Twitter cleans up the mess with deleted tweets in search results
TechCrunch has reported that Twitter has finally made the required changes to enhance the privacy of the users on the service.
Twitter has been known to have a major bug in the recent months. If you tweeted something only to realize that it was a [...]
Sequoia Capital invests in Bump Technologies
TechCrunch has reported that Sequoia Capital has made an investment into the iPhone app maker Bump Technologies.
The report said that they have managed to raise around USD 1 million through a closed round of funding.
Bump is one of the applications that is available for the iPhone platform.
It is pretty intuitive [...]
Photobucket to be sold for just $60 million?
TechCrunch has reported that Photobucket could sell for as low as USD 60 million.
Ontela is said to be the company interested in acquiring it from News Corp.
This company is backed by Disney supported Steamboat Ventures.
News Corp had acquired Photobucket through their MySpace subsidiary in 2007 [...]
Photobucket might be sold by MySpace
TechCrunch has reported that MySpace is close to spinning off their photo sharing service Photobucket.
They had acquired this service back in 2007. The price-tag was around USD 250 million.
Disney-backed Ontela is said to be the company interested in acquiring Photobucket.
MySpace never made much use of Photobucket. It [...]
Dropbox acquires Dropbox.com
TechCrunch has reported that the popular web service Dropbox has finally gained control of the Dropbox.com domain name.
They have been operating through GetDropbox.com.
Dropbox.com is currently redirecting to GetDropbox.com. We are assuming that they would move to the new domain name in the coming days.
Read more on the story here: Dropbox [...]
TechCrunch confirms that Google Wave works on iPhone and Android
Google might not have stated it officially but they have obviously been working to make their Wave platform compatible with mobile browsers.
TechCrunch has reported that Google Wave works fine on Apple iPhone and Google Android based browsers.
Both of these are based on the [...]
Storytlr service closing down operations later this year
TechCrunch has reported that the developers of Storytlr web based life-streaming service have decided to shut down the project at the end of the year.
They are suggesting all the users of the service to take a backup of their data hosted as it would all be removed [...]
Facebook now promoting Orkut Friend Import Tool in USA
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook has now started promoting their Orkut Friend import tool to their users in the US market.
This is an interesting development considering Orkut is not even popular in USA any more.
If market reports are to be believing Facebook has 92 [...]
Scribd launches Scribd Reader for online news magazines
Scribd is already popular for their web based service that enables people to share documents with each other.
The company has now launched their Scribd Reader for news media magazines.
This would allow blogs and newspapers to “share source materials directly with readers by embedding court filings, memos, and [...]
Gmail highlighting favicons of some services in emails!
TechCrunch has reported that Google Gmail webmail service is now highlighting emails from certain services with the relevant favicon!
The report said that Netflix is one company that is being covered by this new service. There might be others.
If this is expanded to other services, it [...]
