Hi-def TV and online video are finally getting significant attention from big advertisers. And those advertisers are willing to pay more per eyeball than they would for regular TV,…

Comcast subscribers in the Twin Cities will be able to drink from the DOCSIS 3.0 firehose tomorrow as the company launches its new 50Mbps down, 5Mbps up broadband tier. The…

I've written about NYC coworking several times before. Over the past year, there have been a few attempts to get something going, mostly in a variety of coffee shops. Today the…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which just finished its $3.4 billion acquisition of DoubleClick and has publicly said will do some layoffs, will dispense with about 300 U.S. employees,…

Mark your calendars for the second annual TechCrunch launch conference, co produced between TechCrunch and Jason Calacanis: TechCrunch50 at the San Francisco Design Center on…

A group of law students at the University of Maine defending 27 unnamed Does in a file-sharing lawsuit have asked the judge to bar the RIAA from filing future "John Doe" lawsuits,…

Sampa, the personal homepage creator for families, has raised $1M in Series A financing from a group of individuals including Geoff Entress and former executives from Microsoft,…

A new report from the NPD Group shows that gaming still shows strong growth year over year, but online action remains a much smaller business.Read More...

I'm really thrilled to announce that Mike and I are hosting the TechCrunch40 event again this year, but have expanded it to three days and fifty companies. We're also going to…

Several wikis, including newcomer Biographicon, want your life story, even if that includes nothing more exciting than stints in a Tucson mall. Read More...

What Could It Mean for Warrantless Domestic Surveillance? Today's Washington Post reports on a newly released memo, "Memorandum for William J. Haynes II, General Counsel of the…

Still (barely) cheaper than a movie: NY Tech Meetup organizer (and Meetup CEO) Scott Heiferman says monthly tech show-and-tell will double the admission fee to $10, starting next…

Brian Burke of eBay’s Trust &Safety department has a message for anyone wishing to unload digital products on the company’s trademark auction block: You can’t. Instead,…

NBC is announcing its 52-week TV schedule today. But the most interesting announcement isn't a show, it's a new business model -- an old one, really. In a preview, NBC execs told…

Loomia, the maker of the SeenThis app for social content discovery, has raised a $5 million first round from Asset Management Company, as well as strategic investors Peacock Equity…