Via Techcrunch Bidding War For Twitter Raises Valuation To Nearly $4 Billion. Kleiner Perkins Currently In Pole Position by Michael Arrington Two weeks ago we reported that Twitter was mulling over raising a big new round of financing and the expected …

Via Techcrunch Good News For a Consumer-Driven Economy and Amazon.com Leena Rao Online retailers rejoice! According to comScore’s latest stats, U.S. online spending surpassed $1 billion on CyberMonday (the Monday after Thanksgiving and Black Friday), up 16 percent versus year …

Via TECHCRUNCH by Sarah Lacy John Doerr: “Bigger than Billion-Dollar Greentech IPOs in 18 Months” Sarah Lacy 11 hours ago In the peak of the Internet bubble, a company’s valuation– and press attention– would soar simply by whispering the words “John …

We feel one of the biggest tech stories of the New Year will be watching Google’s Chrome OS infiltrate the Windows/MacOS masses. Like its Android vs. the iPhone platform, look for rapid adoption of Chrome via many third-party hardware vendors …

By Robin Wauters @ Techcrunch.com It’s a very old trick, and arguably a mighty effective one. Ask people to set your website as their homepage, and it will become their entry point to the Web, the very first thing they’ll …