A gunman rang the doorbell at the back of an Apple Store in the upscale Clarendon area of Arlington, Virginia. When a female employee opened the door, he shot her in the shoulder and then fled. The employee is recovering, says Arlignton’s ABC 7 news (not to be confused with San Francisco’s ABC 7.) Police are still searching the area for the suspect, and the store isn’t returning my calls. That’s all we know for now. Full story...
We’ve got some great momentum for VentureBeat’s upcoming DiscoveryBeat event, which will attack the problem of how to get attention for an app in the midst of a lot of noise.
There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store.
French mobile phone games publisher Gameloft said it is giving up on the Google Android platform.
Hot Potato launched a service today that lets you create streams of content around events.
You can create an event and then other people can check-in to it.
Playhaven is making it easy for gamers to create fan communities around iPhone games. It does so by creating online forums for fans on its web site, with a new fan section for every iPhone game.
Google hasn’t traditionally engaged in large-scale advertising campaigns.
Editor’s note: Chuck Dietrich is the chief executive of online presentation company SlideRocket, and previously served as general manager and vice president of mobile at Salesforce.
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.
Infoaxe, which records your web history and make it searchable, just launched a public facing real-time search engine tapping the behavior of its more than 2 million users.
San Francisco startup Cloud Engines, maker of a box-like device called Pogoplug that makes external hard drives accessible from any computer or iPhone, today launched the next generation of the device, supporting more hardware and software capabilities.