Netvibes has just been acquired by European product design company Dassault Systèmes (sure this isn't the type of thing I usually write, but I like the founder Tariq Krim so bear with me here ... ).French startup Netvibes is an analytics dashboard that allows Fortune 500 companies to track their social media presence throughout the realtime web. Dassault is a "3D experience "design company so the acquisition actually seems jarring at first, but Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini tells me that the acquisi...

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Website had been expected to return to profit, but posted a £27m fourth-quarter loss in its first set of results

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It's beautiful, it's addictive, and now Pinterest is having its glorious hockey stick moment. TechCrunch has attained exclusive data from comScore showing Pinterest just hit 11.7 million unique monthly U.S. visitors, crossing the 10 million mark faster than any other standalone site in history.In fact, users are spending so much time sharing their favorite images that now only Facebook and Tumblr have more social media time on site than Pinterest. Who's propelling its rise? 18-34 year old upper...

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Some people always see the good in people and some people always see the bad ... Gawker just published a post with what at first seems to be some pretty damning evidence against Path founder Dave Morin, publishing an email where he assured writer Ryan Tate that Path wasn't storing user data.While today's headlines would lead one to believe that that statement was a lie, Morin (who is a friend) tells me that the exchange is misleading. He was actually talking about Path 1.0 in the exchange, whic...

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Gamification has had its critics but expect big changes ahead, as the major corporations move in on work-as-fun.

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One of the largest US public pension funds has asked Facebook to add a woman to its all-male board of directors, arguing that diversity improves corporate governance and performance. The California State Teachers’ Retirement System, or Calstrs,

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Google is close to launching a cloud-storage service that would rival one of Silicon Valley's hottest start-ups, cloud-storage provider Dropbox, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Prince Harry is expected to be operating alongside British and American Special Forces troops targeting Taliban commanders and bomb-makers during a combat tour flying Apache helicopters in Helmand later this year.

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Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco — and it’s good news for app developers. Want to create an app for Facebook’s Open Graph? The mobile space presents a huge opportunity to create cross-platform social games, said Carl Sjogreen, director of product management at Facebook, who spoke to a packed conference center filled with IT insiders about Facebook’s projections for the ...  show all text

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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek leaders clinched a long-stalled deal on reforms and austerity measures needed to secure a bailout and avoid a messy default, government sources said, hours before the country's

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The company has gained nearly one Facebook in value since Steve Jobs died On Oct. 4, the day before Steve Jobs passed away, Apple (AAPL) shares closed at $372.50 and its market cap stood at $347 billion. Four months later, the stock is up nearly $100 and it's market cap is $437 billion. To put that $90 billion gain in perspective, it's nine tenths the value analysts have placed on Facebook in advance of its initial public offering. Some believe that Facebook is being overvalued, but it's hard ...  show all text

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The number of children referred into care in England hits a record high, after rising steadily in the years since the Baby P case.

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Remember all that talk of how the supporters of SOPA/PIPA were "humbled" by the protests of January 18th, and how they had learned their lessons about trying to push through a bill without actually involving the stakeholders? Remember the...

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From MARK THOMPSON, Director General of the BBC, an astonishingly frank admission on the issue of ageism in the corporation, and what he intends to do to change it.

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World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee addresses the media during the International World Wide Web conference in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, March 31, 2011. Photo: Mahesh Kumar A/AP The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a courtroom Tuesday for the first time in his life. The web pioneer flew down from Boston, near where he teaches at MIT, to an eastern Texas federal court to speak to a jury of two men and six women about the early days of the web. His trip is part of  show all text

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Gumroad, the buzzy one-man startup launched by Pinterest and Turntable app designer (and 19-year-old college dropout) Sahil Lavingia, officially launches today with over $1.1 million in seed funding from investors Accel Partners, Chris Sacca, Max Levchin, SV Angel, Josh Kopelman, Seth Goldstein, Naval Ravikrant, Collaborative Fund and Danny Rimer.

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Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, is a sharp guy with degrees from Cornell and Harvard Law. When we've spoken in the past, Sherman has shown a keen grasp of the issues. But as head of a major trade group and lobbying association, Sherman is not above hand-waving demagoguery, a trait on full display in yesterday's strangely angry New York Times op-ed. In it, Sherman throws down the gauntlet. Not interested in playing the "humble" card, Sherman apparently believes  show all text

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David Cameron and Nick Clegg admit it could take until election to persuade voters their fears are unfounded David Cameron and Nick Clegg have agreed they have no alternative but to push ahead with the planned reforms to the NHS, even though they admit they are in "a rubbish place politically" and it could take three years until the general election to persuade voters that fears about the reforms are unfounded. Cameron endured a mauling over the issue at prime minister's questions , and afterwa...  show all text

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GigaOM founder and executive editor Om Malik. Photo by Pinar Ozger, courtesy GigaOM PaidContent.org is one of the longest-running news organizations chronicling the rise of new media. GigaOM is one of a new and increasingly numerous breed of companies on the web blending technology journalism with industry-facing business ventures, from events to consulting reports. Now, GigaOM has purchased ContentNext, paidContent’s parent company, from the UK’s Guardian News & Media, who had been shopping the  show all text

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Let's try to parse this.Pirate Bay (.se) user allisfine just recently uploaded a torrent to the site that is a collection of all the magnet identifiers for the entire site (actually, only about a quarter of the site, but all the publicly visible ones). That is to say, it is a list of the unique identifiers, cryptographic hashes, of every .torrent file on the site.In a way, this torrent file, or indeed its magnet identifier (938802790a385c49307f34cca4c30f80b03df59c), contains millions or billion...

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A young Saudi blogger’s tweets about the Prophet Muhammad have inflamed Islamists, who are calling for his execution. Mike Giglio exclusively interviews Hamza Kashgari.

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Silicon Valley’s tech scene still beats out Silicon Alley’s, at least as far as Meetup numbers go. Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman announced at the 21,000-member New York Tech Meetup on Wednesday that Bay area tech Meetup groups had more RSVPs in 2011 than those in any other city. New York City had the second-most members of Meetup tech group RSVPers, followed by London, Washington D.C. and Chicago. The fastest-growing tech scene on Meetup, based on RSVPs, was Hong Kong, followed by Melbourne, Detro...  show all text

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The tech world has been consumed today with news the app Path quietly uploaded users' iPhone address books without permission. Path, in an increasingly common Silicon Valley ritual, apologized and promised it wouldn't happen again. But the company has given false assurances before. To us.

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Double Fine and 2 Player Productions is raising funds for Double Fine Adventure on Kickstarter! An adventure game from Tim Schafer, Double Fine, and YOU!

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The following is a guest post from Hipster CEO Doug Ludlow, following yesterday and today's revelations that select apps were uploading user's entire address books to their database.

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The number of children referred into care in England hits a record high, after rising steadily in the years since the Baby P case.

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The tech world has been consumed today with news the app Path quietly uploaded users' iPhone address books without permission. Path, in an increasingly common Silicon Valley ritual, apologized and promised it wouldn't happen again. But the company has given false assurances before. To us. More »

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