TechCrunch40-winner and Benchmark-funded startup Mint is having a good year. Their user base has grown 25% in the last month to 200,000. And today they’re getting access to 4…

Forget Google Patent Search, use new meta-search engine PriorSmart if you want to search patent filings anywhere in the world. It allows you to search in the title, abstract,…

Same day, two federal courts, two different rulings on "making available." As we mentioned yesterday, a New York court in Elektra v. Barker gave a boost to the recording industry…

We called Yardbarker a particularly good, sports-focused Digg clone back when it launched in August 2006. Since then the site has expanded significantly, recruiting athletes as…

SurfCanyon’s downloadable plugin tool improves your existing search with engines like Google,Yahoo and MSN by offering recommendations for individual search items directly on…

While we like to cover exciting new technologies at Ars, author and teacher Clay Shirky argues that it's only when technology gets boring that it can do something truly exciting:…

Zillow, the site where you can find pricing estimates and other info about houses around the United States, aims to disrupt the online lending market with the launch of its…

Apple has become the number one music retailer in the US for the month of January, according to data collected by the NPD Group. Wal-Mart trailed Apple by 4 percentage points.Read…

As Twitter grows, it's time for an analytics service to come online. I am not talking about a service that tells me how many people follow me or how many tweets I posted (that's a…

We talked to AirCell’s Senior Vice President Tom Weigman not long ago on the Mashable Conversations podcast, just shortly after they announced the completion of their coast…

Scientists, stars, and school chancellors gather to announce the World Science Festival '08, taking place in New York City at the end of May.Read More...

Now that Google has kicked off the DoubleClick era by canning a fifth of the company, it is going to sell Performics, DoubleClick's search engine marketing business. Keeping…

We've written previously about the showdown between the states and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over Real ID -- a federal mandate that seeks to turn states' driver's…

Entrepreneurs have learned that pitching anything to investors with "we can beat Google at search" is the kiss of death. This is like pitching against Microsoft in the PC world of…

Veronica Belmont, online media personality who got her start at CNet’s Buzz Out Loud and later left to join Jason Calacanis at Mahalo to host a daily video show, today…