yotify Goes for a Metasearch Approach
Search and alert service Yotify has entered the scene with a wide-reaching value proposition to do the legwork in finding people, places and events for you. On one level, it's…
Eventful CEO on $10 Million Funding, Mobile and Ticketmaster Deal
Eventful, which competes with Zvents for leadership (and affiliates) in the fast changing local event marketplace, has just completed a new $10 million C round lead by Telefonica Capital. Also…
MySpace Launches MyAds
As Peter Krasilovsky examined a few weeks ago, MySpace launched the beta version of its self-serve pay-per-click ad platform last night. Called MyAds, it will offer a number of text…
Directory Assistance: Moving Beyond 411
Voice search has been put on the map over the past few years with the advent of free directory assistance service providers, not to mention Google (Goog411) and Microsoft (Tellme) entering…
DMS ’08 Keynote: AT&T A&P President Frank Jules
President and CEO Frank Jules, who has held the top slot at AT&T Advertising & Publishing for a year, laid out a prescription for Yellow Pages growth during a keynote at…
5 More Companies to Watch From TechCrunch50
The TechCrunch50 show wrapped up today and winners were announced. The grand prize ($50,000) went to Yammer, which is an enterprise version of Twitter that lets companies start internal communication…
Google Brings a Taste of Online to Traditional Media
We've long known Google to be on a path toward facilitating media buys across a cluster of offline traditional media. A clearer glimpse into this vision was given yesterday by…
Yahoo Fire Eagle Takes Flight
Yahoo Brickhouse division-head Tom Coates officially launched the Fire Eagle platform today to a packed room of San Francisco journalists, analysts and bloggers (and Yahoo cofounder David Filo). The platform,…
Apple’s App Store: Hot or Not?
The iPhone App Store is kicking butt to the tune of $1 million in sales per day ($30 million to date) and 60 million total downloads. This from an article…
IPhone Mobile Local Apps: Have We ‘Jumped the Shark’?
Sebastien Provencher takes an interesting look at UrbanSpoon's iPhone application and also poses the question, have we already jumped the shark with mobile local search on the iPhone? This question…