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Zynga’s Draw Something Slingshots Past Angry Birds in App Store

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 5 at 6:00 am PT

Maybe now critics will stop saying that Zynga overpaid for it.

Chomp: With App Searches, It’s All “Free” and “Games”

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 4 at 12:36 pm PT

When it came to app searches in December, most people didn’t go looking for specific titles; it was all “free” and “games” — and “Christmas” — according to app-specific search engine Chomp.

ShopRunner Wants to Give Amazon’s Free Shipping Program a Run for Its Money

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 6, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

ShopRunner is planning to give Amazon a run for its money when it comes to its membership service that offers free two-day shipping for $79 a year.

Video: The Pulse Boys-to-Men Talk About Huge Growth of Visual News-Reading App

Kara Swisher in News on March 24, 2011 at 5:20 pm PT

Today, BoomTown braved the floods and skippered All Things Digital‘s S.S. Minnow through a Noah-like rainstorm in Silicon Valley to visit offices of Pulse. Less than a year ago, the nifty visual news-reading app was publicly praised by Apple’s Steve Jobs for innovativeness and slapped by the New York Times for misusing its RSS feed on the same day. Dramatic, for sure, but they have made nice with the Times since then and have also raised more than $1 million in funding and grown to three million users since then.

Asana Hires "COO-Type"–Van Zant First Biz Side Hire for Workplace Collaboration Start-Up

Kara Swisher in News on March 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT

As it gets ramped up for a wider launch, Asana, the high-profile group collaboration start-up founded by top former Facebook execs, has hired former SolarWinds product strategy exec Kenny Van Zant in a “COO-type of role.” Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein remain at the top of the leadership at the San Francisco company, which–perhaps in keeping with its yoga-style name–does not have official titles. But Van Zant will essentially fulfill the COO role, focusing on bringing Asana to the enterprise market in a socially-fueled “bottom-up” approach.

New Way to Check Out eBooks

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on February 22, 2011 at 4:21 pm PT

Get out your library cards: Now you can wirelessly download electronic books from your local library using the Apple iPad or an Android tablet.

Got Broadband? Not Sure? There's a Map for That.

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 17, 2011 at 2:30 pm PT

It took two years and $350 million, but America now has a detailed map showing where all its broadband Internet connections are and where they are not.