The Consumer Electronics Show usually isn’t a big show for gamers, but this year’s event was expected to be different. CES dedicated more show floor space for its Gaming Showcase and there were even rumors that Microsoft’s Bill Gates would reveal a new version of the ...

You might have heard of John Battelle. He plans the Web 2.0 Summits, wrote a book about Google, runs an online advertising company, among many other things. I spent some time with him this week talking about his predictions (which, for the past few years, have turned out to ...

Women used to be an afterthought in the video game world. Today, more women are involved in the billion-dollar industry as programmers, designers and of course, gamers. According to the Entertainment Software Association, thirty-eight percent of all game players are women. In fact, women over the age of ...

So you didn’t make it to the TechCrunch 40 conference, where Mint.com won the honors as the top start-up? Fear not, the Mercury News sat down with Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint, for a quick demo of how the online money management tool works.

The San Jose Mercury News spent a day at the TechCrunch40 conference talking to companies and getting demos of new products. This interview, with Flock CEO Shawn Hardin, is one of several videos we’re publishing from the conference. Tech-watchers will remember two years ago when Flock was being ...

On Sunday, at the HP Garage, we met Joe Hewitt, the author of Facebook’s iPhone application. We just had a short chat with him, mostly to say thanks for building a cool app. There’s a longer audio conversation with Joe on TechCrunch today.

Sam Sethi is a London-based technology entrepreneur and consultant. Sam recently launched BlogNation, a worldwide network of blogs focusing on Web 2.0, mobile and enterprise startup space in 22 countries around the world (except the United States).

Sam was known in the blogosphere for the good coverage he did at ...

At Intel’s recent Research Day, we bumped into 20,000 pigs bumping into each other — part of a demonstration into the future of parallel software for multi-core chips. Tera-scale chip technology could revolutionize the PC experience by allowing computers to do many jobs extremely well, from gaming to data crunching ...

What do Guy Kawasaki, Jason Calcanis and TechCrunch all have in common? Neil Patel, co-founder of ACS Consulting, who is the search engine wizard behind these blogs’ success.

Content is king in the Top 100 blogging world and all of these blogs mentioned have great content — ...

Jay Pullur is the founder and CEO of Pramati Technologies. Here, he discusses how he set out on his entrepreneurial path with Pramati, and the company’s latest desktop platform product, Dekoh, recently featured on TechCrunch.

Steve Gillmor sits down with notorious tech mogul Jason Calacanis at his hideout in Los Angeles to discuss his latest announcement. He is forming a partnership with Mike Arrington to produce Tech Crunch 20, which is guaranteed to create a shake-up in the technology conference world. Is Jason’s ...

Rick Alden, CEO and founder of Skullcandy, created a lifestlye technology brand that integrates cell phone and audio switching so the active lifestyle can easily switch from tunes to voice calls. The patented Skullcandy Link is available in Skullcandy-branded products and is also integrated into Giro helmets, ...

Sam Sethi is one of the most connected geeks in London (he used to run TechCrunch UK) and we sat down with him and a few of his friends for a fun breakfast. We talk about the five things geeks want for Christmas. What do you want for Christmas? ...

What does Yahoo! India’s research and development center in Bangalore do? Listen to Pranesh Anthapur, the new chief operating officer discusses the broad roadmap for Yahoo’s India office and shares what it takes to merge companies.

Prior to relocating to Bangalore, Pranesh was the VP of HR and ...

Mike Arrington at TechCrunch says he uses BlueDot instead of other bookmarking for social Website sharing services. So, I headed up to Seattle to find out what was behind this innovative company. You’ll meet the entire team, get a demo, and more.

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MENLO PARK, September 5, 2006 (PodTech News) — An announcement today that Apple will be holding an invitation-only press event in San Francisco on September 12th is providing plenty of grist for the rumor mill, with the fringes dreaming of iPod-phones, and the mainstream predicting full-length movie downloads (and an upgraded iPod to play them on). PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau spoke with Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group to sort through some of the grist from the mill.

MENLO PARK, August 30, 2006 (PodTech News) — Yahoo Inc. announced Tuesday it’s added Windows-based mobile phones to the list of phones that offer the Yahoo Go for Mobile suite, which includes e-mail, calendar, news, and photo albums. Internet companies are scrambling to give consumers the ability to stay connected to the functions they depend on when they’re tethered to their desks — even when they’re on the go. To do this, the companies are looking for partnerships with wireless carriers and mobile device manufacturers. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau visited Yahoo’s Sunnyvale campus to talk Yahoo Go with David Riemer, vice president of marketing for Connected Life at Yahoo.

MENLO PARK, August 28, 2006 (PodTech News) — Google today announced a partnership with eBay that makes Google the exclusive provider of text-based advertising for eBay’s international sites. While a similar contract for eBay’s domestic sites went to Yahoo Inc. earlier this year, one component of today’s deal is click-to-call, in which users can click on an advertisement or an eBay listing and talk to the seller via a VOIP call. “This deal is mostly about practicality,” said Gartner Inc. Research Director Andrew Frank. PodTech’s Catherine Girardeau interviewed Frank by phone from his office in New York.

We’re kicking off a new interview series here at PodTech News, Web 2.0 Voices, and we’d love your ideas. Which companies are on your list of the Web 2.0 firms to watch? Who are the people behind the hot new startups? What companies have we not yet heard much about ...

So Hitwise is reporting that del.icio.us traffic has doubled since the end of last year, which is quite impressive given the (apparently) low promotional support it has received from Yahoo since being acquired. The Hitwise report also highlights the valuable demographic that del.icio.us has been able to attract (25-34 ...

Talk about a Billion Dollar Baby for News Corp and what a week so far for Google. Google is putting out a series of big announcements this week. I think that the MySpace announcement in combination with the Viacom deal is big for Google. ...

The world is clearly moving to a “Network of Networks” we’ll all be interconnected in some way and it looks like the smartest technology companies are moving that way.

Feedburner is testing a new concept called Feedburner Network as outlined by Brad Feld, who sits on their board of ...

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Mike Fridgen of briefly introduces the airline fare prediction site to the audience at Gnomedex, and provides interesting statistics and anecdotes on how Farecast benefited from the blogging and social media community. Fridgen discusses how Techcrunch, Digg, ...

The word is out via the blogosphere that PodTech is hiring Robert Scoble.  Some interesting speculation around.   The fact that the blogs launched this story is a testament to the work of Robert Scoble and the opportunity of PodTech’s media platform and business model.

PodTech will be putting ...