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Amazon’s Second iPad App: IMDb

With all the talk about Google and Amazon versus Apple, both Internet companies have been quick to release custom applications for the latter’s freshly launched iPad device.
Amazon.com had already introduced its Kindle app for iPad, and over the weekend added a second one to the stable: an IMDb (Internet Movie Database) app (iTunes link).
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Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

ShareThis Introduces The Share Stream

You know all those share buttons across the Web? They are getting more and more social. What I mean by that is initially they were used to share stories or content mostly via email on a one-to-one basis, but over the past year or so services like Facebook and Twitter have been overtaking [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Qype, The Yelp Of Europe, Gets A Look From Google & Nokia

Hamburg, Germany based Qype, a Yelp-like site that’s focused on European markets, has recently had long acquisition looks from both Google and Nokia, we’ve heard from multiple sources. A deal with Nokia in particular was looking extremely likely until recently.
The site was first launched in 2005 and today attracts 9 million monthly worldwide visitors, according [...]

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Sat, February 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Thank You TechCrunch Readers and Sponsors!

We wanted to take a minute to thank all of our readers and sponsors. Because of you, we have been able to grow explosively in the past year, now getting over 30 million pageviews and reaching more than 9 million unique visitors per month across our network!
Thanks for keeping our lights on!
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Sat, February 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

TechCrunch State Of The Union, Belated Edition

One thing we love around here at TechCrunch is data. And since we’re busy looking up our own traffic stats for 2009, we thought we might as well share those stats with everyone.
Total unique visitors across all TechCrunch sites in 2009, according to Google Analytics, were 69,482,978, up 55% from 2008’s 45 million unique visitors. [...]

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Mon, February 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Meebo Eyes A New Market For Its Chat Bar: Online Retailers

We’ve been covering the growth of  Meebo’s chat bar extensively since its launch: after a fairly slow ramp up in 2008, it’s since been deployed to 130 partner sites and now has a reach of 100 million unique visitors. Now that the company has landed partnerships with a number of large publisher sites and [...]

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Wed, February 10 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments