Khosla Ventures, the venture capital firm launched in 2004 by Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla, has led a $3 million Series A round for ZocDoc, a service for...

For the most part, the only person you can socialize with on a handheld GPS navigator is the chick who tells you to turn left after 100 yards. Garmin wants to change...

I saw a demo of Workstir earlier this week, a new startup founded by Ryan Merket and Duncan Winter. The site is still in private alpha and is at least a few weeks away...

Editor's note: This news was embargoed for Tuesday morning but the embargo was busted this afternoon so per our embargo policy, we will post now. NY-based Appointment...

Editor's note: This news was embargoed for Tuesday morning but the embargo was busted this afternoon so per our embargo policy, we will post now. NY-based Appointment...

The Yahoo Local SearchMonkey application can shed more light on results involving local businesses.(Credit: Yahoo)Yahoo has begun using its SearchMonkey technology by...

Shared by Wes Maldonado "Startups that figure out how to own SEO and the web presence for a economic sector have the real potential to do very well for their users,...

This is a cross-posting from the Yahoo! Search Blog. Last month we opened up the Yahoo! Search Gallery to showcase all of the useful SearchMonkey applications that have...

The day has come--Just in time for the Father's Day shopping season--to announce the winners of this year's coveted WhoHas Awards for the best products of 2008, an annual...

So you liked that blog post you just read--why don't you toss the writer a buck or two?That's the rationale behind new-media outlet Salon's latest initiative. Members of...

A couple of nights ago Laura Fitton and Ken E. Kaplan were guests for a small dinner in my home. Laura, known universally on Twitter as Pistachio, gushed for a while...

Yahoo is making a number of changes to its default search experience tonight to add more structured data to results. Yelp, Yahoo Local and LinkedIn SearchMonkey widgets...

Bar Pitti in the West Village is a reasonably-priced restaurant; you can get pastas there for close to $10 that rival some of the better pastas in the city (I...

Yahoo! late last night incorporated Yelp, LinkedIn, and Yahoo! Local Search Monkey Apps into its default search results. The Sunnyvale company opened on their Search...

FriendFeed has been out for just a few months and has already established itself as a solid startup with an indefinite amount of potential. Founded by four ex-Googlers,...

Dan Ackerman Greenberg is a master at getting lots of views for online videos. Last year he wrote a less-than-well-received post here on TechCrunch called “The...

The easiest way to describe Spire, a new community site that made its debut Monday, is as a more grown-up, cultured Yelp: the latter offers expert advice on the best dive...

PALO ALTO, CA--There are nearly 30 start ups promoting their wares today as part of AlwaysOn's Stanford Summit--and that's just before lunch. Many have been profiled by...

Social media allow us to interact over content, anywhere, anytime. And we love it. Interaction is what makes web 2.0 valuable. While mainstream users are discovering and...

If you don’t allow people to simply unsubscribe from opt-out newsletters without having to log in, then that’s spam. I’m looking at you Yelp and...