Dimdim, provider of a browser-based web conferencing platform that doesn't require the installation of any desktop software, is dropping the beta tag with the release of a new edition of its application and is simultaneously releasing its complete source code to the open source community. If you would like a Pro version (starts at $99 per year for an unlimited number of meetings) free of charge, click this special TechCrunch link to sign up. Dimdim will upgrade a percentage for every 100 registrations, up to 1000 free Pro accounts in total. With the release of the new 4.5 version, Dimdim introduces what they call the SynchroLive Communication Platform, designed to automatically scale its performance to ensure all live communications are perfectly in synch. Full story...
Argentinian social gaming company MetroGames, has just raised $5 million in series A funding from game developer Playdom.
It took almost a year, but Xobni finally released its email app for the Blackberry. It works as a standalone app integrated with the email on your Blackberry, but similar to Xobni's Outlook plugin, it ranks your contacts by importance and pulls in social data from Facebook, LinkedIn and other places.
Lots of scuttlebutt around Silicon Valley that new investment bank CODE Advisors is out pitching a MySpace spinoff to potential buyers and investors.
Today, during his keynote address at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek had a big revelation: "On certain days, we're consuming more Internet capacity than Sweden has as a country.
In its relentless push to turn YouTube into a profit center, Google is trying anything it can to pump more advertising into the billions of videos people watch on the site.
I'm here at the last keynote of SXSW, where Spotify CEO Daniel Ek is being interviewed by Wired's Eliot Van Buskirk.
There's a lot of talk today about how the Nexus One's initial roll-out has been a flop. And while the numbers aren't official, things do look pretty grim for the first Android device Google is attempting to sell itself.
This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, an on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup.
Team Europe Ventures, the Berlin-based VC firm focused on early stage Internet companies, has made a minority investment in Infakt.
There is a tweet being retweeted heavily within the German Twitter community right now which roughly translates as
"BEWARE Nazi-pigs on Twitter! @Heil_Hitler_88 Please block so that the account gets deleted.