Use of the location-based service Foursquare is on the up and up . But it’s use is mainly limited to mobile phones currently. That makes sense since the service is all about sending your location when on the go. But it would be nice sometimes to use it on your computer (beyond visiting the rudimentary...

OpenCandy , the startup that tries to offer bundled applications that you might actually want to use, has added Joe Kraus , founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, to their board. Kraus is currently a Director of Product Management at Google. Alongside the news, OpenCandy has also shared...

Editor’s note : This guest post is by Andrew Keen, the author of Cult of the Amateur and an advisor to Arts and Labs , a collaboration between entertainment companies, software providers, telecommunications providers, artists and creators. Some people don’t like TV Everywhere , Comcast’s...

Last night, 200 entrepeneurs and investors from around Silicon Valley convened for the Founder Showcase , a quarterly startup event for seed stage companies that’s put together by Adeo Ressi’s TheFunded . The winner of the event, as voted on by the attendees is a new startup called MightyMeeting...

As you may have heard, Verizon made some headlines today by unveiling new, cheaper plans to its customers. Specifically, they cut the price of their unlimited voice plans by $29 down to $69.99. As some noted, this looked to be a way to undercut its biggest rival, AT&T. Not surprisingly, AT&T...

As AOL started its long-awaited layoffs of 2,500 employees this week , one high-profile officer who is rumored to be leaving is chief technology officer Ted Cahall . Whether he is taking a severance package or simply leaving on his own accord, we don’t know, but sources tell us that he is already...

Businesses are becoming increasingly interested in using location-based check-in services like Foursquare to encourage people to come to their stores. But those networks still have a relatively limited reach, and the majority of patrons haven’t heard of them. PlaceWidget offers a potential way...

Yesterday, Inside Facebook reported on a nifty MySpace feature called Fan Video that allows users to pull in their Facebook profile photos using Facebook Connect — a notable move given the sites’ longtime rivalry. Some other outlets ran with the story, with CNET calling it “hard evidence...

Eyeka , which connects brands and creative consumers, has raised €3 million ($4 million) in a second round of financing. The company already had €5 million in backing in 2006 with Ventech , DN Capital and SFR Developpement , while the company was focused on a platform to enhance pictures and videos...

Bing just keeps on gaining market share, and is now growing faster than ever before . In December, Microsoft’s search engine gained another 0.4 percent to capture 10.7 percent of U.S. search queries, according to the latest comScore qSearch numbers. That makes five straight months of steady share...

Twitter is preparing to launch a new set of tools that will let third party websites easily integrate Twitter features directly into their web sites and services, multiple sources have confirmed. In a nutshell, this is their response to the massively popular Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect was first...

MySpace Records , the indie record label that’s a joint venture between the social network and Interscope Records, is going through some changes. Not to be confused with MySpace’s popular MySpace Music free streaming portal, MySpace Records is a small record label designed to help promising...