Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Justin.tv Finally Broadcasts Live From Your Android Phone — When you think about broadcasting live video over the Internet, being tethered to your computer isn’t so much fun. Broadcasting live from your mobile phone, now that starts to get interesting. Today, Justin.tv is joining …
Michael Wines / New York Times:China Requires ID for Mobile Phone Numbers — BEIJING — China’s government began on Wednesday to require mobile phone users to furnish identification when buying SIM cards, a move officials cast as an attempt to rein in burgeoning cellphone spam, pornography and fraud schemes.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:The New MySpace Movies, Presented By… The Facebook Movie — It seems as if the ads for Sony’s upcoming movie The Social Network — you know, the Facebook movie — are everywhere on the Internet. They’re here on TechCrunch, they’re on VentureBeat, they’re on Techmeme — they’re just about everywhere but...
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:Udemy Scores $1M In Seed Funding, Aims To Democratize Online Learning — Udemy, which aims to democratize learning on the Web by basically letting anyone teach and school themselves through online courses, has raised $1 million in seed funding from a host of top notch investors to ramp up hiring efforts.
Jon Swartz / USA Today:Target to sell Facebook Credits gift cards — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is coming to a Target (TGT) store near you. — The social-network giant is getting into the gift card business, starting Sunday, with Facebook Credits cards. — The new Facebook gift cards will be available in values of...
Todd Bishop / TechFlash:Patent troll or not, Paul Allen finds a friend in Steve Wozniak — Is there some kind of secret brotherhood of lesser-known Microsoft and Apple founders? Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder better known as Woz, is voicing some surprisingly strong support for Paul Allen …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:WiseStamp Signs Your Emails With Tweets, Stumbles And Plans — People are always trying to spruce up their email signatures with funny witticisms, famous quotes, and professional information. WiseStamp is trying to innovate on the traditional email signature by allowing you to customize …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:The Other Half Of Search: Greplin Is A Personal Search Engine For Your Online Life — There’s always something cool coming out of Y Combinator, but even so Greplin stands out from the crowd. It’s a personal search engine for all that data you keep locked away in the cloud.
Anand Srinivasan / Go Rumors:Facebook Wins Patent For Click-Behavior Based Search Engine Algorithm — Facebook has been awarded the patent for a click-behavior based search engine application. The United States Patent & Trademark office has today approved a patent application titled “Ranking search results based …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:Palm puts webOS 2.0 SDK into limited release starting today — Palm fans, get your party hats on. Today the company is announcing the beta release of its SDK for webOS 2.0, which means we’re getting dangerously close to a proper 2.0 release for devices. And who knows …