Through much of last year, the Associated Press threw public barbs and veiled threats at Google, while in private it was renegotiating its licensing agreement with Google News. That agreement is believed to be up for renewal at the end of this month, yet no new AP stories have ...

It was so close I could taste it.

DotBlu , which we first covered in 2007 when it was called BluBet, had some of Silicon Valley’s highest profile angel investors backing it. But it wasn’t enough, and company hit the deadpool earlier this week. Investors in an early angel round included Jawed Karim (Co-Founder of YouTube), Kevin ...

Last night we broke the news that location-based mobile social network Loopt had acquired GraffitiGeo , a fellow Y Combinator -backed startup that launched only a few months ago. Neither company was willing to comment on the acqusition last night, but earlier today they finally confirmed it and opened ...

It’s been one year exactly since Silicon Valley venture capitalists decided to call an end to the funding party. Sequoia Capital started things off with a 56 slide presentation to portfolio CEOs titled R.I.P. Good Times

Google has spent a significant amount of time over the past couple of years building a very impressive web browser, Chrome. By most accounts, it’s the fastest around, and isn’t system resource heavy, and those who use it seem to love it.

As the current hot platform of choice for a lot of developers, we’re not seeing too many Twitter apps just yet in the Deadpool . But one, TwitApps , will hit it tomorrow, the developer is notifying users .

Skype has been in the news a lot lately.  Over the past six months, rumors swirled that the peer-to-peer telephony service provider was going to be bought back from eBay by its original founders, to be spun off as a separate company and then IPO, and ultimately to be ...

Socializr , the online event organization tool that first went into private beta in 2006 , isn’t in good shape. We’ve heard from a couple of sources that Socializr has laid off most or all of the staff and that the site is running on autopilot. The company confirms ...

Lookery, a startup that focuses on collecting demographic data about users and sites around the web and then selling this information to ad networks to target users, is heading to the deadpool.